Buy A Timeshare.com Employee and His Band Blue Gravy Opens for the Famous Rusted Root May 21, 2010
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Bleu Gravy, a popular up-and-coming local band. Operations Manager at BuyATimeshare.com, Aaron Oliveira, has been playing guitar and drums for Bleu Gravy for over 5 years. Bleu Gravy, upon returning from a short stint of shows in Colorado, greatly enhanced their press kit with footage of those shows as well as others in the Florida area. Around the same time a well known local venue previously known as Jannus Landing had re-opened after being shut down over a year due to tax fraud issues. Under new ownership they renovated the entire venue, putting millions of dollars into sound, lighting, bathrooms, back stage green rooms and so much more. They also changed their name to Jannus Live. Please Click Here for additional information.
The music recruiter for Jannus who is also long time friends with the manager of Rusted Root wanted to put a free show on featuring Rusted Root, one of their most popular acts. Please visit their site to learn more about Rusted Root. The recruiter for Jannus knew Rusted was playing in Orlando so he went to talk to their manager personally while watching a killer show backstage. Rusted Root agreed to play the free show at Jannus Live for their grand opening weekend. Bleu Gravy was soon contacted by Jannus’s recruiter with an offer to send a press kit to Rusted Root for their approval in having the Bleu Gravy open up for them. To everyone’s surprise, Rusted Root and their manager were impressed and accepted the gig. They also put Bleu Gravy on their website which was most flattering.
Although it was a free show, there is a limit to how many people can attend each show. Since Jannus had been shut down for so long people obviously couldn’t wait to visit their favorite local venue. Tickets were made available to the public; within 5 short hours they were sold out. Bleu Gravy received 100 tickets for the band to use and those were gone within a week. The band was given 3 weeks to prepare for the show. Considering they had a brand new bassist and hand-percussionist, the band had their work ahead of them.
When the band arrived to the gates of Jannus Live they were greeted by the recruiter and band manager of Rusted Root. The band’s manager expressed how much he enjoyed the music and was looking forward to watching Bleu Gravy perform. This was about 4 p.m., the gates weren’t open to the public until 6 p.m. The members of Bleu Gravy got to see the venue’s renovations first hand. Actually, they still had a crane working on the stage lighting up until 5:30 p.m. which was just in time for the sound checks. In the meantime Bleu Gravy was handed their backstage passes and upon entering the area the band was greeted by THE Rusted Root who were just getting ready for their sound check. Aaron immediately recognized the lead singer and drummer from previous shows he had attended. Aaron initiated conversation and before long was deep into a “Neil Young discussion”…talking about how his music influenced our bands. And what song did they choose for a sound check? Powderfinger by Neil Young. That set the tone for a really great night.
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