alonewiththemoon

Last week Amira Jamal emailed me to apologize for the fact that she wouldn't be getting my teacher review to me until Monday, today. For some reason I hadn't expected her to have it before Monday, so that was fine. But now it's 4pm on Monday and I'm so anxious about it! I know there were some things that I did well and some things that I did not so well and I'm very interested in getting the feedback. *chews nails*

Put together my set for this Sunday, I like it. I used a classy pop song by Fella, a nice nay baladi progression taqsim and that same damn drum solo from the Virginia album that everybody and her frakkin' sister dances to, but I am lazy this week and don't want to work hard on preparing a new drum solo or even re-visiting a particularly complex one. Fella was an emusic discovery and I'm getting really into her. She's Algerian--do they all have wonderfully gravelly voices?--but in an interview says she thinks of herself more as a pan-Arab artist, which really comes through in her music. I like her videos too, she dares to be different by doing things like dressing in a tux instead of the sexy sexy things Arabic singers are supposed to wear. She comes across as a classy, strong woman.

My upcoming performance schedule:

July 22--nursing home gig, then Middle East, 10:40
July 29--Middle East, 10:40
August 3--Performing with Walter Sickert as a broken dancing toy at Blacksun show at All Asia Cafe
August 5--Jane Doe Benefit, Middle East Upstairs, 12-5
August 12--Middle East, 10:40
August 19--Middle East, 10:40
August 25--Diva Pageant, Springstep Studio, Medford, 5pm-7ish?

and October 22, Bela Lugosi tribute show in Lowell.