John and Jake. . .

We had a very busy weekend with back-to-back concerts at The Egyptian on Saturday and Sunday. These were the first concerts at the theatre since the "mixer incident" back in January so I was feeling a little on edge. In fact, even though everything went flawlessly on both days, I still spent most of the time feeling like I could just throw up. Time heals all wounds, I'm sure, but the memories of that one good-show-gone-oh-so-bad incident still haunt me on a regular basis. Honestly, though, everything- from the sound check on Saturday afternoon to the encore song on Sunday night - went absolutely beautifully!


The concert on Saturday night was blues singer, John Nemeth who grew up in this area and then moved away several years ago and now tours extensively all over the world. He just returned from Russia where he had many sold out concerts.


All of the musicians were incredible and put on an amazing show. . .


Curtis Stigers joined him on the last three songs and even gave us some much needed kudos after the show. . .

The nice thing about back-to-back concerts is that everything is already set up and ready to go the next day. The concert on Sunday was Jake Shimabukuro and his ukulele. One guy, one instrument and he's selling out shows all over the place! He is amazingly talented!

His opening act was the local fretless guitar player, Ned Evett, who is incredibly talented as well:

Jake was one of the nicest artist's I think we've ever worked with. He was full of compliments and good will from the time he arrived at the theatre. . .

He put on a beautiful show . . .

After the concert he stayed around until the last autograph was signed and the last fan walked out the door. And then he chatted with us!!

This is a terrible picture but I have to post it because Jake actually helped us push cases out to the truck!!

He told us how much he appreciated what we do and how incredibly hard sound people have to work in order to make a show successful. That's not something we hear everyday.

After working with all of the musicians that crossed our paths this weekend, I think I can (maybe) finally lay that awful experience in January to rest and stop worrying about what could possibly go wrong and just enjoy knowing that 99% of the time we're pretty blessed in what we do!

Here are YouTube videos from the two artists we worked with this weekend: