A little front porch singing

Had church on the front porch last Sunday and was able to spend some time with Uncle Bob and Joyce.  Great times.  Good words.

Booking Concerts for Summer 2012

This week we are starting to book concerts for the Summer 2012.  I am going to be talking with my contacts and working on putting together a schedule that will work for us.   I began using salesforce this month and it seems to be a great tool for follow up and contact management.  We need that right now because we are doing all of our own booking.  I am going to begin exploring the possibilities of playing at Teen Challenge and some of the other ministry related camps and rehab facilities in this part of the country.  Because of my testimony and what God has brought me out of, I feel that I share something that has worth with these people.  For example, our song, "All Because of You" is about the day that I was saved.  November 3, 1994.   Here is the video of that song.

Draft for the Eureka Park T-Shirt Emily's Draft

Emily's new drawing draft for the new Eureka Park Shirt.  

We are working on our new product table and this will be on one of our shirts.

Promotions for the Nevaeh concerts in Bellbrook

Today, Emily began the follow up calls to the churches and pastors of Bellbrook, Ohio.  It is the hometown of Nevaeh.  We will be doing several charity concerts and events in Bellbrook over the next quarter to raise money for her.  You can donate here http://cotafornevaehd.com/

Also, if your church has an opening for a concert, all CD sales are going to help Nevaeh.  Contact us from our blog or contact form online.

Emily's students came to the fashion show for Nevaeh

Bose L1 Model 1 Review Continued

We tried out the Bose system L1 Model 1 at the concert this past weekend.  It was very easy to setup and worked great.  The Sure Beta 87A Mic did not sound great through the unit.  The tracks seemed separate from my vocals so we didn't use them.  But, for the acoustic and the Heil mic, it sounded great.  I thought about testing the Model 2 because the base unit on the Model 1 is pretty heavy.  I guess it's not to bad, but for another $900, you can get the Model 2 with the small base. I ran the iTunes directly from my mac and we used a simple Yamaha mixer.  I think that you need a better mixer with more eq and compression to make the mics really sing with this system.  The bass response was great.  It wasn't thumping from my guitar or anything that I have experienced from other systems with subs.  Now they are on sale in May and we are seriously considering the purchase. I had to set it up and tear down twice and I was able to do it myself in about 5 min or less.  The bags are a must for this system so I hope they come with it.  I don't think you would need hard cases like I have seen though.   I didn't get to pump the system because of the venue we were in but I could tell that it was loud and I had more room to go if I needed it.  It was smooth all over the room.  We sat up close to the system.  Next time I would set it off to the side a bit.  This was the easiest and best sounding system I have used in a portable setting.