MIXING "COCKTAILS" FOR "3D"

What are you doing October 27th? I am heading for Nashville, Tennessee to join my pal Marti Jones Dixon, to celebrate both the release of my new CD, "Cocktails", and Marti's solo, painting exhibition, "3D: Drinki ng, Dining and Dancing". That shiny, Saturday evening we will hook up at LeQuire Gallery to attend the artist's reception for her show. There, we will be performing songs from "Cocktails", as well as favorites from our past albums. This special event seems an obvious chance for us to celebrate Marti's new paintings AND the release of my new record. Being longtime friends we've teamed up musically MANY times. Never truer for "Cocktails". We co-wrote a few of the songs, and of course, she sings on them all. It's true that in the past few years, Marti has been concentrating more on visual art than singing, loving them both, but always feeling that painting is her true passion. So when she DOES swap one of her paint brushes for a microphone, it is a RARE and CELEBRATORY sound that occurs. She is a songbird. No denying it. She describes her current 3D: Drinking, Dancing and Dining project as, "a collection of observations of the world that surround our attempts at recreation". I can dig that. Sounds like what I've been WRITING about! "Cocktails" has turned out to be about, both the joy AND the consequences of, the pursuit of pleasure. We think it makes perfect sense that both projects would reflect each other. Basically, the last few years we've spent traveling back and forth from our respective homes in Ohio and California, to my place in Cork, Ireland, recording and painting along the way. We're just two Irish American girls. We drink together, we eat together, and we've even been known to dance on occasion. Marti painted about it. I wrote about it. I recorded "Cocktails", once again, under the watchful and talented eye of Mr. Don Dixon, aided and abetted by the most excellent of percussionists, Jim Brock, (who will also be there to perform with us on the 27th). There are seven songs total, one for each day of the week, and I love them all. I hope you will too. So the key words here for this 2012, pre-Halloween weekend is: CELEBRATE. 3D. COCKTAILS. October 27th @ Le Quire Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee! Hope to see you there. http://www.lequiregallery.com/artists.html