Audrey Auld Mezera (wrap-up)

By Greg Pool
Host, TreeHouseConcerts.org

Here's a wrap-up of Audrey Auld Mezera's visit to the Tree House (pictures of that night):

• Audrey made it to the Tree House because of Sherry Austin, who played our previous house concert.
  
  
• I met Audrey for the first time around a camp at the Strawberry Music Festival in 2004, where Sherry and Audrey were performing. I asked them both if they wanted to play our house, and they said yes!
  
  
• Audrey came all the way from Stinson Beach, stayed in Sherry Austin's house, and played on KPIG the next morning, on Please Stand By.
  
  
• Audrey owns and runs Reckless Records, which she founded with Bill Chambers, father of Kasey Chambers.
  
  
• Audrey met her husband, Mez, 20 something years earlier when he came through a bar in Tasmania while in the U.S. Navy.
  
  
• Audrey dropped a lot of names during the after-show interview, including Sam Baker and Kimmie Rhodes. If you want to hear their live performances, I found a gold mine of Texas singer-songwriter stuff on KUT radio's website, out of Austin, Texas. Specifically, the archives of the Eklektikos show.
  
  
• We raffled off a bunch of live CDs and t-shirt, with all proceeds going to Audrey. The discs include two live records of Tree House Concerts shows, including Peter Mulvey (thanks Joe Navratil!) and Mark Erelli (thanks, Mark!). I also threw in a live CD Redbird did while in Chicago. And Steve Zmak, who designed our logo, made up several t-shirts to give away.
  
  
• Audrey sang a Fred Eaglesmith song "He's A Good Dog," which was appropriate because she and Mez showed up with their chocolate lab, Gypsy.
  
  
• Juliet got a lulaby song during the encore, called "Sleep Baby Taylor," which was the first song Audrey wrote on her Baby Taylor guitar.
  
  
• I wore my Aussie outfit, or the best I could. Juliet and I took her mother, Eve, to see The Waifs in Napa, so I picked up a t-shirt. And I wore my Blundstone boots (Cuthbertson series), because that's what Josh from The Waifs was wearing the first time I saw him.