Day Three in Washington

We all met downstairs in the lobby of the hotel to start our two hour drive up to Bellingham on Sunday morning. The sky was fairly clear and it looked like it would be a nice day to travel. The drive was a little rainy, but overall smooth and uneventful. The scenery was lovely with snow on the mountains around us and beautiful waterways alongside the freeway.

We arrived in Bellingham with enough time to have lunch. Bellingham is a quaint town with a lot of charm. Our gig was in the Museum of Radio and Electricity which turned out to be a really cool location. Apparently one of the founders of Microsoft, along with another man, had been collecting old radios and record players for many years. They combined their collections into one big building and began this museum. The items inside are beautiful and amazing. The RCA dog, alongside one of the bell record players was even present and accounted for.

The gig itself was very well attended with over 100 people. The crowd was attentive, engaged and fun to perform to. The band sounded awesome that day, my voice was in good form and a good time was had by all!! Jud Sherwood puts these shows together in Bellingham under the name The Jazz Project. He has done an amazing job with this jazz program, bringing people from all over to perform in Bellingham. It is definitely a very worthwhile program and greatly appreciated by people such as myself who strive to bring live music to as many people as I possibly can.

After the concert Jud and his girlfriend Monique took us all out to dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant. They were both fantastic hosts and fun to hang out with. Afterwards we said our goodbyes and headed back to Seattle. The weather again held for us until we were just about to exit off the freeway to our hotel. Whew!! Then the rain came pouring down--hard!

All in all this was a fantastic tour of Washington. The music was well received, the band was fun to hang out with and I was able to spread my music to another little corner of this world. Hopefully there will be much more of this in my future. I absolutely LOVE to perform in front of live audiences and am heartened by how well my style of music is received by people who don't necessarily understand everything I sing. It seems that they are "getting" it through the emotion of each song I perform. It's a very good feeling!! :)