by Matthew Paden | Jul 31, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Friends, I am in Albuquerque in an un-airconditioned fellowship hall with 20 teenagers. It is a time-honored tradition to suck it up sometimes and just have some man cave time on tour (or girl cave time…all this time being married to Emily and what they do over there...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 31, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Hey Guys! Joseph again. Sorry the last couple of days have been so short and sweet, I’ve been tired! And the singers have been also. It has been a while since we went this direction (2015 to be exact), and I had forgotten how long the bus rides are. It’s tiring just...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 30, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
The singers have gone feral. We’ve lost all control and several of them are starting a commune in the Arizona desert. No, just kidding. The sponsors are much more likely to go feral than the kids Today was the most normal day of tour so far… at least from how a...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Hey everybody, Joseph again! I hope you are all enjoying hanging out with me a little every night. I am certainly enjoying it! Today, Matt and I started the day trying to remind everyone to put on their – Matt’s words – “fake it face”. You should have seen the...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Disney. Need I say more? Sam Porter rode 25 rides, and he is the reigning champion. I didn’t hear of any kids riding that many. What really struck me was how serious the singers got before the excursion. Some were planning for days. There were entire committees and...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 27, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
All I wanna do, is have some fun, until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard… It a Sheryl Crow kinda tour I guess. Today we arrived at the long-awaited Los Angeles, CA. Guys, today was a tiring day and my brain is begging for reprieve. I want to write...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 26, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
It’s a rare treat to get to stay in a hotel more than one night, but Bakersfield, CA gets two nights. I have tried to warn everyone when I do room check to do their best to avoid suitcase vomiting all over their room to ensure that their funk doesn’t fester. But,...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 25, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Well, I’m leaving Las Vegas today, Leaving Las Vega-a-a-a-s. Any Sheryl Crow fans out there? Tap, tap… Is this thing on??? Anyway, Leaving Las Vegas is exactly what we did. At least after we swung by the Bellagio so that the singers could gawk at the opulence that...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 24, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
I mentioned in the blog post yesterday the stark and inhospitable beauty of Eastern Utah, and I think that nowhere else exemplifies this more than Moab, UT. I kept expecting to come across as cowboy in a 5 gallon hat hunting an outlaw named Rufus who was hiding down...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 23, 2024 | 2024, 2024 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Hey everybody! Joseph here with your day 3 update. Today we woke up in beautiful Estes Park, CO to a brisk 55-degree morning. It started bright and early with Emily leading a sunrise yoga session. Mountains in the background, the whole nine yards. After that it was...
