Imagine A Perfect Day

Posted on December 9, 2006

I am listening to I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Featuring Nakia
from the album “An Austin Christmas” by Will Taylor & Strings Attached
on my iTunes right now!

FIRST OFF AND REALLY IMPORTANT!! If you have bookmarked my MySpace page - The URL has changed to the official /nakia URL! This is great news!! I have been trying to get it for quite some time and MySpace granted my wish this morning. Please spread the MySpace.com/Nakia love and send your friends to my page! Now…

I must tell you folks that if you weren’t out at St. David’s last night for the Strings Attached show you blew it! Man!! What a great show! Such a warm audience and the musicians all got along so well. It was truly magical.

This was my second outing with Will and Strings Attached and I was very happy with the results.

This time around, Will arranged my song, “Remember This Christmas” with a nice guitar part for himself, a cello part for Shawn and Eddie played a wonderful part on the piano while Steve made some amazing music on the muted trumpet and of course Brad is well… BAD BRAD!

I rounded out my performance with a blues version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and then finished up with Brave Combo’s “Must Be Santa.” And wouldn’t you know it? I just happen to have some video and photo files for your viewing and listening pleasure. Sorry, my battery ran out so I didn’t get the “Must Be Santa” song or the very moving duet of “Imagine” by myself and the outstanding Ed Jurdi. (That guy can wail!) I also got to sing harmony on a few other tunes including Billy Harvey’s rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” - OMG! Loved it!!!

I remember sitting in the back for Shawn Colvin when I first moved here and thinking to myself… One day, I am going to be singing on that stage with Will. Sure enough - 3 years later here I am. Thinking of that and then my Uncles and Aunt that have recently passed away, as well as the original people that I wrote this song for, I got pretty choked up at the end of it and started crying a bit. I guess the title of the shirt I was wearing is very true. I’m just a “Momma’s Boy” at heart with a big ol’ soft spot.

(l-r)Billy Harvey, Nakia, Ed Jurdi, Wendy Colonna, and Kat Edmondson - The Singers

(Kat apparently didn’t get the scarf memo)

Remember This Christmas

An Austin Christmas with Will Taylor & Strings Attached - Austin, TX December 2006



I’ll Be Home For Christmas

An Austin Christmas with Will Taylor & Strings Attached - Austin, TX December 2006

There were a couple of cool things that happened yesterday, but I can really only talk about one.

I got called back to be on an episode of NBC’s Friday Night Lights. I got to play the part of a PA (Production Assistant) at a TV station that the coach on the show gets his own show on and I got operate a “boom mic” that he kept bumping into and so he kept scolding me over it. It was kinda funny and definitely fun to do. The episode was #114 and should air soon. I will be wearing a maroon sweater, a brown shirt, and jeans. I will post when the exact date is.

There’s just so much going on and I am brimming with excitement to tell you all about it, but I have to be patient and so you must too. Standby!

Kia

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