And now...*crickets chirp*

So it's been a little over a week since the end of another adventurous and epic extended weekend. The Friends of Spencer Bell Show was amazing and a huge success as far as I'm concerned. A huge, major thanks to all the bands and musicians who traveled from afar to join us on an amazing evening that I will remember forever. I have made so many new friendships and built bonds with several people that I admire more than I could possibly even express and for that, I am truly humbled.

I, also, sold (i think) 9 or 10 copies of my CD that night and not all of them were to family or co-workers! So that's great news! Since then i've sold about 9 more which means that's even greater news! I'm so truly humbled by everyone who's bought my CD. It's an accomplishment I'm truly proud of and I know I wouldn't have been able to do it without the support of my amazing family and wonderful friends. (If you are interested in buying my CD, visit my FB music page http://www.facebook.com/melissaevansmusic to order a copy!)

But now that the adventure is over, I find myself searching for something else to be excited for. Planning the Friends of SBL show took up so much of my spare time (Not that i'm complaining by ANY means because I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it) and recording my CD took up even more of my spare time, that now I'm not entirely sure what to do with myself. I don't want to slip back into the pattern of sleep - get up - go to work - eat - sleep again because I refuse to let my life get mundane (again). I've been trying to find topics for songs and I haven't been very successful.... it's ironic really, when i have a million things to say I get writer's block, when I have nothing to say, I have a million things I COULD say but can't relate them to any one topic. Le sigh, the good thing is I just keep writing these little blurbs here and there in hopes that some day I can string them together to form a song or two. I never thought songwriting would be something I would enjoy doing... because let's be honest here, I'm a lazy person and writing something like that takes a lot of time and effort. The things people do for the love of music!

However, aside from the topic block and missing the adventure I had for the FOSBL weekend, I have to say I'm happy. I'm grateful and happy to be where I am in my life right now... sure, everything isn't perfect but I finally have the drive and support to keep heading where I am. I got some lovely words of encouragement from people I highly respect and even strangers a couple weekends ago and, along with my wonderful group of friends, I feel the need to keep pressing on just to prove to them that their words of encouragement were not taken in vain. If there's anything I've learned from my past few experiences as being a musician is that all the crying and pain and annoyances and attitudes and stress pays off in the end. I never thought in a million years I would be doing what I'm doing now. And now look at me, I've recorded and produced my own CD and I'm sharing a stage with bands/musicians that I absolutely adore.

Life is beautiful, afterall.

Upcoming Live Performance!

Bonjour!

I'm sure a lot of you know about this by now but in case you don't, allow me to educate you!

I am completely honored and I have been asked by the awesome man himself, Bill Bell, to be apart of (and help put on) the 2nd Friends of Spencer Bell Show! Our line up is going to be amazing this time around, as we've got some big SBL bands added to the list as well as a few familiar faces in the SBL community.

We've got Scheduled Performances by:

• Mountain Justice
• Evro
• Melissa Evans (that's me!)
• The Kissing Club
• Yet Cut Breath
• Allison Kerry
• Lea Haworth
• Tin Tin Can

As you can see, this is going to be an AMAZING show this year! Tickets are only $10 and are on sale RIGHT NOW! So why wait? Bill and I have put a lot of effort into making this show a great one. Callahan's is, also, very gracious to let us host our shindig here. We're very grateful to Mike Moss!

Click HERE to visit the Facebook Event Page for the Friends of SBL Show
and
Click HERE to buy your tickets!

To find out more about the Spencer Bell Legacy Project, visit the Spencer Bell Memorial Website

Much Love,
Me

Something fun

Here's something to give everyone a little insight into what I like as far as music goes. This will be a complete list of bands/musicians I've seen in concert and how many times I've seen them. (NOTE- The country bands/musicians are all from when I was younger.)

Billy Ray Cyrus - 1 time
Martina McBride - 1 time
LeAnn Rimes - 1 time
Randy Travis - 1 time
The Backstreet Boys - 2 times
The Beach Boys - 2 times
Good Charlotte - 2 times
Social Code - 1 time
Relient K - 1 time
Simple Plan - 1 time
Day of Contempt - 1 time
Bowling for Soup - 1 time
Maroon 5 - 1 time
Counting Crows - 1 time
Augustana - 1 time
Celtic Thunder - 2 times
The Moffatts - 1 time
Rod Stewart - 1 time (possibly will be seeing him again soon!)
Tin Tin Can - 3 times (soon to be 4!)
Drew & The Medicinal Pen - 2 times
Evro - 2 times (soon to be 3!)
The Stevedores - 2 times
The Kissing Club - 7 times (adding on 4 more shows, so soon to be 11!)
100 Monkeys - 6 times

And now, for the cities I've seen shows in just for kicks!

Auburn Hills, MI - Detroit, MI - Chicago, IL - Pittsburgh, PA - Mactier, ON (Canada) - Toronto, ON (Canada) - Austin, TX - Dallas, TX - Columbus, OH

I'm pretty sure from this list you can figure out which bands/musicians mean the most to me ;) and as you can see, traveling to see bands that I love is something I adore doing! :)

However I feel like I'm missing a huge chunk of shows.... hmmm.... it's late, possible edit tomorrow!

Much Love,
Me

Where the hell have I been?!

Well, talk about an epic fail...

I completely forgot I had this blog! Life took a crazy turn and I was traveling here, getting sick there, writing songs here, and recording an album there... oy vey!

I vow right here and now to update this thing as much as possible. So please stay tuned :)

Much Love,
Me