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!

Upcoming Shows!

How could He not be here?

Photo by: MaryJustice Lucas

So, I stepped outside my house this morning and took in the bright, brilliant, blue color of the sky. I gazed at the leaves on the trees starting to turn green, I listened to the sweet symphony of the birds singing, I felt the warm sun on my face. I recalled all of the wonderful things that have happened to me in the past and the present and even my struggles that, at the time I thought I would never get through, but did. I pictured my family and all my amazing friends, I thought about my singing, songwriting, and love for music, I thought about my kitty cats:) I thought about how blessed I am....and I know you are reading this in a good bit of sentences, but all of this rushed into my thoughts in a matter of seconds, basically from the time I stepped out of my back door and into our car, which is about 3 feet. Isn’t that amazing too? How our brains work? And, then I thought, I know it's hard to comprehend, and some people choose not to believe it, but I can't help but look around and look back on my life and think, "How could there not be God? Jesus? The Holy Spirit? All three different but the same:)"... isn’t that amazing , and beautiful? I mean God the creator, Jesus His son, the one who died for all of our sins, and in Jesus' name we pray to God, and the Holy Spirit which lives inside us, when you accept Jesus into your heart. Now, isn’t that BEAUTIFUL?! I can’t help but be excited about just typing it!!! He truly is amazing, all powerful, beginning and end, light of the world, unfailing love, Holy Father, my best friend, savior, forgiving, all knowing, beautiful....and He is here, forever and always, and that makes me smile.