Lake Oswego's Millenium Park

Hi all!

After Borders in Vancouver we traveled, on Sunday, to Lake Oswego's Millenium park, and performed at the Lake Oswego's Art foundation's Art show.
It was a beautiful day out, it got up into the 90's but we were under a canopy and there was a nice breeze off of the lake. What a beautiful setting. It wasn't extremely busy there but the audiences that we had we very appreciative and enjoyed our music.
Elaine, the person in charge, said she got a lot of compliments regarding "Road to Real" and that our music really fit their venue well. We are invited to come back next year. They are booked up for the rest of the year.
All of us at Road to Real really enjoyed this venue.
Michael G's Mom, Rusty, was there, it was real nice to have her in the audience. Rusty and her friend (name escapes me... darn it) were great fans!
Susan showed up with a friend, Annie and Damien were there. Oh yeah can't forget to mention that Mark showed up, from Centerline, with his wife Tammy. Mark was very kind to help us with our sound checks which is a bigger thing than it sounds. Jon from Centerline tried desperately to get us some wind screens from guitar center but they were out! It was great to have Jon there in the audience, it's nice to have fellow musicians there to show support.

Thanks for the support, we appreciate it.

Andy

Borders in Vancouver, Washington

Hi all!

Friday night after we played at the Borders in Salem, we ventured up to Vancouver to play at the Borders Books there. Wow! that was fun, what a great crowd. The staff was great, very helpful and accomodating. The audience was very receptive. A lot of people stopped by to listen, some sat down but quite a few people kind of stopped in their tracks and stood there listening to us. Our favorite crew of fellow workers were there: Kim, Tina, Jeanette, Sheri, and of course our favorite sound person, Linda was there.
This was a very fun evening for us, we were also in great humor that night and when we weren't singing we were joking and laughing a lot.

Thanks for the support, we appreciate it.

Andy

Border's Books Tour

Well, we started our Border's Books tour (if you can call it a tour) last night in Salem, Oregon.
We had a good time, it's about an hour drive for us to get to Salem, but Stephanie and I gabbed all the way down
so it didn't take very long. The staff was great, they took care of us. One of the benefits of playing there is that they
give us complimentary beverages.
Our sets were put together pretty well. It's a little tough playing cold like that. Meanining, we hadn't practiced since the previous Sunday, we typically practice on Wed. nights.
We had a good time, not much banter with the audience. We pretty much got down to business and played.
We look forward to Vancouver this coming Friday night, and then on to Lake Oswego Sunday.
We'll keep you posted!

RTR