Performing "Edge of a Hurricane" over the years

October 14, 2024  /  Katie Oates

I have been performing the song “Edge of a Hurricane” for gigs since 2016 and have recorded several videos of the song as well.. Some of the most memorable occasions include:

  • self-recorded YouTube video/demo of the newly written song on Election Day, November 9, 2016 (video is only accessible via this old blog post).

  • first live performance: an encore for my Something True cd release concert at Charlotte Starroom on December 16, 2016 with artists Chris Rosser and Cheryl Hoover (pic at left). I sat down at the keyboard and played it for the first time in front of an audience. (Blog post of that performance here.)

  • a 2017 video-taped performance at Midwood Guitar in Charlotte (video only accessible via this old blog post).

  • a 2019 live performance at a fundraiser for the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte (now “Roof Above”). Description here (but never did get the video recording). I will never forget seeing a man standing in the door to the kitchen listening to the song with tears running down his face.

  • hiring Charlotte Starroom in 2019 to videotape a live recording of “Edge of a Hurricane” in my (former) backyard in Charlotte, NC. My reflections when I posted the video were about the importance of not giving in to bullying and hatred.

  • in August 2021 when I performed a concert to celebrate the opening of Josh Copus’s “Old Marshall Jail” as a boutique hotel. I rented out the entire hotel for family and friends.

  • in 2022 at a fundraiser for my friend, Manolo Betancur, who was traveling to Ukraine to help rebuild bakeries destroyed during the war with Russia. Manolo is also the one who repurposed my “Edge of a Hurricane” song as a fundraiser on Instagram for victims of the 2024 Hurricane Helene.

  • in July 2024 for Chatt Hills’ “Sundays on the River” at Olivette Pavilion in Asheville, NC. Cd release of the album Edge of a Hurricane. I created a new video version with pictures from the hurricane and its aftermath. Two places featured in the video (Olivette Pavilion and the Old Marshall Jail) are places that experienced extreme flooding during the hurricane.