Counting Down to Gigs

Tough rehearsal last night, but then those are the good ones! We realize we're a little rusty with some of the songs on our playlist. The good news is, we have a playlist now for the Historic Oakland Cemetery Festival coming up October 4. We thought we'd rehearse straight through all the songgs last night and identify the ones we need to go back to for more work. Unfortunately, we worked on all of them as we went so only made it about a third of the way through.
Exciting news, though; Mike went by Doppler Studios earlier in the day and picked up the final Mastered CD of our album! Drumroll and fireworks, please. He made copies and we all have them. We've decided on the packaging for them (cardboard "wallets" the fold over with four-panel artwork, no plastic) and the company that puts the whole package together; they print your artwork on the actual CDs, put the music on the CDs, print the "wallets," insert the CDs in the wallets and shrink-wrap them (I know, I know, we all hate shrink-wrap, but it seems to be the industry standard without which people think you're back to making CDs in your basement) and get them to you all in about a week. We hope to have them ready for our church Homecoming in early November. The next challenge on the list is finishing the artwork for the disc and 4 panels.
Besides the Festival For The Dead, we have a neighborhood association party to play and a town Fall Festival where we played last year, all in October, and then we'll have a Bluegrass Sunday at church and a Sunday evening cookout at church, too. We go months without a gig, then about six in about a month! Fun times!