Hello friends!
I am writing to you from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at the end of the first day of tour for my folk duo, Radnor & Lee.
If you havent heard us you can check this video out that we made in collaboration with our fans...
This is a particularly interesting tour as my bandmate Josh Radnor was in the tv show "How I Met Your Mother" and is a huge star in South America. So along with sharing our music and exploring Brazil, we are also dealing with a fair amount of good-natured hysteria by HIMYM fans! :)
We have a lovely promoter tour manager named Eliel, who shockingly had never been told he resembled American film director Kevin Smith.
This morning he took us out to Mercado Central, the Central Market, which since 1940 has housed hundreds of stalls, grocers, bars and even pet stores.
Josh got stopped a lot on our outing - but most people were really sweet. His show really seemed to touch young people in quite a profound way. I think if you were a sensitive guy or girl longing for love last millennia, HIMYM seems to have been the show you put on for comfort and familiarity, the way my generation enjoyed Seinfeld.
Worked out at the hotel and rested, then headed to the venue for soundcheck and was blown away to see so many fans lined up early for the gig!
Many natural "first day of tour" problems....
Tour tshirts printed with the wrong month on them!
And guitars whose batteries couldn't stay charged....
After soundcheck had a quick super heavy dinner of "Cheese Bread" - a local delicacy - but I was ready to sleep rather than perform after this...
But then we came out on stage to this...and I was AWAKE again!
Awesome gig. Thank you Belo Horizonte and can't wait to explore Curitiba tomorrow!
Good night all xoxo Ben
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Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais tem lugares lindo para visitar.
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In fairness, May is only 4 months away.
That cheesebread looks incredible.
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And both January and May end in "Y". It's an easy mistake to make.
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Ha thats incredibly forgiving
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Welcome to steemit @Benleemusic ! already knew you before steem and really happy to see you on the platform! Have fun their in Brazil mate and hopefully we can help eachother alot on steemit here. Lets grow steem and our blogs! Goodluck to u. (p.s. check my profile out its Greaaat)
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Thanks mate! Followed you
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Hi Ben! Only now I was able to join this social network lol
The Central Market is wonderful, is not it? I always get lost there!
Your passing here was incredible! We hope you come back soon to share more moments! I also hope I'm not so nervous and can talk to you! haha
A big hug from your Radnor and Lee Brasil fan!
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Wonderful - thanks for your support. Looking forward to reading your posts!
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Hi @benleemusic, welcome to #TeamAustralia. Great post and I'm looking forward to reading more!
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Thanks so much! See you round
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I love the video clip and hearing about your tour. Keep it up and welcome to Steem!
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Thanks mate.
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This is great! Belo Horizonte is an amazing city, and Curitiba too.Hope you have time to met Opera de Arame and Botanical garden. When you're at Sao Paulo, i can show you guys some good turistical points and good places do lunch. Best regards, Lee. =D
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Welcome Ben Lee... I was so surprised to see you on the team Australia post. I'm a huge fan of your work. One of my favorite movies is The Rage in Placid Lake. And we are currently introducing my 22 year old sister in law to your music. Youth these day... Haha.. Enjoy Brazil! Its on the dreams list. Say hi to Ted AKA Josh.
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Thats awesome! Great to meet you. Be well - looking forward to following you!
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Congratulations Ben Lee upon seeing that you where featured in the same new @teamaustralia post as her she went straight to the dvds and put on The rage in placid lake she is @insideoutlet
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Ha awesome. Great to connect. I havent watched that in a while. I don't think my daughter is old enough to see it yet. Maybe when she's 12.
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You just forgot one thing: you met your biggest fan. Hahahaha just kidding
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Ha! Welcome!
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Thank you!! =)
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Thanks a lot for sharing these great impressions, @benleemusic! I just joined steemit and in fact my profile pic is my "Radnor&Lee happy face" from NYC. Looking forward to sharing stories and picking up great things here!
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Ha awesome. Pretty fun right? xx
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Yes! I feel like in the middle of a beehive - but in the good way;)
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Hey Ben you should add your travel posts to steemit worldmap. They will also have the chance of being featured in our daily #traveldigest. If you're interested, go to http://steemitworldmap.com, search for your location, click on code (down the bottom) and add a short description. It will then generate the code you need to copy and paste into your post (not the comments) to have it show up on steemit worldmap. Then your post will be on the map! There’s also a FAQ section if you need it.
I like your video here too. Very cool.
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Cool! Easy. Thanks
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Awesome. I see it worked since you got the auto-response.
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Hopefully meeting up with the Sao Paulo Steemit community tonight so Ill post about that next!
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Ha! You're doing so well with the meet-ups. It took me weeks to round up some Aussies to come to the Brisbane one. The next one I'm going to will be Florida in March.
Enjoy Sao Paulo! And if you don't know, you can get uber helicopter rides around the place cos the traffic is so bad.
https://www.voom.flights/en
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If not so crowd, hope we can talk about steemit tomorrow. Many fans of Radnor will probably be excited, and maybe we can't chat so much. Hope i'm wrong, we should invite all these people to join the plataform.
What abou Josh? He made his profile?
See you tomorrow.
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Where is a good place to meet up after the show?
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There's many places near we can see some place to eat something or just sit and talk. I will look for a no-crowd local, this can be easier.
Or if you prefer in the hotel where you will be.
Anyway, tomorrow we can decide. Take a good rest for some folk tomorrow.
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