Our Fans are the Best!!!
June 11, 2008
Hey everybody! Ruthie here! Wow... I can't even believe how much has happened to victoria and I lately! Most of it is just so amazing I can't even believe it!
First of all ... CMA Fan Fest 2008 has officially come to an end....awwww.... This was Wild Honey's first EVER fan fair and it couldn't have been a better weekend! Vic and I had such an amazing time meeting you guys!
We started off the week helping out at the celebrity softball game on Wednesday! This was so much fun and a really good motivator for us. We hope to one day be on that field playing with all the other awesome players! We got to hang in the dugout with some of our favorite country singers like Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Phil Vasser and so many more... it was a dream and we had so much fun. So thanks to City of Hope for putting this amazing event on and thanks for letting us help!
Thursday we hit the streets of Nashville in search of..... YOU! Downtown was CRAZY! We met so many cool people. Thanks to everyone who signed up for our text alert system and came out to meet us! You guys rock.... Seriously...
Friday morning we did our first ever radio tour at CMT! This was just simply awesome. We talked to about ten different stations and were guests on morning shows all over the country! So thanks to everybody at CMT and at all the stations for letting us hang!
After that I got to go to the stadium with my awesome manager Jade! Thanks Jade! We saw an absolutely amazing show... Huge stars like Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Josh Turner... amazing show... And really crazy to think one year ago is where is all started for vic and I. I took her to the stadium show last year and introduced her to our current managers Cassie and Jade who at the time were just friends. Vic and I hadn't even decided to be in a duo yet and it was her first real concert! Crazy huh... who would've thought??? Anyway, the highlight of the night was totally the surprise guest of the evening... and artist I have been DYING to see for years now. KEITH URBAN! And he rocked the house like I have NEVER seen anyone rock the house before. This one thing he did was so amazing. He ran off stage with his guitar and a mic in his hand and jumped out in the crowd and was singing... Yeah really cool but we've all seen that before right??? But then... he sits on the metal barricade that separates the fans and the stage and he hands the mic to a fan to hold so he can play his guitar and sing at the same time. As he finishes singing, you see him look down at the guitar real quick and then at the girl in front of him. In clearly a split second decision he whips out a sharpie, signs the guitar, takes it off, hands it to the girl and runs back on stage... And the 40,000 or so fans in the stadium went WILD!!! And this was no random lame guitar... I wish I could remember exactly what it was, but I'm pretty sure it was like a Les Paul Jr. or something... Intense.. .I have never in my life seen anything more rockstar!
Saturday was our show at Cadillac Ranch and it was awesome! Our band rocked out, we rocked out, met so many fans and a good time was had by all! After the show we celebrated with mexican popsicles from Las Paletas!!! MMMMMM....
Sunday was convention center day!!! YAY! We signed for like four hours and it was definitely the best part of my weekend! Fan Fair is totally about the fans and I got to meet so many of you! Thanks guys for being so nice to vic and I. I couldn't believe first of all how many of you watched the show and second of all how supportive you guys were! And to everyone who came up to us, gave us a big hug and screamed "You got robbed on Can You Duet!" (which ...heehee was probably one of out every 10 people we met that day!) we want you to know how thankful we are for you! But don't worry... vic and I are doing great! We are getting out there and so many doors have been opened up for us! And we came in 6th place for petes sake!!!! We think that is AWESOME! But seriously, we had such a great time meeting everyone! Thanks to powersource magazine, american songwriter magazine and tetley tea for having us out! Check out all our pics of the weekend! You never know... you might be in one of the pictures!
Until next year guys, we had a great time at Fan Fair and we can't WAIT for year number 2!
love,
ruthie
p.s. check out this article that was in the Nashville Scene reviewing the Can You Duet reunion show at Edgehill Cafe a few weeks ago...they were very nice to me!!! The article is called Two to Tango and it's about half way down the page! Thanks guys!
http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/The_Spin/2008/06/05/The_Spin/
