Clare's Journal

I can’t believe it!!!!  I just looked at myspace I have a message from Shawn Colvin.  Well it’s from the person the manages her myspace.  This is what it said:
 
“Hi Clare,
I just got this message today. If you get mine back in time, Shawn can say hello at 7:45 pm tomorrow. Give her tour manager [...]

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Tonight is the Shawn Colvin concert.  At the beginning of the month I wrote her a myspace message in the hope that I may be able to meet her.  I haven’t heard anything.  I still glad I sent it though.  Hopefully she was able to read it and know how she inspires me every time [...]

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I can’t stop playing this grand piano.  It’s just is so nice to be playing again.  I’ve be without one for a couple of months now and it was starting to drive me crazy.  I’ve had the guitar which has been great but there is nothing like a beautiful piano to get your heart pumping.  [...]

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Tonight I met a lovely couple that live down the road from my aunty and uncle.  Both fantastic musicians, now semi retired but still very passionate about music.  My aunty has a beautiful grand piano (It’s a steinway!) sitting in the lounge room that I’ve hardly stopped playing since I arrived, so I played a [...]

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My family are so adorable.  I feel like I’ve known them forever.  I have met my cousins Ashley and Whitney (who are my age) once before when they came to Australia for a visit, but other than that we are all new to each other.  We are all really similar and I feel totally comfortable. [...]

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I’m sitting on the airport floor in Nashville.  The flight has been delayed because of bad weather in Chicago.  I’ve been sitting here people watching.  One of my favorite past times.  It is so interesting to observe people in airports.  Some are on business, some are leaving their loved ones, excited young travelers on the [...]

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Only 2 days left here before I’m off to Chicago.  Almost every night since I got here I’ve seen a live gig.  I’ve been totally spoilt.  I’m going to miss that. 
Nashville is really a beautiful place, the countryside is green and lush. They are going through a drought here at the moment, but it’s nothing [...]

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Ah Nashville, I love you… I never thought this place could exist. The music community here is like no other. Everybody supports one another and it is a town that nurtures creativity. 
I’ve gone and seen a few music publishers in the past fews days and all have said that my songs are really great.  It’s [...]

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It’s 3am and Dan and I just got back from a Nickel Creek concert in Knoxville.  I’ve been a huge fan of theirs for a long time and I brought the tickets months ago.  We arrived in Knoxville about 4pm this afternoon and we were absolutely staving.  We picked a little bouqtue brewery to have [...]

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Perched on the wooden bench seats at the Ryman theatre in the middle of Nashville watching award winning songwriters perform their classic hits.  What an unbelievable experience!  I got given a couple of free tickets to this charity concert that Steve Cropper was putting on.  Apparently this concert event is held once a year and [...]

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