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St Louis recap!
Jun. 9th, 2008 09:00 amI haven’t posted for awhile, but it’s been a busy busy time!
I’ve been performing at the Greater St Louis Renaissance Faire at Wentzville, which went fantastically. We closed yesterday and it was a spectacular note to go out on. The weekend was oppressively hot and humid, but any weekend without rain is one to treasure.
The very first day of the festival, at thepub King's sing I performed the Tam Lin reel, accelerando (accelerating), and Bill of 3 Pints Gone blindfolded me on stage. I’ve done this stunt before, but I was coming off of time in Italy where I hadn’t played Celtic music, much less this particular tune, for three months. I totally blew it, humiliating myself.
The next day I changed the game by playing something pretty at pub sing instead of something so dramatic, but for the duration of the faire I’ve been getting mild stage fright before going on for pub sing. Yesterday I redid the blindfold stunt, and it went brilliantly. That was a definite high point!
There have been a lot of wonderful moments throughout the festival. I performed with 3 Pints Gone quite a few times, including their pub show at Maggie Malone’s two weeks ago, which was a great deal of fun. I got to see a lot of old friends and make a few new ones. It’s especially amazing to have been at this festival for six years now!
The social network at this festival has been a great deal of fun as well. A lot of friends I know from other festivals perform here, and it has been wonderful fun to spend time with them this week. It’s typical that performers spend the entire festival run telling each other we’ll hang out but not taking the time until the final week. But what a week it’s been! A group of us saw Shakespeare on Monday night as the St Louis Shakespeare in the park put on Richard III (the lead actor was stunningly good). On Wednesday we went to the City Museum, which is basically three stories of jungle gym for adults. The we went out to Bailey’s Chocolate Bar, a fantastic restaurant. This was also divided up by other various outings with other friends I don’t see often enough.
Capping things off, I was voted “Favorite Lane Act” by the cast, an honor they’ve given me every year I’ve performed here. It has been a fantastic season and I can’t wait to come back again!
I’ve been performing at the Greater St Louis Renaissance Faire at Wentzville, which went fantastically. We closed yesterday and it was a spectacular note to go out on. The weekend was oppressively hot and humid, but any weekend without rain is one to treasure.
The very first day of the festival, at the
The next day I changed the game by playing something pretty at pub sing instead of something so dramatic, but for the duration of the faire I’ve been getting mild stage fright before going on for pub sing. Yesterday I redid the blindfold stunt, and it went brilliantly. That was a definite high point!
There have been a lot of wonderful moments throughout the festival. I performed with 3 Pints Gone quite a few times, including their pub show at Maggie Malone’s two weeks ago, which was a great deal of fun. I got to see a lot of old friends and make a few new ones. It’s especially amazing to have been at this festival for six years now!
The social network at this festival has been a great deal of fun as well. A lot of friends I know from other festivals perform here, and it has been wonderful fun to spend time with them this week. It’s typical that performers spend the entire festival run telling each other we’ll hang out but not taking the time until the final week. But what a week it’s been! A group of us saw Shakespeare on Monday night as the St Louis Shakespeare in the park put on Richard III (the lead actor was stunningly good). On Wednesday we went to the City Museum, which is basically three stories of jungle gym for adults. The we went out to Bailey’s Chocolate Bar, a fantastic restaurant. This was also divided up by other various outings with other friends I don’t see often enough.
Capping things off, I was voted “Favorite Lane Act” by the cast, an honor they’ve given me every year I’ve performed here. It has been a fantastic season and I can’t wait to come back again!
