Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival!

So, I just got back from California! I was visiting for a couple days because I got to play a set at the Temecula Valley Film Festival!! It was really fun! Of course, there was lots of sun (ended up with a sunburn, somewhat inevitable in my case). It was nice to escape the autumn rain here in BC.

I played Temecula on Friday night, a 40 minute set, and the crowd was soooo great. Nice and small, and really appreciative; that's totally what counts. Played mostly original tunes, and ended up selling plenty of CDs too! Haha even ended up signing a few autographs! Pretty exciting

The next day we made our way back to Los Angeles and I got to spend the day with my friend Shaun Wolfe from Berklee in Boston. He lives and has grown up in LA, so he showed me around town. Spent most of our time in Hollywood! So fun... Made some new friends (Captain Jack Sparrow, Optimus Prime, you know... the usual). Also spent lots of time in a record store called Amoeba Music! HUUUUUGE place... ended up getting so many albums (Sam Cooke, Lykke Li, Cab Calloway... so stoked).

So Sunday rolled around and, since our plane wasn't until 7 that night, Dad decided to take me on a sight-seeing tour; aka, driving around. We made our way to Beverly Hills (Rodeo Drive baby!), Bel Air, and Manhattan Beach!!! Manhattan Beach was UNBELIEVABLE, I want to live there one day... It was so incredible. Let's just say I'm totally jazzed on Manhattan Beach.

Well, we returned the rental car and made our way to the airport to catch our flight. Ohhhhhhhh, but that would just be too simple wouldn't it? Haha, oh man, turns out our flight was for 7 AM Sunday morning, not 7 PM. COOL. Well, that kinda sucked, but we luckily got a cheap hotel room and spent another night in sunny LA. Had to get up at 4am for a 7am Monday morning flight, but we made it home eventually. Luckily. Anways, I'm headed to the Okanogan for the Rockanogan Music Fest this weekend, so I'll be posting another blog soooooon!

Until then