Gig-in-a-box

The CD release is in less than a week. This past week SB was gone on vacation and my industriousness deflated a bit during that time. Now and she is back, and we aim to get the disc out to a half dozen college-operated radio stations tonight or first thing tomorrow. I also need to send initial stock of the disc to CDBaby and to Schuler's.

Still, an Evite we sent out a week ago today is yielding some satisfying results. It's nice to get an *idea* of the number of people planning to show, however rough. So far, 16 people have RSVPed Yes, another 5 Maybe, while 49 have said No. I expected a lot of Nos because of people living in different states. But by that ratio, - if more than one out of every four people invited comes - that's still puts the Evited audience at 40-50 people.

But another exciting development: I was contacted by an old acquaintance from college, who also lives in NYC and had somehow gotten wind of my show. He's trying to organize a local Calvin alumni gathering and wondered if I would be interested in having my gig be just such an event. Well, sure!

I haven't heard back from Paste Music yet. Though it's a little disappointing, I've learned by this point not to take these things personally. It doesn't mean that my CD sucks and that they couldn't bring themselves to tell me, though it could easily mean that 1) they did listen, and it wasn't so phenomenal to them that they came rushing to my voicemail or 2) they did listen, and had a positive response, but more pressing issues have been taking priority over contacting me or 3) they did receive it, haven't listened to it, may never listen to it, but certainly are not going to bother with contacting me until/unless they do. Really, these are all acceptable possbilities. I'll just keep plugging away.