Irish Pubs and Open Mics

Jumping In With Both Feet

About a week and a half ago I was at American Music in Seattle and saw Liz Smith, whom I hadn't seen for quite some time. We got to talking about my music career and I told her I was getting ready to start playing live again and was just trying to figure out where to start. It turns out that Liz and her man Ricky run the Sunday night open mic at Conor Byrne Pub in Ballard. She invited me to come out and I took it as a great first step to playing live again.

Now I haven't played and sang solo live for a long, long, long time and my nerves that first night were more than I had anticipated. But after my three song set I felt so good that all I could think about was how to improve and expand on it. I ended up performing four times last week and received a gig offer from one pub owner! What an encouraging start.

I'll make sure and let everyone know as soon as I book a gig where I'm playing for at least an hour so you can come out and enjoy the show. It won't be long now

Cheers,

Dave