http://aaronivey.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:01:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i can't believe the summer is almost over.  it's almost August 1st. we have two more weeks of summer events.  a student life camp in Mount Bethel, PA.  and a weeklong city-wide event in Louisiana.  i wish i could fully explain how great this summer has been.  it seems like every ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9754 Obviously, I should have blogged about this a while ago... but I gotta admit I've SLACKED on blogging lately. Been really busy with moving and getting the summer rolling... Last week we did a show at Stubb's with our friends Jason Poe (amazing songwriter and all-around cool guy) and Miranda ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9750 we just wrapped up a week with Student Life in Cleveland, TN. what a GREAT week!! met some amazing people and had a blast working with a great SL team. now we're chilling at Crema in Nashville before we catch our flight home to Austin tonight... looking forward ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9748 Really looking forward to playing alongside Miranda Dodson & Jason Poe Friday night June 11 at Stubb's in Austin! It's Miranda Dodson's CD release show. We're really excited for Miranda and her new record! I've heard it and it's stupid good (yes, that's a compliment). It's going to ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9744 We are REALLY EXCITED about playing the Music For The City Record Release show in just a few short weeks! SATURDAY, MAY 8 LA ZONA ROSA, AUSTIN Doors open at 6pm.  Show starts at 7pm. Tickets $15 Music For The City is releasing Volume 1 of a multi-artist compilation record.  It's a great record... and ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9726 I finished this song at 2:30am this morning.  It was my last one.  I've been wanting/needing/trying to write a song for Jamie for a LONG time.  This one is WAYYY overdue.  But I think she'll like it.  It's called "Try." Here are lyrics to "Try" I want to write a song to ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9724 Yesterday was day 7!  And I actually wrote 2 songs.  I was really excited about how things were flowing throughout the day. After Jamie's family left Sunday afternoon, we went to the 5pm at our church (The Stone).  It was an amazing night and I came home and wrote a ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9722 Yesterday was Day 6.  I didn't get a chance to blog about it.  It was a long, but really productive day. I started fairly early yesterday.  It was Saturday, so that meant we had a few soccer games in the afternoon.  I was surprised how quickly song #5 came!  Within a ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9719 Most difficult thing in this 7-in-7 challenge... walking away from a song and labeling it "FINISHED." It feels totally unnatural to do that.  I'm used to spending weeks on a song, so to write one and consider it instantly done is so hard.  But I absolutely see the benefit of this ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9717 As some of you know, I'm voluntarily putting myself through the torture of something we've titled "7-in-7."  It's basically a songwriting challenge/exercise to write 7 songs in 7 days.  I'm joining with some friends here in ATX that are also songwriters and committing themselves to long days/nights of frustration, ripped ... http://aaronivey.com/?p=9712