Gig Salad Talent Spotlight: The Eskimo Girls

Gig Salad is a site where you can find talent for any type of event imaginable. They even have Queen Elsa and Princess Anna on speed dial to make birthday party appearances so they are definitely well-connected.  Since we’re not much of a bar band they have been a big help connecting us with people who are into our music. We have traveled quite a bit to play weddings, garden parties, corporate events, birthdays, and even the awards banquet for an orthopedic surgeon’s convention. That was a classy party, let me tell you!

A couple months ago they did a spotlight on The Eskimo Girls and we were so honored! You can watch it here on their blog. We had a great time spending a few moments with their crew even if I did feel like such a nerd answering all those questions. Also I’m thrilled to be dubbed “professionally trained”, I really don’t know if I deserve such a lofty title but I shall humbly accept.

Gig Salad Talent Show

This is a throwback post about the talent show that Gig Salad hosted in February of last year but I wanted to write about the experience as it was a wonderful one for us.

As The Eskimo Girls, Abbie Benton, Heather Strange and I have played together for several years. We met in college and stayed fast friends as we navigated through living together, first real jobs, not so glamorous jobs, sharing our ideas and aspirations, tipsy bananagram marathons, and learning to live in the real world after a petrie dish college experience. Together we form an acoustic trio comprising of guitar, violin, ukulele and lovely vocal harmonies.  We play mostly in the folky, americana genre and have covered some of our personal favorites but focus mostly on original songs.

Gig Salad is a local company founded to bridge the gap between performers of all varieties and event coordinators, whether they be personal or professional. They are truly an incredible services and since we signed up last year have helped us book many gigs ranging from weddings and corporate events to dinner parties and charity benefits. If you are a performer of any kind and haven’t signed up, you absolutely should! The basic profile is totally free and as you start booking more gigs you can upgrade your account for added features and greater visibility.

Here we are at the show, enjoying ourselves and walking the “carpet.”  My mom comes to Missouri at least a couple times a year and just so happened to be in town that week!  She loves hearing us of course, and I absolutely have a great time being able to show her what we’re up to!

A few things about the event. There were so many types of acts there – the diversity was incredible!!  Of course there were many musicians, so we got to make a lot of new friends. Also in attendance were a juggling & rapping duo, a comic, and a couple dance troupes.  We were excited to go for it because of the prize package.  A whole year subscription of the professional Gig Salad profile, spots on local tv and radio, and a bit of cash to be used for furthering the act. The winner of the talent show was selected through audience voting, which I thought was alright but the judges opinions should have had at least some merit, like a hybrid voting situation where the experts had greater weight than the voting public. I definitely did not expect to win, though I was hoping we would at least place! It’s perfectly ok though, the kids who danced and dressed up like penguins were adorable as anything and could not be denied!  All in all we had a good time, met some new people, and got a chance to perform in front of people we hadn’t before.  A wonderful evening indeed!

Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with Gig Salad but they have been an easy way for our band to book and perform more than we could have on our own. So I thought I’d send Gig Salad some love!