Sep
27
2010
…they’re all stops on the blue sky nine 2010 tour!
We’re at about the midpoint, and I’m in and out of home a little bit. And by a ‘little bit’, I mean it’s enough to be here for Sarah’s 11th birthday this week, but not enough to catch any of Rachel’s soccer games on the weekends.
We just got back from 5 days in Kansas working with some prisons; we saw a lot of guys get their freedom in a spiritual sense, even if not in a legal sense. We play Ft. Knox this weekend – I’m looking forward to that; we usually play for about 700-800 recruits, and it’s always fun.
Then, we head overseas to Romania! The tour is coming together; there is a daily flow of emails at this point to nail down all the tour details. We’re playing for several events that are not on this calendar, but below is the ‘public’ tour calendar for the Romanian tour. (click to enlarge it).
Should be cool… stay tuned here for pictures and stories!
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Sep
15
2010
Well, blue sky nine just got back home from being out west on tour for 3 weeks.
We had a great time working with a bunch of different campus ministries doing outreach and/or promo events to get their years kicked off. And at the UMOM center in Phoenix, AZ, we made some homeless women and families laugh, smile, dance and sing. That’s a pretty big win.
some highlights:
We almost ran over the president of Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO (if you believe HIS version of the story)
Our sound board got hit by lawn sprinklers in campus quads… twice
We spent $535 on trailer repairs at two different shops in two different cities in the same day trying to get home
We played a gig where I could literally see Pike’s Peak from the stage in Colorado Springs, CO
We hiked to Delicate Arch (and other things) in Arches Nat’l Park in Utah on a day off (below):
So, all in all – 23 days, 10 concerts, and over 5000 miles. We replaced 2 leaf springs and 1 tire on the trailer and crossed the contintenal divide twice.
A small handful of people made pretty significant decisions about their relationships with God; hundreds more were challenged to think about it. Many of them indicated that they want more dialogue about spiritual things, which means our concert hosts are thrilled to have new people to engage in spiritual conversations with.
But… my favorite moment? Getting a comment card from one of the gals at the UMOM Center in Phoenix that said “The guitar player with the long hair… now THAT’s what I call eye candy…”.
And no, I am not kidding. You can’t make this stuff up.
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