Your Voice Matters

I had the pleasure of meeting Travis Tate during the Golden Spike Comedy and Podcast Festival last month. He was hosting the open mic event and graciously accepted my invitation to be interviewed for the FollowMyGig: Your Voice Matters blog. I am excited to share with you our conversation and the first stand up comedian to join the FollowMyGig network.  FMG:  How did you get started in stand up? TRAVIS:  Stand up is something that  I always knew I wanted to do. Even from a young age I had a bit of an addiction to getting laughs. I feel that making someone belly laugh is one of the truest reactions that you can get from another human. I love it! I didn't get started until 2011 when I was 34, which is pretty late to get started. I feel that getting started that late has actually been a great thing for me though because I've had so much life experience to draw on.  My wife really encouraged me to do stand up because I had talked about doing it for years without ev

I am accepting articles from musicians that have been written by other sources for the blog.  If you have an article you would like me to share please submit it to info@followmygig.com  Thanks to James Mauri and B. Blake for this entry. James Mauri - A Modern Day Musical Prophet? James is decidedly a loner and his writing speaks to the loner in us all . His snide delivery along side pulsating folk and rock grooves barely disguise where he is coming from . Look at the release date and lyrical content of 'On the Vine' ,  11/11  - 3 days after the election and his subsequent release 'Revolution Around the Sun' on the first of the year . Numerology and timing , he's got . 'I don't need a bag for these stones' he snarls - as if to turn away the handouts from those who then weigh him down with burden. Exclaiming that - now , he's 'in the cold' - 'a day of reckoning is upon us' and that 'we will overcome' as a people . Ser

The Adventurous Journey At the beginning of 2017 I dubbed this year " The Year of the Adventurous Journey". I planned to push outside my comfort zone, lean into the pain of transformation and live presently.  I had no idea how many obstacles I would soon be faced with.  The universe responded with "Game on girl!" as if I had challenged it to test every ounce of my resolve to achieve my goal of posting to this blog once a week and many other goals that I have set for this year.  The following are just the highlights or low points, as it were, for each month in the first quarter of 2017.    December 2016 - I was let go as the Director of Operations but was kept on as a vendor - FollowMyGig for the event center I was working for; which moving forward, will be a non-paid position (of course)   January - Job hunt ensues February - House burns down one week after I land a new job - move in with family (THANK YOU KAREN!) and the hunt for a permanent pla