I had two great shows this week, on Thursday and Friday.  The first was a cool opportunity to open for Zee Avi, a singer/songwriter from Malaysia who is my age who is on the road to “making it”.  I played it with Scott, so it was just guitar, bass and vox.  I kind of wish we’d played with Phil, but I was told by the promoter (along with a few other untrue things) that there wouldn’t be room for drums.  But it was probably better that way because Zee’s band had drums, and we might have been too similar if Phil had played, too.

Anyways, I really like her, a lot.  I bought her CD and I’m listening to it right now (Phil thought she should have given it to me, but she’s touring for 3 months total– she can’t give a CD to every person she plays with).  Her music is a really mellow, beautiful combination of jazz and folk, with enough pop in there to make her radio-playable.  She’s on tour with Pete Yorn right now after finishing a record promotion tour, so her course to stardom has already been set in motion.  So I wish her luck!  She has a beautiful, smooth and slightly smoky voice (I don’t give vocal compliments lightly), she’s waaaay better at guitar than me, and she can rock a uke like nobody’s business.  I hope she makes it big.

On Friday I played the show I made that poster for, with local Philly girl Bevin Caulfield and two ladies from LA who are touring the East Coast: Vanessa Micale/ Ilo Mar and Emily Lacy.  It was a cool night, because even though we are obviously all female and we all played more or less solo and acoustic, none of us sounded a like at all.  Emily and Vanessa both do some cool things with loop pedals but the similarities end there.  Bevin has this cool pop/folk/soul thing going on, and I really enjoyed her songs and voice.  So overall, it was fun!  I was also, embarrassingly, a little proud of myself because I did it all by myself… I think I’ve been relying a little too much on my band members, esp. Phil since he’s my boyfriend and drummer.  I can do things by myself.  Really, I can!

On recording updates, P and S did about half the songs on Tuesday, which means I can go in and start to record the guitar on possibly vox on those.  Whoo!  Exciting things are happening…