LIVE! At The Coffee Tree Books & Brew!

Friday – September 17th – 6:45PM – 9:00PM

Come, join me

and “A Band Named Sue”

Rock ‘N’ Roll

Country

Americana

Pop

Jazz

Originals

Oldies

Goodies

Come on out for a night of great music... great food ... great coffee ... frozen treats!

I’ll see you there!

LABOR DAY WEEKEND NASHVILLE!

It was awesome! I am truly blessed! The week-end was wonderful. The weather was wonderful! I had decided at the last minute to enter a singing competition on Saturday morning before going to the Music City USA Labor Day Weekend Showcase.

The competition, sponsored by Susan Gabrielle, was at John A's Restaurant. Susan was amazing as she registered new arrivals, gave critiques and juggled the schedule to get people in and out in time for their Nashville Spotlight performances all during the day.

This is a video of my competition. "All I See" is one of my newer songs.



Since songwriting is "my thing" I haven't had a lot of time to learn "covers" and usually just sing my songs or those written by my songwriting friends. In this competition it was singing only. Original songs were permitted but didn't get you any extra points. I liked the way the judges gave you a mini critique right on the spot. That was different. I finished and hurried on to the Palace to listen to friends before my set started. The day whizzed by and I didn't give the competition much thought. Susan had said she would call cell phones if you won. We didn't get a call and thought, "Oh well, it was good experience!" We had given her three cell phone numbers! We got back to the hotel and Grandmother booted up the laptop and went to Susan's website.

I won 2nd place!!!!! I was in the shower and my friend, Candace, came "bustin'" through the door screaming "you won 2nd place, you won 2nd place!" I thought I was hearing things!

Second place is okay with me! Five hours of recording studio time with Jonell Polansky at DaCapo Music! Awesome! Valuable! WOW! Also, a promotional package from Capacity Productions Myspace division. Another awesome, valuable prize!

My God is an Awesome God!

More about the week-end later...

MaryJustice

Nashville Spotlight – Labor Day!

Hey, all my blogger buddies! If you are in the Nashville area over Labor Day week-end, stop by the World Famous Nashville Palace at 2611 McGavock Pike, for a great two day show. The show will run from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM on both days.

My set will be from about 2:15 – 5:30 on Saturday, the 4th and from 2:15 – 5:30 on Sunday, the 5th.

This is always a great show with talented kids of all ages. Our producer Mike Jennings and his staff do an outstanding job!

I’ll see you in Music City USA!

The Last Few Weeks!

Hi, everybody! It’s been almost a month since I last posted. Things have been busy…. but a good kind of busy.

I visited my grandfather, “C” in Morris, Alabama, for a few days

Café La Dog…(neat stand shot from back window of my grandfather’s truck!)

…. and had a great time with my young cousins, Amanda and Abby … then hopped on down to Gardendale to visit my cousin Tiffany. While on the way back to Huntsville, we were invited (Aren't cell phones great?) by the Robinsons to stop off at Addison, Alabama, for an evening of Karaoke. What fun!

Last fall while preparing for iPOP!, we met Ethan (iAct!) and his mom Cathy Robinson and Aly, a young actress, singer/songwriter from Birmingham. Mom and I had a great time with them in Los Angeles at iPOP! and have stayed in touch. Email, cell phones and Face Book keep long-distance friendships together. Isn’t that awesome!

Last week, Cathy invited Aly and me for a visit to their farm.

I love the country….I love horses!

It was a fun time and I met some new friends.

Still writing and singing songs!

These videos are from Songwriter's Open Mic at the Coffee Tree. I hope you enjoy them.

I have some appearances coming up soon. Stay tuned!

MaryJustice

Last Several Days! Whew!

Hi to my blogger friends! I feel like I was caught up in a whirlwind over the past several days, but it was an awesome time.

Had a great time at the Coffee Tree with our band, "A Band Named Sue" for our premier performance! It was fun as you can see in this video. Visit ABNS's channel on YouTube.


"Amazing Grace" featuring Lisa Carr, Marcia Lucas (my mom) and me.

Then the Summer Concert Series in Guntersville was beautiful. Thanks everyone for coming out on such a hot night. I was so great looking out on the lake and singing for everyone. This was my first solo concert...however, my friend Doug Budzak took care of the sound and accompanied my on guitar on three songs. Thanks, Doug! By-the-way, Doug is leader of "A Band Named Sue" and he's great!



Then I played with some of the North Alabama Songwriters at the Madison Gazebo. It was fun and of course last year the train went by blowing it's horn while I was doing one of my songs....this year several ambulances or police cars when flying down the street with sirens screaming...right in the middle of one of my songs! Go figure... I knew, just my luck! LOL!



I dropped in at the Coffee Tree last Saturday night for open mic and met some talented kids my age. It's always fun to meet people my age who love music.



I went back for Songwriters Open Mic at the Coffee Tree tonight and met even more new songwriters my age. Lots of young folks writing now! The place was packed!

My Uncle Michael is a lot of fun....full of nonsense and makes me laugh, but WOW! He's a tough Algebra tutor! Thanks, Uncle Michael!

Hey, I need your prayers and good wishes this week-end. I'll be competing in the MOVA Songwriting Competition in Guntersville, Alabama. I've looked forward to this for several months. It got cancelled in April due to bad weather and was rescheduled for July 4th.

And, there's more coming up soon that I'll tell you about later.

"I'll See You Soon" ...MaryJustice

Village Green Gazebo in Historic Downtown Madison

Thursday June 24th - 6:30 PM




Come on out to the Gazebo and join me. I'll be there with songwriter friends.

It'll be a great show! See you there!

MaryJustice

MaryJustice - Lakeside Concert Series

Tuesday - June 22 - 6:30

Civitan Park
1500 Sunset Drive
Guntersville, Alabama 35976

Over looking the lake
Bleacher seating for up to 30

See you there!