Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (to the David Bowie Tribute night)

The date for this show has been moved to Saturday, September 18th @ Dominican Joe.

In the meantime, I leave you with another tribute to Bowie, Flight of the Conchords style.

Tip Enforcement

Last month at my hometown show, my super-friggin'-adorable 3-year-old niece came up to me while I was playing. Cash in hand, she suddenly became nervous and ran off before delivering the tip her parents/grandparents had given her. A lady nearby stopped my niece and kindly handed her the tip jar, encouraging her to leave the tip. Once my niece realized it was ok, she happily left the tip.

The kind lady then decided to pass the tip jar around; completely impromptu. When the tip jar made its way to my family, my niece decided to walk the tip jar around the room.

I started to feel my face become flushed when I saw my niece walking up to each and every table, placing the tip jar high on the table tops (which were nearly out of her reach)... patiently waiting for contributions.

I may have inadvertently discovered the best scam ever.

Needless to say, I walked away with a lot of cash that night. I mean really, who could say no to a face like that?

I may put up an ad for an adorable tip collector to work my Austin shows, since
my niece can only collect tips for me when I'm in the Dallas area.

August already!

Karen Naomi Newsletter - August 2010 - http://eepurl.com/NpYX

Google Alerts

At the advice of some musician mailing list I'm on... I dunno, probably CD Baby or something... I decided to use Google Alerts- an application that automatically delivers (to your inbox) web content of a specified (whatever your liking) topic/news interest. Basically, it's a google search. I created one for myself so that I will know right away if someone is talking about me. And rightfully so- a while back there was a music blog site which: a.) posted a random cd review of Blind, b.) reposted a myspace blog entry of mine, and c.) announced that I had uploaded a new mp3 demo to myspace. While I was flattered to be on their radar, I was not aware of these posts until other musicians pointed out that I had been mentioned on that site.

Anyway, while this is a great tool, I've discovered that it isn't exactly fine tuned. My search is: Karen Naomi. That means anything that mentions both Karen.... and.... Naomi... comes up as an alert. Not the two connected together, necessarily. Some of the searches have yeilded interesting results. I like the summary that was delivered with this alert:

Sugar daddy syndrome

The Standard


"Karen says she is living a life that is all her friends' envy...."

I am??? Wait... When did I say that?

Well, the rest of it explains why this seemingly random (it really has nothing to do with me!) alert came up:

"Counselling psychologist Naomi James from Oasis Africa says the sugar daddy syndrome can ..."

See? Karen + Naomi= entertaining Google Alerts.

July 2010 Newsletter

Austin and Dallas shows coming up! Karen Naomi Newsletter - July 2010 - http://eepurl.com/G-_t

June 2010 Newsletter

This went out only to Austin email recipients, but if you're curious you can take a peek.
Karen Naomi Newsletter - June 2010 - http://eepurl.com/Eiun
 

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