September 19, 2005
London, ON

Lovelies, 

I have been so enjoying my time at home house and puppy-sitting for my parents while they're gallivanting about Europe. Me and Raven the dog have been having the best time ever sleeping in and running through the f-o-r-e-s-t... Besides the relaxing I've been super busy working on exciting new album plans! There will be a new page set up soon with album info that will let you vote on things you'd like to see on the new CD- artwork... instrumentals... traditional tunes... etc... Feedback and ideas from you are always so incredibly appreciated! Everything I've been studying and working on lately seems to be lending itself to the new album. Have been working on a couple Flamenco-influenced tunes and yesterday I just had my first Flamenco dance class (in years and years...) Will be working on learning some fancy footwork to accompany my new songs. Watch out baby! Also, my dance teacher is going to try and hook me up with a Paco de Lucia disciple in Toronto who will seriously whip my playing into shape! I can't believe how intense and challenging it is to play Flamenco. I've had to work HARD. I've been working so hard in fact that this weekend I truly though my brain was gonna blow up. I then forced myself to go out for an entire day of brainless entertainment at the Western Fair, the site of so much fun and excitement from my youth. I had the best day ever. Saw little baby lambs and goats, (I unfortunately missed the pig races) ate french fries for dinner, got to sniff the #1 ribbon award-winning rose (it was true heaven) and got a spray on fake tattoo on my chest of the Chinese character for "treasure". And then I lost five bucks in the casino. (But I'm choosing to see it as energetically investing in my future wealth..) I guess we'll see. Stay tuned in the next couple days for the new album page, and hope to hear from you all soon! And you can check out a couple more photos of me at the Western Fair here.

xo
Kristin 

Top of the ferris wheel... 

September 8, 2005
London, ON

It's me. Officially home from a summer of incredible adventuring. Just spent the most amazing weekend at the Shelter Valley Folk Festival up in Grafton, ON. I just can't say enough about this sweet little festival- sooo good! Am now settling down for six weeks of no touring with a serious focus on new album work. It's coming... Check back in the next week or so and I'll post even more secret info! (And more summer festival photos coming too!)

talk soon,

xo K

Mmmm... eatin' apple pie at the Shelter Valley Folk Festival
with Rob Lamothe and fine friends

August 16, 2005
Gid Brown Hollow, VA

Sooo hot is summer in the holler... apparently 316 year old cabins weren't made with air conditioning. I am melting. Can barely even strum a chord on my guitar. Thank the Lordess my beautiful friend songstress Olivia Maxwell keeps inviting me over to her dad's mountain-top manor to go swimming... or I would surely perish. -- happy floating me xo

Too hot for anything but swimming pools and beer

August 1, 2005
Brooklyn, NY

Have been having quite the NYC adventure for the past few days... Getting here there was a night or two from the annals of "I can't believe this is my life: Road stories from almost-hell" to be elaborated on later in the road novel I will surely write one day- Jack Kerouac, watch out buddy. But now I'm here and all is glorious and vibrant and fascinating and did I mention HOT? And today despite the heat I walked and walked and walked for what must have been a million blocks all the way from Broadway-Lafayette to Times Square and beyond. Then I did a big runabout Central Park before deliciously dining in the Central Park Boathouse on Pinot Grigio and Salmon Carpaccio... ohhh baby. My legs hurt, but it was so worth it! Spent last night crashing on the fine couch of my friend the incredible songmistress Elisa Korenne. Hittin' the 1-95 corridor of traffic jammage tomorrow en route back to Virginny for a wee bit more of a spell. Writing and writing and writing.... xxx K

 
In Central Park, NYC... more NY photos

July 19, 2005
London, Ontario

There is nothing so sweet in the whole wide world as your very own bed and your very own dog and your very own clean laundry! Home for 48 hours and planning on enjoying every last delicious second of it. Had lots of fun this morning on Canada AM, CTV's national morning show... got to kick it up righteously with a bunch of other fabulous guitar pickers in the name of the upcoming Canadian Guitar Festival this weekend. Hope to see y'all there...

On the set of Canada AM... click image to enlarge

July 17, 2005
Cranberry, PA

At Motel 6... encore. Soooo sleepy again, but at least no odeur de wet doggy this time. Adventures have been seriously good- and highly adventurous. Left the holler this morning en route back to my home and native land. Yayyy Canada. Spent the last week at Paul Reisler and Julie Portman's Songcamp intensive in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I had the most incredible time, learned absolutely tons and met the most amazing people. Wrote some damn fine songs too... I highly recommend this experience for songwriters of all levels. It was so good for me! Next stop: Torontonia for a little Canada AM morning television... and I ask- why can't morning television be on in the afternoon? ... Zz z z z z z z z z z z z 

At the Blue Ridge School for boys... (don't ask)

July 4, 2005
Gid Brown Hollow, VA

All is well in the little cabin in the holler. A hot and lazy Fouth of July with the buzzing bees and the blowing breezes and the gurgling swamp monsters in the nearby pond. No communal fireworks display tonight in this neck 'o the nowhere woods! So we had to go buy our own like true rednecks and set 'em off ourselves in the back forty... Mmmm pretty sparkles. !(*)!

A hazy dazy 4 o' July in the holler... more photos

In Jeffersonton, VA... more Virginia self-portraits here!