David Lanz and Christian Housel Concert in Boise Idaho

Hi there:

 

What a great concert last weekend (October 21st) here is Boise with David Lanz and world flautist Gary Stroutsos.  The concert was held at the beautiful Cathedral of the Rockies in the historic northend of Boise.  I had such a great time with David and Gary.  It was kind of interesting both promoting and playing the concert.  About 200 folks came to the concert to enjoy a wonderful evening.

 

I opened the evening with a five song set including mostly songs from my recent album "After the Rain".  During three of my songs, my former band Ruberry Jam joined me on stage.  They added sounds of bass, acoutic guitar, and light percussion added much to the performance. 

 

David Lanz came out at about 7:30 and opened with a beautiful improvisation that just blew everone's mind.  David followed up with the familiar "Heartsounds" and a couple of others.  Gary then joined David on stage and played from their latest C.D. "Spirit Romance" released on the Narada Label.  At one point after the song Serenada, the audience was completely silent almost stunned by the beauty of it.  It was a very cool moment.  IMO, David's best song of the night was "A whiter shade of Pale".  Wow could you feel the emotion on that one.  Gary played various flutes throughout the night, wowing the croud with his ethereal sounds. 

 

After the intermission, David played much of his familiar work, but did add a new tune entitled "Rain Dancer" that hasn't been recorded yet.  How great was that!  Wow!  After twenty plus albums, David keeps it going.  After a curtain call, David ended the show with "Christofori's Dream" of course. 

 

Another great show with David! 

 

 

Suzanne CIANI LIVE! - November 7th - NYC

	An Evening with Suzanne Ciani Tuesday, November 7th, 8:00 PM with featured guest, Matt Eakle Merkin Concert Hall (Kaufman Center) 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave) New York City Five-time Grammy-nominated composer, pianist and recording artist, Suzanne Ciani, will perform with featured guest flautist Matt Eakle (Dave Grisman Quintet) in a New York City appearance at Merkin Concert Hall. Ciani's most recent CD, Silver Ship, won this year's Indie Award for Best New Age Album. Tickets are available at the box office by calling (212) 501-3330 or online at www.kaufman-center.org Ciani is best loved for her 15 albums of original music which feature her performances in a broad array of expressions: pure electronic, solo piano, piano with orchestra, and piano with jazz ensemble. No matter the medium, Ciani's music communicates the special intimacy, passion, and sensitivity that has become her trademark and prompted fans to buy over a million of her albums. If you want to receive future newsletters in Rich Text format, please reply to our webmaster at wavewatch7@aol.com Please add "wavewatcher@sevwave.com" to your address book or approval list to make sure you receive all future newsletters from Suzanne CIANI of Seventh Wave. We want you to know that Seventh Wave Productions doesn't share, rent, or sell any customer information to other companies. We HATE SPAM as much as you do, unless it's served between two slices of bread. We really value your support and privacy. If you have any questions or comments regarding our web site, you may send them to wavewatch7@aol.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE, E-mail to: list-off@sevwave.com To unsubscribe means that you will no longer receive Suzanne's newsletter. You will miss out on any concert updates, new albums, wine tasting (just kidding!) special promotions from Suzanne's online store, and other happenings regarding Suzanne's music.

Suzanne Ciani in Concert in New York City...

5-time Grammy-nominee Suzanne Ciani will be performing with special guest flutist Matt Eakle at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC.

Ciani communicates the special intimacy, passion, and sensitivity that has become her signature and prompted fans to buy over a million of her albums.

When: Tues, November 7th at 8PM
Where: Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th St., NYC
Tickets are $30. Call 212 501 3330 or visit www.kaufman-center.org for more info.

Catherine Marie Charlton Plays in Delaware Sunday 10/8

Sunday, October 8, 2006, 7:00 pm
Forever Wild with Walkin' Jim Stolz and guest Catherine Marie Charlton
First Unitarian Church
730 Halstead Rd.
Wilmington, DE
Price: FREE

Forever Wild—2006 is touring all fifty states and doing free events in nearly 100 communities across America, inspiring and motivating people to act on behalf of wildlands issues. Walkin´ Jim Stoltz is celebrating his 20th year of touring with his award-winning multi-media show, Forever Wild. Funding is coming from private contributions and foundation support. Working with environmental organizations, green businesses, outdoor clubs, church groups, and individuals, Forever Wild—2006 will bring together the public with dozens of organizations, and the show itself will involve many other musicians, authors, speakers and personalities. See the tour schedule and find out how you can help by visiting Forever Wild—2006 at www.foreverwild.info.

Pianist Catherine Marie Charlton is the special musical guest at the Delaware Forever Wild event. J. Jody Janetta will be joining her on drums.

Visit Catherine Marie Charlton's Website

Robin Spielberg on NPR station FRIDAY, 10/6!

Tune into 88.1fm/WYPR Baltimore this Friday, October 6th to hear Robin Spielberg's interview with host Lisa Morgan. Not in the listening area? No problem! Live streaming at http://www.wypr.org Once there, tune in live! The interview will air at noon and again 7pm. IF YOU MISS IT, you can go to the web site after the 6th, and click on "THE SIGNAL" to listen to the podcast anytime!

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Solomon Keal's Music Newsletter, October 2006

Hello everybody!

Welcome to the October edition of my music newsletter.

In less than two months my next solo piano album, "Peace of Heaven," will become available. This album, like my first two, features my own solo piano compositions. You can hear samples of this album by going to http://www.solomonkeal.com/music.html.

You can still purchase pre-orders of this album for only $13.00! If you would like to pre-order, send an email to solomon@solomonkeal.com. Once the album becomes available in November, the regular price will be $15.00.

On October 20th and 21st my music will be featured at the Academy of the New Church Alumni and Student Art Sale in Bryn Athyn PA, for the Charter Day celebration. Along with other great pieces of art, you will be able to bid on, and hopefully win, "An Evening of Solo Piano Music by Solomon Keal." I will then schedule this "Evening" with the winner. All the money from this sale will go to the ANC Student Scholarship Fund.

On December 1st, I will be playing in a Whisperings Concert in Mechanicsburg PA, along with Greg Maroney, Michael Dulin, and Gary Girouard. For more information on that go to http://www.solopianoradio.com/concerts/mechanicsburg.htm

Check out the new Whisperings commercial-free broadcast called PureStream at http://www.solopianoradio.com.

Christmas is coming! Don't forget about my solo piano Christmas album called "Advent." You can learn more about all of my albums at http://www.solomonkeal.com.

Have a great day everyone!

- Solomon Keal
Pianist, Composer, Recording Artist
"Peaceful Solo Piano Music"
Peace of Heaven Music
http://www.solomonkeal.com
http://www.myspace.com/solomonkeal
http://www.cdbaby.com/all/kealmusic

Whisperings pianist Mike Strickland nominated for awards

Whisperings pianist Mike Strickland has been nominated in two categories in the Just Plain Folks 2006 Music Awards. They had 25,500+ albums and 350,000+ songs entered for their awards this year and they announced nominees in 81 album and 67 song categories. This year's nominees come from over 70 countries around the world. To view all the nominees, go to: http://www.jpfolks.com/home.html

Mike was nominated twice in the BEST SOLO PIANO SONG category for his solo piano piece "Lullaby of the Rain" and "Skipping Along".

His album "Touch The Sky" was nominated for BEST SOLO PIANO ALBUM.

In other news, Mike's piano composition "DREAM WALTZ" was used on the PBS broadcast production of "America's Ballroom Challenge" that aired in Februrary 2006. Mike's "The Dream Waltz" was selected as the song for the American Ballroom Finals in the Viennese Waltz category. To view a great picture of the champions dancing to "Dream Waltz", go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ballroomchallenge/competition-dances.html

-- Kristi Strickland
Mike Strickland Productions
PO Box 19443
Seattle WA 98109
www.mikestrickland.com
1(800)825-MIKE (6453)
local (206)-285-4863

New Mike StricklandVideos

For those of you not familiar with YOUTUBE, it is a site where you can share video. Since I have a lot of great footage from our last two house concert tours plus footage from recent concerts all over the country, I thought I would share some of the fun we've been having.


See Sadie, our dog in Concert barking out her song "Circus Waltz". Here's the direct link to that one video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KnFdRk0S68


VIDEO CHANNEL Here's the link for our channel where you can see all the videos I've uploaded of concerts and musical performances. http://www.youtube.com/MikeStrickland Most are very short excerpts but its fun to share all the good times we've been having performing. Please rate and comment on the videos if you have the time. THANK YOU!!!
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Kristi Strickland
Mike Strickland Productions
PO Box 19443
Seattle WA 98109
http://www.mikestrickland.com
1(800)825-MIKE (6453)
local (206)-285-4863

Suzanne Ciani Concert November 7 New York

An Evening with Suzanne Ciani at Merkin Concert Hall Tuesday, November 7

Five-time Grammy-nominated composer, pianist, recording artist, and winner of this year's Indie Award for Best New Age Album, Suzanne Ciani will perform with featured guest flautist Matt Eakle (Dave Grisman) in a rare stateside concert at Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday, November 7 at 8 pm. Tickets are available at the box office by calling (212) 501-3330 or online at www.kaufman- center.org



Ciani is best loved for her 15 albums of original music which feature her performances in a broad array of expressions: pure electronic, solo piano, piano with orchestra, and piano with jazz ensemble. No matter the medium, Ciani's music communicates the special intimacy, passion, and sensitivity that has become her trademark and prompted fans to buy over a million of her albums.




Best wishes,
Lesa Kramer
for Suzanne Ciani
and Seventh Wave Productions

Bob Dahl - Nordstrom pianist - Tigard OR

Bob Dahl performs regularly Tues - Sat at the Nordstom Store in Tigard Oregon.  His regular performance time is from 11 AM to 6 PM on these days.  His CDs can be found at this Nordstrom store and also at www.bobdahlmusic.com.  Bob performs a variety of pieces:  Current, Familiar, Jazz Standards and Original compostion and he adds new pieces each week.  One of Bob's favorite and recent additions is his solo piano rendition of Paula Cole's "I don't want to wait"

 

Bob often lets shoppers know about solopianoradio.com and the wonderful music and information that can be found there.  

 

 

Guinness World Record music anniversary

Rome, Italy - Two years ago, composer pianist Christian Calcatelli began a concert that would go down in history – according to Guinness World Records - as the world’s “longest solo music internet broadcast”.

 

Streaming live over the web for its whole duration, Christian improvised for 30,000 people for 60 hours and 1 minute on a STEINWAY D concert grand. With the audience being allowed to follow also through a live video stream, the task of entertaining was quite taxing as the same quality had to be kept in respects of the different times zones.

 

When America was sleeping, in fact, Asia and Europe were wide awake plus there was an audience right on location in the heart of historical Rome.

 

Christian performed in his new age/classical contemporary style. The event, known as The Calx Project, aimed to raise awareness and funds for PLAN INTERNATIONAL and their programmes to benefit children in South America.

 

After reviewing the 60 hours of audio and video recordings, Christian selected material for a double CD collection entitled “A broken Record – Original music from The Calx Project” which contain live recordings of the improvisations taken from the first hour to the last, inspiring countdown at the end of the thirds night.

 

Samples from this event are available on Christian’s website at www.calcatelli.com

 

For info, email: Christian@calcatelli.com

 

 

 

 

Latest Lisa Hilton release, "Midnight In Manhattan" Tops the Charts

Latest Lisa Hilton Release, "Midnight In Manhattan" Tops the Charts


Pianist/composer/producer and long time Whisperings artist, Lisa Hilton has recently released her eighth CD, "Midnight In Manhattan" inspired by the late night skyline in New York City. Her indie release has garnered great reviews, and is appearing on several charts, notably the #2 position at www.newagereporter.com for August and #3 for September, as well as making the current Top Ten chart at www.ThisMonthInMusic.com , appearing on the www.JazzWeek.com college chart as well as www.smoothjazz.com.

"I'm thrilled at the response I've had on this CD, and it seems to just continue growing", enthusizes Hilton. "I am so passionate about the piano and composing, so it's such a pleasure to be able to share this with so many people".

Hilton will perform solo piano on Thursday, September 28th at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood at the Annual Salute to Dodgers to benefit the Hollenbeck Youth Center and the Inner City Games of Los Angeles. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will receive the Legacy Award at the event.

Hilton's website is: www.LisaHiltonMusic.com .

Bradley Sowash - New Book Review

“If you’ve ever been flipping channels and stumbled across the weekly television series The Piano Guy on PBS, you know who Bradley Sowash and Scott Houston are: two pianists with the simple message that playing piano should be fun. With Sowash and Houston’s Play Piano in a Flash! The Next Step burgeoning musicians can learn how to interpret chord symbols and position them on the piano, play left-hand self-accompaniment patterns and generate spontaneous right-hand melodies. It helps that The Next Step is full of huge diagrams documenting recognizable songs like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star because, as the back of the book states, sometimes pianists get bored with classical music and just yearn to play something jazzy. Here’s the book to show you how to do it.”
- Jazz Times 2006/2007 Jazz Education Guide

Bradley Sowash
www.bradleysowash.com

Clay Hilman Live

Clay Hilman performs every Friday evening, from 7pm-9pm, at the Michigan House in Calumet, Michigan. His upcoming album was recorded at closing time on the old piano in the bar side. To buy any of Clay's CDs, visit his web site.

Emmy-Award-Winning Composer Kurt Bestor

A Note or Two from Kurt Bestor

CHRISTMAS TICKETS ON SALE!!

For you Kurt Bestor fans in the west, tickets for his 18th Annual “A Kurt Bestor Christmas” go on sale October 9th. (Check his website www.kurtbestor.com for venue locations.) Blending traditional Christmas carols with contemporary stylings, Bestor on the piano, trumpet, harmonica, and voice will joined by a chamber orchestra, 6-piece band, and several special guest artists. For thousands each year, it is a long-time holiday tradition.

HAVE INTERNET WILL TRAVEL!

Yearning for more information about Kurt and his music? Besides his artist website (www.kurtbestor.com), Bestor also has an active blog (kbestor.blogspot.com), two MySpace pages (www.myspace.com/kurtbestormusic & www.myspace.com/kbestor ), a YouTube page ( www.youtube.com/user/kbestor ) , a Mog account ( www.mog.com/Kbestor ) and (WHEW!) a Panjea page ( www.panjea.com/kbestor ).

If your really cyber-adventurous, look for Kurt’s private concerts in Second Life - a virutal world that must be seen to be believed. Bestor should be appearing there in the next few months.

And you thought all he did was “tinkle the ivories!”

ROBIN SPIELBERG HAS NEW CD!

ROBIN SPIELBERG HAS NEW CD!

Robin Spielberg has teamed up with North Star Music to release her
14th CD, SPA PIANO. SPA PIANO is a study of Spielberg's most
relaxing, contemplative compositions culled from ten years of her
work as one of today's best selling pianists/composers. The recording
is perfect for relaxation, romance, meditation, message and yoga.
"After releasing Beautiful Dreamer, a lullaby album in 1999 adults
have been asking me to create something this soothing for THEM," says
Robin, from her PA home. "North Star had recently gone into the
candle business, and they decided to release a series of music with
candles. The concept just clicked for me."

Sound samples of SPA PIANO and a look at the melon-cucumber candle
that can be purchased alongside it, are available at
www.RobinSpielberg.com as well as Spielberg's upcoming tour
information (a 25-city tour begins next month).

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Announcement from Michele McLaughlin

One of my songs from my Reflections album will be included on the free CD Baby CD sampler which will be mailed out to the first 5000 CD Baby customers of November and December.  I am very excited to be included on this sampler CD.  If you would like to receive a free copy of this sampler, please be sure to visit http://www.cdbaby.com to purchase an album during November.  Any album purchase will include the sampler, including one of my albums, which you can find at http://www.cdbaby.com/all/nali22btm.

 

My Christmas album is coming along nicely and should be complete and ready for release by the end of October.  This Christmas album will include several of my favorite Christmas songs as well as 3-4 original compositions.  I am excited to share this new album with you and hope that you will enjoy it during your holiday season.  Please visit http://www.michelemclaughlin.com for more information on my upcoming album.  Stay tuned for updates.

 

With the holidays just around the corner, now is a great time to start thinking of gifts for your friends and family.  My albums would make excellent Christmas gifts.  I am planning some great specials during the next few months.  Please be sure to visit http://www.michelemclaughlin.com/products.html for more information on my albums as well as updates on future specials and discounts.  Please also be sure to visit http://www.cdbaby.com/all/nali22btm for fast and easy purchasing.

 

Thank you so much for your support and encouragement.  Please stay tuned for updates on my new Christmas album as well as CD Sampler information and CD Promotions and Discounts for the holiday season.

 

To learn more about Michele McLaughlin please visit:

http://www.michelemclaughlin.com
http://www.cdbaby.com/all/nali22btm

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Louis Landon article/interview and compilation CD

New Age and New Sounds, an Italian magazine, has just released it's
latest edition. A compilation CD is being sold along with the magazine.
Louis Landon is featured in a beautifully designed 3 page article,
complete with photos and interview. The compilation CD has a track
from Landon's latest CD, "unwind." It is called "Peaceful" and it is
music for inner peace and outer peace.


www.LouisLandon.com

www.MySpace.com/LouisLandon2

Karen FitzGerald upcoming performances

Karen FitzGerald performs on the third Friday of each month from 8 - 10 pm at Skylark's Cafe, located at 1308 11th Street in the historic Fairhaven district of Bellingham, WA. The next two performances are on Friday, October 20, and Friday, November 17.  For more information please call 360-715-3642.

To learn more about Karen FitzGerald, please visit www.karenfitzgerald.com

David Nevue Launches October Tour in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin

Pianist David Nevue on tour: October 5th - 14th.

Public Concert Dates include....

Ann Arbor, MI
Rochester Hills, MI
Shelby Township, MI
Commerce Township, MI
Green Bay, WI

Private House Concerts in...

Matteson, IL
Dubuque, IA
Eau Claire, WI
New London, WI

Contact David Nevue at dnevue@rainmusic.com for information on possible seat availability of the private concert events.

For more info on all of these dates, see http://www.davidnevue.com/calendar.htm