Let me share something pretty fu&*ing cool with you. About 2 months ago I envisioned a stage (remember I wrote about it, http://whereadoorcloses.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-stage.html) while walking home from dinner with friends I stopped at a new jazz/blues club that opened up right across the street from me (weird huh?). I walked in and my heart almost stopped. From the red of the curtain to the position of the musicians, I had seen this before I actually physically "seen" it, if that makes sense. I actually drew a sketch months ago in Minnesota of this exact moment.
As I walked into a very crowded bar a very kind gentleman gave his seat up for me. Little did I know that I had sat right next to the singer of the group that was playing that night. We start talking, I pitch the Dani & The Mad Men vision (because I TELL EVERYONE & THEIR MOM ABOUT IT) and he says "well you think you got what it takes so lets put you on stage and see what you got."
My reaction was sh&% IJ YHJKD^%&^$ G&*& DGSJ^*W()W*E HDKS&RWIUIO!!!!!!! Im about to sing on a stage in Manhattan, holy shit this is cool. This is my moment.
I got up on stage with not an ounce of nervousness, I went up there feeling like I was home. A home I have missed for so long, a home I gave up on at one point. A stage I learned how to love again. I stood and did impromptu jazz/blues and to be honest I don't remember what I sang but whatever it was it lead the crowd to ask for 2 more songs for me to sing. It's within this moment I give gratitude. It reaffirmed all that I have been doing behind the scenes with music, and that I am in fact NOT going bad shit crazy. I have been here less then a week and was just busting to get that microphone and I got much more then that. I got the stage I saw months ago and now a network of musicians within my neighborhood wanting to work with me.
I share this moment because I am a firm believer that if you go somewhere in mind first, you will go there in body second. To the first of many stages, to my many homes.
