from the tour diary...
I am sitting here very happy to be listening to one of my favorite
new-to-me songs. It is called Something In Us All, and I feel like I
could just listen to it for hours on end. <a
href="http://www.craigwerth.com">Craig Werth</a>'s music is so comforting
to me, and that one is my favorite on his album. I met him at Star Island
last month, and I hope you will check him out. His music is so worth it.

I am tired from my trip and the rockstar's tendency not to sleep much. My
trip was fabulous. Fans from CA and VA traveled to see me in NC. I
played well both days. I only wish more people were at each show. The
Tori Tribute show was at Bosendorfer Hall and I can't thank the owner
enough for his generosity with us Tori Tribute folk and with kids in the
area. He donates pianos to kids who don't have money to have one, so that
they can take lessons at a non-profit that charges $1 per lesson! I am so
proud of Ruggero Piano and Marty Suttle's work getting those kids lessons.
All us Tori folk performed well. I especially enjoyed Christine Havrilla
and Pura Fe's performances. I am so happy to have played <i>Happy
Phantom</i> for my littlebird, <i>Professional Widow</i> for me, and
<i>Black Dove (January)</i> for all of us survivors. And Ruggero's owner
educated me about a few exclusive brands of grand piano that I hadn't
heard of, and now I know that Fazioli is one of my favorites. :)

I got to hang out with friends I haven't seen in a long while. I got to
touch a venomous snake. I got treated like a star. All good things.

I played a really unusual set on Sunday, and it felt great. I rarely play
some of these songs and rarely in the order I played them...

1. Day of Rain
2. Silver
3. Rise
4. Littlebird's Flight
5. Ravengirl
6. Through That Door
7. bound
8. Harder Than Dying
9. Photophobia

Cool, right? I was impressed that I played <i>bound</i> as well as I did,
considering how long it's been since I played it. And it just felt good
to play my new songs for old fans. So I had fun and now I'm preparing for
two excellent shows next week, including resting my voice and my mind and
my heart and my hands.

Take good care of yourselves.
love and light and falling leaves,
kristi


--
avant-soul piano diva
"a fine musician...incomparable!" -- Utah Phillips

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