November 29, 2005
London, Ontario

In my chambers working away like a crazy little industrious rodent... Settling well into winter in Ontario (aside from the cold part) and planning my great creative hibernation. Will be spending the next few months bouncing back and forth between here and Toronto. Rehearsing and recording and finishing up writing for the new album is the high priority right now, but I'm also working on a few wee artistic side-projects as well. Have grand plans to save the world from evil, as usual. Details to follow soon... 

My new glorious Gretsch named Baby...
It's true love.

November 7, 2005
Gid Brown Hollow, VA

Back in the holler for a wee spell! Couldn't head north out of this delicious fall weather quite yet knowing what might be awaiting me up in the great wilds of brrrr... Have been having such amazing adventures. I love my life. Music has been inspired too... Heading home soon to start more work on the new album! Yay yay yay. It's gonna be a productive winter! xoxo Kristin

 
The autumnal glory and my new Flamenco skirt... more photos

November 4, 2005
New York City

Had amazing show last night at the Bitter End with my pal Olivia Maxwell. We rocked the house, man and now I'm going th celebrate by having a couple crazy days in NYC. Today I made my big official pilgrimage uptown to the Menkes store on 54th for purposes of Flamenco shoes and a new Flamenco skirt. It is SO hard to find Flamenco accessories in Canada, not to mention anywhere... The ladies in the store were so great and helped me so much with the finding of the perfect shoes and skirt to fit my body. Excellent. Can't wait to get back to Ontario to start my dance classes again. Here for another day or two to visit with friends and then back to the holler for a day or two. Tomorrow my friend Elisa Korenne is taking me all about Brooklyn on a stoop-sale hopping mission. Apparently you can score big at such events... Hope to hook up with the amazing Chris Brown for dinner this evening. Check out his website please as he is SO supremely talented and doing such important work. I heart NYC. Not to mention the eternal glory of this sunny sunny GORGEOUS weather. Loving the high-70 degrees in November. Yeah, baby. 

Backstage at the Bitter End, NYC... more NY photos

October 31, 2005
Gid Brown Hollow, Virginia

Happy Halloween! How much do I love this day? Kickin' it up down in the holler with my friend Jenny and dear amigo Trevor Mills who came down from Pennsylvania to visit. If you click on the more photos link and scroll to the bottom you can see us in our costumes... Can you guess what we are? I also went the full mile on the Jack-o-lantern carvin' this year. Hooray for those new-fangled pumkin-saw carving kits that make life so much easier than when I was young... Here for a few more days then New Yeeork City bound!! Eeee!

Happy Hollerween... more photos

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