This has been what today as looked like around Nashville. The view from my porch.

Last night was the 5th annual ‘Lighting Of The Green’ at Lipscomb university. It was a great night of music. I was unsure about the line up when I heard about it because I am not a fan of the Gaithers. I have a friend who sings with them and have been to way too many tapings/shows so I debated not even going, but ended up going and enjoying the night. It was not as cold as previous years so that helped with the general merriness of the event. The line up included: Amy, Lipscomb choirs, Brenda Lee, Guy Penrod, Buddy Greene and the Annie Moses Band.

I am going to let the photos speak for the evening. Here is a sampling and for a link to all the photos look below. I shot one video of Amy singing ‘Heirlooms’ and debating if I am going to put it up. Check back in a few days to see if I have.

See all the photos: Flickr.com

Also past years: 2007 and 2008

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Here are a few pictures from last night’s Donald Miller event. It was a great event that hopefully tomorrow I will expand on. Until then, enjoy…

Last night Amy Grant was part of a taping called ‘Holiday Notes From Home’. Here are a few pictures from the event. It was a fun event with Amy, Take 6 and the Military band.

Enjoy…

Technorati Tags: Amy Grant, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Holiday Notes From Home

Tonight was an amazing night. I FINALLY got to see ‘Wicked’! I have wanted to see Wicked since I first heard about it years and years ago. Here is my mini review.

I was excited to see wicked, but a little sad that I never got to see Idina Menzel play Elphaba. Okay okay and Joey McIntyre from New Kids On The Block play the role of Fiyero (I still find him just as dreamy as when I was 5th grade). If you have ever read my blog you know that I just love Idina (a quick search pulls up several results). I was hoping that the person playing Elphaba was going to be good. When I saw ‘Rent’ live some of the cast just did not live up to what I had in my mind. I have to say the lady (Marcie Dodd) playing Elphaba was AMAZING! The whole touring cast of Wicked was beyond belief.

Honestly I can’t even begin to say how blown away I am right now. I really don’t even know what I should be typing here except..OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG….If you have not seen Wicked…run…run as fast as you can. Better yet hop on your broomstick and go to your nearest show.

Time for the media sharing and me to go to bed. My head is spinning from the show and getting only 4 hours of sleep for several days in a row.

Here are a few crappy photos I took on my iPhone.

Here is a clip of Idina singing ‘Defying Gravity’.

Technorati Tags: Wicked, Nashville, Touring, Broadway

Today I headed to the ‘Narrows Of The Harpeth’ for the first time. It is an amazing view. Funny just 30 minutes outside Nashville you can find these little hidden treasures tucked away everywhere.

I was quite jealous that everyone seemed to be taking kayaks down the river! I defiantly want to do that next time I go back.

Anyway here are a few pictures from the day.

Technorati Tags: Nashville, Narrows Of The Harpeth, State Parks, Tennessee, Harpeth River

Last night was an event for Blood Water Mission here in Nashville. ‘Love (as it turns out) is a battlefield: an apology to the 80’s” was held at Downtown Presbyterian Church with guests: Sarah Masen, Justin Caldwell, Sandra McCracken (ft. Derek Webb), Matthew Perryman Jones, David Dark, and Donald Miller. It was a night of music, story, video, and discussion.

The night was an apology to the 80’s. Through the night there were 80’s commercials and movie trailers in between some of Nashville’s finest performing their favorite 80’s songs. Each artist sang about three songs.

One of my favorite moments of the night was when Sandra McCracken and Derek Webb  sang ‘Time after Time’ and the audience joined it. It was a sweet moment. I capture a bit of it on video.

[See post to watch Flash video]

Donald Miller took the stage with David Dark in a Q & A format. It was my first time hearing Donald Miller speak and all I can say is that he is one funny guy. He is coming back in November on his upcoming book tour and I can’t wait to hear him.

But the important this was this was a night for Blood Water Mission. It was the Nashville stop of the Ride: Well tour.  Blood Water played an amazing video that was amazing to see the results of what they are doing. $1 gives 1 African person water for 1 year….that is amazing. Really what can we buy for a dollar that can transform a life? A pack of gum now costs more than giving a person water for a year. That to me is mind blowing and humbling. Be sure and check out what Blood Water Mission is doing and be blown away also.

Below are a few photos from the night. Check out all the photos on my Flickr account.

Technorati Tags: Blood Water Mission, Donald Miller, Nashville, Sandra McCracken, Derek Webb, David Dark, Sarah Masen, Matthew Perryman Jones, Justin Caldwell

So tonight Derek Webb did an event in Nashville. I decided to go because I have always liked Derek, but never really seen him in concert and was hoping tonight was a concert. When I got to The Rutledge the line was long and it was a couple of hours before the event. I met two nice guys from Atlanta in line and once in we grabbed a table together. When walking in there was a huge screen set up and no sound equipment so I was a little bummed.

Derek came on stage and brought out the president of INO Jeff Moseley to talk about the controversy surrounding Derek’s new album. After Jeff left the stage Derek introduced the making of video ‘Paradise is a parking lot’ which is an hour long film. It was a very amusing and interesting look at the behind the scenes making of  ’Stockholm Syndrome’.

About half way through the movie I noticed a stir right outside and decided to check on twitter. As soon as I logged on to @ssyndrome I saw the tweet

FOLLOW THE BARCODE TO THE HEART. YOU WILL BE HANDSOMELY REWARDED.

then also saw:

THE BARTENDER CAN SEE IT. MAKE THE CALL.

My mind was going crazy trying to find the barcode. I knew where (or who) the heart was but just needed the bar code. I finally saw an out of place poster for French Bulldogs and the telephone number at the bottom looked like a bar code. I examined the item closer and saw it was a 888 number. I quickly placed the call only to hear the following:

I went to the girl at the bar and she handed me the wrist band.

After the show I waited out front with 16 other people and everyone was looking for our next clue (barcode we thought). We all saw the white van pull up about the same time with  the ‘White Noise’ signs. So we all got in the van and headed to an unknown location. Needless to say there was a ton of tweeting going on and pictures and speculation as to where we were going and what we would be doing!

We headed to east Nashville. We pulled into an alley and said our gate was to the left.

When we walk through the gate Derek is waiting to meet us.

So we head into his studio to listen to the new album.

After listening to the new album Derek answered questions and took pictures. Then we load back on the the White Noise bus to head back to The Rutledge to go our separate ways. We also got the new album (Yah!) and also we will be getting a special package in the mail with more goodies from the album.

All in all it was a great night!

Here are some photos taken from the event. More to come. Be sure and visit my Flickr page for all the photos (coming very soon)

Technorati Tags: Derek Webb, Stockholm Syndrome, Nashville, The Rutledge, INO Records

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Last week there was a benefit show at Rocketown called Raise Up. The show went to benefit Ruthie Sayles. It was a crazy line up of: Mindy Smith, Sixpence None The Richer, Erin McCarley, Kate York, Landon Pigg, Griffin House, Brooke Waggoner & a few special guests.

It was a great night of music. Here are a few images from the show. To see all of them please visit Flickr.

Technorati Tags: Raise Up, Rocketown, Nashville, Mindy Smith, Sixpence None The Richer, Leigh Nash, Erin McCarley, Kate York, Landon Pigg, Griffin House, Brooke Waggoner

Tuesday night the 2nd of June the band Emery held their album release party at Rocketown to benefit Invisible Children.

Emery, The Almost, Aaron Sprinkle, The Becoming and Kiros rocket the stage. I had heard of a few of the bands, but only knew must by The Almost. It was a great show that brought a great message to a house full of teens and adults. Normally I would never go to this kind of show, but since I work at Rocketown I am expanding my musical show tastes..I loved the high energy and just pure rawness of the night.

Here are a few photos from the show. To see all of them go to Rocketown’s web site at http://www.rocketown.com

Technorati Tags: Invisible Children, Rocketown, Nashville, Emery, The Almost, The Becoming, Aaron Sprinkle, Kiros