Natalie and her husband, James, are the coolest. James chatted with us for a while after Natalie’s set, and we got to hang out with Natalie for a while also. Although, it’s pretty hard to carry on a conversation once the next band goes on stage.

Danielle took, oh, about 250 photos. And I took my “Dinner Party” script from The Office for the band to sign. I would have taken my iPod, but it’s still out in Utah…that’s another story.

I shot a couple more videos on my Cybershot. The first is a “Pop Culture” medley near the end of Natalie’s set. The second is the solo part of Freebird.

Natalie, James, Miguel and Joe, you guys are amazing, and have been a huge bright spot in what’s been a fairly dark period for us. We’re bummed you didn’t get to make it to Mansfield again tonight, but we hope to get to see one of your shows again soon. Look us up when your in our neck of the woods!

Let me just say that the opening act, Natalie Stovall, was AMAZING! She sings and plays a mean fiddle to boot.

This first video is of her and her guitarist playing a sweet riff during one of the songs.

Natalie also played Devil Went Down to Georgia, a favorite of ours from our many Emerson Drive concerts.

Josh Gracin was great also.

The Jedi Web Geek in me has to mention the amazing connectivity of this whole situation. Natalie has a Facebook page, as well as a Twitter account and a blog, which SHE updates. It’s so amazing how connected you can be to someone in this Facebook/Twitter era. The cool thing was that Natalie accepted both of our friend requests on Facebook, and she picked one of Danielle’s pictures as her profile pic! Plus she wrote a really sweet note to Danielle on her wall.

Natalie is an amazing artist, and seems like a really cool person as well. Hopefully she can make it back to Mansfield again really soon!