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Hola Everyone!
I went for a walk tonight. It was actually evening, but with autumn here, and sunset at 5pm it felt like night. A perfect dry still cool night. There is a fair that comes through Hamburg three times a year called "The Dom". You know, scary rides, house of mirrors, games of chance you never win, candy apples and all kinds of things we don't need but we sure love. I love our neighborhood and I feel lucky that this fair comes to this old harbor district just a few blocks from our home. Generally, I'm not a fair kind of person, I usually find them artificial and a little creepy. I'm more the festival type who could spend hours in the crafts tent. However, there's something romantic and homey about this particular one. Maybe it's that the sweet shops, wurst stands and beer booths aren't all artificial. Some are very real. Maybe it's because they're German. It's not Disneyland's version of a German fair. People standing around with their families and friends are truly comfortable here. They may be professionals all day long, but this evening at the "Dom" they are enjoying a piece of their culture in the middle of neon lights and disco music, not pretending to be. I stood watching the cute toddlers riding around in circles on the little auto rally highway ride as I maneuvered my way around a sticky candy apple and remembered the days when I stood there like the other young parents watching their baby's "first ride" and capturing the moment on their cameras. I also hung around there because the kiddie ride was playing what I considered the best music at the fair, the Monkeys and the Kinks. As I passed by the massive ferris wheel and saw the full moon suspended just above it, I had to stop for a minute and stare at our world with wonder.
We are about to leave for a visit to America. First to Austin to celebrate my lovely daughter's 21st birthday, then to a very cool event in Nicaragua where I was invited to participate in a Latina women's singer-songwriter festival that will go on the last weekend of November. This is their third annual event and it is hosted by one of Nicaragua's national treasures, internationally known and celebrated singer Katia Cardenal. I have enjoyed the work of Katia and her brother Salvador from their music group "Guardabarranco", who released several CDs in the 90's. Jackson Browne is an avid supporter of this group and produced a couple of their records. Katia's solo work is stunning, her voice breathtakingly beautiful. I am very glad I will see her again (we met in Norway years ago, when she was living there and came to my concert). I am thrilled to be part of this year's event, November 27, 28, and 29. We will end our America visit with a show at the University of Hartford, in West Hartford Connecticut. A music series I've played before, called "Music for a Change", that I am very happy I'll be playing again.
Speaking of singers I love, Leonard Cohen recently played a few cities in Germany. We caught the show in Berlin. It was incredible. His band is unbelievable. Even in an arena sized venue, they created an atmosphere of intimacy so connected to his music. He's continuing his tour in the U.S. in the coming months. I highly recommend attending it. This intriguing songwriter, his songs already loaded with nostalgia, longing, and insight, seem even more fully ripened and alive now as he ages. If he were a wine, he'd be a top shelf.
My new record "Our Little Planet" is out now! It is available at Tiendita Tish, our store on Mundotish.com. It is a little more expensive because it is only available as an import at this time. The U.S. release will come in early 2009. So far we are busy with it's promotion in Europe. I played a show and introduced the new songs in London recently, at Camden's "Green Note". I was accompanied there by Wes McGhee, who has a fine reputation as a songwriter and performer himself. We blended nicely, as he has a good sense for American music, in particular for Texas country and Tex-Mex, which my new CD includes a good bit of. I have a debut show coming up in December at a club in Hamburg called the "Knust". I am really looking forward to this because it will also be a debut for a newly assembled band made up of some fine players and singers from Hamburg, Berlin and Holland I have brought together for this and future touring in Europe.
Well, thanks for checking in with at my little corner. I hope you will buy the new CD. I hope you will come to a show down the road. Coming up in 2009, I have some interesting tours developing. One will include a stop at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville Texas in early June. It has been a little while since I have played at my "home" festival where I did my first festival performance in 1979. (Our 30 year anniversary!) Please visit Mundotish.com regularly for updates and new developments. If you are not signed up on our email list, I hope you will. We send out a periodic newsletter with schedule updates and with news such as radio interviews you can tune in to etc. We will not inundate you with unnecessary or too frequent emails.
Til later, my best wishes,...gracias!
Tish
PS: Hey, I am so proud of my U.S.A. for the people having stood up and made the choice for Barack Obama to lead our country! I stayed up all night election day to watch every step of this historic event. I am so thrilled for this to have happened in my lifetime. Since I read his book from 1995, "The Dreams from my Father", then "The Audacity of Hope" from 2006, I knew that this conscientious, intelligent, and profound person will make a great American leader. I am waking up with a smile on my face lately, and my heart feeling light with optimism.
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