Monday, September 20, 2010

Upcoming gig, Sept 25th and Tour highlights!!


Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great summer!
These past few months have been pretty exciting and I’d like to share some of the highlights with you.

I’ve just completed my 30 city national radio tour in support of my most recent single, “Like I’m Leaving,” which is currently being played by nearly 100 radio stations across the country, and is rocketing up the Country and AC charts! In addition, my first single, “Keep on Going,” recently cracked the Top 30 on the Adult Contemporary/ Mediabase and R&R charts. (Those are the Major Market stations!) At the end of this column are pics and more fun details from my tour!

Also this summer I launched an iPhone app which includes music, links, updates, and upcoming tour info. My label, “Dolce Diva Music” announced an iPad giveaway and the winner was a lucky fan from California!

After a hectic year of traveling, I am thrilled to announce my upcoming show, September 25, 2010 at the Towne Crier Café in Pawling, NY. Also appearing will be the famous jazz guitarist, Leni Stern. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door and can be purchased at www.townecrier.com. They serve dinner, and the food is quite good and they’re known for their wonderful desserts! ( FYI- If you reserve for dinner as well as the show, you get priority seating.) More info including menus and directions are on the website.

Highlights from my Country Radio Station Tour
Late August
Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri

It was a whirlwind tour and I had a blast!
I performed at 15 radio stations in 15 cities across the three states.


Frumpy Joe's Cafe
 In Jonesburg, MO- Went to Frumpy Joe's Cafe- GREAT biscuits and sausage gravy. Visited Jonesburg Historic Museum and saw a slave cabin from 1837 which had been on Tobacco Farm and moved to museum site. This is a link to an interesting article about the Architecture students who rebuilt the cabin.

In Butler, MO saw the Ripley's World's smallest Tombstone. 2 X 2 ½ inches!! It was for the grave of an Indian Princess.

LOVED Kansas City, MO- Great shops, restaurants, museums. I really enjoyed Manhattan, Kansas. It’s called the "Little Apple" :) Home to KSU and Ft. Riley.

This was my first trip to OK- and I saw my first oil well. There were lots of them!!  We travelled portions of the original RT 66. Fun!  And we visited the original Lucille's, which is longer open, but had been a gas station since 1929.   Lucille bought it in 1949 and made it famous.  She was called "the mother of the mother road."  She had many famous singers stop there on their way to gigs. She has all their signatures and memorabilia in a scrapbook she saved. (It's in the museum there – very cool stuff - lots of history.)

We ate at the Rock Cafe-(Also on RT 66 in OK) built in 1939 from the rocks that were unearthed during the building of RT 66.
Another interesting thing about The Rock Café is that John Lasseter stopped there as he was traveling RT 66 searching for inspiration for his then upcoming movie, "Cars". (He wrote and directed it.) The owner of the cafe, Dawn, became the inspiration for the character, Sally in the movie. (Sally was the Porsche in the movie!) Lots of fun "Cars" memorabilia there, great food, and absolutely the best Fried Green Tomatoes on the trip (I was doing my own personal survey:)

Next stop was Stillwater, OK. Visited OSU. Great campus. Lunch that afternoon was at the original Eskimo Joe's (To die for apple pie)!

Then on to Woodward, OK- a very rural part of OK. This is dust bowl country. The town was leveled, and many died in 1947 from a tornado. Lots of history on this trip. We had dinner at the Pollyanna Cafe. Great fried chicken!!

The last stop on tour was Oklahoma City. What a great city! We saw the Oklahoma City Museum and Memorial. The Field of Empty Chairs was a very moving site. Very powerful. I really enjoyed the area called Bricktown. This area used to be old warehouses but has been converted to restaurants, bars, shops and even has a baseball stadium. A lovely canal runs through it and we took fun canal cruise after dinner one evening.

Great ending to a great trip!

Till next time,

Joanna


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  1. Deborah BattermanSeptember 21, 2010 at 11:31 AM

    A whirlwind, indeed. I'm so impressed. Love the photos . . .Can't wait to see/hear you on Saturday.

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