I'm back

Hello everyone,

My life has changed a bit the past several months, that's why I haven't written on my blog. The reason for this change is this little guy to the right. In February, we had a new baby come into our family! His name is Preston, and he takes up a lot of our time, but that's ok because he's cute.

We also have another change coming up soon, we will be moving to Dallas Texas! I'm going to study at SMU to get a Master of Arts Administration/MBA. I've enjoyed being part of non-profit groups here in Utah, and look forward to continue supporting the arts and making music.

I think it is unusual for an artist to have his first CD be a Christmas one. It seems like most artists release several CDs before releasing a holiday CD. Well, I guess I'm working backwards. I have a Christmas CD, and now my next project is to release a new CD of my original compositions. I will keep you up to date with how it goes.

Thanks!

P.S. I am performing a concert here in Murray, Utah before I leave. It's part of the Muray Arts in the Park. I will be performing on Tuesday July 13th at 12:00 pm at the Murray Park Pavillion #5 (About 5200 South and State Street)

What a world. What a world.

Hello everybody. Happy new year! I can't believe it's another decade. It seems like it was just a few years ago when it was New Years 1999 and I was hanging out downtown with my good friend Matt Petersen.

This last year was a good year. I haven't made my New Years Resolutions yet, but I'm planning on doing that this week. Not procrastinating isn't one of my resolutions, so I'm ok doing it late. Maybe not procrastinating will be next years resolution.



Here are some of my Highlights from last year:

In March, we went to California to see our friends Drew and Katie Johnson get married. We flew into LA and hung out there for the first couple days. We went to Universal Studios, hung out with Brittany's friend Shefali, and my local LA friend Tom Llewellyn took us around town. We saw the Kodak Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall and went to the restaurant where the first french dip sandwich was created back like in the 1930's or something. Good stuff. Then we went drove up to Fresno for the Johnson's wedding.

In May we went to St. George and saw some plays at the Tuacahn theater. My parents who live in Chile flew in for the summer and we visited with them. In July, we went to another wedding with my cousin Lindsey who married Jonathan Sommer, and in September, yet another wedding when my Aunt Marcie married Matt Lyons. I love going to weddings, they're always a fun party.
We also went to Rhode Island to visit Brittany's parents there (New England is beautiful, for those who haven't been there)

The year ended being crazy busy with my creation of my CD "Christms Flurry" and performing in Tacoma and throughout the Salt Lake Valley. I told you before that I was going to post some pictures from my performances at the Tacoma Dome and the South Towne Expo Center, but unfortunately the pictures turned out blurry. However, I do have some pictures from my annual concert I held in Sandy, Utah. Thank you Grandma for taking pictures!


These are the performers from my Christmas concert. From left to right: Me, Emily Dunn, Isaac Bickmore, (see Isaac I spelled it right that time!) Then my sister Laura Braithwaite and on the far right is Jared Morgan. They are all fantastic singers.




This is part of the audience participation, we all performed "The Little Drummer Boy." If you notice the background, that is the work of Brent Cowley a filmdirector/expert/guru/genius/excellent waffle maker.