Last weekend it finally happened – my first performance on main stage at Oslo Ukulele Festival. If you’ve read the whole series about the Road to Oslo, you already know what got me here, so I just want to focus on how it went now.
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Open Stage Fright
In an attempt to get better with live gigs and playing in front of a real audience I did some open-mics at GNUF and Austrian Ukulele Festival. I thought it might be a good topic for an own blog entry, so here it is.
Read moREThe Road to Oslo – Part 2 Working on my first Setlist
In the first part of my series about my journey to Oslo Ukulele Festival, I told you how I got myself into this amazing opportunity. Today I want to blog about figuring out my setlist.
Continue reading “The Road to Oslo – Part 2 Working on my first Setlist”“Empty Shell” – Original Song
“Empty Shell” is a new song I wrote a couple of weeks ago. Its very personal and comes from a place of hurt and despair. I’ve been having a bit of a hard time lately. The feelings of not being good enough, of being an imposter and knowing nothing about what I’m doing have been taking me hostage.
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This song is a collaboration with hubby. On our 12th anniversary on March 1st hubby came up with the line “executive realness monkey business” and with the lines to the first verse.
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On March 1st hubby and I had our 12 year annniversary. I can’t even imagine that it’s been twelve years since our first date. But I thought there must be a song in this – and turns out, there is…
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This is a song, that probably a lot of you can relate to. Well, at least if you’ve ever been doing your own laundry. “Ballad of the Lost” is about a sock that gets lost, presumably in the tumble dryer. I know it happens to me all the time and I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about. But there’s a very special sock, that inspired this song.
Continue reading ““Ballad of the Lost” – Original Song”“Work in Progress” – Original Song
“Work in progress” was inspired by a conversation I had with my ukulele teacher. We sometimes get lost in conversations about random stuff (I promise, we do actually work on my ukuele skills as well – even if it doesn’t always show).
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Some songs are really hard to get out and sometimes a song comes real easy – this is one of the latter ones. It’s called “One Day” and I can’t even tell you how I came up with it…
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Does your mind sometimes wander off and you can’t concentrate on your current task? Do you start with writing an important report and you end up thinking about monkey, monkey, elephant? Well, it does sometimes happen to me and there is this crazy scene from Gilmore Girls that inspired me for this song:
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