November 28, 2007
We're so busy this December.....
Katryna: We are taking to the highways and we cannot wait. We have been having such a wonderful time playing the shows for this new cd. The songs are so fresh and wonderful to sing and truth be told, I just don't get enough of my big sister when we aren't driving around for hours together every weekend.
I am right now driving home from Thanksgiving in Virginia. We opted for the less traffic/more miles route. Boy is it more miles. I sure hope there was a LOT of traffic the other way. We have had a wonderful time. William discovered a ukelele at my parents' house. He did countless shows for us. He wields the guitar somewhat like Pete Townsend. He wrote a song called "There's a Way that You Can Go." I am utterly delighted. If I were royally twisted, I would make him our opening act.
This Friday, November 30, we are headed to one of my very favorite places in the world. We are playing the legendary Passim in Harvard Square. I remember reading in an interview with Mary Chapin Carpenter back in the eighties when she was doing a lot of the country cross over stuff that she loved most playing in New England because that was where she could just be herself. I feel that way about Passim. It is home.
The next night, December 1, we are playing Brattleboro, VT. The Hooker-Dunham Theater is a beautiful little theater right in downtown Brattleboro. I think fewer than 100 people fit there. There is a chaise lounge in the dressing room that I really want to steal. If anyone wants to help me abscond with it afterwards, let me know. We could give it to Nerissa for Christmas.
(This is Nerissa. I say, yes please. I want that chaise! But more than that I want world peace, an end to global warming and climate change, and also I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect
harmony.)
The following weekend takes us to the BIG APPLE with the CRACKERJACK BAND!!!! We are reuniting with Dave Chalfant, Dave Hower and Paul Kochanski for a show at the LIVING ROOM, December 8, at 7pm. Nerissa and I love playing shows as a duo, but playing with these guys is a like a vacation in paradise. There is just nothing like being supported by their amazing musicianship. Dave Hower's other band, the Winterpills, is playing the late show that night at the Living Room! They are truly
terrific. Played Falcon Ridge last year. The songs are created by one of my favorite writers, Philip Price and the harmonies are provided by the ethereal voice of Flora Reed. Check them out.
The next day at 2:00pm, Saturday December 9, we are playing out on the Island. Stonybrook, Long Island. Did I ever tell you that Nerissa and I used to live on Long Island? (This is Nerissa again. I just want to say that Lila sings the Bye Bye song from HooteNanny all the time. It's our variation on that great old whaling song, "Bye Bye My Roseyanna." She sings, "Bye bye Will Will, bye bye Chia (Katryna), bye bye Mama and Dada." She is coming with us to Long Island.)
Friday, December 14 we are playing at the fantastic Tin Angel with special guest Trina Hamlin. It has been quite a while since we did a grown-up show in Philadelphia. Come eat at the restaurant downstairs before the show. It will get you good seats for the show and absolutely DELICIOUS food in your tummy.
Sunday, December 16 we are playing in New Jersey. (This is Nerissa again: I am going to take this opportunity to urge you not to buy plastic toys. Why? Because there is now a raft made out of congealed plastic floating somewhere in the Pacific ocean. It was once your kids' toys. That's where they go when they die. Sorry to bum you out, but hey, we're folk musicians and that's our job.)
We are then taking some time off, though I, Katryna will be out caroling sometime that next week with my family folk chorus. So if you live in western MA and you hear some dulcet tones, it might just be us!
(I, Nerissa will be tagging along with Katryna, singing harmonies to her carols.)
Also, check out this awesome YouTube video of Endless Day! This was from a performance that Katryna went to see at her alma mater, Trinity College.
We are returning from all Christmas related activities in time to play FOUR shows on New Year's Eve in our beloved home town of Northampton, MA. We will play two sets for kids in the afternoon and then two sets for grown ups in the evening. Not too late though. Come with your family and celebrate the coming year, our wonderful town and its incredible community. Preserve the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future. Our Mom, an historian, taught me that.
Happy Holidays, folks. Happy Shortest Day. Happy lights. Come to a show. Avoid the malls. Avoid plastic. Keep warm. Sing often. Sing Loud. Eat well. Take pictures.
Katryna and Nerissa
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