by Matthew Paden | Jul 26, 2023 | 2023, 2023 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
So, we are now in Sandusky, OH prepping for our day in Cedar Point tomorrow. I am confident that I will have loads to say about that excursion. But today… not so much. We drove a lot. We went to dinner. We checked in the hotels. That’s about it. It’s just one of...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 25, 2023 | 2023, 2023 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Tour 2023 is over half-way complete boys and squirrels! It never seems real. Both singers and sponsors spend an entire year prepping for tour just to have it flit away. I honestly feel like it just started. Everyone had spent the weeks and months before tour making...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 24, 2023 | 2023, 2023 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Leaving New York City is kind of a surreal experience. In the morning we were holding up traffic and dodging pedestrians trying to get our suitcases loaded on the bus, and not an hour out of the city we were flying by corn fields. The contrast was jarring. Getting off...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 23, 2023 | 2023, 2023 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
There are probably quite a few of you who don’t know that I (Joseph, again) retired from the Army after 22 years. You can imagine that I have done some pretty grueling work in my day. I’ve carried very heavy rucksacks for many many miles at a time, I once went three...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 22, 2023 | 2023, 2023 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
I love the city. I know, I know, it’s not an opinion that is held by all. Especially, those of us that had a choice to live somewhere other than Saint Joseph but chose the city bountiful anyway. I’m one of those people (Emily and I actually live in Kansas City) but...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 21, 2023 | 2023, 2023 Tour, Archived, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
NEW YORK, NEW YORK! Of course the highlight of this tour is the thing that everyone has been talking about – The City that NEVER sleeps, The Big Apple, The one place that should never make salsa, NEW YORK CITY!!!!!! It’s today folks! Today was a day full of oohs and...