Some exciting news came today, June Madrona has been invited to play the seattle folklife festival this year. I grew up in kirkland so playing the folk life has a strong element of childhood fantasy fufillment for me. Today danielle and I will be meeting up with this fellow named simon who plays the flute. Dani is looking into buying an alto flute, which plays a couple of octaves lower then a normal flue, if simon works out we might start having two flutes in the band. I am really excited about the possibilies of that. Also bob schwenkler who records all of our albums is thinking abot joining. He already knows all of the songs and usualy sings with us at shows. We practiced together with him doing harmonies and percussion and it sounds really good. Micah is living in seattle now and working as the music director for a musical. It sounds like a really challanging job. We realized that for the band to work everyone really needed to be living in olympia, so he is not playing with us right now. It is really exciting and challanging having to recreate the band again. It has happened after every album. I'm not scared of it like I used to be.
I'm at bob's house right now working on bicycle records stuff. Bicycle records (www.bicyclerecords.com) is a label that we run together. Today onyx and colleen of polka dot dot dot are coming over to talk about touring europe and new zealand. I am really excited for them. They will be playing the folk life festivle as well.ok back to work.
xo ross
Friday, February 8, 2008
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