Lane County Festival / Open Mic

[Don Clark]

We had representatives from the Lane County Country and Bluegrass Festival committee come hear the trio last May (of '7) and thought we had a good shot at getting booked for this year's event. Then in July, I heard that it may not even happen.

Last week, I received a flyer in the mail that it was happening, all booked up already, but had included an open mic session. Turned out they had a change of folks on the committee, the ones that heard up were gone. They were all very apologetic after I emailed them about thinking we were going to be booked for this year.

Norman & Clark will be doing a short set during the open mic, so the new folks can hear us.....appears the trio is history except for occasional local gigs. It's not a paid gig, but it will be fun, get some more exposure, and perhaps lock us in for next year.

[billhammond]

May 24, 2008 22:01:52 GMT -5 Don Clark said:

We had representatives from the Lane County Country and Bluegrass Festival committee come hear the trio last May (of '7) and thought we had a good shot at getting booked for this year's event. Then in July, I heard that it may not even happen.

Last week, I received a flyer in the mail that it was happening, all booked up already, but had included an open mic session. Turned out they had a change of folks on the committee, the ones that heard up were gone. They were all very apologetic after I emailed them about thinking we were going to be booked for this year.

Norman & Clark will be doing a short set during the open mic, so the new folks can hear us.....appears the trio is history except for occasional local gigs. It's not a paid gig, but it will be fun, get some more exposure, and perhaps lock us in for next year.

Bummer, Don! But here's hoping good will come of the open mike.

Barb and I had a similar thing happen a couple years ago. We played a wonderful art fair in southern Wisconsin and the audiences just LOVED us (well, they mostly loved Barb, I reckon), and the organizers implored us to return the next year. So we saved the date and about a month before the next year's fest was to happen, I contacted the event chairman for particulars and found out that oh, sorry, we decided to use only local musicians this year.

WELL, THANKS FOR TELLING US AFTER WE SAVED A PRIMO WEEKEND FOR YOU FOR A FREAKING YEAR.

[Don Clark]

Yep.....it's annoying when it happens, but what can you do?

Better to just put on a smile, hop up onstage and pick some good stuff. And make them regret the HELL out of not booking you to begin with.