Hark!
i'd like to share with you two items of note:
I am playing a show at the
Red Light Café
Tomorrow night, Sunday - June 25th
&
I'm Moving To New York in 8 days
Settle in dear reader because I have much to share with you; however, you can read this in small doses if you'd like, but I do hope you read the whole thing.
It would mean a lot to me.
Thank you.
(all of the smiley happy faces)
Let's address the first item of note because it's the first item of note, shall we?
After 7 years of not performing my music, due to a myriad of moments, and hardships, and discoveries, and beauty, too, I am finally getting back on the performing-in-front-of-other-people bicycle again and sharing all of the new songs I've written in the past few years along with songs from my past records. My dear friend, Eric Toledo - the frontman for the outstanding band Quiet Hounds - is opening the show in a rare solo performance. It's going to be magical I just know it. If you live near Atlanta, come and enjoy the show!
Doors are at 7 pm
Eric Toledo at 8 pm
Moi at 9 pm
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
It's also a farewell of sorts to Atlanta, the city I've lived in since my parents moved to Atlanta in 1983, (and we're nice enough to bring my sister and I along with them). While I love Atlanta, there are now too many memories, and haunted places full of heartbreak, and ghosts and, to put it plainly it simply does not fit anymore. I never want to drive a car or maintain a yard again for as long as I live. So help me all the deities!
Which leads us to the second item of note:
My husband, my two sons, and myself are moving to Brooklyn, NY on July 2nd. Yes, this July 2nd. As in 8 days from now.
Why you ask? There are a few reasons and I won't go into all of them, but here is the main reason and I'd like to share it with you here.
Okay. Deep breaths.
As scary as it is to write down and say out loud - I have a big huge scary exciting dream to get a show on Broadway.
It's based on the life of my family and the circumstances that surrounded the death of our mother and the deep ways it impacted the family and sent us on vastly different trajectories. It's a show about how we see the world, and how we can never know what is happening in someone's heart and mind. It's a show about daring to dream and a show about resiliency in the face of grief and pain. It's working title has been The Vitreous Humor and I will not rest until I see this on stage and my vision for it complete.
(I'm especially interested to finally get to hear the duet I've written for my two ex-husbands to sing. I need to cast two actors to do so and I can't wait to find them.)
I have been thinking about this, and working on it, and writing it, and obsessing over it and talking about it and now it's time to start DOING IT. I keep trying to do it all by myself. I keep hiding it, waiting to learn enough from going school or from a book or a website or a person, so that I can make it perfect first. I keep waiting to get it just right and then I would share it. I've realized now that I need to GET OVER MY DAMN SELF.
One of my favorite quotes is from Ernest Hemingway - I first saw it on a sticker stuck on a storefront door in Paris, France when I was there in the mid-2000s. It read, "The shortest answer is doing the thing." I took a picture of it and it has lived on a wall everywhere I've lived in since.
So. I'm doing the damn thing.
My husband and children have been nothing but supportive and excited themselves, because they also have dreams that they want to pursue and those opportunities are in NYC for them, too.
The plan was to move to NYC in 2028, but a myriad of moments and circumstances have all come together where the Universe, or God, or the Force, or the simulation we might be in seemed to be obviously guiding us towards this dream. We are going for it. We're jumping in the deep end.
I need help, though. To have the time and resources to work on the musical whole-heartedly, I could use your support.
If you'd like to help support me on a monthly basis, like Netflix subscription, but for a Meg subscription I have a Patreon page where you can sign up to support me on a monthly basis:
Meghan Creates Patreon Page
Or, if you'd just like to give money to my cause because you hate monthly subscriptions and autopay, you can utilize the below monetary platforms and that would also be immeasurably helpful.
I appreciate you all more than I have words for. Thanks for following along on this journey with me.
Lovesomely,
Meg