Well, I was invited by Traxx Radio to guest present their Top 50 of 2013 on Sunday afternoon. It was an exhilarating experience. I’ve always wanted to have my shot in radio presenting but of course, how would I ever have the chance?
So when Ruby, the lead man in the whole thing asked me if I wanted to do it, I was super excited.
I was told to arrive before 2:17pm (radio people are quite specific) and when I arrived at 2:10pm I was quickly ushered into my seat, a mic swiveled right in front of my face and I heard the words, “and just in the nick of time, Deena has just entered the studios!!”
My heart fluttered as I wasn’t expecting to get thrown into air just quite yet. I mumbled a few words and was saved by the pizza delivery girl that brought everyone lunch, who received the same hospitality as me and was thrown into air without warning. I think she handled herself better than me, and she didn’t even know that her delivery job was going to lead her to say a few words on radio. Haha.
I had loads of fun, introducing the songs and getting into conversations. Though it was mostly scripted, I got into the joy of things and didn’t always need it. Sometimes I would roll up a ball of courage to just say “AND AT NUMBER 15 WE HAVE BLAH BLAH…” and then the song comes on and I would breathe out a huge sigh of relief and yell out WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO because I didn’t stuff it up.
Ruby had told me to bring my guitar to do a little something something on air but I said no, I already had to gather enough balls to do the presenting – but of course he just had to grab his little rusty, dusty guitar and put it in my lap. So, it just ended up that I did an acoustic, improvised version of one of my new tracks I’m working on.
The link is below.
Anyway, it is a hectic month for me with 4 days of recording for the new album, 4 mid semesters and 1 final exam in the same week (as well as little tidbits of assignments). I’m not going to be very friendly during February but I’ll hope you’ll bear with me. Will try to throw in updates regarding recording. 
Thanks to the beautiful people at Traxx Radio: Ruby, Matt, Tennille and Sabrina – for a good indie internet radio, go tune in at: http://www.traxxradio.com
Playing unexpectedly live
Deena introducing the #1 track
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