HOPE,COFFEE & MELODY tour

I'm excited to announce the fall tour plans for RSB.
Hope, Coffee & Melody will hit the road and share a unique experience in approx 24 cities across the country.
This will be a unique gathering of music, story, mission & great coffee to share together.

Joining the band will be Chris Seay (brother, pastor, author, friend), Chris Taylor (BEC recording artist) and singer songwriter Alli Rogers.

We are finalizing routing these next few weeks and have a few shows to add.
If you or someone you know has interest in helping making an evening happen near you, email us at mgr@robbieseayband.com

here is quick write up from Chris and I on what the evening will represent:


"The world seems to be getting more complex. Oil prices have skyrocketed, natural disasters perplex us all, and despite the reality that the internet has dissolved the borders of the world through information, people still feel deeply disconnected, isolated, and alone. There is a story that brings us all together, only in the onslaught of nonstop media noise this Voice of Hope is drowned out. It’s time to tune in. In one night of music, story, experience, and laughter we hope to connect rich and poor, hopeful and hopeless. Intertwine the lives of the struggling coffee farmer with the people who wake up drinking coffee from beans he plants and harvests and in this connection they will both find hope. A young girl in a Kolkata red light district will be given a job making bibles rather than following the footsteps of her mother who works in prostitution, and the employer and employee will be changed forever. A child that you have yet to meet, will look to you and ask you to share your abundance so that her most basic needs might be met, and the world will become so much more than smaller, but closer. It is our prayer, that in the midst of this whirlwind we will laugh as people that have not lost hope, drink deep of a rare cup of coffee, and share a melody that will awaken the best in all of us. So set aside one evening to see the world from a new vantage point and leave singing your own "Song of Hope."

RSB in The Dominican Republic

I'm writing tonight from the Dominican Republic.
I'm tired but realized I haven't shared much about our trip to this country.
Ryan and I, along with our wives, are here with Compassion International to learn more about the work God is doing in the lives of kids across the country.
Over 43,000 kids in the DR are being sponsored through Compassion and their lives are being changed forever.
Raquel is one of them.


Raquel is sponsored by RSB and we had the joy of meeting her today in person.
She is a beautiful, strong 7 year old girl.
We will be sharing more photos, video & telling you the remarkable stories of her family which includes 10 children.

But for now, please pray for her and the rest of our time here.
goodnight
robbie

Twigger

West Virginia played host to RSB last weekend and we encountered an enthusiastic taxi drive named Twigger.
Twigger drove us to and fro in the early hours on Sunday and we thank him kindly for the transportation.
However, Twigger's skills go well beyond driving.
Be on the lookout for the T man's singing debut in the video below.
He's sure to be opening for RSB in no time.

Oh, and we also had a blast with everybody at KCU in Kentucky.
Thanks for joining us for a great evening.

We hope you appreciate the remarkable cinematic skills on display by our very own, Taylor Johnson. What an eye for the dramatic!

FYI, He usually includes bad 80's music as the musical backdrop for our traveling adventures. Not sure the reasoning, but it seems to work
what do you think?
any 80's suggestions for the next installment?

Enjoy.

NEW YORK

Welcome.
Today, i'll be honest with you, contrary to most postings found here.
I need your help!

I'm taking the Mrs. to New York City next week and I'm not prepared.

I've visited NY several times in my life and Liz lived there briefly in college.

But I've been busy and the details of the trip have eluded my priority list..until now.

This is where you can help rescue me from trip implosion:

one
What is your favorite restaurant in all of the city? We like quiet, chill spots w/ great food but not too stuffy of a vibe. Any recommendations in SOHO and the Village would be awesome but we're open to any part of town.

two
HOTELS - does anybody have any hookups, discounts, free:), suggestions, etc..
I"m usually a hotel guru when i travel but New York is crazy expensive!
Anyone have a friend or a relative who works for a major hotel chain who is just dying to help out a poor musician from Texas?

three
What should we do? We'll shop some and eat a lot..and walk..those are givens.
But what have you guys done in NYC that is a must stop for us?

You're too good to me.
Thanks for the help.
Blessings,
Robbie

thanks for a great week

RSB had a great trip to Chicago for the Willow Creek Arts conference, to Nashville for the SESAC tv/film gathering & to Kentucky for Ichtus.
Thanks to everybody who came out and supported the band.



And to other news, its crazy brutal steamy can't breathe HOT in Houston,Tx today.
cheers
robbie

My Pops, My Old Man, My Friend

My Dad is a great human.
Edgar Martin Seay.
His story escapes me so often and i fail to share it because it seems so unlikely and far fetched.

He was born in Tokyo,Japan - a city of leave for his mother and father who were both fighting in the Korean war.

He was born May 31,1950.
His father was killed a few weeks later.
His mother passed only a few years after that.

He was raised by a loving grandmother and a firm grandfather who drove trucks with 1 arm, having lost the other in a bar shoot out (not far from where our church is today).

He found God and then music as a teenager growing up in our hometown of Houston,Tx.

As a 20 year old music leader he met my mother Cindy, the daughter of his pastor & boss. My grandfather, Robert Baldwin, was not a man that many would view as allowing any guy to date his daughter, much less marry in her late teens.
Ed Seay ignored such warning and followed love and seemingly lives to tell about it. (Thanks to Papa for not killing him)

He is a man that, for years, had no living relatives on his side. None.
Can you believe that?
He never used that as a crutch or allowed it to define him.
After marrying Mom 37 years ago, they are more in love than ever.

A man who carried the Seay name all alone now has 5 kids & 15 grandkids.

He has served faithfully as a pastor at the same church for the last 18 years, during which time he earned his doctorate in theology & serves on the board of trustees of his alma mater, Houston Baptist University.

My dad loves God deeply.
He loves people sincerely.
He adores his family immensely.
He doesn't give a crap about status or wealth.
He loves golf, the Beatles & buying every toy ever invented for his wild grandkids.

He is a father who told me to pursue music when nobody was listening to my albums.
He is a Dad who told me to marry for love and not worry about the rest.
He is a friend who balances reason with great abandon and lives life fully.
He is a parent who I long for my kids to emulate.

Pops - we love you.
Happy Fathers Day to my hero.
-Robbie

Ahh..Vacation

This is my youngest son.
He sends his greetings from gotham city.
We've been vacating at the beach.
I'm writing now at 1:37 am,back home & due to awake in 4 hours to catch a flight to chicago.

We just returned from cramming 26 people in 1 beach house and actually loved every minute of it.

I'm thankful this morning ... for family, sunsets, batman goggles, cheeseburgers & frank sinatra records.

You?

I know many of you reading may need a vacation and you've been going through crap in your life these last few weeks or months.

My hope is that no matter where you are or what is happening around you, we all find time today to give thanks to God for the small and grand blessings in our lives.

Cheers,
Robbie