Gigs Don't Grow on Trees

I've been in scrounge mode these past few days, schmoozing and trying to scare up gigs as part of the usual feast-or-famine cycle. Today, it all paid off! I probably shouldn't jinx 'em since no contracts have been signed yet, but it looks like two very prominent venues want us, one for a Friday-Saturday two-night combo!!! I am so thrilled. So we're thinking about how to put that together--we'll probably add 2 backup singers to that. As soon as contracts are signed, I'll put 'em on my calendar.

I'm on cloud 9! I feel like jumping up and down without stopping for 20 minutes. Well, when I consider actually doing that I get lazy. It would be great to go out dancing. But since I'm a mom I probably won't be doing that either. Anyway, "I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and briiiiiight"... :-) (I'm just joking, folks--picture Adam Sandler in "Anger Management".)

Yesterday I saw Ernie Rideout, editor in chief of Keyboard Magazine, and he asked how the gig with Stephanie Ozer went and said he wanted to know more about her, they had a lot in common (same university, among other things). So I hooked 'em up. It's nice to have some sort of sway that's useful to someone, if not myself. I mentioned that she plays some killer Hermeto Pascoal Brazilian jazz, and he said they'd just profiled Hermeto in the magazine!