. . . Happy Birthday dear record, happy birthday tooooooo yooooooou. on April 7th my record turned one year old. Time does fly. Actually, I sort of feel like its been two years since it's release, but you know you can't always trust your feelings.
So far 2010, has been a flurry of variety. I've spent lots of time in LA, opening and headlining out on the road, I went on my first cruise (a rad music festival on a ship called Cayamo) . . .
A couple weeks ago my brother, Sean and I were asked to join Jackson Browne who was to be supplying the music for a benefit performance of Much Ado About Nothing. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have put this event on for 20 years now, each year they perform a different Shakespeare piece with a different group of Hollywood actors. They did an amazing job. We ran thru the entire play twice during the day, ate a quick dinner and then it was time for the real thing. I’ve never seen acting or a production like this develop, much less so speedily. Big name actors worked through the Shakespeare and so quickly adopted the minor direction given to them, remembering it, and then also improvising. The play itself is so clever and there was a whole lot of hilarious ad-libbing. I had a blast.
Today I'm working on finishing the details for the upcoming week and a half tour. We fly out tomorrow and I should already be done with the advancing, but I’m not. The last several days have been gorgeous and my husband's family has been visiting from VA; there are simply better things to do than labor over how much I should bid on Priceline for a Boston hotel room. However, gear must be rented, and arrangements must be made, so today I have pecked away much harder at my lump of chores. I’d better finish by tomorrow. I will be trying out some new material on tour, for sure. Last time I was on A Prairie Home Companion I played a new songs I wrote with Jon Foreman. Well, I can’t believe it, but APHC is having me back a couple more times this spring! I think I’m going to throw an other new one in the batch. Listen for me on April 24th! Hope you’re all well! Sara
