Open House At NARAS Headquarters

Yesterday was one of the rare days where my SugarHill partner, Rodney Meyers, and I were able to get out of the office together and do something fun. We traveled to Austin, Tx. to help host the Open House celebrating the opening of our new location. It was the schmoozefest that I thought it was going to be: good food, lots of new people to meet, and friends. (Oh yeah, and booze, and entertainment!) Check out the webpage for the Texas Chapter of NARAS.


Here's how it looked:

Here's Texas Chapter Executive Director, Wendy Morgan, with Austin Financial-Advisor-to-the-Stars, Eric Nielson:


Eric introduced me to Patrick Clifford who is starting a new record label based in Austin:


Here's Rodney and Sarah Sharp:


Sarah has this friend. As far as I can tell, there isn't a person alive who isn't intrigued by Shannon:


There was some cool entertainment during the party, but none more interesting than an ensemble that played homemade percussion. To wit:




You can't see it here, but Kim's percussion appliance has Hello Kitty stickers all over it. Nice touch!

This is (me) and Craig Negoescu, the guy behind Open Labs, a company that makes bleeding edge computer recording/keyboard systems.



Notice Tony Bennett trying to horn in on our action (over my left shoulder)

After the party, we went to hear some local music (Sarah--help me with the name!!), and booked it on back to Htown. Both Rodney and I have early sessions this morning. I'm having my first vocal day with Carolina Bedetta, and that should be enough to keep me alert and happy.