Linthicum and Severna Park, MD

As I mentioned earlier, there will be a time when we will have 3 concerts on 3 consecutive days. With traveling, 3 concerts in a row is stressful. It's certainly not the performing but the setting up, tearing down, packing the van and driving to locations that I am not familiar. I have always said that I word as a van driver for a living and every once in awhile I take my harp out to play.
The usual reasons for not wanting to perform 3 days in a row were alleviated due to their proximity with each other. We could stay in the same hotel in Linthicum and Severna Park.
The concert in Linthicum was held at the Chesapeake Arts Center on Sunday afternoon. Their were many people in attendance, especially for a Sunday afternoon. What was most coincidental for me is that the arts center director is a harp performance graduate from Peabody Institute. It was a pleasure to meet David. He was sympathetic to our needs, knowing the "touchiness" and "moodiness" of a harp. We have met a lot of harpists on our trip this time. I say "a lot." One or two at a concert every so often is a lot. How many harpists do you know?





The following night we were in Severna Park at the high school. The most interesting thing about the stage is that the school was in the middle of a rock 'n' roll show. I loved it because we had the opportunity to perform using an expensive sound system. We had a lighting operator in Pat and a sound person in Matt and great all around help with CDs and loading and unloading in Colleen who's father is the teacher/overseer of the technicians. He is actually someone who has a job as an engineer and does this "techie" stuff as a hobby. Each year the high school students present a rock 'n' roll show that gets bigger and better with each production. I felt like a rock 'n' roll star! The sound system was a $300,000 system if the lighting were included.
The load and unload help was fantastic at both shows.