A New Year and Plans

2017.... So many expectations and plans to make.

2016 was a mess of worldly events and national issues. The world seems unsafe. I am lucky to seemingly live "nowhere", but that will not protect me forever. If things work out this year, I will not be living where I am by next year.

 I have reassessed some of my goals and opened up a few new directions to go towards. I remember having artistic projects in my past that were exciting, and I am looking forward to starting a few this year. I remember having lofty goals and dreams that I could create my own employment (which I more or less have for most of my life). I will be returning to a few of these dreams, and changing myself in order to accommodate them.

I am being vague about things, because I do not want to give anything away for the fact that it may fail. I will also have a better story to tell once I have tried a few things out.

Updates

My website has been updated, but I am split between the musician persona, and the organizational professional that my education has made me. I have no decent job position in either arena, but I hate to be typecast. This is my music blog, but I don't like being called a musician-- too many bad personalities and cliches have made that a bad stigma. I will finally return to many music projects this year, but they will not be to glorify my talents, but more to send a message. The messages are best made through music (for me at least).

Since my last post I played several gigs with Every Other Sunday-- August was booked every weekend, I played at the Norland's Pie and Arts Festival, Christmas at the Norlands, Mitch and friend's Christmas concert, and with EOS for New Year's Eve.

For plays, I played Chicago @ CLT on banjo, and guitar for A Christmas Story @ Waterville Opera House. I am currently (this is the last day) finishing up playing Shrek @ Oak Hill H.S.


I have a few future plays in the books, as well as EOS gigs, but that will be saved for another blog installment.

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I will be changing the nature of this blog in the coming months. I don't feel that this platform works for me, and although it is somewhat of a resume on shows and gigs I do, I rarely write about those happenings. My past blogs provide a good basis for the drama that a multi-faceted music player/teacher can go through to make a dime. Now I have remained on a maintenance diet of money "bonuses", and since bills only increase, it is hard to be fully involved in what is happening. This is why I am looking forward to a few projects this year, and hopefully finding a way for them to make money.

I can only hope.

 2017 has not been off to the best start so far, but I will find that silver lining.