Vincent Merricks at Sailors Cove

Vincent Merricks, originally uploaded by Jojamela Soon.

Vincent has one of the sexiest voices. He's a regular at Sailors Cove, playing every Thursday evening at 5pm and has been since he first started performing in SL. Vince just recently partnered with my dear dear friend, Circe Broom. What a doll of a couple they make.

Congrats to the both of you!

Ice Skating at Sailors Cove

Ravishal Bentham created a wonderful video about the skating party at the new Stillwater Sim this weekend. Fanci Beebe coordinated the activities this weekend and set up a wonderful skating rink with special animations. During the Skating party, Ravi captured some video using Fraps and posted it to his YouTube account. The video is so good that it's being picked up all over the web.

Ice Castle at day

Ice Castle at day, originally uploaded by Jojamela Soon.

This weekend we had a bunch of festivities at Sailors Cove including an Ice Castle building competition. This was my entry and I won first place with it. The first place prize is a nice set of sails from Nautical Notions, Abella's sail making shop. Now I just need to go pick them up :) Prize was donated by Patrick Leavitt.... what a sweetie

Sting Rhode

Sting Rhode, originally uploaded by Jojamela Soon.

One of my favorite shows every week is Sting Rhode's show at the Cove. He has so much energy and is one of the sweetest performers I know. Just at the end of the set he hopped off his steel drums and joined us on the conga line.

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland, originally uploaded by Jojamela Soon.

Winter has arrived at Sailors Cove just in time for the holidays. I was wandering around the theater and caught a glimpse of a beautiful Trudeau Schooner sailing through the Fishers Island pass and had to snap this picture. What a beautiful sight to see. From what I hear it's going to be cold enough for the snow to remain on the ground until just after the first of the year... what a treat.

Update on earlier post

In a post I wrote on Sept 9th, I showed this picture that I took at a VanGogh exhibit. I was there because of a call from my friend Cecil who wanted to take a photo reproducing the painting.

Cecil has posted a new movie on his YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnLQ8ejL-qA, and it has the pictures that he took that day at the very end.

New Musicians, New Parties

The other night when I was visiting with Circe and Silas at Luxor, I had the opportunity to meet a new SL musician called NuScore Kidd. I was able to catch one of his shows over at the Sunset Jazz Club. OMG, the ladies are going to be drooling over this guy. NuScore is SL's version of Barry White. His vocals are deep and rich and his improv will have you fanning your face. His audience interaction is unique and personal and I'm working on getting him to Sailors Cove Theater asap!

After my visit to Sunset, I hopped over to Freestar Tammas' place for an open mic. My friend OwlandMoonGuy had IM'd me to let me know that he would also be playing. While there I caught Cypress Rosewood's set which was totally awesome.

At the same time, my friend Wishing Lane was holding an open mic party on her property. When I got there she had a good crowd. Wishing is a special lady with a love of music in league with my own.
And finally, Sting Rhode did is regular Sunday gig at Sailors Cove. We had everybody out on the floor dancing. I also spoke with Aisha after Sting's show and we're moving her show from Thursday evenings to Sunday afternoon's after Sting. I think it's a good move as it will relieve some of the pressure on her Thursdays and will help increase the crowd for her shows on Sundays.
I'm also getting more involved in two other projects. First is the Second Life Music Community Forum. It's an offshoot of the Music Development news group that Linden Labs started after the convention in Chicago. The group consists of musicians, DJ's, venue owners/managers and fans of music in SL, working together to raise the profile of the scene. I want to become actively involved in letting people know that there is something really fun and exciting to do in SL and took my first step last night by hanging around the Ahern welcome center with a flip title telling people to ask me about music in Second Life. It was probably not a good time to be working there, but I did speak with some folks. Right now I'm working on putting together a notecard with some preset instructions to help people find music.

The second has to do with Sailors Cove. Tasha and Iza have been loaded down with work
because of the addition of the new Anchor Cove sim. I've volunteered to help out by being the liaison between the new property owners and the theme committee. I'm working strictly in an administrative position, providing information to the committee on new build requests from all the new property owners coming into the community.