Blesser Heart


This is one huge "mission accomplished" for me.

Finding the girls, or rather noticing the girls that God sent. Getting us organized, arranging a lot of songs, rehearsing a lot, rehearsing some more, gigging while not having rehearsed enough...

Now we've added a fourth, and the story there is pretty great too.

Our next gig is, uh, fall-ish. We decided to use the summer to get ourselves together. Clearly not there yet.

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