Moonshine & Ale 5/30/20

New Braunfels was a little crazy tonight. The crowd was ready to sing and participate from our start. I had a bunch of familiar faces hanging out with me. My friend Megan from Victoria showed up, as well as the tennis guys who regularly hang with us. My partner, Heather, was sick this weekend, so Hailey shared the stage tonight with me, and Jay Russell Bleu Wimberly was drumming, and he had a beard. 

Live Stream 5/29/20

I did a three-plus hour live stream tonight on Facebook. I enjoyed hanging out with all my friends and fans. The keytar even made a special appearance! I’m heading to New Braunfels tomorrow night, then live streaming again on Sunday. Hope to see someone somewhere!

Moonshine & Ale 5/28/20

I stayed safely on stage tonight for the return of Live Band Karaoke in New Braunfels, TX. People seemed very happy to be out and singing with Pancho, Ryan and me. I enjoyed playing with the band and seeing all the happy people. Life after quarantine is a little weird, but it's good to be getting back in the swing of things. I'll be back on Saturday with my bestie Heather Ray to take requests!

Quarantine Keys Live Stream 5/24/20

Heather joined me for the first time on the QK page for a brunch show this afternoon. We played just under two hours for the QK fans, and made a few new fans ourselves. I absolutely love performing with Heather, and it makes live streaming more fun, too! Yay!

Moonshine & Ale 5/23/20

Heather Ray and I performed tonight for our first post-lockdown show in New Braunfels, Texas! We were so happy to share the stage with each other again. We really click well, and the crowd can tell how much fun we have together, and they join right in. Our energy is infectious. Only our energy is infectious. 

Live Stream 5/22/20

I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am! Heather Ray FINALLY got to join me again online! I love performing with Heather, and she makes playing so much more fun. We gel musically and personally, and it shows. The online crowd couldn't get enough, so we ended up running over four hours of music! The key tar made an appearance. Laughter was heard. Joy flowed through Facebook.

Quarantine Keys Live Stream 5/20/20

Wednesday nights have become a fun, mid-week escape for me. I head over to the QK page on Facebook and play to just a few night owls with great taste in music. The requests are usually far outside the norm, and that makes it challenging for me. Another hour-and-a-half show in the books!

Live Stream 5/15/20

Another successful and long show tonight on Facebook! I played over three-and-a-half hours of some of the best requests people could think of. Beatles and Sam Cooke were a couple of my favorites. The comments really make me laugh while I'm playing, and honestly make the show so much more fun to do! Keep watching, keep requesting, and keep commenting!

Quarantine Keys Live Stream 5/13/20

QK had me back on for another late-night Wednesday show, where I played for about an hour-and-forty-five worth of random requests. Gangsta's Paradise, Elton John, Primus and so much more. If you haven't watched a live stream yet, you really should.

Live Stream 5/9/20

I played an hour-and-forty-five minute show tonight on Facebook. Lots of Beatles and Cure and all kinds of stuff. Tech support provided by my partner Heather up in the Dallas area. Thanks everyone for keeping these livestreams happening!

Live Stream 5/8/20

Heather was on tech support for my live stream tonight, and she helped me with all of the great requests coming in.  This was a long one because people were having so much fun and didn't want me to go. I played nearly four-hours! At one point, a fan who is a nurse asked people to stop requesting tunes because she was concerned about my bladder. I appreciated the concern, and my bladder is fine. Now.

Quarantine Keys Live Stream 5/6/20

I played about an hour-and-a-half on the QK page on this late Wednesday evening. The requests have been great! I see some regulars when I play on the QK page, but also meet some new people each time. I'm happy to do a regular late-night Wednesday show.

Star Wars Live Stream 5/4/20

This maybe my favorite thing I've ever done. In strict observance of the holiday May the Fourth, I grabbed my Darth Vader helmet and did and hour-and-a-half show in character on our All Request Piano page on Facebook. Singing as Darth Vader really messed up my voice (I actually lost it after the show), but it was worth it. I gotta give a huge shout out two the two amazing women who helped make it possible. My wife, Christine, and my work-wife, Heather, made it possible for this show to happen.
Behind the scenes info:
I had in-ear monitors and a headset mic inside the helmet (and a loop of Vader's breathing which slowly drove me insane). With the helmet on, I couldn't really see and I could barely breathe. I had a fan pointed straight up my back for air circulation inside the helmet. Heather was on the page from her home in the Dallas area, and she was keeping people engaged within the comments. Christine was in the next room in our house in San Marcos, equipped with a monitor and a microphone. The mic fed into my in-ears (but not online) so she could talk to me and let me know what songs were being requested and who was asking for them. It was a team effort! A big thanks to them and to everyone who watched this hilarious show!

Live Stream 5/2/20

I played a relatively short show tonight, just about an hour and twenty minutes. I just decided to go on at the last minute because someone reached out to see if I was going to be on, so I said yes! I played quite a few tunes while I was live on the All Request Piano Facebook page, including some tunes for my wife who was watching from the couch in the other room. Ain't technology grand?

Live Stream 5/1/20

Tonight was some of the most fun I've had while live-streaming! My partner, Heather, was manning the comments as "All Request Piano" from her home in the Dallas area while I streamed from my San Marcos home. The comments were hilarious as I ran through three-hours of tunes. The crowd took selfies and sent them to me after the show, which was oddly touching! I knew people were watching, but it was great to actually see the people who were watching. The keytar was used and dog viewers were mesmerized.