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How much do you love those days when you can really let your hair down? For some it might be a slightly askew part or a little extra curl to your quaff but nonetheless you are ready to rock on with ya bad self! Whatever the flavor of entertainment we can all agree – we need to thrive, love, and dive into our respective boogie time.

This was certainly the case, January 24th 2009 at Rams Head Live’s first ever live band karaoke night with Maxxtone. Singers and not-so-much-singers flooded the stage for three hours shouting it out to their favorite jams, all the while managing to survive a sea of amp cords and pedals, no small feat mind you. As a viewer you could not help but take in the sense of euphoria flowing through each brave soul to leave the stage. And “brave soul” is no uncertain term. This is not your down home karaoke joint, (not that they aren’t FAN-TABULOUS!) but this is the big time, go hard or go home, karaoke on steroids, 400 songs to choose kinda party.

Looking around I started to realize, this is pretty righteous, leaning into a friend and yelling, “This is pretty righteous!” Every two minutes I was grabbing a stranger, a bartender, whatever, yelling, “Did you just see that?” as each performer shocked, amazed and humored to new heights.

In truth you had to walk away and appreciate how much you love those times when being a free soul is so organic.

Between a rendition of Just a Girl by No Doubt and a pretty serious Alice Cooper impersonation, these karaoke loyalists found time to throw their luck in at our Special Olympics Charity Raffle. Prizes included electric and acoustic guitars, rock band, guitar hero, things of the like. It went off without a hitch and our contributors were great! Very recently we received some feedback on the donation and could not be more elated.

As it happens, the Prince Georges County Special Olympians were able to find a little bit of their own boogie time due to the rip roaring efforts of our star-bound performers. In years past, the troop only had enough funds to take the kids for a couple practice runs and just barely outfit them for the event. Following final ceremonies other troops would sprint off to the snow tubes and let loose for the rest of the trip, celebrating their preparation, hard work and performances with some dip-dodging tube rides. Prince Georges County on the other hand would pile into the vans for a soggy two hour ride home. BUT NOT THIS YEAR! Thanks to the charitable donations made by our faithful Karaoke enthusiasts Prince Georges County Special Olympians closed out the season thrashing some snow dunes of their own. They ran off to the tube park with everyone else! How’s that for awesome?!

Whatever the weather, make sure to find your own brand of go time. Maybe it’s Jack’s Mannequin at Rams Head Live or Tift Merrit at Rams Head Onstage. Go out, get your kicks, buy your tixs, and have a blast! You deserve it and are always welcome at our stages!

Sincerely,

Rams Head: Providing kicks since 1989!

Special thanks go out to our Raffle contributors. These are the people who made it all possible!

Bay Tunes Guitars
Appalachian Bluegrass Music Shoppe
Game Crazy, Severna Park
Jason’s Music Center