Get ready for Whuffaoke this Tuesday night!

Get ready for Whuffaoke in Omaha!  That’s right…this Tuesday night make sure you head down to 22 Floors on 13th & Webster (in the Slowdown complex) for a night of fun with friends, and more importantly, karakoe! So what is the Whuffaoke Tour and why Omaha?  The idea was conceived at SXSW Interactive this year…

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Get ready for Whuffaoke in Omaha!  That’s right…this Tuesday night make sure you head down to 22 Floors on 13th & Webster (in the Slowdown complex) for a night of fun with friends, and more importantly, karakoe!

So what is the Whuffaoke Tour and why Omaha?  The idea was conceived at SXSW Interactive this year while spending too many hours in the R{VIP}, the karaoke RV that travels from venue to venue in Austin during the interactive and music festivals. Tara Hunt, author, blogger and social media extraordinaire, turned to a few friends and said, “My dream is to quit my job and karaoke across America, bringing peace, love and brotherhood with me along the way.”  These few friends and more thought that was the BEST idea ever and vowed that, if Tara ever did this, they would join her.

Well, not two months later and shortly after the successful release of Tara’s book The Whuffie Factor, Tara desperately wanted a way to have the time and space to write her next book and continue to travel around. Taking a look at her current situation, she knew that, in order to do that, she would need to quit her job and move back to Canada (where she is a citizen). She picked Montreal, because it’s awesome and beautiful and incredibly affordable to be a writer in. Within minutes, it dawned on her that this was the PERFECT opportunity to pursue her dream of karaoke-ing across America. Why just move when you can move AND bring karaoke happiness in the process?

The plan is to stop in 13 cities, Omaha being one of them, and have a meetup with karaoke, book signings, awesome conversations and a great deal of fun. The event will be livestreamed (from the cab and the karaoke stage) and totally interactive on the web as well as at our stops. The tour will be  tweeting, blogging, uploading photos and getting all sorts of press along the way.

So all in all, this will be yest another great event that Omaha has the privilege of hosting!  Head over to the Facebook Event and RSVP if you plan on coming.  Then tell your friends, singers or not, and come down to 22 Floors this Tuesday night around 6PM!  The RV will be making its way from Boulder and should arrive sometime around 7PM!

A HUGE special thanks to our great friends at Bluestone Development for hosting Whuffaoke as well as working on many of the details for what will surely be a tremendous event!

This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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