Really not a lot to write about this one. We really like playing outside at Hollywood & Vine, awesome patio. The place, as a whole (with emphasis on the patio) has more personality than a lot of the places we play. If I lived in Glen Rose, I would probably be a regular customer. Anyway, this time the rain left us alone and it was good, hot and humid. At the end of the night, all of my clothes were soaking wet!
The show went fine. Well, aside from Mr. Frazier getting a splinter from the wood stage on his magic finger, the show went fine. We've been tweaking the set list, how it flows and all, and it appears to have been a positive change - a lot of nice words from people in the crowd. Had a few free beers sent our way, saw a CD being sold, had some folks dancing, etc. This morning I see we've received several new Facebook "likes" from people in the Glen Rose area as well (Thank You!).
It was a good time and I really hope to be able to get back on the outdoor stage once more before it cools off this Fall. They have live music year round, but we're kinda loud for where they have the indoor bands play :)
Thanks, again, to everyone that came out and to Wanda at Hollywood & Vine for having us again.
Stay gold,
RH
Welcome to the Holliday Road: A diary of Sand Dollar Rodeo live shows, as seen from behind the mic stand... Posting the good, the bad and the ugly. The intention of this blog is to document the entire SDR performance schedule, giving an in depth view of what life is like in a working band. So fasten your seat belts and we'll get this show on the road!
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Sunday, July 14, 2013
07.13.2013 - Community Beer Company - Dallas, TX
Another fun one for the Sand Dollar Rodeo show archive! As many of you know, we’ve been exploring playing brewery
tours and played our first one a few weeks ago. It went well and this show went
even better. However, it was a very different vibe from the previous brewery.
Community Beer Company is very much about… creating a community. I was surprised to show
up and see, in addition to beer being setup, there were local artists setting
up displays, food vendors, etc. It was almost like a mini festival. Oh, and
there was a dog adoption event as well, I believe. I was never able to get the
time to make over to where the main dog area, but there were a lot of them! Anyway,
the vibe was right.
It was a large warehouse, so it was hard to tell exactly how many people
were in there. But, I heard from a woman that worked there that this was one of
their largest turnouts and she was estimating 300 through the door.
We had to work our sets around two brewery tours. So, we played for an hour,
took a beer break during tour #1, then played about 30 minutes, beer break for
tour # 2, then played one final song to close out the day. The response from
the crowd was really good. I was stopped quite a few times by people saying
they enjoyed the music and the staff said they would like to have us back. Another perk, the McKinney Crew showed up - they've been with us since the beginning and it was great to see their faces - thanks for coming on down to the hip side of 75 :) Needless to say, we
had a lot of fun and will go back, for sure!
My beer pick of the day: Witbier.
Next stop... back to Glen Rose for round 3 or 4. Talk to you then!
Stay gold,
RH
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