LYRE Goes Live with March Micro-Sets!

 

The day many of you have been waiting for has finally arrived: LYRE is now playing live shows. Actually that day has already come and gone without so much as an email out to our loyal followers. What gives?

It was a calculated risk. We knew we needed to get our stage legs and iron some kinks out of our live performance and we didn’t want to risk booking a full set without working on that first. That’s when we decided to hit several Seattle area open mics first. For those not familiar with the term, an open mic is an evening (usually a slow night) at a local club where musicians and bands can come and work out material in front of a crowd for about 15 minutes each. It truly is a test of your acts ability to grab an audience’s attention fast and not let it wane.

We started heading out to a couple open mics a week in early March and the response has been very reassuring. Both club patrons and venue owners have been very complimentary and we’re starting to gel more as a band as a result of the experience.

We’ll probably continue the open mic routine (announced only on our “CONCERTS” page here at LYRE.tv) for the next few weeks but we’re also now actively looking to book full shows and sets in shows shared with other bands. As soon as we have something more than a 15 minute micro-set to announce you can be sure that we’ll be shouting it from the rooftops and hoping all our fans can make it.

Quotes From The Road #33

 

I don’t care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”

Zig Ziglar: Author and Motivational Speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Dave Hoskins

Quotes From The Road #32

“You see things as they are; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”

George Bernard Shaw: Irish playwright

Cheers,

Dave Hoskins

Quotes From The Road #31

“When you’re ‘happy for no reason,’ you bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them. It’s not that your life always looks perfect – it’s that however it looks, you’ll still be happy!”

Marci Shimoff: Author, NY Times bestseller Happy For No Reason 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Dave Hoskins

Quotes From The Road #30

“Power is being aware of what one is choosing to do, feeling free 
to do it, and doing it intentionally. Power is freedom 
to choose with awareness and to involve ourselves in 
health-promoting and other activities. Power is 
how we participate in creating our reality.”
— Dr. Gerald Epstein: Author and practitioner of integrative healthcare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Dave Hoskins