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Tejano Music Awards Fan Festival 2007

March 12, 2007

Tejano Music Awards Fan Festival 2007

I play in the band Latin Society and this past weekend we madea trip to San Antonio, TX to play 3 gigs at the Tejano MusicAwards Fan Festival. And what a trip it turned out to be!

I left on Thursday morning, 7am, driving thru to San Antoniothe same day. I arrived at the hotel about 9:30pm. My pickup, and'88 Ranger, is most comfortable at no more than 65mph, it'll do70 or so if I really push it, but the gas mileage really takes adive. One good thing about driving the Ranger is it is not verycomfortable, the seat is a bit worn out. That made it less likelythat I would get too tired from the long drive.

We played our first gig on Friday night at 9pm and it wasgreat! Probably one of our best shows ever, and the crowdabsolutely loved us! When we finished our set, the MC told us todo one more song because of the crowd response (but meant cuttinginto the next bands time). After finishing that song, the crowdstarting yelling Otra! Otra! Otra! (More! More! More!). Finallythe next band said ok, and gave us the go-ahead to do anothersong. It was great! The crowd still wanted more, but we had tolet the next band on the stage. We gave away all the CD's webrought with us, and all the pictures. So on Saturday we mademore CD's and pictures.

The Saturday gig was at 6pm, again to a huge crowd. And againthey wanted more when we were done. And again we gave away allthe CD's and pictures.

Sunday we were scheduled to play at 9pm, but the weatherdidn't cooperate. We woke up to a rainy morning, then drizzle,then rain, etc, all day long. At the Market Place Square (wherethe festival was held), three of the stages had problems with thePA equipment getting wet, so those 3 stages were shut down. Oneof them was the stage we were to play on that evening. After somescrambling with the people in charge we were told to hang aroundin case a band didn't show up for their time slot, then we wouldfill in. As it turned out we were given 20 minutes, by shufflingthe scheduled bands a bit. We were a big hit again! Once more, wegave away all the CD's we'd made that day, and all the pictures,and people wanted more.

So what came fo this weekend that cost all of us quite a bitto take part in the festival (the bands don't get paid)? We weregiven a guaranteed weeked gig in Colorado for Cinco de Mayo, forstarters. AND, we have 3 offers for recording contracts with 3different record companies. That's like a dream come true! Nowthe band is going to have meetings to discuss our options anddecide what we want the future of the band to be.

I have pics in the photo album.