AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Festival: Update from Today’s Performance!
September 14, 2007
Soundchecked and the kids were looking snazzy...Erin made their clothes and they were FANTASTIC!
Buffy came and did their makeup...they looked colorful!
Ado ran sound...monster sound!
James brought all the gear and got the kids hooked up right!
Lilly (from Pink) came over and after hugs fixed my hair so cute, then proceeded to give my Lily pink hair and io glitter braids! Fun!
Tor made the production unbelievably fantastic by getting ACL to bring in a REAL stage with real gear and an entire alley set up to
kids fun activities, the Paul Green School of Rock (man, are they awesome! Like having Zeppelin down the hallway!), and met Ryan
from the Bummkin Band...nice, cute, tall, great hat and heart! Looking forward to knowing him better...more children's music...hooray!
Super nice crowd...I hope I didn't scare any of the parents with teeny tiny ones, but started out with "iolana'....had a dad come up on stage
to hold the cue cards...
Then brought up the Super Pal Universe and we laid into my new song, "You and Me" which crunches hard!
Then a swing/rock version of "Red Wagon"
then I handed the stage over to the kids...they did the Super Pal Theme Song that they wrote (which is so so so so superb!)
and ended with Nadia's "Love Comes in Colors"...catchy catchy catchy!
Zoom!!!
io, lily and lance were all in attendance, oh, how awesome!
Lance's birthday, gave a shout out to my man!
Lily filmed the day...I hired her to be our kid vid filmmaker for the day...she did a great piece cuz I saw the footage later...talking about how she was going to set up shots before she took them..such a PRO!!!
...she was
so into it!
Super Pal Universe rocked, so solid, and only after a few months together...
You can go to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL'S website and scroll through today's pictures and there is one of Nadia/Julie smiling out at you...you can't miss it! They are stars!
They totally rocked...I felt like a proud mama hen.
Came home, hung out with the kids, checked some email, finished watching "West Side Story" with the girls (of course we love "Officer Kruepke")
and then we all piled into the van, with our friend, Devin, and went and saw Bjork.
We got carted down to her backstage area and made it in with 100 other people for the opportunity to be on stage with Bjork, but after the first 50 made it, they cut off the
rest of us, so took the girls out into the 55,000 zillion people out front...another security guard was nice and tried to get me set up, but it backfired, too, but we finally found a cool spot to hang and watch Bjork's set.
Hmm. Wasn't as fierey as we had all hoped..Although she did do "An Army of Me" and the lasers were cool. God bless Jumbotrons! And we'd brought our chairs.
Caught a few minutes of the Killers. Ended up with friends from Lily's school and headed to the artist's tents. Met Mae-Mae Stiles who proceeded to give us some of her amazing, one of a kind jewelry
and she should be designing for Hillary (Clinton AND Swank). She was an angel in the midst of the dust and fatigue.
Got the kids home...had loaded the van with pillows, but they giggled with their heads comfy all the way through the crazy traffic.
Such a well run festival. Thanks to all the people who worked so hard to put it together. Really amazing to be a part of it!
posted by Sara Hickman at 08:01 pm
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Philly/Rockville = 3
September 11, 2007
it was greater than great to spend friday with sean hickey and his astounding, fantastic family...i can NOT say
enough good things about them. especially bam, his mother.
she and i both use the number "3" to express "i love you", and the minute i saw it written on a sticky note in her apartment, i said, "i love you" and we
both got a twinkle in our eyes. she also collects birdhouses and she is a master japanese brush painter. one heckuva an amazing 70 year old woman!
after the show in silver springs, we went back to sean and janis' house for a party, and it was so relaxing...full of hilarity and super
conversations. ..ok, and there were cookies present! and i even had a glass of wine! (i know, i was surprised, too!)
one young woman named kat drove an hour with her boyfriend, patrick, to get to the show, and we were just wrapping it up, so
the owner hopped up on stage and asked us to do three more for the "young lady who JUST got here!" and kristin and i burst into "best of times", to which kat leaned back into her
boyfriend's arms and sang on the lyrics to him. kristin immediately invited them to the party afterwards, and we sat around laughing and talking about everything from parents
(cuz i have parents and i AM a parent....whoa! so weird to get both sides of it all, now!) to nipple piercings and vampires!!! we were listening to mandy moore's new cd. very good
stuff. also met jim stephens, who is a cross between ralph fiennes and johnny rotten....with a high, enthusiastic grace inside! he just kept talking about how high he was from the
spiritual aspects of the show...and that was exactly where the conversation went further...taking an audience on a spiritual ride via music via grace. right on, brother!
i have got to figure out a way to get people out to concerts when i tour....the people that come are so enthusiastic and supportive. i just know if the amount of people doubled, it would be bedlam, happiness, noise!
the promoter for the chaplin's show had called me out of the blue and wanted to bring me up to his venue...so, that's how i got that gig...only problem was, he didn't do one ouce of promotions, so i was grateful for my
friends and long time fans who showed up...still, the show in silver springs had me down...there were some temporary worries that the new owner was not going to pay because the old promoter had not left
copies of the contracts, but i had a copy/notes to share, and the new owner was honorable (and a very nice man!) and paid out. whew. that was nerve wracking. i'm glad i kept my cool, and i'm glad kristin was there, too.
she kept me on my feet on stage with compliments and winks!
then, of course this is how it goes!, saturday night was PACKED at the folk-n-great concert, and although the room was really hot and sweaty,
kristin and i had a rockin' time and sold out of cds at break!! and glen roethel, who opened, was sweet as sweet could be..plays lovely guitar and has the voice of an
angel, and his wife, dawn, is our NEW BEST FRIEND! love her! so, thanks to cheryl and david for a really great "pick me up" for having a packed house and for working hard on behalf of the musicians they host.
by the way, the soup you two made for us all was dee-lish!
thanks to my brother, carlton, and his wife, celeste, who picked us up in philly and drove us back to D.C. and on to rockville and then waited til after the show to drive us to their abode, where i slept pretty well with a giant black and white cat (jake) sleeping on my head throughout the night. i woke up with puffy eyes, but the point is: i woke up! that means i SLEPT! so...i see...i need to have a furry creature on my head to get me into long term REM!
if you have any ideas of what else i could do besides blog, newsletter, myspace, the yahoo chat room, please...don' t hesistate to tell me/us!
i'm trying not to spread myself too thin...to make my music and perform live takes a ton of energy, but to make all this work requires even more planning/thought...
i couldn't do it without gene (webmaster/newslett er/idea man) and lance (my husband/runs my myspace/love and support) and mollie
(assistant) and teresa (who was our assistant/helper. ..want to give her major creds, too) and marty (engineer/lifelong pal)
but mostly you cuz you are the ones who pick me up,
who make me laugh and remind me of the best of
times...! living right before our eyes...
xo
sara
posted by Sara Hickman at 09:03 am
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Rosh HaShana
September 10, 2007
http://www.aish.com/movies/blinkofeye.asp
L'shana Tova Tikateivu v'Tikhateimu. A gut gebencht yahr tzu dir, deine mishpocha und tzu alle Bais Yisroel!
A Very Happy and Healthy New Year 5768 to You, Your family, and to the Entire House of Israel.
With love,
The Saydman Family
~Shirley, Benzi, Leah, Rivka Chana, Yehuda Ezra, Dodi~
posted by Sara Hickman at 06:26 am
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Live on Fox 7, Austin, TX
September 06, 2007
Love,
You know who
FOX 7 Live Music: Sara Hickman
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4269487&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
posted by Sara Hickman at 02:21 pm
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My Dad’s Advice to Me…
September 04, 2007
Love,
Sara
http://www.goodlifemag.com/archives/2007/09-07/09-07_Family.pdf
posted by Sara Hickman at 11:18 am
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