St. Peters Fun Alert! It must be summer! We are thrilled to be back singing this Saturday on the deck at The Inn At St. Peters Village--over the trees and rocks and waterfalls, with the families strolling by and bikini-clad teenagers diving off of cliffs and every breed of dog and great wine and food and drink! The best part of our summer is back! It is forecast to be a warm, sunny day, so we invite you to come and make some beautiful summer fun with us. This place has a special place in our hearts--we got married here! As always, let us know if you find yourself coming alone and would like someone to sit with. St Peters is worth the drive from just about anywhere--a lovely place. Great hiking trails, if you are so inclined. 2-6pm. theinnatsaintpeters.com
Next week, for our Reading friends, we will debut at the Meadowbrook Country Club (1153 Rick Road, Reading) on Friday night, May 8. Apparently, non-members are not only allowed but encouraged. They have a slightly strange rule that one person in the party must buy a lifetime membership for $12, and then everyone in the group can be served alcohol. Saturday, May 9th, we will be performing from 1:30 to 3pm at West Vincent's Community Day, a lovely Norman Rockwell-esque township event. Everyone comes, lots of kids events, tractors and fire trucks, pie contests, art contests, the local businesses give out free samples, local clubs give out info--in a nutshell--a heartwarming slice of Americana. And next--Thursday, May 14th, The Captain's Inn, Forked River, NJ; Friday, May 15th, we are back at our local hub, Ludwig's Inn; and Sunday, May 17th, me singing my songs solo at the Yellow Springs Farm Native Plants Nursery and Artisanal Goat Cheese Open House--baby goats, flowers that make butterflies and bees happy, great people. We spent the winter concentrating on recording and making videos for our songs, but now the sun is drawing us outside, and we are turning our focus to performing. We are lining up some new cover songs to sing, so let us know if you have any suggestions for a current popular happy fun interesting catchy song! We are planning on learning Little Big Thing's Pontoon first. We started working on it today! And I am hoping that very soon I will be able to play my latest piano song, The Last First Date. The way that the song arrived in my head, it is super hard to play on the keyboard (especially for someone who didn't play the keyboard before December like me). All the chords are unique and made up by my brain, or caught out of the air, and it is taking me forever to learn it, let alone play it without mistakes. But I am getting closer! Wishing You All The Best Of Spring! Love&Peace, Donna&Dave
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St. Peters Fun Alert! It must be summer! We are thrilled to be back singing this Saturday on the deck at The Inn At St. Peters Village--over the trees and rocks and waterfalls, with the families strolling by and bikini-clad teenagers diving off of cliffs and every breed of dog and great wine and food and drink! The best part of our summer is back! It is forecast to be a warm, sunny day, so we invite you to come and make some beautiful summer fun with us. This place has a special place in our hearts--we got married here! As always, let us know if you find yourself coming alone and would like someone to sit with. St Peters is worth the drive from just about anywhere--a lovely place. Great hiking trails, if you are so inclined. 2-6pm. theinnatsaintpeters.com
Next week, for our Reading friends, we will debut at the Meadowbrook Country Club (1153 Rick Road, Reading) on Friday night, May 8. Apparently, non-members are not only allowed but encouraged. They have a slightly strange rule that one person in the party must buy a lifetime membership for $12, and then everyone in the group can be served alcohol. Saturday, May 9th, we will be performing from 1:30 to 3pm at West Vincent's Community Day, a lovely Norman Rockwell-esque township event. Everyone comes, lots of kids events, tractors and fire trucks, pie contests, art contests, the local businesses give out free samples, local clubs give out info--in a nutshell--a heartwarming slice of Americana. And next--Thursday, May 14th, The Captain's Inn, Forked River, NJ; Friday, May 15th, we are back at our local hub, Ludwig's Inn; and Sunday, May 17th, me singing my songs solo at the Yellow Springs Farm Native Plants Nursery and Artisanal Goat Cheese Open House--baby goats, flowers that make butterflies and bees happy, great people. We spent the winter concentrating on recording and making videos for our songs, but now the sun is drawing us outside, and we are turning our focus to performing. We are lining up some new cover songs to sing, so let us know if you have any suggestions for a current popular happy fun interesting catchy song! We are planning on learning Little Big Thing's Pontoon first. We started working on it today! And I am hoping that very soon I will be able to play my latest piano song, The Last First Date. The way that the song arrived in my head, it is super hard to play on the keyboard (especially for someone who didn't play the keyboard before December like me). All the chords are unique and made up by my brain, or caught out of the air, and it is taking me forever to learn it, let alone play it without mistakes. But I am getting closer! Wishing You All The Best Of Spring! Love&Peace, Donna&Dave We are privileged to be singing Friday night at our local hub, Ludwig's Inn and Oyster Bar, 7ish to 11ish. After one year of being DaveLovesDonna, we have arrived at this lovely place—all of the venues at which we now sing have the same warm, friendly, loving spirit: dear people, old friends and new, all coming together to share the companionship and fun and happiness that music and love can create. I think our shows have become a place where people can step aside from the cares and problems of daily life and celebrate the good, see the possibility of good. What joy!
Our other big news is we have finally finished our One Heart video. Dave did an amazing job, blending absolutely gorgeous video he captured in Jamaica with scenes done here at The Ranch. It will be on YouTube later in the day on Friday. We will announce the release on Facebook, but if you aren't a Facebook fan, just go our website, and the link will be there. The recording will be for sale on our website as soon as the video goes up. This reggae song is based on the Greek myth that Zeus was jealous of humans, because we were so happy all the time, and he sent lightening to split us in two, and then scattered us around the earth, and we spend our lives in longing, looking for our missing parts—we are missing half our heart. Love&Peace, Donna Frazer/Exton Fun Alert
The Ship Inn, Friday night, 7-10pm, Rt. 30 in between Exton and Frazer, near the Rt. 202/30 exit. Sooo looking forward to singing for all those dear people at The Ship Inn. They listen! They request songs faster than we can play them! It is like a nice party there, a lovely party with dear, sweet friends. Please consider joining us--very good food, pretty atmosphere, warm people. Reservations recommended if you would like a table. Be sure and tell them you are coming for the music, or they will put you in a far away room, and you will miss all the fun (this has happened before). As always, please tell us if you are coming alone and would like company, and we will introduce you to some new friends and fellow music lovers. CREATIVE NEWS: DAVE has been hard at work on the One Heart video. He is combining footage he shot in Jamaica with footage we shot here in our studio. We believe the recording to be done, but we may still fuss with it. Dave played at least 10 instruments; he did an amazing job. I played mandolin & created a Jamaican chorus of all Donnas; it sounds pretty cool. DONNA: I am finishing my 4th piano song. Recently, a Facebook friend told the story of her first date with her husband 30 years ago. It was a blind date, and since they met that night, they have never been apart, and they are as much in love as ever. So, I HAD to write a song about that, and it decided it had to be a piano song, and it has taken me forever to create and then write out each note of the piano accompaniment, since I have no experience playing the piano, and I can't just make it up as I go along like some of you. My brain has spent this time bemoaning the fact I don't (didn't) play the piano, while at the same time acknowledging that, BECAUSE I don't play the piano and I don't know any of the piano rules, maybe I can create something fresh and unique and pretty, just because I don't have any experience with the instrument. I have finished writing each note of the accompaniment out, and now the only stumbling block is I have to learn how to play what I wrote. I pretty much have to memorize it, since my sight reading skills are nil. I am now up to the point of working with a metronome, trying to package all the accidentals and triplets my brain told me to write out into something that will someday sound to other people's ears the way it sounds in my head. And another song is in the works. While I was trying to figure out how the above song should sound, how to glue the parts together, a few notes came into my head/fingers that sounded like the passage of time, and instead of using them in the above song, another song popped in my head--The Insomnia Song. We are hoping to make the video and recording of that this weekend! It will be something for people to sing on those long nights when sleep evades. Future Dates: Ludwigs Inn, Glenmoore, PA--Friday--April 17th--our local haunt, YAY! At the intersection of Routes 100 and 401, just north of the Downingtown turnpike exit. The Captains Inn, Forked River, NJ--Friday, April 24th--our return to singing at the shore, after our long, long winter. AND, Saturday, May 2nd, our happy return to The Inn at St. Peters, possibly our favorite place of all, 2-6 on the deck over the rocks and waterfalls. Thank you for coming along with us on this musical journey. Love & Peace, Donna & Dave love☼music☼happiness |
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