Catching up

Wow, has it really been almost 2 months since my last post? Well, it has been very busy and this weekend is the first time I am able to be at home and catch up with a lot of stuff, including blogging! This summer has been just a mad-dash.........I put 5000 k miles on my car in 4 weeks +!
Augusta Read Thomas (composer) Brian Peters (engineer) and I finished the painstaking editing process of our new cd "Sun Threads". I think all the careful and loving care we lavished on this cd will really show in an outstanding "product". Augusta is really excited about having an entire cd of her previously unrecorded works out. We anticipate the release-date to be about the end of August 2008. Look for it on i-tunes, amazon, etc, etc. Augusta is just a really GREAT composer and that becomes obvious when one listenes to her music intently.

The pain at the pump is really starting to affect also our touring, as we look forward to next season. We do a fair bit of our travel by car and the cost of driving has almost doubled since last year. What is truly amazing though (and highly unusual in this business) is that several presenters, out of the goodness of their heart, contacted us AFTER we had already negotiated the contract and told us that they would up the fee because they realized that traveling had become so expensive! I was very impressed!

More later!