Shannon Curtis
Why was I up until 2 last night? 🤔
Well, if you know me well, you know that seeing that hour is typical around here — late nights suit us and our work. (Also, I think I was probably a cat in a previous life 🐈⬛)
But even so, as I was finally showering and getting ready for bed (in the wee hours!) last night, I realized that we had worked (another!) 12-hour day. 😅
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Shannon Curtis
So yeah: today, my to-do list will grow, like it seems to grow every day these days, to prepare for our 80s kids album release and tour. It's just a mountain of THINGS TO DO! 😆 But it's good work, and it feels like important work, and I'm grateful to be doing it. And OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS it's going to be WORTH IT, and SO DANG FUN, you don't even know. 🤩
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Shannon Curtis
All that said, can I tell you the ONE SINGLE THING that is THE HARDEST thing on our list to accomplish successfully? 👉🏻 It's the act of making sure people know about what we're doing.
It can be so frustrating, honestly, because we have this AMAZINGLY FUN & JOYOUS thing we're doing with 80s kids — I mean, you should have *seen* the excitement during every single one of the "80s kids encores" we did on our tour last fall — when people get a taste of this thing, they are PUMPED.
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Shannon Curtis
But actually cutting through the noise — of social media, of people's understandably busy lives, of tapped-out attention spans, of democracy straining under the weight of a fascistic takeover (😬) — to simply let people know about the opportunities we're busy creating for us all to share in some JOY with each other on our tour this spring ... it can feel near impossible some days.
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Shannon Curtis
So ... can I ask you for a simple favor? If you a) already know about our upcoming tour (🎉), and you b) are planning to come to a show near you (⚡️), will you think of 4 friends who you think would enjoy this experience with you and text them *right now* to ask them to come with you? 👯
And then ... will you go get your tickets today? 🎟️ (Early ticket sales help us so, so, so much, I can't underscore it enough! Thank you!) You can find links to all 21 shows (so far!) at https://shannoncurtis.net/tour
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Shannon Curtis
I say "another" because it's been like that around here for ... months? With a brief break at the holidays, and when I was in the hospital last fall, we've been go-go-go-going, nonstop, for months. 🏃♂️
A friend posted a story by Dan Levy in which he talks about how on socials, it looks like art just ... appears! Fully formed! Packaged and ready to go, without any of the (actual, real) struggle, roadblocks, and persistence in the art-making itself —
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Shannon Curtis
— not to mention the minutiae, the mind-numbing rote tasks, and the constant treadmill of work in running a creative *business*.
I felt so SEEN listening to him speak! (Plus I adore him, so, that was nice 🥰) And he gives some lovely encouragement to keep going, despite it all, because it's important.
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