Category: Music

Performances

Collin had his second piano recital (see his first one) the other night, and he did really great. You can see for yourself by watching the video:

My band also performed the previous weekend at a Stake Youth Conference dance. The coolest part was that we got Aubrey to sing a song with us and it turned out awesome. Everyone loved it — it was probably our best song! Check it out:

To see all our other songs, go to my YouTube channel.

One of these days I might get around to posting pictures of our awesome vacation to New York, pics from Grady’s 1st birthday, and many other fun happenings from the summer.

Oh, and Owen no longer has a cast on his arm, which is really nice!

Oh, and are the rest of you addicted to things like Facebook, Scramble (on Facebook), and reading stupid blogs (seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com)?=

Piano recital

Collin performed his first ever public piano recital tonight! He did a wonderful job! It’s so fun to see him doing well and practicing diligently (with Mom by his side most of the time). It has been a joy to have the kids spending time at the piano.

I hope you enjoy this video of the recital:

And here is a photo. Click the photo to see more from the recital.

Collin’s piano recital

Wanted: Groupies

I’m sort of reliving a bit of my past lately. Some guys at church put together a band, and they pulled me in to sing and play harmonica. Our bassist is in his 60s and he’s in the temple presidency, but he’s dang good. Our two guitar players are also both good, and we’ve got a teenager joining us on saxophone for some of the songs. I have to admit we sound pretty good. We’re all kind of old (I’m on the young end), but not quite like these guys:

We’re covering a bunch of classic songs, stuff that people will like: Jonny Be Good, Sweet Home Alabama, Soul Man, What I Like About You, Wonderful Tonight, Running on Faith, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, If, Twist and Shout, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, etc. We’re making our debut at a ward dance next weekend. It should be pretty hot. Then there’s another guy who showed up at our last practice and started jamming with us. Turns out he played lead guitar professionally for years at bars and stuff in the 70s. The dude could play. We sound pretty good on the fast and loud songs, and we gel’d nicely on the slow bluesy Clapton stuff. Fun to play harmonica on that kind of stuff.

If we record our performance, I’ll post a video. That will prove if we’re good or not.