Congratulations and adorations to two of my favorite people who got married this weekend. We spent the weekend with them, and with a whole bunch of friends old and new. The weather was beautiful (even the thunderstorm after the ceremony was cool), the people were more so.
Brian is gearing up his new website, but there is already a whole bunch of photographs I and others took.
The gig at Fred’s Barn went very well. The stage, as you can see, was very patriotic, unlike anywhere I’ve played before. The whole experience was unlike anything I’ve done before musically. Not only was it playing country music, which is not common for me (and something, growing up, I never imagined I would be doing), but almost everyone in the audience was younger than me. I played a gig at a high school, but that doesn’t count because it was, after all, a school. The age of the audience was a big surprise, actually, because I keep hearing that country music is the most popular music in the US among adults. It never really occurs to me that country is really popular among late teen and twentysomethings too. When I found out the dance barn was a big local hangout for students at Southern Illinois, but more importantly the local young adults, I was really surprised.