It is very nice to be home for a few days. We have been catching up on all the chores around here, like, school for me! Anyway, we are going to play tonight but it is very close to home so we dont' have to travel very much.We are here at the Rio Grande Valley Music Festival in Mercedes, Texas and it is so much fun! We get to meet so many talented people and jam with so many as well as workshops and all sorts of activities. I have been asked to conduct a mandolin workshop too! I've never done that but think it would loads if fun! I will probably learn all sorts of things too!Wow! Saying 2010 sounds so futuristic! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years. We enjoyed some time off spent with family and are ready to get back into the swing of things. We have had a stressful last six weeks as I lost my Grandmother shortly after Thanksgiving and last week one of our dogs passed away. It will be good to get back to something resembling "normal". We hope to see some of our fans at some of our upcoming shows! The time is flying by and it is already the end of November. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We do hope to see you down the road at one of our shows in the future though! Please visit the Where We're Goin' page frequently as we update it often.Well, I can't believe it is already almost October (OK tomorrow it will be) - the time is passing so quickly. It will be Christmas soon! Matter of fact we are already working on Christmas music! We are very busy for October and are really looking forward to it. Hope we'll see some of y'all at some of our gigs!WOW! I didn't realize it had been since April that we had written anything here! We have been very busy with so many things and we just didn't get to it! In June we moved my sister and brother in law into a new location for his new job. It was a great visit but LOTS of hot (over 100 degrees), hard work! Then in July we had some time off and went to Colorado to visit my older brother and his family. We had a blast and got to see Sante Fe, Carlsbad Caverns, and all sorts of stuff! Now it's time to get back to the entertainment and writing music. We have missed it but are booked heavily for August so it will be fun. It's always great to get out and see our fans. Thanks for your support! Big River is over and it's always sad when a great production is done but we all have to move on. I made some great new friends and hope to keep in touch with them as time goes on. It will be good to get back to my normal (if you can call what we do normal!) routine but I'll miss all the wonderful people from Big River! Well, tonight is opening night at The Theatre Company for Big River. The rehearsals have gone much smoother and the Preview performance last night was awesome! Hope some of you can come see the play - it's GREAT! Wow! I have been asked to play mandolin as part of the orchestra for The Theatre Company's production of Big River in Bryan, Texas. It is the story of Huckleberry Finn and has some great music! The msuicians that play in the orchestra are very talented and it will be a pleasure to perform with them. Please check the Where We're Goin' page for times and dates of the performances of Big River. We have just returned from an incredible week at the Rio Grande Valley Music Festival in Mercedes, Texas! WOW! That was tons of fun and we got to have a good friend and upright bass player, Jason, with us! We are tired but have met lots of great people and hopefully gathered a few new fans! Whew! We are tired puppies from our Texas Gulf Coast Tour last week. We had a wonderful time and got to meet lots of great singers and musicians and see some great folks! We are gearing up for the Rio Grande Valley Music Festival in February. We still have several great gigs before we set out fpr the Texas Valley.Well, here it is the end of the year already! We hope you and yours will have a very prosperous and joyful New Year! I can't believe it! Our album is on the internet music stores now. You can get it from Napster, Rhapsody, Groupie Tunes, Amazon MP3, Lala, Shockhound, and all iTunes stores. That broadens where everyone can get a copy! Tell your friends so they can have their very own copy as well. In case I don't get to write vefor Christmas we wish all of you a very blessed and MERRY CHRISTMAS! We will be very busy getting ready for Christmas ourselves and then our Texas Gulf Coast Tour in January. Hope to see some of you down the road! It's been a while since I wrote anything in here. Time sure flies when you're having fun! We have been very busy and all the venues we have been at have been wonderful! We played at a historic theater in Mount Pleasant, Texas this past weekend and it was lots of fun. Well, we survived Hurricane Ike with minimal damage but know many people who suffered an array of major damage. My Grandmother still doesn't have power and is staying with us until her power is on. Our prayers are with all those and their families who did suffer damage. Oh my gosh! We were played on the air on the Notably Texan show on KETR 88.9 radio station in Commerce, Texas! TWICE! They have the show on Saturday nights and our music was played on July 26 and August 2! The host of the show has asked for more songs! YEAH! We are SO excited!We got news from one of the many stations we submitted a track from our CD to. They will play our song on their "Inspirational Time" on July 20. Unfortunately, we don't know the exact time but the station is KATX FM 97.7 out of Eastland, Texas. Hope some of you will be able to hear it!The Fresh Hay CD is FINALLY here! Go to the Merchandise page for ordering details or come see us at one of the venues we will be at! One week closer to the CD release! We are soooo excited!The CD has been sent to the duplicators! This means all the mixing, mastering, & graphics are completed! It also means the CD is almost here - literally! Thanks to all of you who have been so patient with the wait and we really hope you will enjoy the final product. Mom has begun to get the Merchandise page ready for the release of our first CD - Fresh Hay. We are very excited about its release and it should be ready early this summer. Be sure to keep checking back to see when it is released. Update on the CD! It is in its final mixing stage and soon we will have a copy to listen to and approve. Once this is done it will be off to the duplicators and - voila! it will be available for purchase! Hopefully your wait will not be too much longer. Thanks for being so patient!For those of you not from Texas, today is Texas Independence Day - we won our independence from Mexico. We had the privilege to play in a very unique setting - a small town (and I do mean small) had a celebration for Texas Independence Day. The town is named The Grove, Texas and the entire town is a museum! We will have some pictures of it on the website. To top it all off the entire town is for sale! What an experience! We got the first mix of the CD with our vocals and instruments - it sounds great. However, we are listening for anything that we may need to change or redo. Our fans deserve it to be as close to perfect as we can get it! I can't believe it is so close to being ready! We have to get our graphics ready for the CD soon! We are working on it. The last few days we were in the studio recording the vocals and our instruments for the CD. We have finished our parts - unless we have to redo something - so now it is up to Jason (the producer) to mix it and see what it sounds like. It will be a few weeks before we get to hear it to approve it or work more on it. We will keep everyone updated on our progress so check back often! Well, we had our first session in the recording studio and WOW! We worked on five songs today and will go back on the 16th to work on the other five songs. They are sounding great! We are very excited and can't wait to get it ready for everyone to hear! Stay tuned!Well, here it is, almost Christmas and I wanted to wish all of you a very blessed and Merry Christmas as well as a Happy New Year! In January we will begin working at R/R Studios in Lake Jackson, Texas to record the long awaited CD. It will take a while so please continue to be patient! It has taken so long for the "change" of my voice to complete and now it seems it is done (or at least pretty close); which means now we can record the CD and not have to worry about re-recording songs after my voice changes further! I can't believe it's been since September that I wrote anything here. Whew! How time flies! Well, we played at Hometown Opry and at the Lake Theater this weekend and what a great time we had! They are both great venues and the people are all wonderful as well. There may be some exciting news coming later so stay tuned!We played at The End of the Road Jam in Plantersville this weekend and it was a blast! It was all in honor of our veterans and active service personnel. I hope they raised lots of money! We have been invited back for a Bluegrass Fest in May as well as next September. It was a fun filled day with LOTS of music and food! We had a great time in Colorado this week. While we were there we went to Manitou Springs. For those of you who may not know about Manitou Springs; it is a very artsy type of town; and we happened to be there just before their annual Mountain Music Festival. Mom, Dad, and myself went into one of the shops there, The Dulcimer Shop, and picked up a guitar and a mandolin to play and hear how they sounded. The owner of the shop is also the organizer of the festival and he heard us play. Little did we know we were auditioning! To make a long story short, we have been invited to be a part of the Mountain Music Festival for next year. We have just been invited to participate in a new event called Lone Star Days on the first Saturday of every month in Historic Montgomery, Texas. It sounds like fun and we will start being a part of that in September. Hope to see some of y'all out there!Well, we didn't make the cut for the first show but I did get an email from the Food Network. They said the episode I was referring to is scheduled to air on May 28. So "stay tuned"! Unfortunately we will be playing at a gig that night so I am hoping someone will tape it for us - especially if we make the editing! If anyone happens to tape it for us let us know and we will work on getting a copy! In February we were having lunch at Mueller's BBQ in Taylor, Texas when a film crew showed up. They were with Guy's Big Bites on the Food Network on TV. They were interviewing lots of people at the restaurant and we were one of them. It is part of a new show called Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives that is to air on April 23, 2007 at 9 PM central. I don't know if we will have made the "cut" or not but we may be on the show! We had a great show at Johnnie High's last night and are looking forward to going back at some point in the future. However, with our schedule it will probably not be until July. I hope some of you may get to come when we return. Keep checking the website to see when that will be for sure! I got my very first request for a newspaper interview today! The article will be in The Cove Herald this Friday. We will be playing at the Copperas Cove Opry Saturday night and they were doing a preview of the various artists that would be performing. Hope it comes out well! There may even be a follow up in the next week's paper so check back and I will let you know if there is coverage the night of the Opry.We are re-scheduled for Johnnie High's on March 24. Hope some of you will get to go! How about this major ice storm that has blown in from the North Pole? We didn't get to go to Johnnie High's because the show was canceled due to the ice storm. We will be re-scheduled in the future so please keep an eye out for the new date.We used the unexpected extra time this afternoon to go audition for the Texas Opry Jamboree in Magnolia. We will be performing there in the near future as well. Again, please keep checking in with the website to get the latest on our gigs! 