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Saturday, November 14, 2009
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Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Music
Hallo Beautiful People! Well, do I have news for you! Firstly, I'd like to inform all Facebookers that I have finally given in! I was resistant at first; I didn't want to be on the computer any more than I already am. But, eventually, after SO many invitations, and then one from my sister, I HAD to finally say, "Yes." So, here it is: www.facebook/kristimartel . I'd love to see you there! On Monday November 16th at 7pm I'll be making a live in-studio appearance on The Upper Room with Joe Kelley in Fairfield CT. You can listen right after NPR on WVOF 88.5FM or online at http://www.live365.com/stations/funk7?play . Then in December I have a whirlwind of shows all in one week! The show went so well in October that I'll be playing a very special immaculately in-tune grand piano in Middletown RI with Kevin Silvia again on December 5th. I'll be performing a very special spot at the Outmusic Awards 2009 in NYC on December 8th. And The Cat Club show was so great that I'll be performing with a very special backup band for a very special Christmas party there in West Hollywood on December 12th. Some additional extraordinary details will be coming your way as soon as they are confirmed. Keep your fingers crossed for me! Saturday December 5th The Piano Gallery 238 East Main Rd Middletown RI 401-849-5333 Kevin Silvia opens and accompanies. 8pm, $10 Tuesday December 8th The OUTmusic Awards 2009 - celebrating outstanding achievements by LGBT recording artists and their supporters The Grand Ball Room at Webster Hall 125 E 11th St btw 3rd & 4th Aves NYC 914-595-6952 7pm Cocktails 8:30pm The Awards Ceremony!!! ($25 in advance & $40 at the door) 11pm After-Show Dance Party ($20) Saturday December 12th The Cat Club 8911 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood CA 310-657-0888 I'll have a very special backup band for this very special Christmas Party 10pm, $10 PARKING: VALET PARKING LOT DIRECTLY BEHIND THE CLUB. ENTER FROM CLARK ST NEXT TO THE WHISKEY A GOGO (PRICES MAY VARY). STREET PARKING REQUIRES QUARTERS TILL 2AM. More news soon! Love, peace, change, & late autumn sea spray, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records *** Follow me on Twitter!!! Hear and Buy CDs!!! Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! *** ******** THIS LIST You are most likely on this list because you signed up at one of Kristi Martel's performances or on her website. You can change your info by clicking the link below. Our apologies if you received this email in error! -the slr mailing list faeries ********
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
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Current mood:  busy
Category: Music
Hallo Good People,
I am so happy to finally have a couple shows to tell you about! I *really* miss performing. We have a very special show coming up in West Hollywood at The Cat Club on Sunset Boulevard. We are very excited about all the fancy people who will be attending the show. And then, in late October, I will FINALLY be playing another Little Rhody show! My long-time friend Kevin Silvia will do an opening set and accompany me. My piano tuner has his own piano store now, and he has a stage that he is going to set with a very fine grand piano, just for me, so that we all can hear me perform. This economy has shut a lot of venue doors, and I am so thankful Larry is opening his doors for us!
Thursday October 8th
The Cat Club
8911 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood CA
310-657-0888
http://www.myspace.com/thecatclub
8pm, $10
PARKING: VALET PARKING LOT DIRECTLY BEHIND THE CLUB. ENTER FROM CLARK ST NEXT TO THE WHISKEY A GOGO (PRICES MAY VARY). STREET PARKING REQUIRES QUARTERS TILL 2AM.
Saturday October 24th
Piano Gallery of Rhode Island
238 East Main Rd
Middletown RI
401-849-5333
http://www491.pair.com/lucamusi/
Kevin Silvia opens (http://www.kevinsilvia.com)
8pm, $10
Meanwhile, I have been scoring my songs toward one day publishing the scores. I have been doing Tons of yoga. I have been learning how to ride horses! I have been getting ready to go into the studio, even though it is taking longer than I'd like. While in LA I will be meeting folks who will hopefully become part of the Sealed Lip Records team, to help make and promote the next album. I will have "The Sacred Whore Demos" at these October shows. They are lovely, and I can't wait for you to see them. Donating money toward the making of the studio album can get you your own lovely Demos CD! (details at http://www.kmetal.net/help.html) And we are moving! The Sealed Lip Records office is moving with us. We are sooooooo thrilled to be moving to the ocean. I have dreamed of living by the ocean most of my life, and finally, we are moving there in just 5 days!
And, here is a video I'd like you all to watch, because we all need to love our bodies a little better, and we can help each other do it.
Love your body!
Be peace y'all,
Kristi
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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Category: Music
Hallo Good People, I am back! And I have a lot to tell you... On May 15th I arrived in NYC's Penn Station with too many bags for all the needed items for all the projects I planned to work on while there. I stayed in a lovely little apartment on the Upper West Side near Central Park and The Dakota Building where John Lennon lived and died. My plans included studying Dunham Technique and other dance styles at Alvin Ailey, doing tons of yoga, mastering the Sacred Whore Demos and designing the graphics for the CD and its full-color sleeve, scoring all the songs on my forthcoming album and creating and scoring string parts for some of them, drawing portraits of the people who inspire me (an on-going project that I do to get me where I am going), exploring Central Park, and doing some specifically NYC c ultural things. So my bags held lots of dance and yoga clothes, my yoga mat and sneakers, some translations of ancient yoga scripture, my journal, some piano scores to practice, my laptop, some reference books for orchestration and my new software, and my drawing pencils and markers and sketchbook. On May 17th I went to my first Alvin Ailey class (of this trip - I took a few classes there in the mid-'90's when I lived in NYC) and found out that their usual extensive schedule was about to end for a semester break. I had planned on taking 1 or 2 classes 6 days a week, so it was a huge disappointment to find that most of the classes I wanted were not available. I researched other schools all over the city and attended classes at a few different places. The styles of dance I love best (so far), Dunham Technique and Haitian Folkloric dance, are not as readily available as many other styles, so my options were limited. After trying lots of other places, I ended up liking the classes I had planned to take at Alvin Ailey best, and chose to focus just on their reduced schedule, instead of studying elsewhere. I took 2 or 3 dance classes there each week, instead of my intended 6-10. Attending dance classes after many years without dancing was both intimidating and liberating. I faced all my old fears about somehow not quite being trained enough, good enough, or thin enough to be a dancer. In the classes I liked best, I also danced best. I felt so at home dancing in those classes. And I randomly got asked if I was a dancer in some of my yoga classes, and decided it is high time I answered definitively, simply, "Yes." I started creating the dance for my Sacred Whore video in my mind, and I can't wait to have more time and space to work out the details and teach the dance to the dancers who will accompany me in the video. I did TONS of yoga at many many different schools with many many different teachers, and although I really enjoyed some of the classes, I deeply missed my amazing teachers at Eyes of the World at home in Little Rhody the whole time! My NYC favorites were working with Seane Corn at the Yoga Journal Conference, working with Dharma Mittra and some of his student teachers at his Yoga Center, and working with Sandhi at Jivamukti. Seane has an amazing sense of purpose and passion in her practice and teaching. Dharma embodies yoga so fully that just being around him brings peace to his students. And Sandhi is both a yogini and an aerial acrobat, and I love being upside-down, so I very much enjoyed her classes. During that first week of trying out all different dance and yoga studios in NYC, I also spent acouple of days mastering the Sacred Whore Demos and designing the graphics for the CD and its sleeve. I sent off the masters and Kim got to see them first, because they arrived before I came home. They look great! I am about to start signing and numbering them and sending out the ones that have already been ordered. There are only 300, so please order yours soon, here:www.kmetal.net/help.html . As soon as I finished designing the demos, I devoted my at-home time to scoring all the songs on the album. I started with Aegis and then completed Dear Sister, Gutter Mouth, Sacred Whore, This Space Is All Mine., and Blessed Community, before returning home. I have 5 more songs to score vocals and piano for, and then I need to create and score string parts for almost all of them. I love my new scoring software, Sibelius 6. Notation software has come a very long way since I started scoring my songs by hand in 1986. Even through college and grad school I refused to switch to computer notation, because it was not yet flexible enough to be worth it to me. Now it is, and it is fun, flexible, beautiful and so efficient to use! Within a week of being there, I got really sick from the pollution in New York. I had expected it to affect me, but not as severely as it did. Not only was my head full and achey, my throat inflamed and sore, and my lungs very tight and wheezy, but I felt like I was losing my mind. For over a week I had really intense mood swings and wondered if I should just return home. Kim was so helpful on the phone, reassuring me that the trip was not a failure or a waste even if I came home early, or even if I stayed but didn't dance as much as I had wanted. I decided to take Claritin, even though I almost never take any drugs of any kind, and two herbal remedies, and my symptoms got a tiny bit better. Then I talked to my holistic doctor on the phone and she helped me figure out what was going on and she did some energy work on me OVER THE PHONE(!), and it really helped! Who knew? Kim visited for two days in the middle of my 5-week stay in NYC. First I showed her the neighborhood I was living in: Lincoln Center, Alvin Ailey, Carnegie Hall, and Patelson's (which is where I used to always go to get scores, but it is closing! It feels like a death in my family.). Then we explored the East Village and SoHo together, where I spent most of my time when I lived in NYC, visiting some new and old favorite places. We got super-yummy pretzel croissants at Birdbath Bakery, a bakery that decided to build a completely green facility to go with their completely organic and local ingredients (www.birdbathbakery.com). Their wall paint is made of milk! We visited NY Central Art Supply, Veselka, 9th St Bakery, Enchantments, Flower Power Herbs and Roots, Tompkin Square Park, Life Cafe... We stumbled upon Jill Anderson's Dresses, whose designs are so beautiful we hope to have Jill make a couple of dresses for me to wear in the Sacred Whore video. Then we went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NYC Annex to see Yoko Ono's new exhibit, John Lennon: The New York City Years. John is a hero of Kim's, and John and Yoko are both inspirations of mine. It is a very special exhibit. We were so inspired by it that we visited The Dakota Building, Strawberry Fields, and the John Lennon Memorial the next day. I thought I might return home with Kim at the end of her visit, but I decided to stay. I had adjusted to the pollution and city life and my class schedule, the mini-vacation with Kim helped my heart, and I wanted to get as many dance classes in as possible. I got to see Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble at a free concert in the park at Lincoln Center. The compositions, performances, and instruments were all exquisite. They are supposed to be airing that show on PBS at some point. I got yummy organic and local food from Josie's Express delivered to my 4th floor walk-up during a major thunderstorm. I saw the movie Unmistaken Child, about a Tibetan Monk's journey to find the reincarnation of his mentor, such a beautiful land and culture. I got amazing organic macrobiotic food from Souen in the West Village. I wandered all over the top of Central Park to be in the woods in the middle of NYC! I bought yummy knishes, rugelach, bagels, and white fish pâté at Zabar's. When Kim visited again for my last weekend there and to bring me home, we saw the movie Food, Inc., which is digging deeply into how big corporate structure has been changing the quality of the food we eat in totally unsustainable ways. It is so densely informative that I think everyone needs to see it, at least twice: www.foodincmovie.com . We went to a fantastic gourmet pizzeria and gelato place called Otto's, right near the lovely Washington Square Park archway. Otto's gelato is so good that it almost made me cry. We also went to Katz's Deli (which has been there since 1888) and Yonah Schimmel's Knishery (which has been there since 1910) in the Lower East Side. If you don't know what a knish is, it is a thin pastry filled with things like potatoes, cabbage, kasha, onions, cheese... When Eastern European immigrants were adjusting to the fast-paced factory life of NYC in the mid- to late 1800's, they created knishes as a take-out version of their traditional foods. The fried version of knishes that is sold from the street carts in NYC are not really the same food as the original baked knish. There are maybe 5 places that serve authentic old-style knishes remaining in NYC. Zabar's and Yonah Schimmel's are two of them. We love NYC, especially Greenwhich Village, but we are so glad to be home! We are currently exploring the Rhode Island coastline, farms, farmers markets, and ourselves. We are working hard to gather the money to make the next album, meet all the right people in NYC and LA, and get the right team to book and promote the album and a worldwide tour. Little by little, we are getting there. The Hi Hat has reduced its hours because it is having trouble staying open, so our options there have been very limited. So we have been looking into other options. We think I will be playing a show on a BEAUTIFUL Yamaha grand piano with AMAZING sound at our favorite piano tuner's lovely store with a nice stage in Middletown. We hope this pans out for an early August date. I will keep you posted with details as soon as we have them! Meanwhile, enjoy the thunderstorms and the sunshine and the warmth and the farmers markets and the local organic berries and greens and the beaches of summer! Be peace, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records *** Sign on to the discussion group!!! Hear and Buy CDs!!! Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! *** ******** THIS LIST You are most likely on this list because you signed up at one of Kristi Martel's performances or on her website. You can change your info by clicking the link below. Our apologies if you received this email in error! -the slr mailing list faeries ********
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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Current mood:  sleepy
Category: Music
Hallo Beautiful People! I am performing at a very special show this Saturday. A dear friend of mine is beginning a new healing business and has created an open house event to celebrate its beginnings. She has asked me to perform to help manifest their vision of a new healing community. Her new business is called Trinity Energetics, and she and her business partners offer Aromatherapy, Aromatarot, Crystal Therapy, Psychic Readings, Magnified Healing, Deep Tissue/Trigger Point and Sacred Stone Massage, Reiki, Reiki trainings, and Tarot. At this open house they will be offering a free guided Abundance/Prosperity Meditation while receiving Reiki to help us all revive the spirit of abundance, refreshments, information about all of their services, free blessing gifts for everyone, and the opportunity to meet the practitioners. Come celebrate spring, new beginnings, and the energetic seeds of our future. I am honored to be a part of the watering of those seeds. Spark of Spring Open House Trinity Energetics Saturday May 9th 11am - 3pm (I perform a full set at 1pm) South Kingstown Office Park 24 Salt Pond Rd, Building H Suite 3 Wakefield, RI 401-263-1107 or 401-742-2345 Meanwhile, our own seeds are planted. Our plans are well underway. I am going to New York City to train for dancing in my "Sacred Whore" video. It's been years since I danced. I am very happy to be dedicating myself so fully to this task. We are working to confirm a Little Rhody kick-off show when I get back in late June. After my month of training, we will be going into the studio in Connecticut to record the album and its videos. We are gathering the musicians, funding, and the booking/publicity/management team as I write this. It is a huge task, and tough economic times to pull all this off, but we are making it all happen by watering the seeds and propping up and sheltering the seedlings when the wind blows so hard. I will be SO happy to train in NYC, record the album and its videos, design the graphics, and send off those masters to be duplicated. I will be absolutely thrilled when we are stepping onto the plane to do the first show of the world wide tour. We want to bring this work to all the places that need to hear it: all over North America and Europe, but also places like India, Cambodia, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Egypt, Uganda, Congo, Nigeria... The list is long, and I hope you will help me get there. Send energy, prayers, love, light, hope, peace, money, contacts, whatever you have that you think will help me bring "Blessed Community" and "Sacred Whore" to the communities in our world most torn by the effects of war, child prostitution, greed, pollution, fear. It all boils down to fear. And I intend to spread as much love as possible. Love to heal the wounds of fear. Love always overcomes fear. Always. So, check out the donations page: www.kmetal.net/help.html . And I hope to see you Saturday. Love and peace on this rainy spring day, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records www.kristimartel.com *** Sign on to the discussion group!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KristiMartel Hear and Buy CDs!!! www.cdbaby.com/all/sealedlips Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! www.myspace.com/KristiMartel *** ******** THIS LIST You are most likely on this list because you signed up at one of Kristi Martel's performances or on her website. You can change your info by clicking the link below. Our apologies if you received this email in error! -the slr mailing list faeries ********
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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Current mood: accomplished
Category: Music
Hallo Beautiful People! I have so many things to tell you! Firstly, I am very excited to announce that our plans for my next album, "Sacred Whore," are well underway and getting more and more exciting. We are right around the corner from getting into the studio for the album (hopefully in May). The songs are written. I am working on scoring them and creating their arrangements. I have created music video outlines for four of the songs: "Gutter Mouth," "Sacred Whore," "Here In My House," and "Blessed Community." The songs are so vibrant that we are planning to make a documentary film about the concepts behind them, my writing process, and the making of the album and its videos. We've picked a studio and line producer for project, and we think we will call it, "The Sacred Whore Project." The team of musicians and engineers is manifesting. And we just need the funds to move forward. Obviously, this project is much bigger than all of my previous albums, so we are going to need to raise more funds. And so we have created a whole bunch of new fun titles and packages to inspire your giving nature: MOST FAVORED FAN: Donating $10 makes you a Most Favored Fan. FRIEND OF THE BAND: Donating $30 gets you a personalized and signed copy of the new CD way before anyone else gets it, aka The Pre-Order. ROADIE: Donating $50 gets you a signed and numbered limited edition copy of the "Sacred Whore Demos" (some of which you've heard on MySpace) plus a personalized and signed copy of the new CD way before anyone else gets it. COLLECTOR: Donating $100 gets you the Pre-Order and the Demos, but also (this was Littlebird's fabulous idea!) a signed and numbered copy of the limited-edition CD single, bound, an old marathon of a song, an extended vocal techniques performance art-ish Kristi rarity, released previously only on the live concert tape "With Mouth and Hands." Me and the NYC band and Denise went into the studio to record "bound" in December 2002. The 100 copies of the single are here now -- well, there's almost 70 left. We will never reprint this limited edition single, so get it now while it is still available. NEXT OF KIN: Donating $300 gets you the Pre-Order, The Demos, the bound single, plus your name in the credits! PATRON SAINT: Donating $800 gets you all of the above PLUS two tickets to a Sacred Whore CD Release Party in Rhode Island, New York City, or San Francisco, and two tickets to a Rhode Island or Connecticut concert that includes a live video shoot that will be used to make the documentary. ANGEL: Donating $3,000 gets you all of the above PLUS a one-day VIP pass to the studio in Connecticut with me and whatever fantastic musicians, actors, dancers, and crew happen to be working with me that day, during the making of the "Sacred Whore" album, videos, and film. You may even get interviewed and be included in the documentary! ***ANY donation amount at all (really -- from 8¢ to $8,000!) helps, and gets you a special place in my heart!*** All of these ways to help and more are at Kristi's help page. That's right. We are going to release a signed and numbered limited edition (300 copies) release of the "Sacred Whore Demos." They are currently being designed and should be ready in about a month. There are some new videos up on my kmetal video page. One is from right after Littlebird died in 2003, and two are as recent as October! Go check them out and enjoy! An old fan of mine emailed me out of the blue saying he made me a Facebook fan page! Thanks thanks thanks to Rick from Santa Cruz! Go check out the page and add mine to your own Facebook. My fan page is YOUR page! You can post comments and create a dialogue about a performance you saw or add photos you took at my shows...all on this page! Leslie added a photo from the March 8th Hi Hat show. :) Thanks so much to everyone who came out for our snowdate on March 8th at the Hi Hat! What a beautiful and powerful night of connecting and music and fun! The show was such a great success that we decided to book another for April, even though the only available night was a Wednesday, the 22nd. We are hoping to get a Thursday night in June and maybe even a Saturday night in the future, once we prove that we can pack the place and make it worth their while. Please come on out in support of that effort, on a school night, to hear me and the baby grand and my special guest backing vocalist Angela Romans who just learned the Def-Leppard-like backing vocals for the song "Sacred Whore," for this special night. :) Mark your calendars! Wednesday April 22, 2009 The Hi Hat3 Davol Square Providence RI 401-453-6500 Check out their menu online. Free parking. Doors at 5pm, Music at 7:30pm, $10 at the door. See you out there! Be peace y'all, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records www.kristimartel.com *** Sign on to the discussion group!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KristiMartel Hear and Buy CDs!!! www.cdbaby.com/all/sealedlips Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! www.myspace.com/KristiMartel ***
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Monday, March 02, 2009
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Current mood:  cold
Category: Music
Hallo Hibernating New Englanders! We are officially confirmed for a show at The Hi Hat on March 8th to make up for tonight's snow cancellation. You can view the press release here. Mark your calendars: Me & Kevin Silvia (kevinsilvia.com) at The Hi Hat (thehihat.com) 3 Davol Square Providence RI 401-453-6500 Doors open at 5pm Music starts at 7:30pm $10 at the door We can't wait to see you all there! The Hi Hat is a swanky jazz club with a large stage and a baby grand piano, a lovely layout with circular booths and two beautiful bars, yummy food, and abundant free parking. So go check out their menu and get directions at their website. It's been so long since I've had a Little Rhody show - I am so happy for this reunion! I will have my keyboard in addition to the baby grand, and Kevin on guitar and backing vocals, so if you have any songs of mine that you have been just dying to hear me play live and you are going to be at this show, send me an email with your request, and I will try to make it happen. See you there! Love & hot chocolate on this icy snowy March night, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records www.kristimartel.com *** Sign on to the discussion group!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KristiMartel Hear and Buy CDs!!! www.cdbaby.com/all/sealedlips Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! www.myspace.com/KristiMartel ***
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Sunday, March 01, 2009
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Current mood: sleepy
Category: Music
Hallo My Fine New Englanders!
I am so sorry to report that the Hi Hat and Kim and I just decided to cancel tomorrow night's show due to expected inclement weather. I hate to do it, but I really want you all to be safe at home in the snow storm.
We are hoping to reschedule the show for next Sunday, March 8th. I will send out an email as soon as we know for sure.
I so hope you can all come to the rescheduled show instead!
Love & warmth for the late winter storm,
Kristi
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Current mood:  energetic
Category: Music
Hallo my fine friends! We are so happy to get these details to you! You can view and print the press release here. Me & Kevin Silvia (backing vocals & guitar) at The Hi Hat www.thehihat.com 3 Davol Square Providence RI 401-453-6500 Doors open at 5pm Music starts at 7:30pm $10 at the door We can't wait to see you all there! The Hi Hat has a large stage with a baby grand piano, a lovely layout with circular booths and two beautiful bars, yummy food, and abundant free parking. So go check out their menu and get directions at their website. It's been so long since I've had a Little Rhody show - I am so happy for this reunion! If you have songs of mine that you have been just dying to hear me play live and you are going to be at this show, send me an email with your request, and I will try to make it happen. See you there! Love & peace, Kristi P.S. There's this little interview I did on Brattleboro VT community radio's "This Show Is So Gay" that you can hear here. Check it out!
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I'm Not Dead
By Pink
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
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Current mood:  peaceful
Category: Music
Hallo Joyful People! Although I have not written in a while, things have been brewing, and I have a lot to tell you. We have been cooking and baking and celebrating our blessings and gratitude and saying goodbye to people in our family who have passed on. I have been doing more yoga than ever and truly transforming myself more fully in to what I have always been, to get ready for the forthcoming album and tours. The other day I baked some of the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever had, and as I was driving to yoga, I saw a presumably homeless man with a cloth sign that read, "NOT DRUNK NOT HIGH JUST HUNGRY." I had put cookies in a Tupperware container for me for later, and I had been singing along with Patty Griffin in my CD player, crying because her songs are that beautiful. I suddenly realized I had food for him, and I opened the window to the bitter cold and stuck my hand and head out to say, "I have cookies for you. Enjoy them. I baked them yesterday!" He walked over and took them saying, "Thank you. God bless you." As I drove away, I cried all the harder hoping he would notice how much love went into their baking and how welcome he was. Today, I donated cloth menstrual pads to an organization getting them to girls in Africa who often don't have any menstrual products and who miss many days of school as a result. Procter and Gamble has been donating disposable tampons and pads, but their communities don't usually have trash pick-up or landfills, so they incinerate these bleach-ridden, petroleum-based plastic products, and then breathe the toxic fumes. Cloth pads are the long term way to go. So I was happy to support these folks trying to do the right thing: http://www.gladrags.com/category//categories/goods4girls . It is a good time to be giving. So many are hungry. So many are struggling, and our little gifts are the light that burns through the dark days of winter. Maybe you know someone who needs the light of my music this winter. My CDs make great stocking stuffers. Here's the easiest way to buy CDs: CD Baby. Here is the easiest way to buy MP3's to add to the iPod you are getting for someone: iTunes. And... RINGTONES are starting to become available! Customers can create a ringtone for an additional $.99 for any iTunes plus download. These ringtones are compatible with the iPhone only. My songs are also starting to be made available at GroupieTunes, so check there soon if you don't have an iPhone. I know so many of you have been waiting for this info! CD Baby is working to negotiate the best agreements with many distributors of ringtones, so keep looking around for my music at places where you buy ringtones. We have been gathering up our team for Sealed Lip Records and the forthcoming album, "Sacred Whore." We have been setting a bunch of balls rolling, and we are just about to pick up momentum. We will be doing a show in Providence in January, moving in February, and hopefully in the studio by April. So it's time once again to ask for your help with fundraising. Donate money for the making of "Sacred Whore!" There are all kinds of lovely incentives for you here: HELP. Thanks so much for all your love and support! It really means the world to me. And here's to your holiday season being oh-so-bright. Be peace and understanding. Shine your brightest most loving self. Be you. Happy Solstice! Happy Yule! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Hanukah! Happy Winter! Peace & joy & homemade organic chocolate chip cookies, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records kristimartel.com*** Sign on to the discussion group!!! Hear and Buy CDs!!! Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! myspace***
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Friday, September 26, 2008
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Current mood:  thankful
Category: Music
Hallo Beautiful Peaceful People! Phew! What a whirlwind! We had a strange and wonderful time at Earthdance. My performances were fantastic and my new fans bought lots of CDs. When we got home, my computer wouldn't get online, so I have been waiting and waiting to tell you all about it. Check out the new batch of tour diary up on the website. And, I am working on getting the photos from both the spring tour and the Yoshi's show up on the website. Hopefully you'll see the Yoshi's ones when you check the tour diary. And hopefully sooner than later, you will see the spring tour pictures by going to the tour diary archives. Meanwhile, lots of our local Rhode Island fans have been asking when I will be performing in my homestate... We are sad to tell you that our favorite Cornerstone Playhouse (formerly known as True Brew) has closed. We are steadily losing some of our favorite RI venues, and we are steadfastly searching for a RI venue with a grand piano. If you can think of one we are missing, please let us know! We miss our fellow Rhode Islanders! Here's a way you can help spread the word about my music. Go to CD Baby Link and add the link to your web pages and blogs. The more people recommend my music, the more people will get to hear my music, the more CDs and MP3s I will sell, and the more music I'll be able to make for you all. Personal recommendations are by far the most effective publicity! Thanks in advance! We've got some exciting NYC stuff coming up! This Sunday, I will be joining a whole lot of OUTmusic and other musicians and LOGO/MTV to record a video for Deepa Soul's new song, "Stand Together." It is harking back to the "We Are the World" video, and I am very excited to be a part of it. We will tell you how you can see the video as soon as we know! Shortly after we get back from NYC, I will be doing a live phone interview with SARFM, "the heartbeat of Africa in New York," on Wednesday, October 1st, at 8pm EST, on air with Deardra. You can hear it live online at sarfmradio.com, or visit later to listen to their archives. I am so happy and honored to have their support! And then, the following weekend, we head back to NYC for my feature at the OUTmusic Open Mic Benefit for Breast Cancer Awareness, held at the NYC GLBT Center. I was Secretary of OUTmusic way back in 1994, and I played at their open mic almost every month for about a year before I moved to California. It will be very special to play that grand piano again, and to reconnect with some of my old friends and fans, and to meet my new OUTmusic friends and fans too. They have put together a star-studded female lineup for this night. Don't miss it! Monday, October 6th OUTmusic Open Mic Benefit for Breast Cancer Awareness NYC GLBT Center 208 W 13th St The star-studded line-up includes me (as their feature!), Nedra Johnson, Deepa Soul, Pamela Means, Athena Reich, & Rachael Sage! Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm $7 Members, $10 Non-Members (includes drink) See you out there! Love & macintosh apples & autumn sunshine, Kristi PLEASE DISTRIBUTE Kristi's News WIDELY --- Kristi Martel, avant-soul piano diva Featured on MTV/LOGO, NPR & in Curve Magazine Best Female Vocalist of Rhode Island "a fine musician...incomparable!" - Utah Phillips Sealed Lip Records www.kristimartel.com *** Sign on to the discussion group!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KristiMartel Hear and Buy CDs!!! www.cdbaby.com/all/sealedlips Hear outtakes, demos, & bootlegs!!! www.myspace.com/KristiMartel ***
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