Céilidh 1996
Salaam: Middle Eastern music
Vida: Balkan and African music
Rhythm Quest: world percussion
Windfall Dancers: modern dance
Last Minute Productions: audio theatre
Society for Creative Anachronism: medieval dance
Bloomington Feminist Chorus: world music
Wolodymyr Smishkewych: early music
Bloomington Storytellers’ Guild members
Andrea Leed : hammer dulcimer
Katherine Wiley: Scottish fiddling
Steve Volan: interpretive poetry
Amandla Ugetsi: African music
Nan Brooks: storytelling
Alain Barker: balafon and open jam guide
Jolet [Joe Lee]: clowning
Cairril Adaire, Denise Travers, Hanna McDeavitt: folk music
Céilidh 1998
Vida: Balkan and African music
Rhythm Quest: world percussion
Windfall Dancers: modern dance
Malcolm Dalglish & family: hammer dulcimer & storytelling
Bloomington Feminist Chorus: world music
Caravan Serai: flamenco and belly dancing
Bloomington Storytellers’ Guild members
Angela Berzins, Janice Bagwell, Cairril Adaire, Rebecca Keith, Gerry Bayne: world songs
No Boxes Workshop: jazz
Tony Brewer: spoken word
Chris Smith: Celtic music
Tonia Matthew: poetry
Alain Barker: balafon and open jam guide
Terra: world songs
Kaia CD Release Party this Saturday!
February 5, 2012Kaia will be hosting our CD release party on Saturday, February 11th, 8pm, at the Unitarian Universalist church at 2120 North Fee Lane.
We will be performing our trademark mix of world music from the raucous to the sublime in celebration of the release of our first studio recording, Freedom Land.
Tickets are $12 / $8 twelve and under, on sale at the door or at the BCT box office. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Special pricing on all Kaia CDs and merchandise (you can get our previous CDs for ridiculously cheap prices for one night only!). For more, see www.KaiaSing.com or www.facebook.com/KaiaSing.
I’m a little nervous about the show because the HT neglected to publish our press release today. We will be the featured artist for this week’s BEAD newsletter at least, but I still worry about reach.
Amy and I appeared on Carolyn VandeWeile’s Womenspace on WFHB last Thursday, where she played seven tracks off the album and kindly plugged the show like crazy. We’re just not sure how much exposure the show got. Apart from Amy’s dad, we haven’t gotten any feedback.
We will be featured on WFIU’s Artworks on Tuesday night. Amy and I had a 45-minute long fascinating conversation with Yaël Ksander which she has somehow cut down to seven minutes of interview and song. I’m looking forward to hearing what she’s come up with.
I’ve been lobbying TallSteve hard to get on the Afternoon Mix on WFHB on Thursday, but have only gotten radio silence so far. It would really help to get some prime time exposure and it would be fun to do a ticket giveaway. Plus I think he’d be a great interviewer.
Work has been slow lately, which has given me plenty of time to obsess over show details. I would be lost without Post-It notes. I have lists for everything.
Today we’re having over 4 hours of rehearsal, part of it in the UU space, so it will be grueling but rewarding. This is our last chance to spruce things up before the show. I’m a little concerned about how much time it will take us to set up and strike the night of the show and hope the Kaiasistahs will be game for getting all the work done.
See? I’m obsessing. And I thought of something a few paragraphs ago that I need to add to my to-do list and now I’ve forgotten it. Brilliant!
Mom and Dad and hopefully my two sisters and their kids are coming down for the show. I want to be able to go out afterwards and then meet on Sunday for brunch, but it’s unclear if they’ll be able to stay. I’d really like it to be a big occasion. Those come so rarely for me and I really enjoy them.
In the meantime, I’m polishing up my pointy Goth boots and running Gazapkhuli and I Will every day to try to get ready! Woyaya!