Nashville Hall of Fame, Luke Bryan Farm Tour… FUNNN!!!!!

October 13th, 2011

Hey ya’ll!

Just wanted to tell you guys about my wonderful happenings over the last couple of weeks!

Mid-September came along and I heard about a songwriting competition based in Nashville, that was in the efforts to support Narcolepsy. The competition was called, “Wake Up Nashville and Dream Big”. The song writing competition was judged by the head of Savannah Music Group in Nashville, and they would chose a top 10 , with one of those top ten songs being the winner of the competition. So,  I really didn’t think anything about the contest whatsoever, but I figured I’d try it out anyway! I entered “Cold November” and “Drive” , from my self-titled EP, and just hoped one of them would place in the top ten. WELLLL, I got an email a few days later, informing me that “Cold November” had won the ENTIRE contest, and that “Drive” was also in the top ten! I was floured! Really?! My songs?! Whaaat?! I definitely wasn’t complaining though!

So, on Sept. 29, me and two of my wonderful band mates, took off to Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame, to perform at the Wake Up Nashville Benefit Gala. I had never been to the Hall of Fame EVER…. so I figured it was pretty dang cool that I got to PERFORM at the Hall of Fame the first time I had ever been there.

It was such a fun night! There were tons of people there (lots of them from Music Row… singers, songwriters, execs from different record labels) and it was so fun to be able to network with all of these people! I loved it! Each artist that was in the top ten performed their winning song, along with other legendary songwriters.

After a great night at the event, my family ( Parents, sis, aunts, uncle, cousin…. LOVED that they all came to support me) took the party downtown and had SO much fun! I may or may not have even made a surprise appearance at Tootsies!

After the Hall of Fame, it was time to get ready for the LUKE BRYAN FARM TOUR!!!!!!!!!!! Owww owwwww!!!!! I cannot express how excited I was when I was asked to open for Luke at his Claxton stop of the Farm Tour. I have loved seeing Luke perform for so long… and have seen him just as long, but I never thought I would ever share a stage with him. However, that was changed on Oct. 5, 2011! Me and the gang left town at about 10:00 on Wednesday morning and headed to Claxton for a sound check at 3:30. When it was time for sound check, I looked over to my right and saw none other than Luke Bryan working out…. without a shirt on, might I add. WOOOO!! (hehe)  When he finally got finished with his sweet little workout, he came out in front of the stage and thanked us for being there, and introduced himself…. As if we didn’t already know! Anywhoooo, after sound check we all got on the bus and chilled out for a while, until it was glam timmeee!!! At around 7:30, it was time to hit the stage! I will never forget how it felt to walk up the steps on the side of the stage and walk on to the stage to find THOUSANDS of people screaming and standing in front of me! It literally took my breath away! Such an awesome feeling! We had a thirty minute set, and rocked the house! After the show, we watched Rhett Akins and Dallas Davidson perform, then LUKE!!!! It was so cool to experience the show from back stage! After Luke was finished, we hung with him and his band… and Rhett and Dallas and it was SO fun! I will never forget that night!

Changing the subject a little, voting for the  Georgia-Country Female Artist of the Year awards is finally over and I just want to thank you guys SO MUCH for voting for me and supporting me! It means the world to me and I appreciate each and every one of you! We will find out who the winner is at the Georgia-Country Awards Banquet on November 5 at Cowboys in Milledgeville.

One more thing, my song, “This Wasn’t My Fairy Tale” will be featured THIS SATURDAY on 94.9 The Bull’s Backyard Country from 9-10 pm. If you are in the ATL area, I would love it for you to tune in to listen to the song…. and also to VOTE for the song so that we can make it multiple weeks on the BYC Line-Up!!!

Here is the link to vote!!!! : http://www.949thebull.com/pages/byc_voting.html

Love you all SO much!!!

Until next time,

xoxo LA

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