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Away we go!

Make Music New York Make Music New York is around the corner and I’m feeling Soooo ready! Be sure to go outside on the first day of summer to enjoy music all around you!

I’ve arranged a great line-up to perform at the store front of Pasanella & Son:
http://makemusicny.org/schedule/venue/profile/100526
My 30 minute set at 7:45pm will be just me and a ukulele!

In the meantime, from 6pm to 7pm, I’ll be at the Battery Park Bosque (Bowling Green Station) where there’ll be an upright piano that I can bang on! http://makemusicny.org/schedule/venue/profile/100393

I hear the weather is going to be lovely, so please come on out and enjoy yourselves…listen, sing, sway and dance!

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Catharsis

Saturday’s Pre-Evening Show Episode #8 was a bundle cathartic energy. It had been a rough week with not-so-great and not-so-helpful news. There’s nothing like sitting at the piano to bang and sing my sorrows away. Check it out below, after the jump. Join me again for Episode #9, airing live from my backyard!

This past weekend i did Episode #7 of my Pre-Evening Show series! It feels good to keep up with an idea.

I would like to share with you my favorite episode so far. It’s Episode #5: Covers. Enjoy!

I always get so overwhelmed with things to do, that I freeze instead of taking action. Take these blog posts for example; in my head I’ve made 4 entries since the last one.  I’m busy and important –in my head!

Despite the internal fear of action, (ala deer in headlights), I have, in fact, been doing.

The Pre-Evening Show is up to episode #4, and the next show is scheduled for Saturday, April 10th.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pre-evening-show

I’m also in the process of planning my 2nd participation with Make Music NY! I was excited to hear that there will be upright pianos at 20 parks available for playing that day. I’ve submitted a request to participate in one of these 20, and will hopefully also do one at South Street to get other neighbors involved. My work neighborhood has a vast set of musicians in the area, which is fun.

I’ll slowly get back to some sort of musical normalcy. I’m still going to physical therapy, but will have to go through a new round of tests with a neurologist. Hopefully, they will get to the bottom of what’s going on.

In the meantime, onwards with musical actions and organized sound!

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Progresso

Not like the soup, but indeed I have made some progress.

After my last post, I’ve been readying myself for my web mini-concerts. This entails, of course, practice. It’s very humbling to relearn my own songs. It’s funny to do that after a long break, which I really ought not to do, I come back with a rejuvenated sense of enthusiasm.

I don’t know what happened between then (the last time I was gigging) and now, but I hear things differently.  I also hear parts that weren’t there before. I’m not talking about massive changes or rewrites, just some enhancements. All in good fun, of course!

I suspect that learning the ukulele for the past year has got something to do with it. I’ve never had much success with stringed instruments, (except the piano of course, which IS technically speaking, “stringed”, just saying…), I usually give up after a few months or weeks even. For some reason though, that lil ole ukulele’s got my lil heart. I certainly put her down every once in a while — I might have even sneered at her a few times. But when I pick her up again, we rekindle our old friendship seamlessly as if we had never parted. A bit dramatic, I know, but little things come in dramatic packages. Wait. Wrong saying. Moving on…

I would like to officially announce my first web concert date. I intend to make a web concert series called the Pre-evening Show. They will be in the early evenings on Saturday nights before, east coasters Saturday night party events begin. These short concert series will be streamed live from my studio on Ustream.com/lucytoon and will be available (not-live) for viewing later if you missed it.

So please join me on-line for my first Pre-evening Show
Saturday, February 27 @6:3o PM
Ustream.com/lucytoon
(internet connection required. har!)

see you on the internets!

this whole social networking is so very busy. i think i’ve spent most of the weekend setting things up. (i also did the copyrighting and the registering with ASCAP).

why is myspace so bad? it makes me feel so dirty when i go there. i was talking it over with the hubby, (as much as he HATES the web 2.0 social networking conversations) and he pointed out how myspace was built on php and mysql. and while that’s all good for some things,  it’s definitely not good for a high-traffic site like myspace. facebook, done in .Net, and i think by the looks of it so is last.fm, you can see the difference. how things load, the flow of the pages and how updated content appears. i had noticed how myspace is trying to catch up with facebook…good look with that.

ok, after bashing it i want to point out that Elwood Emission now has a myspace page! be my friend and fan! i need some of those! hah!
http://www.myspace.com/elwoodemission

stay tuned for last.fm and facebook pages….tralalala.

twitter. blog. myspace. php. mysql .net. web 2.0. social network. blah blah blah blah

:-P

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9 years ago, my first Luciar release was Rules of the Game.

recently, i submitted the album for digital release and BAM! it’s on amazon.com!

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