Keystone Bay
Taking The Show On The Road
Saturday March 16, 2002
The Forum Center
Baltimore, Maryland
It was mid morning and a lovely day in the city of Baltimore for a concert. The Forum center was a famously renown place for staging a concert, having been rated the best concert venue in the country, it also helped that the Forum Center was located along the scenic Inner Harbor of the city on the Chesapeake Bay.
The Keystone Bay crew arrived for their scheduled concert that evening. Getting out of Ryan Davies’s SUV they were awestruck of the view and the beauty of the building’s unique architecture, designed by the famously well known architect Kyle Bohannon.
The group decided that they wanted to conduct a walk through of the building’s facilities, so Ryan Davies decided to call the Forum Center’s operations manager Sid Bastaine to get the OK for the walk through. Getting his approval they were told that they were suppose to enter by a side door. Upon reaching the side entrance Sid Bastaine greeted and lead them through the fabulous interior and on to the stage from which they would perform. Ryan Davies inquired about the sound system in the Forum Center. Sid Bastaine proudly answered that just like the Forum Center, the sound system was also rated the best in the country. Ryan Davies said, “yes, I have had several people tell me that this place is the best”.
With that, Ryan Davies said to Sid Bastaine, “We will be going to our hotel suite, but we will be returning around 6:30 pm for our 7:00 pm concert”. Leaving the building, they walked over to the SUV and drove to their hotel to check in and get settled in until it was time to leave for their musical event.
After settling in the hotel suite, there was an unexpected knock on the door, It was Daniel Gennins girlfriend, the country music DJ Felicia Fallsington. Of course Daniel knew that she was coming, but didn’t tell anyone else. Daniel introduced Felicia to Ryan, Michael, Denise and Kim, although Ryan had briefly met Felicia sometime ago in the past at a gathering for local radio personalties in the Philadelphia area.
Ryan Davies said to everyone in the room, were they interested in either a noontime snack or lunch, and they all said that they were hungry, so they all decided to find a nice restaurant so that they could fill up their empty stomach’s. So they all piled into Ryan Davies SUV and then they decided on the historic Chesapeake Bay Schooner Tavern that was nearby the hotel.
While at the Tavern, they were all sitting around a table talking, getting to know Felicia Fallsington and inquiring about her career in the country music industry as a radio station DJ. Seemingly Felicia really seemed to enjoy being with Daniel Gennings and she was a truly bubbly woman and a great personality.
When they finished eating their lunches, they decided to pay the tab and head back to the hotel suite and get themselves prepared for the evenings on stage concert performance
Along about 6:30 pm they all headed for the Forum Center. When they arrived all of them went back stage to prepare for the singing event. Felicia Fallsington met up with her counterpart from the local Baltimore area country music station at WXWX, Jeanne Mansfield, and they got to talking to one another about their respective radio station DJ jobs.
Then it was time for the performance to begin and both felicia and Jeannei introduced themselves to the fans in the arena and then they introduced the foursome and the concert commenced to a full house capacity crowd of 24,000 fans who were enthusiastically cheering.
Michael Walker and Daniel Gennings started performing and began to sing there 3 number 1 songs, “Olivia”, Adventure Of A Lifetime”, and “Somewhere There Is A Rainbow” and then all of the songs from their CD album “Somewhere There Is A Rainbow” plus they played their next song release “You Could Have Just Said No”.
The fans in the audience were really enjoying the performance and then Michael Walker and Daniel Gennings started playing songs from when both of them performed as solo acts. Afterwards they performed the hit songs that they wrote for other singers.
The attending fans were enjoying the concert. Felicia Fallsington and Jeanne Mansfield were standing off in the wings watching the performance. The two of them were enjoying the performance just as much as the fans in the Forum Center.
After about 2 hours of performing, Michael and Daniel were finishing up, they thanked their fans for coming to hear them play their song and promised that they would return to the Baltimore area to perform again sometime in the future.
After the concert had ended, Sid Bastaine thanked everyone in the group for coming and putting on a great performance and said that he hoped that they would come back again.
It was getting late in the evening, it was well past 9 pm. Ryan Davies was not planning on heading home this late in the evening and had already decided to spend the night at the hotel suite and head home back to suburban Springfield in the morning.
The group headed back to the hotel suite to crash from the performance. Jeanne Mansfieldtold them that it was a great performance and told Felicia Fallsington that they should stay in touch with one another. After Jeanne Mansfield left, all 6 of them crashed, but they were pleased that they were very well received by the fans in the greater Baltimore area.
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