The first weekend of October is Apple days. Its an event that takes us away from home for three days. Its putting up a stage, setting up production and running a stage. It's exhausting on its own, but this year we decided to throw some other stuff in for fun.
Our stage at Apple Days.
Tony and the guys running sound and lights.
We were also hired to take care of production for the Chris Stapleton show on Friday night. Thankfully it was in a venue that was only about ten minutes from the stage. So we left our guys with the stage downtown, took a couple of our other guys with us and took care of the show.
What a show!! This guy is super crazy insanely talented. I can listen to him sing ANYTHING. If you have never heard him then do yourself your favor and look up some of his stuff.
We were up early the next morning and back at the stage. Don't I look excited?
I hung out behind the stage for awhile and rested on some road cases and had this view of the stage.
I watch a LOT of shows from this angle.
Tony plays keys for a guy named Logan Hall on occasion. That night Logan had a big show about an hour from Apple Days at the Knott County Trail Ride. Again we left the stage in the hands of our crew and I played roadie for Tony.
Tony snapped some pics of the crowd from the stage.
After the show we headed back to Apple Days to tear down the production and stage there. Needless to say we didn't MOVE on Sunday.
But we didnt have much time to recuperate. It was on to Lousia for a show there on Wednesday. Tabor during setup of that concert.
In years past, Apple Days always marked the end of our outdoor festival season. But this year we were booked to take care of Harvest Days in Inez, KY. I love the experiences these festivals bring us. I love interacting with new people and I never know what situations I will find myself in. This festival found me as an official "cake walk spot picker". It was a blast.
One of the bluegrass bands from the weekend.
And that ended the summer Festival season for bt Media Group. But that didnt mean things slowed down or we would be able to take any kind of break.
The weekend progressed into a crazy week. The University of Pikeville was inaugurating a new President
and the event was huge. We spent the week setting up production and rehearsing. The day of the event the Expo pulled off one of its craziest changeovers ever.
We started the day with the arena looking like this.
And we changed it over to this....
in an hour and a half. It was crazy, it was mad, it was EPIC.
bt Media went from that event that night to DJing the UPike homecoming dance the next night. Then Sunday we provided sound for comedian James Gregory.
The last weekend of the month found us providing production for Exile at the Jenny Wiley Convention Center.
In between these events there were meetings, housing keeping staff, estimates, the recording studio and the music store all to take care of.
I apologize for this being so long, October was a long crazy month. I also apologize for being so late on taking so long to write this. There has been a lot of catching up on things in November.
Hopefully I won't be gone so long with the next one, and thanks again for spending some time again with the Boss Lady.
The Boss Lady
