charlotte show and radio

Maddie, Joyce (owner of Div Den), myself and Stephen after the show

on august 18th, i had the pleasure of playing a show at the Diversity Den Cafe along with the fantastically talented Maddie Shuler and Stephen Sylvester.  it was an incredibly fun show, and we were all definitely feeding off of all of the creative, musical energy in the place that night.  Maddie is an incredible guitarist and vocalist, and an even better writer, and at the age of 15, she's definitely going places!  Stephen is pretty new to songwriting, and he's got an amazing, soulful voice and plays his fender strat wiht a stylish flair, all his own.  splitting the night with these guys was a huge treat!  i met both of them last week at the evening muse open mic, where i was promoting the Diversity Den show.  after hearing them play (and realizing that i had to fill a 3 hour set at the Diversity Den :P) i asked them to join me and the rest is history :)  we all decided that we'd have to do it again someday!

after the show was over wednesday night around 10, i headed off back to new jersey.  earlier wednesday, i had scheduled a radio interview/live performance at 8am thursday morning, back home at WNTI in hackettstown, nj.  it's literally a 10 hour drive from charlotte...  so i had little time to spare!  thankfully i didn't hit any traffic (perks of driving through the night) and arrived at the WNTI studio right around 8 am!  it was a fun little interview and performance, promoting the Skylands Music and Arts Festival at which i'll be performing this weekend (cafe stage, saturday august 21, 11:30 am). 

after the radio show, i wrote three songs.  then i went to sleep.  for hours.  it was awesome.  :)

hope all is well with all of you, and that you are enjoying the end of august!

levi