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• During the last couple of shows, I was the lone carnivore--Shelley is vegan and Kristy and Roberta are vegetarian.
• Roberta brings her pit bull on tour. He lives in her car, and he's quite friendly.
  
• Shelley dressed up as a dead cowgirl for the Halloween show in Chicago. Little did she know that Jeanne, who played first, was a (live) cowgirl. Who needs to coordinate costumes when it happens on its own?
  
• Ellen was the only performer who didn't wear a costume (Kara was a ninja spy and I was medieval--for future reference, some costumes just don't work well when playing the guitar; those long sleeves and the sweep skirt made movement a challenge). But she did have a newspaper boy hat, which she pointed in a different direction every song or two.
  
• Chicago again: In what seems to be a trend, Ellen had all the other grrls at the show join her in a Halloween song that I'd never heard. And I'm sure I wasn't the only one. (It went well.) Something about werewolves and howling....
  
• I was the youngest performer at the New York City showcase (the oldest was probably in her late fifties). That was also the concert with the largest age range.
• Obviously four hours of live music and an hour of performing each isn't enough: after the official part of the Lansing show, we hung out at Magdalena's Tea House for another hour and passed around Chris Dorman's guitar (Chris is a local musician who gave me the idea of creating entirely improvised songs at shows).
• Both Roberta and Shelley have brought their moms on tour.
  
• Rohs Street Cafe (Cincinnati) is housed inside a church. If you walk through one of the partitions, you'll be in their sanctuary. Very cool.
  
• At my house on Saturday night, Roberta invited my friend Chuck to try out her banjo and showed him some chords. Chuck's not a musician, but it looks like he's going to become one, because we're making a trip out to Lansing to possibly buy him an instrument on Thursday. Ah, converts.

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