My 1st May weekend.
If everything goes as planned, this could be one of the coolest weekend’s ever.
Here is the plan so far: Insha Allah (God Willing)
Tonight | Friday 5/1
I take my brother Meezo and go meet up with my UB crew at Arundel Mills, for a midnight showing of “X-Men: Origin”.
Tomorrow | Saturday 5/2
Meezo & I go see a “Break-Off”, yes a Break Dance-Dance Off in the Mattine Center at John Hopkins University. That is then followed by us going to see ilyAIMY & The Weathered Road play a kick ass show at the Old Bowie Town Grill.
The day after | Sunday 5/3
I go see my buddies performing in a play at the Greenbelt Art Center
Not bad for my 1st May weekend, so many events shall be coming up this month, including a few small gigs here and there.
New News:
I am now officially a board member of the Baltimore Songwriters’ Association, I shall be submitting an article for the Newsletter they send out. I’m also one of three people in a sub-committee to help re-vamp the BSA’s website.
One thing I’m a little pissed at though, I was not able to get a slot to play at HonFest this year, the reason: Only bands are allowed to play. That kind of pisses me off, just because one is a singer/songwriter doesn’t mean that people won’t come to see them, I think that’s performance-ism. There is only “one guy” who is calling the shots on this, and his mind is made up, the event isn’t run by the BSA, and the rest of the members simply said “It’s his event, & his equipment, so its his call”, well I don’t like the number he’s calling from. I don’t want to make any decisions on the situation, because I’ve never been to HonFest before, but I doubt that it’ll be bigger than Artscape..and last year Mike Doughty got up there with just a guitar, and his buddy Scrappy on chello..that was it, and guess what, people showed up, and it was great.
We’ll see how this whole thing goes, I just don’t like the fact that I would have to have a “band” to play WTH x(
ANYway, its Friday, I have some good plans for the weekend, so let me focus on that =)
Have a safe and awesome weekend guys.
Salaam.
Mason Taylor said,
May 2, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I’m sorry to read the HonFest thing didn’t work out man. That’s really lame that solo artists weren’t allowed to share their music.
ashdawod said,
May 3, 2009 at 9:03 am
I think so too, I think singer/songwriters are just as important as the bands. Mike Doughty played an acoustic performance in ArtScape, which is a BIGGER event than HonFest..he just got up there with an acoustic guitar, and had a cellist to accompany him, that was it…I guess I’ll have to amp up my solo performance, and do more of them, until they are asking ME to play their festival, its on now. =)