Chicks with Guitars-Spring Tour 2005

First Leg 3/31/05- 04/03/05

Featuring Jeanette Palmer, Nicola & Elisa Korenne

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NYC - Morning departure

Jeanette with Mitch of the Barking Spider Tavern, OH

Group with Justin of The Shadow Lounge, PA

Elisa performing at The Shadow Lounge, PA

Jeanette performing at Eclectic Etceteras, PA

Surprise! It's a blizzard in late March!

Stop 1: Thursday, March 31st, 2005 @ 8:00pm
The Barking Spider Tavern, Cleveland, OH

9am: I met up with Nicola, Jules, Elisa Korenne and tour manager Mike. Touring in style... that's a big SUV with DVD players and a built-in navigational system - yeeeeehaaa. We had a long but seemingly fast drive - some of it was spent autographing undies - which are free with CD purchases throught the tour!

This is a really cool bar. Really cool. There's dedicated crowd of locals who all trust Mitch's music picks. It's nestled in the back behind another bulding right in the middle of Case Western University. We had an attentive audience (thank you for laughing at all my jokes!) - and, when Nicola and I went around meeting people and offering autographed undies a man who would only reveal himself as "Doc" offered to take his off and sign them for us. We graciously declined. :-)

Stop 2: Friday, April 1st, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
The Shadow Lounge, 5972 Baum Blvd, Pittsurgh, PA

We got there with some time to go for food- and were excited to try a Korean bbq joint just around the corner, though a few of us swore never to eat spicy food again before a show. Yikes.

Justin made us feel right at home - we played after amazing locals Abby Ahmad and Heather Kropf. We each played a short solo set and did all-ensemble version of "Every Little Thing He Does" to close.

After us, the place was turning over into a DJ event...and we were running off to:

Stop 3: Friday, April 1st, 2005 @ Midnight
University of Pittsburgh, Friday Night Improv -Guests Pittsburgh, PA

Every Friday night they have comedy improv... and each week it's followed by a special guest. This week it was Chicks with Guitars. It was renegade - we each had only enough time to play one song, totally unplugged to 150+ students. I played the light-hearted dedication to Mr. Rogers, "Pretty Good", and learned that it was more appropriate than I knew - apparently Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood was filmed locally in Pittsburgh!

Stop 4: Saturday, April 2nd @ 8:00pm
Eclectic Etceteras, Edinboro, PA

When we arrived it was snowy... but we didn't think too much of it. Owner Renee welcomed us to this cafe/music store/book store/ performance venue... which had posters throughout of a lot of familiar touring folk musicains. Music by each of the Chicks with Guitars, along with compilations 1 and 2, is now on sale there.

We had attentive crowds.. and the snow kept falling. Nicola and bass-player Jules even played on through a power-outage! We spent our second set playing an in-the-round unplugged and by candlelight. Thaks to those who stayed to the end!

Unexpected Delay: Sunday, April 3rd

The next morning, we woke to power outages at our hotel.,..and learned that most of the town was out, too. We managed to find a supermarket with some electricty and a cafe - after we got some coffee and gave time for the local crews to move the truck that was stuck across both lanes of the main road to the Interstate, we braved an unplowed onramp and eventually made it back.... though it was a long journey.

- Jeanette