LA’s fine, but it ain’t home

October 18, 2009

We have now done 4 of the 5 gigs on the Korean leg of our tour. We have one more to go on Tuesday, then we fly home Wednesday. We’ve played for two large churches and two universities, and had amazing responses at all of them. Our average audience has been 350-400, which is slightly [...]

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Thank you, UlaanBaatar, and good night!

October 13, 2009

Just finished meeting with the team from UNTIL, the ministry here in Mongolia who hosted our tour. Great people, great experiences. And while our week of gigs in South Korea awaits, it’s bittersweet to leave. We’ve seen some great stuff happen here, so here’s the recap. We and UNTIL parntered with several other ministries while [...]

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Asian mid-tour update

October 9, 2009

We’ve been in Mongolia for over a week now. We’ve been to a remote prison. We’ve played 6 concerts. We’ve done training classes on how we do our outreaches. We’ve learned how to negotiate in the market, gotten stuck in an elevator for half an hour, and found a favorite restaurant where we can eat [...]

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blue sky nine goes to prison in Mongolia…

October 8, 2009

So we leave UlaanBaatar (the accents are on the ‘aa’ syllables) and head out on a 3.5 hour drive to the village of Dzuunharaa, where there is a prison where we’re playing. 45 minutes of the drive was on a dirt road through the steppe that I can only compare to the Santa Fe Trail. [...]

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Mongolian taxis and other oddities

October 2, 2009

So we get on the ground here in UlaanBaatar (the ‘aa’ syllables get the accent), we meet with the team that has brought us in for concerts, have a briefing meeting, and head out to dinner.

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Asian tour details… sort of

September 23, 2009

blue sky nine heads out for tour in Asia next week.  Here’ s our itinerary (I’ll keep it up to date when it changes). I’ll try to keep updates happening as long as we have Internet access. Seoul is pretty wired, but we have no idea what to expect in UlaanBaatar.  We’ll see. September: 29 – Fly [...]

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getting punched in the facade

September 14, 2009

On this last concert tour with blue sky nine, I was talking to a guy and a girl after a show. The guy was one of the student leaders of the ministry on campus that brought us in, and he was fairly straight-laced. The girl was a bit alternative-looking and had hung around after the show to talk. During the conversation, he asked her a [...]

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blue sky nine goes to prison… again

September 5, 2009

Last night, blue sky nine found our way back into Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Ellsworth, Kansas. We had played here over the weekend of April 24th and 25th, working in partnership with the great folks from Bill Glass Prison Ministries, and had a great reception. Since we were in the neighborhood on tour, we hooked up [...]

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Fitting in…

August 29, 2009

On Friday, blue sky nine kicked off a two-week tour by playing in Dayton, OH at the Target:Dayton Center.  Sounds like an arena; it’s not. It’s an inner-city ministry that feeds homeless and needy people several times a week.  blue sky nine played for their evening ‘service’, which involved a free meal for them. (We’ll play for food, even [...]

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blue sky nine feeds the 500…

August 26, 2009

So there we were, on a hillside, and people needed to eat… OK, not really.  But, we played Sunday evening at Iowa State for their annual back-to-school cookout, where they have free food from a local BBQ place.  Last year they had about 250-300 people at the event with food only, and this year they had blue [...]

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