Making a great Tree of Lights with Lifehouse required some practice.

As the band only got into Durham Saturday morning, lucky shoppers and fans that came early got to jam to soundchecks and rehearsals for the band and NBC 17!

Enjoy!

~Ashley Sue

Tree of Lights was a blur ~ the day happened so fast!

Here are a few of the steps (and truly, only a few steps) NBC 17 took Saturday morning to get ready for all the fun!

~Ashley Sue

Check out our department caught on tape throughout the Tree of Lights event!

-Doug

I’m very much a right-brained person.  I love anything to do with the arts - music, movies, theater, dance, etc.  So when I got the “assignment” to spend some time behind the scenes with the local talent, I was THRILLED!!  Music, and performing in general, is a passion of mine.  I had the opportunity to spend a couple of minutes with Burlington, North Carolina -born and NC State graduate, Sissy Harrington, after her soundcheck.  I discovered that not only is she a talented young lady but she’s also very warm and gracious.  Her good fortune is our gain!  Take a look at my “Two Minutes With Sissy Harrington”:

Thank you, Sissy! Best wishes to you in Nashville and beyond.

So I don’t know if it was the anticipation of today’s fun, if it was the Sudephedrine I took yesterday, or the frustration I had trying to get my internet to hold out long enough for my videos to upload (my fingers are crossed right now as the second uploads), but I truly got two hours of sleep last night. 

I fell asleep about midnight and woke up with energy at 230 am!  Boo.  I laid there restless for the night ~ and I thought about getting up to blog here about it… then remembered my connection keeps dying anyhow…

For the record, if my connection holds up, here is the “Making of Tree” video… a few minutes showing the progress made at the Streets of Southpoint in preparation for today ~ so all you see is flawless entertainment and holiday sparkle!

I sat in a few meetings too, but no need to show you all of that… the snippet of meeting I added… multiply that by 1,000 and you now see all the planning and hard work that goes into Tree!

After everything is in place, we hope to see you there tonight and hope that you love every moment of it as much as we do!

~Ashley Sue