It's 3am on a Wednesday night.  I attended the Open Artists with Open Arms event at Avalon, the West Coast answer to Webster Hall.  HOLY CRAPDITTLES!  I'm pumped UP! (i will be using caps with abandon in this blog.)

Blake Lewis was the highlight of the night.  Go buy Heartbreak on Vinyl, it's gonna be a SICK album.  I got a photo of him taking a camera from the guy next to me.  He took pics of the audience while he sang and danced and beat boxed.   JoJo did an acoustic version of Livin' My Life Like It's Golden and Too Little Too Late.   Fanny Pak from America's Best Dance Crew (not to be confused with the awesome music group spelled "Pack") kicked the whole night up a notch.   Oh, and Tigarah was off the CHAIN!  Signed to Universal Japan now, I've been a big fan of hers for years, so I was stoked just seeing her live let alone meeting her in person.  Of course, my favorite performer was Sharlotte Gibson.  I used to do Google searches to find the awesome tall back up singer on American Idol, but I never figured out who she was till I got involved with Open Artists.  She walked in the studio the day we were recording backing vocals for one of the Open Artist Songs and I had a total star struck moment.  She does all the backing vocals for Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton...she's the BOMB.  Totally my industry hero.  And of course there were so many other notable performances, Guy B, That Rogue Romeo...but I try to keep these blogs short...so you'll have to wait for future write ups on the stars of Open Artists!

The night was really about LBGT youth and the power of mentoring.

But unlike most fund raisers of it's kind there wasn't a moment of self pity or sappy hands across america crap.

ok.  it's almost 5am.  and i've been patient through some ridiculous server issues tonight.  so i go sleep now.  If you want to see the rest of the pics and you're not my friend on Facebook go here.
 

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nati