As spring is showing her lovely (if moody) face here in the northwest, Ellie and I are making preparations, once again, to meet in the middle of the country! We had quite a time at our last reunion. Our CD release concert on February 16 was a fabulous party – two of the wonderful musicians who played on our CD were able to join us for the packed concert and we folk-rocked out! We debuted our new "Leela and Ellie Grace" T-shirts and the Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune's Go! Magazine featured a cover article about us, which you can see here: http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2008/feb/20080214go!010.asp. After the concert, we drove down to Memphis, TN for the International Folk Alliance Conference – a gathering of folk musicians, radio DJs, venue operators, booking agents, dancers, and other rabble rousers from all over the world. As you can imagine, there wasn't much sleeping to be had! This year, we had the honor of being selected as official showcase artists. We forged many new musical and professional connections and had a great time in the process! 

After that little whirlwind, we went home to our respective sides of the country to get some sleep! The cats spent several days taking turns on my lap to make up for lost time. Now we are ready to return to the road (although the cats and dogs are staring daggers at my suitcase) and are making final plans for our little Midwestern tour through Kansas, Missouri and Illinois starting on April 2! We are happy to be returning to the wonderful Big Muddy Folk Festival in Boonville, MO next weekend after a little jaunt to Lawrence, Kansas. Then we head up to Illinois and swing back around to St. Louis. Ellie's little car should get quite a workout! Check out our tour calendar for more details! For a more complete tour schedule, go to our website (www.leelaandelliegrace.com) and click on Tour.

We are also still working on booking our summer tours in North Carolina (in May), the Northwestern states (in June), and New England (in August). Please get in contact with us if you can recommend us to any venues in those areas, or if you would like to host a house concert!

In other news, now, not only can you order the CD at our website (www.leelaandelliegrace.com), but you can also order it through indie distributor CDBaby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/leelaelliegrace)! Also, you can now find us on iTunes (!) and you can still download individual songs or the whole album through Digstation: http://www.digstation.com/LeelaandEllieGrace. It would be wonderful if you have the chance to visit CDBaby or iTunes and write a review of our CD. Also, if your local folk radio show is not playing our new CD, please let us know so we can get "Where the Waters Run" out to your local community or public radio stations!

We hope to see you soon at a concert near you.