July

Well, July has been kind of slow with the performances, I have one this Sunday at Ed Kenley Amphitheater in Layton, so come spend your relaxing Sunday evening listening to good tunes.  The address is on my website home page www.kattingey.com.  The show is free and it starts at 7pm.

The summer is going by so fast I feel like I haven't had time to even do anything with it!  My brothers family was in town for most of July, so I spent as much time as I could with them and it was great!  I miss those kids so much! My brother and his wife Stacie live in Pennsylvania with their three kids.  It was very fun to have them around for such a long time.

Other awesome things that I should document while I am here:

1. I learned how to dirt bike a couple of weeks ago!  I didn't fall once (probably because I am too cautious - but whatever!) It was a blast!  My arms got really sunburned though!  I just didn't even think about sunblock! Now I am all scaley like a dragon cause I am peeling!

2. I got a new phone that has internet on it and it is a touch screen!  I love it!  I have become a cell phone junkie!  I love being able to check and update my facebook, email, website, twitter and all the other sites I use for my music stuff!  It has been really fun and very convenient!

3. I went through the Draper Temple tonight for the first time!  It was beautiful!  Funny story though!  Totally forgot my temple clothes...yes I know...what a Kat thing to do!  It gets better, my recommend was expired too!  The cute temple workers were rushing around finding me clothes and getting me cleared with my Bishop just so that I could do the session with my ward!  They were so sweet and it meant so much to me because I was looking forward to going through that temple so much!!  God cares, and he watches over us! :)

So I am hoping to post some pictures of some of these events at a later time when I am not so anxious to go to bed!  :)

Goodnight!

My Shows in June!

Picture taken by Amie Hale www.persnicketypics.blogspot.com 

June is getting filled up with some really fun shows!  Here is what I have so far! I hope you will try to come to whatever you can!

June 12 - THIS SATURDAY!

Hammer Hands Concert Series

Where: The Loft in Provo - 177 W Center Street in Provo, UT

Time: Starts at 8pm

Cost: $5

Line up: 1-April Meservy, 2-Michael McClellin, 3-Kat Tingey, 4-Sarah Wilcox, Emcee: Weston Wride

I haven't played on one of these concert nights before, but I hear that they are a lot of fun, so come check it out!

June 17

Warehouse Gig

Where: I know it is in a Warehouse located somewhere around the SLC area - I'll email more details as it gets closer

Time: Probably 8-10

Cost: I want to say a can of food or something...

Line up: Steve Soelberg (comedian), Kat Tingey, Danny Heslop and band

Comedy and music!? How could this not be an awesome show! I will get more details on this as it gets closer, but I will tell you this...Steve makes me laugh really hard and Danny is very fun to listen to! He writes some awesome stuff and he is going to have more people playing with him on this show so it is really going to be worth coming out to see!

June 19

I entered a competition in Layton called "Show Layton Your Talent." There are 16 performers that made it to the finals and we will be judged on our one performance.  I need all the support I can get at this show because they have 4 judges and the audience is the last judge! 1st place wins $1000, 2nd $500 and 3rd $250!  So if you have the time come vote for me at this show!!

Where: Ed Kenley Amphitheater - 403 North Wasatch Drive Layton, UT 84041 

Time: Gates open at 7, show starts at 8pm

Cost: $5 for grass - I think the rest of the theater is about full but the tickets for actual seats are more I think the highest is $10 

Line up: 16 performers - I am number 13 in the line up

This show is not just music. It is all kinds of talent. There will be a lot of different acts, so it should be very entertaining, and you get to vote!

June 20

Sunday Night Series

Where: Ed Kenley Amphitheater - 403 North Wasatch Drive Layton, UT 84041 

Time: 7pm

Cost: Free!!

Line up: Kat Tingey (30-35 minute set) and Barbie Elliot

This will be a fun, relaxing concert, so come hang out and enjoy the night air and great tunes!

So far that is all I have for June! So pick what you would like to go to and mark it on your calendars!! I will send out updates as each show gets closer.  

Thanks for all the support I have out there!

Feel free to email me any songs you would like to hear on any specific night and/or if you have any questions about any of these events!! My email is www.kattingey@gmail.com

Last Saturday House Party

Last Saturday May 15th I used my new sound system for the first time!!  It was very exciting for me, and it worked really well for us.  There are still some kinks that I am going to have to figure out.  Like, when I sing really loud it peaks and goes kind of fuzzy sounding, and that is no good because singing loud is what I do best!!

Anyway, the party was a lot of fun!  They had a BBQ and a lot of people came and most of them stayed for the entertainment too!  Danny Heslop played first and did great as usual and then Steve Soelberg did some stand up and he did really great...he even got everyone to stop and listen, which was cool.  Then I played and it was fun.  I have to admit that I felt kind of bad when I finished and someone said, "I thought you were going to play a lot more from your album." I really should play more from my CD.  Here is the problem.  When I write new songs, the old songs just don't seem as good to me anymore!  But I forget that the people that have bought my album are excited to hear me play because of the songs on the albums!  So, therefore...I am going to try and play the songs from my albums more and I will just sprinkle in a few new songs and a cover song or two.

So the party was a hit, my sound system was fantastic!  Oh and guess what else!  You can totally plug your ipod or nano or whatever you have into it and play music!  I could totally DJ a party or something!

One thing that I am excited about is that I can take it wherever and have my own little show.  My neighbor Kraig and I are going to put on some amphitheater and park gigs this summer.  I am excited!  I think it will be great!

That is all for now...sorry I didn't take any pictures for you! I was too busy being a sound man!  :)  And now it is time to go do some catching up on Lost!  Mindy and I are almost all the way up to real time!

MS Benefit Concert 2010

If you couldn't make it to the MS benefit concert last night then you missed out on a really good time!

I think that was the most fun I have had on stage at that concert yet! Ryan Tilby came and played bass with me and it was a blast! I felt like I played really well (Ryan played great, just like he always does) and my vocals felt really on! It was awesome!

I don't have any pictures to show you, but I will post some on the website when I do get them.  Everyone played really great and we all kind of played and sang with each other throughout the show and that made it a lot of fun too.

The main reason for the show was to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis, and I think we did a pretty good job!

Thank you to everyone that came to the concert and contributed! It was a really great night!

New Toys...

I BOUGHT A SOUND SYSTEM!!!  YEEEEAAAAHHHH!  

I finally did it!  I probably should have bought a sound system a long time ago, but that is that and this is now!  I went to Murphy's Guitars in Bountiful last Saturday to pick it up.  Mike Murphy was my first guitar teacher when I took the beginning group guitar class in High School.  He told me about this awesome little system and I was sold!

It is so cool!  There are two speakers that hook together like so...

Then there is also a mixer and it just fits right into the back of one of the speakers like so...

Ooops!  My foot got in the pic!  Ha ha... now you think that is cool...but watch this!

Simply unlock here...

and you can take out the mixer and put it where ever you want!!

Ooops....foot got in the pic again...sorry about that!  :)  I'm kind of in a hurry right now so deal with the feet! 

I can plug in 4 guitars or 4 mics or 2 guitars with 2 mics or I can listen to my ipod, I can even plug in a piano if I want!!  I am so excited I can hardly stand it!!!!

Here is the grand finale!

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!  I think I played with it for about 3 hours on Sunday!  It was fantastic!  So if you want me to play at your house or your park or your garage or your porch you just give me a shout and I will be there with my little, light, compact system!!!  :)

I will be using this fancy system at my next gig which is a double header - Me for 30 minutes and then my friend Steve has a stand up routine.  Very funny!  It is going to be a great great night so you should all definitely try to come to this one!  It will be well worth the drive, the money (probably $10) and the sides hurting from all the laughing you will do!

This is the very happy end of this very happy blog!  

MUSE!

I went to the Muse concert on Monday!  I wonder if the day will ever come that they are not my favorite band in the whole entire world!  Right now it just doesn't seem possible!  :)  The concert was incredible!  They play song after song and they hardly say anything to the audience.  They played 17 songs! And that isn't including all the middle jamming stuff they did between songs! Wow! My heart starts getting excited just writing about it!!!

Anyway, here are some pictures from the concert!

Proof that I was there, rockin' out at the concert with my awesome Muse shirt on!!

Yep! That is my girl Candice! She was there, and not to far away from us!

I went with my friend Scott!  We bought tickets to this concert way back in December! I'd say we are devoted Muse fans!!

They had some awesome laser effects and stuff!

Ah Matthew!  You are so beautiful!

I took some video of some of the songs and they turned out pretty good, but I can't ever seem to get them to work in my blog!  So my pictures will have to do!  :)

If ever you get the chance to see this band in concert my advice would be to do whatever you possibly can to go because it will blow you away!!  

Hmmm...am I obsessive???  I dont' really care!  I love them!!    

Upcoming Events and My Difficulties Waking up this Week!

Things are looking good for April.  I am playing at a friends house in Salt Lake on April 10th (more details are coming for that one.) The end of April my friend Steve, who does stand up, are going to do a double header where I play and he does his stand up routine at a place in Trolley Square (I want to say it is at Wise Guys.)  I am playing the Tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point on May 1st and then it is the MS benefit concert at Viewmont Hight in Bountiful on May 7th.  So I am excited for all the upcoming events!

I am starting a beginning group guitar class the last week in April.  I am excited for that.  If you are interested make sure to let me know!  I am charging $65 for an 8 week class.  I am going to teach the class out of my very own basement and I think it will be a lot of fun!  I am only going to have 6 people in the class and we will see how things go from there!

The days are flying by.  Work has been busy so that makes the work day go by fast.  Then, I get home and start doing stuff around the house, practice, get online and blog and facebook, and twitter and myspace and all that good stuff and by the time I get all the things done (rather, half the things done) that I wanted to do it is 10:00 and I don't know where the time has gone!

Oh I have to tell you my difficulties with waking up in the morning this week!  It has been a bear!  Tuesday my roommate comes in and says, "Kat!" and I groggily say, "ya?" and she says, "it's 7:30" and I jerked up out of bed and said, "WHAT!? No way!! Why didn't my alarm go off!" and she says, "it did!! And you then you turned it off!"

Let me just tell you...I had no recollection of turning off my alarm, or hearing it at all that morning!  Then this very, lovely, snowy :( morning I woke up feeling as though it was Saturday morning and I thought to myself, "did I wake up before my alarm?" and then I looked at the clock and you'll never guess!  I didn't even turn the dumb thing on last night!  All I have to say is that I hope tomorrow I have better luck with the alarming and the waking from the deep, delirious, depths of sleep!