For a Sunday night and with the Grey Cup to compete with, we had a surprisingly good show. The place was packed and with no seating room left to spare, people made full use of whatever standing room could be found.<\/p>\n
The crowd was very receptive and oddly quiet and attentive but not that I’m complaining! Rae Spoon<\/a>‘s charming and quirky candor was a pleasure to watch on stage and had the audience cheering for two encores by the end of the night.<\/p>\n Being that it was my last show in a while, I decided it was high time to just finally let go and be myself. I know it sounds ridiculously clich\u00e9 but it’s an issue that I’ve been struggling with for as long as I have been a performer. I always thought that it would be safer to censor myself rather than just say and do what came naturally for fear of offending or being perceived the wrong way. <\/p>\n I have to admit it felt really good. People are free to think what they please but at least this way I have first say on what that definition is going to be by staying true to myself.<\/p>\n Just the other day I heard a great quote recited by Nigella Lawson<\/a> while in an interview on CBC’s Q<\/a> with Jihan Gomeshi that speaks volumes on the subject of self perception and how we sometimes allow others to define us:<\/p>\n “What other people think of you is really none of your business”<\/p>\n I suddenly feel the weight start to lift off my shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A whole lot more to think about or rather stop thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidyalutchman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}