Lee University this evening…

It’s feeling like fall in Nashville. I had a coffee date this morning with a good friend at Crema and I actually wore a sweater while sipping my double cuban. If you live in Nashville and you haven’t been to Crema, I really can’t recommend it enough.  The espresso is amazing, and I don’t know of anywhere else in town that serves cuban lattes. So yummy.

We got home from the first leg of our fall tour on Wednesday at about 3:30 or so.  Time has been running together ever since as we continue to work hard at tying up loose ends for the next leg of tour with Levi Weaver. If you haven’t checked out the tour page you should! We’re coming out west for the first time!  So if you’re in MO, KS, ID, CO, WA, OR, CA, NM, or TX you should check out our website and see if we’re playing near you.  www.jennyandtylermusic.com is the place to look.

This afternoon we’re driving down to Cleveland, TN to play a benefit show at Lee University. If you’re in the Chattanooga area, come out!  Show starts at 8pm in the Conn Center on campus. It’s $3 or 3 canned goods.

Hope to see you tonight!

A video for you!

A little over a week ago we did a house show in Raleigh. Our hosts Keith and Erin were incredibly hospitable and gracious to us. Keith even took a video of the night and put together the highlights of the evening.
Check it out:

Does hosting a host show look like something you’d be interested in? Shoot us an email if! jt@jennyandtylermusic.com

We’re off to Knoxville this afternoon for the last show on the first leg of our fall tour. I’ve added tons of facebook events to our facebook page for the next leg of tour (we’re going out west!), so go check them out and invite your friends. Become a fan if you haven’t already–we’ll send you updates and invites to the events.

Looking forward to hanging out with you JBC kids tonight!
-jenny

Video update

Tour update #2

we’re having so much fun!

and i must suggest that if you’re ever in north carolina, especially salisbury, get yourself some cheerwine.  excellent cherry cola type of thing.  and it’s made with can sugar, so it doesn’t have any high fructose corn syrup! yay!

-jenny

the tour goes on…

Well our little fall vacation is coming to a close. We’ll leave Avalon this afternoon and head for DE for the night. Tomorrow night we’re playing a house show in Southern DE.  I think it will be a fun time.  And it’s really about time for us to get back in the swing of things. Vacation is so nice. But we love playing music. And we love seeing you guys at the shows.

I have to say that touring has been excellent this month. Each show has been different but so good.  It’s fun to play when you feel like you’re having a different conversation with the audience each night.  It’s nice and the songs don’t get old.  In Alexandria we played a house show for about 30 people.  It was such an intimate fun night. We played a great house show in Newark, DE for the BSM folk.  It was cold and rainy, but we played under a cozy tent with lanterns. So pretty. So serene.  The show at King’s College was unbelievable.  I couldn’t believe that so many of you showed and stayed and wanted to talk afterwards. That show was pretty cool because we played to an audience of about 80 and only a handful of the folks had heard our music before. I love connecting with people for the first time.  The shows at Eastern were awesome too.  The first night we played a midnight show and I guess I’d forgotten that in college going to something at midnight on a Friday night isn’t a big deal.  We had a blast. And the encore performance the next night was cool too.

Shows this week:

Sunday, Sept. 27th, Frankford, DE The Underground, 7pm

Monday, Sept. 28th, Raleigh, NC House show, 7pm

Tuesday, Sept. 29th, Greenville, NC ECU’s College Life, 9pm

Wednesday, Sept. 30th, Salisbury, SC House Show 7pm

Thursday, Oct. 1st, Clemson, SC Moe Joe Coffee, 8pm

Friday, Oct. 2nd, Greenwood, SC New Covenant Church, 7pm

Saturday, Oct. 3rd, Lexington, SC The Watershed, 8pm

All of the address info is on the tour page. Any questions, shoot us an email! jt@jennyandtylermusic.com

-jenny

A little update…

So we’ve been touring for a little while now and have actually spent the past 4 days or so hanging out just the two of us in Avalon, NJ. A much needed “just us vacation.” We’re loving it.

Anyway, I haven’t updated the blog recently, and while we were in Lynchburg a fan actually told me that she reads it! So now that I know it’s more than just my parents keeping tabs on me, I feel a bit more inspired to write.

We’re sitting in Starbucks taking care of business and I decided to create this lovely video for you. Enjoy.

-jenny

From Lynchburg

I keep thinking that it’s too late and that I’m too tired and that if I do post now it won’t make sense when you read it in the morning…but after about an hour or so of thinking these thoughts, we are still up doing some admin work, so I thought why not post?

Tonight was the first stop on our September tour.  We left Nashville at about 8am (seriously, I did NOT know that there were so many school zones in East Nashville! I guess that’s what happens when you are never out before 10am) and arrived safely in Lynchburg at 5pm. It was a long day.  But we had a ton of fun in the car. We had a great playlist going–Bethany Dillon, Phil Wickham, Nichole Nordeman, Foy Vance, Shane & Shane to name a few, and when we were about an hour outside of Lynchburg we gave into our guilty pleasure and listened to amazing (I mean horrifying) country music the rest of the way. I heard a new one today. The chorus was, “I quit smoking, women, and drinking and that was the worst 15 minutes of my life.”  It struck me as just being too stereotypical and then I had to laugh when 20 minutes later “You Ain’t Much Fun Since I Quit Drinking” came on. Classic. I can’t believe I’m actually writing about enjoying these songs.  I’m so ashamed.

Oh and we played “Love Story” at the show tonight. Everyone sang along. And I loved it.

Sigh.

I’m officially not thinking clearly. Will post more later.

goodnight.

blast from the past. (too cheesy? yes?)

So wouldn’t you know it, we’re in Bethesda, MD again.  We got up at 4:15 this morning to start the trek to Nashville.  At 6am on the beltway our back left tire blew.  Yay!  Let me tell you, changing a tire when the back of your element is entirely stuffed full of equipment AND you have a new trailer on the back is interesting.  Tyler had to unload a ton of stuff just to get to the spare and the jack and all of that stuff.  Now we’re in Bethesda and Tyler is trying to patch the tire (when we had a flat in Pittsburgh the guy at the shop gave us a bunch of plugs and all of the stuff you need to patch a tire.) at a shell station and I’m sitting in a Caribou Coffee drinking a lite white raspberry.  If we were going to get a flat tire, I’m glad it was within a mile and a half of a Caribou.  They are seriously the best coffee shops ever.

So we arrived in Philly on Monday and spent yesterday in DE getting over our jet lag.  Yesterday morning I realized that it was the first day of classes at UD, which meant that BSM (a ministry we were really involved in while we were at UD) was having a big barbeque…AND that the Deltones (my a’cappella group) would be having auditions.  So, we ventured to campus.  It was actually kind of an emotional trip.  We drove down Main Street and realized that we met at UD literally 5 years ago last Sunday.  We got to the BSM house and a girl who I’d never met asked me where Tyler had proposed. (She’d heard One-Eyed Cat!)  I pointed to the driveway where Tyler knelt in a puddle.  It’s fun to relive the memories.

So why don’t we do just that?  Here are some photos!

new years 2005 in avalon!

a couple weeks after our engagement

at UD spring 07

hayride fall 06--look, it's brynn, adam, and BMITCH!

we got married.

spring 08 at UD

and now we’re in nashville. yay!

i’m hoping to get back on the road soon!  i like you bethesda.  but not this much!

Oh Jay.

This made me laugh this morning.

photos from england.

So I meant to update more from England. But alas, I haven’t. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks.  We visited the Lake District for a couple days and stayed in a great B&B with owners who love music. They fed us dinner one night in exchange for a little mini concert.  It was amazing. We tried to catch some sheep with my sister-in-law but all attempts failed. We ate scones with rum butter and cream.  I bought zebra print wellies. (Those are rain boots for the Americans out there.) We played music at a camp and had fun hanging out with 11-14 year olds for a week.  We played a show at my brother’s church. We told jokes. We gave hugs. We drank pints of cider.  We ate Indian and Thai food. We ordered many bowls of chips. (French fries.)

Yesterday we went to St. Albans, a town that houses a really old church.  When I say really old, that is precisely what I mean.  The church is actually built out of Roman ruins.  Now that’s old.  We walked around, shopped a little, got coffee, ate Japanese food, played frisbee, and headed home.  The ride home was the truly memorable part of the trip.  We were passing a park that had some sort of festival going on when we heard music.  It didn’t take me long to recognize the theme from Titanic (should I be ashamed?), and before I knew it a middle aged woman was belting “You’re here, there’s nothing I fear…” like whoa into the microphone.  She was totally into it.   Head back, arms to the side, mic held at a right angle, stance wide.  This woman was the picture of an intensely emotional performance. The best part is that we caught it on video.  So hopefully I’ll be able to upload it and share it with you soon.

Until then, how about a photo update?

this is my brother and sister-in-law's village

this is sylvester

i was jumping

sheep!

a magnificent rainbow!

there’s more.  but this will have to do for now.

ENGLAND (well some of it)

So we made it across the pond to London!  Well, Chorleywood to be exact.  My brother and sister-in-law live in a lovely little village here.  It’s really quite beautiful.  

It was an adventure getting here!  We were supposed to leave Philly at 1:55p and make a stop at JFK to catch a 6:25 flight to Heathrow.  (There are direct flights to Heathrow from Philly, but it was actually cheaper to have the connection.)  So there was a lot of bad weather in NYC on Wednesday.  Bad enough that they actually shut down both Laguardia and JFK for a few hours.  No flights in or out.  Completely closed.  So our 1:55 flight didn’t take off until about 6:00 which caused us to miss our connection.  The flight from Philly was labeled a ‘connector’ flight, meaning that basically everyone on it had some sort of connection to catch (quite a few international connections) and consequently most everyone on the flight missed their connection.  Thankfully, there was another flight leaving for Heathrow at 8:45 from JFK and there was space for us on it!  It was an insane day at the JFK airport.  So many flights had been delayed or canceled all together that the line for rebooking was ridiculously long.  Somehow we figured out that we had already been rebooked and that we had to take a shuttle to a new terminal.  After a lot of running around we made it to our gate, got new boarding passes, and found some water.  The flight over to Heathrow was really easy.  Food was pretty good, Tyler got to watch the new X-Men movie (for which I am grateful, because I hate watching those movies) and I got to lay across a whole row of seats (3) to try and get some sleep.  It didn’t really happen but it was much more comfortable then being squished up next to Tyler.  Although he is cuddly.  

Now we’re just hanging out.  My brother had to get an X-ray on his ankle today (possible stress fracture), Tyler is sleeping, and I’m hanging out with Sophie (their cat.)  All in all a good day.  Oh and I played Mario Kart for the first time.  I know.  Kinda lame that it’s the first time.  I found out that I’m terrible at it (I blame my lack of hand-eye coordination) but it’s still pretty fun. 

I leave you with proof that we actually work.  Someone sent this video to me.  It’s from the World Cafe Live show.  Enjoy.