Olympia and Mt Vernon (rescheduled)

It’s easy for me to get into the “Christmas Spirit” when the snow begins to fall. Seattle had a breath of the Arctic on Monday after Thanksgiving. What a great amount of “drama” happens when Seattle gets a touch of snow. It caught Seattle and it’s residents off guard as snow always seems to do. No one expects snow in Seattle and no one expects the mercury to go as low as it did. In Sultan on Tuesday night on 12/28 we went down to 15 degrees. Plenty chilly for us.
As far as concerts go, the cold weather is not conducive for harp concert patrons. We had no options for our concert in Olympia on 12/28 so we had to perform with the “show must go on” attitude. Attendance was greatly reduced because of the icy roads. What the audience lacked in numbers was made up for by their enthusiasm. It was a great show made very intimate by the smaller crowd. The theater manager said that our show had more presale show tickets than any other show in the theaters short history of being open only a year. The Kenneth Minnaert Center for the Arts is a gorgeous place to give a concert. We will be back next year.
On 12/29 we were scheduled to give a concert in Mt Vernon. The box office manager from McIntyre Hall strongly urged us to reschedule our concert. Fortunately, the theater and Katherine and my schedule had one date that was open for both of us. It would be odd to reschedule a Christmas concert after Christmas! We will be in Mt Vernon on December 17th. In all of my 25 years of giving concerts, I have never rescheduled or cancelled a concert. The box office was willing to phone all of the patrons who purchased tickets so that none would venture on to the icy streets. We are looking forward to Mt Vernon and all of the friends we have coming to hear us.