My Other Job

In case you didn't know, when I'm not blogging, writing movie reviews, editing newsletters, selling weird stuff on the internet or working at the video store... I sing. Sometimes just for fun, but lately doing paid gigs with a bawdy little group of Ren Fest refugees called Nero's Fiddle.

Here are a couple of tunes from our pub set at Faery Fest in Guelph last weekend - one pretty, one dirty. Not the best sound quality, and our cameraman was juggling a toddler in his lap, but you get the idea.

Enjoy!

I'm Back!

In case you didn't know, whenever I'm not blogging, selling wood crafts online, working at the video store, writing half a monthly movie review column for the local paper, or publishing genealogical books and newsletters, I sing with a little Renaissance-themed a capella group called Nero's Fiddle.

For money. Really.

The Maryland Renaissance Festival was a tremendous success. Not only did we have a brilliant time and get to reconnect with old friends, but Nero's Fiddle was a GIANORMOUS HIT!!! We actually had fans following us from show to show with all of our venues circled on their little schedule sheets. We had crowds of semi-professional Ren Fest patrons closing their eyes and rocking in their seats as we sang 'Red Is the Rose'. We even got called up to sing a song during Pub Sing. Pub Sing!

(Ok, you have no idea what I'm talking about. But really, it was cool!)

This is the sort of crowd we got to sing for this weekend:



It was stinking hot and humid, my ankles are swollen up thicker than my calves and every article of clothing I packed smells like ass, but I'm totally stoked.

Out of my four or five paying jobs, this one rates way up there.