Does the music ever stop?
I've been in Nashville for about a month and a half now but it seriously seems like so much longer than that. I think we've all hit that point in the semester where we're just getting sick of music. (I know i am) Now don't get me wrong, i knew that music would be my life coming into this semester BUT i didn't really think it through that well. We ALL eat, sleep, and breathe music 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. When we're not performing, we're practicing, when we're not practicing, we're listening, when we're not listening we still have songs going through our heads. And coming at the perfect time in the semester is our Smoky Mountain Retreat! This coming weekend we're all going to the smoky mountains to a cabin that holds 36 people. We are all so excited for this little break of music. We already have been talking about how there is going to be no music whatsoever :-) I think coming back from the retreat we will all be refreshed and ready to start preparing for our tour coming up in 5 weeks.
Well, anyways moving past the burnt out feeling, this week is crazy BUT going to be awesome. I'm performing this coming thursday for our CMC live show again and doing two originals, Black and White Masquerade and Alabaster Box (which i need to change the name to cause aparently it's a CeCe Winnas song from the 90's, so any suggestions of a new name would be great!) But their sounding amazing in our rehearsal times. It amazes me everyweek the talent of the musicians that I work with. They take my "so-so" songs and make them sound legit! So thats the crazy part of this week is performing BUT on friday my friends from Cedarville are coming down. I'm sooooo excited to see them and show them around Nashville. I miss them all so much! I can't wait to take them downtown and show them Broadway street. A bunch of us from the CMC went downtown last night and went to a few places and ended up at a Karokee place and it was absolutely hilarious to watch these drunk people getting up and making complete fools out of themselves. The conclusion of last night is that we all fell in love with this city. Walking downtown Nashville, there was just this feeling of satisfaction. I love the feel of Nashville, just love everything about it.
So, I know that wasn't much of an update but.....that will just have to do for now :- )
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Shmee
Shmee- the catchy slogan that everyone around here is saying. Do we really know what it means?? nope. But, Stephanie Spitnale has brought this phrase to Nashville TN and it's catching on. haha!
Well, another week has gone by and the pressure is rising. When we watched this past "game tape" it was like a wall of pressure hit all of us. We realized that we're about 4 weeks in and their raising the bar. A huge compliment to everyone here was that they said our first two shows were where everyone else the past semesters were at at week 10, so as much of a compliment that is to everyone their also raising the bar! So even though we might have a "good" show or "good performance" it's not good enough. It's so hard personally to be surrounded by so many GREAT artists that want to be part of the music industry with everything in them. God has been showing me many things this semester and a huge thing that He's been showing me is that a full-time career in music industry is DEF. not for me. I'm so glad that i'm learning this now because before i came here i was thinking maybe i could have a career in music and let Stealing Hollywood follow me around. God has different plans and it's so evident in my life right now. I realized this when i was asked to describe my music style and who i am as an artist and person. I can't fully describe who i am without mentioning Stealing Hollywood. (That is when i realized that SH is my full passion in life, I always love talking about it!!) Being away from Stealing Hollywood is absolutely killing me! Now i know that Stealing Hollywood is my life and it follows me where I am but, when i'm back in Ohio and Cedarville I have so many connections and people that i work so closely with on Stealing Hollywood. So being in Nashville where no one knows about Stealing Hollywood it's been so hard! I feel like i've left part of myself behind. BUT, on a much more positive note....God has been opening up huge doors here in Nashville for Stealing Hollywood. The director of marketing for Cedarville has been getting me some pretty big connections here in TN. I have a meeting with Mercy Ministries on Tuesday....if you haven't heard of Mercy Ministries, check them out!! I've been getting in contact with churches and ministries and it's soo cool.
Also, another update about Stealing Hollywood is we "hired" on a SH representative Audrey Weinbrenner! She goes here to the CMC with me and is from Kansas. It was so cool how God brought both of us here to the CMC the same semester. We have very similar stories and we both want to do the same things in life. So now she joined the SH team and is going to take Stealing Hollywood to Kansas! She's going to be starting a SH bible study this summer for junior high girls teaching them about healthy relationships, modesty, authentic beauty, and how to live a healthy lifestyle with a healthy mindset. I'm SO excited to see how God is going to be using her. So now we're both extremely excited and just want to work on SH ALL the time but, that's not possible because we have to still perform and practice for the shows. So, if your reading this please pray for us both that we'll find a healthy balance between music and Stealing Hollywood stuff. I know God has us here for a reason and I know we're going to learn a lot about the music industry and will come out of here with powerful songs! A cool idea that we're working on that i'll fill y'all in on :- 0......we are hoping to create a CD together and combine both of our song set list for a CD that we can sell at churches, schools, events, etc. to help raise money for Stealing Hollywood. Both of our styles of music are very honest and powerful and are directed for girls. So when we go around and promote SH we can sell these CD's to make some money for the ministry.
So, more about this upcoming week. I'm performing 3 songs this coming Thursday and for two of the songs i'm stepping out from behind the piano and just singing (just me and the mic)....haha we'll see how that goes. I've never stepped out from behind my piano, it's like my security blanket. haha. And the friendships here are sooo cool and growing. We all are getting extremely close and the funny thing is we've only known each other for about a month!
I'm hoping to update more and more but, we're literally busy almost every hour of every day so it's difficult. But, i'm absolutely loving it here and anyone reading this should just come down and visit me cause it's a blast!! :-)
Well, another week has gone by and the pressure is rising. When we watched this past "game tape" it was like a wall of pressure hit all of us. We realized that we're about 4 weeks in and their raising the bar. A huge compliment to everyone here was that they said our first two shows were where everyone else the past semesters were at at week 10, so as much of a compliment that is to everyone their also raising the bar! So even though we might have a "good" show or "good performance" it's not good enough. It's so hard personally to be surrounded by so many GREAT artists that want to be part of the music industry with everything in them. God has been showing me many things this semester and a huge thing that He's been showing me is that a full-time career in music industry is DEF. not for me. I'm so glad that i'm learning this now because before i came here i was thinking maybe i could have a career in music and let Stealing Hollywood follow me around. God has different plans and it's so evident in my life right now. I realized this when i was asked to describe my music style and who i am as an artist and person. I can't fully describe who i am without mentioning Stealing Hollywood. (That is when i realized that SH is my full passion in life, I always love talking about it!!) Being away from Stealing Hollywood is absolutely killing me! Now i know that Stealing Hollywood is my life and it follows me where I am but, when i'm back in Ohio and Cedarville I have so many connections and people that i work so closely with on Stealing Hollywood. So being in Nashville where no one knows about Stealing Hollywood it's been so hard! I feel like i've left part of myself behind. BUT, on a much more positive note....God has been opening up huge doors here in Nashville for Stealing Hollywood. The director of marketing for Cedarville has been getting me some pretty big connections here in TN. I have a meeting with Mercy Ministries on Tuesday....if you haven't heard of Mercy Ministries, check them out!! I've been getting in contact with churches and ministries and it's soo cool.
Also, another update about Stealing Hollywood is we "hired" on a SH representative Audrey Weinbrenner! She goes here to the CMC with me and is from Kansas. It was so cool how God brought both of us here to the CMC the same semester. We have very similar stories and we both want to do the same things in life. So now she joined the SH team and is going to take Stealing Hollywood to Kansas! She's going to be starting a SH bible study this summer for junior high girls teaching them about healthy relationships, modesty, authentic beauty, and how to live a healthy lifestyle with a healthy mindset. I'm SO excited to see how God is going to be using her. So now we're both extremely excited and just want to work on SH ALL the time but, that's not possible because we have to still perform and practice for the shows. So, if your reading this please pray for us both that we'll find a healthy balance between music and Stealing Hollywood stuff. I know God has us here for a reason and I know we're going to learn a lot about the music industry and will come out of here with powerful songs! A cool idea that we're working on that i'll fill y'all in on :- 0......we are hoping to create a CD together and combine both of our song set list for a CD that we can sell at churches, schools, events, etc. to help raise money for Stealing Hollywood. Both of our styles of music are very honest and powerful and are directed for girls. So when we go around and promote SH we can sell these CD's to make some money for the ministry.
So, more about this upcoming week. I'm performing 3 songs this coming Thursday and for two of the songs i'm stepping out from behind the piano and just singing (just me and the mic)....haha we'll see how that goes. I've never stepped out from behind my piano, it's like my security blanket. haha. And the friendships here are sooo cool and growing. We all are getting extremely close and the funny thing is we've only known each other for about a month!
I'm hoping to update more and more but, we're literally busy almost every hour of every day so it's difficult. But, i'm absolutely loving it here and anyone reading this should just come down and visit me cause it's a blast!! :-)
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