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Greetings:
up close and personal...here's to
wherever we are on the journey
Maybe
you've heard the expression about life being a flowing river? I'm
thinking maybe it's a car. Lately
I've been
vacillating between seeing myself as life's driver and life's
passenger. There are many moments I think I'm in the driver's seat,
actively steering toward a certain destination only to realize I'm
just a passenger in life's white convertible '56 T-bird...along for
all the bumps and winding roads and for those perfect
top-down-on-a-sunday-afternoon smooth rides too. It's all part of
the journey. The bumps wake us up, make us take notice, make changes
in our route. They are character building. Nothing very interesting
happens on the smooth parts. I keep seeing the quote, "Life isn't
about avoiding the storms but learning how to dance in the rain."
Today I am happily bumping along, dancing in the T-bird. Hoping you
are dancing in your car too.
memorable
musical moments.. the muse is attracting; is the universe
connecting ?
What an
inspiring month May has already turned out to be musically!
Highlight was recording three new singles with a great producer and
stellar musicians in Los Angeles. Thanks to Dave, we have some great
studio footage, and you can see some of the action above. The songs
are being mixed as I am writing this, and I look forward to sharing
them with you when they are ready!
On May 5th, I was
privileged to be the feature artist and had an in-depth interview
for a Music In Action series. If you are
interested in knowing how Aoede got it's name and start, which comes
first-music or lyrics, how Aoede is bringing together music and
environmental issues, discussions about the Gulf and the impacts
from the latest oil spill, what's next for Aoede, and many more
probing questions, please click on the above link and listen while
you are washing dishes, cooking pasta, washing the dog, surfing the
net, knitting, drinking wine... Classic, who conducted the interview
said: "You are absolutely a great role model for other artists." I
am touched.
I found and spoke with a wonderful
producer who specializes in children's music and hope to move the
recording of the water songs forward! I am quickly realizing that to
develop the book, cd and possibly other media such as film will take
some funding and have started researching creative funding
opportunities. If any of you know grant or other programs that fund
individual artists, environmental education, music, please let me
know! I will have more details soon.
Would
love your help! Last month I mentioned that Push and Pull is now
available at Barnes and Noble and Best Buy online. It would be so great
if any of you who have and love the CD or have been moved by the
songs could just click the links and leave a few words about how the
CD makes you feel in the reviews so they don't look so naked!
many heartfelt thanks! :)
Cool
Stuff-check it
out (sidebar) and let me know if you have stuff to include next
time!
SHOWS/RECORDING
Our next
acoustic performance will be at the Chocolate and Chalk Festival in
Berkeley in June! We also plan to record in LA/SF Bay Area during
the summer. In the meantime, feel free to send email or connect with me on
Facebook. We will continue to keep sending
newsletters of course!
DO YOU
HAVE QUESTIONS,
SUGGESTIONS FOR ME?
Do you
want to know more about a specific lyric? Do you have ideas for
collaboration on a future project? Do you have thoughts for what you
want to see in the newsletter? Do you want to know more about the
directions we are taking with environmental awareness and music or
film? Hear us on a radio show and want to know more? Want to know
how to get us on your radio show? Want *POP ROCKS*? CONNECT with
me!
Aoede
is:
Lisa Sniderman (singer/songwriter-vocals, acoustic/elec
gtr)
Dave Sands (Bass Guitar)
John Walden (Drums)
with
Marianna Ferris on keyboards/back vocals
WHERE CAN I BUY PUSH AND
PULL?
BARNES & NOBLE
BESTBUY
AMAZON
ITUNES
 
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SHOWS!!
MAY
5/5/10: Aoede Music in Action interview!
*COOL STUFF*
Do YOU have cool stuff you want to share with
others for next month? Send it our way and it could appear
in the next newsletter!
take the clean concert pledge
I like this alot! great blog site that is literally laugh out loud
funny..good wordplay for the grammar-obsessed
Latest pesticide guide-which are safest fruits and
veggies? Click and find out ![]() ![]()
Who Is Aoede-Get to know the muse behind the music!
NEW Aoede ring tones from Push and Pull for you phone
savvy people out there! Customize your very own from over 10 to choose
from...
4th Anniversary of WomenROCK at the Independent in SF! June
16th
Useless FACTS-o-the-month
*Snapping your fingers is called a
"fillip".
*The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. This is because the subject
was a Florentine merchant's wife, and in Florence it was customary to
shave off one's eyebrows.
*Atlantic salmons can leap as high as 15 feet
out of the water.
*The scientific name for goose bumps, goose pimples,
or goose flesh is horripilations.
*Cats purr at the rate of 26
Hz.
*From the age 30 to 70 your nose may lengthen and widen by as much
as half an inch.
*Aubergine, brinjal, melanzana, melongene, garden egg,
and patlican are all alternative names for eggplant.
*Shrews are the
mammal with the highest metabolism. If they don't eat every 3-4 hours,
consuming several times their body weight a day, they will die.
*If
slime moulds are cut into pieces and placed in a labrynith with food,
bacteria for them, the pieces will reassemble and head for the
food.
*The leader of the flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" was named
Nikko.
*Venus flytraps eat flies for the nitrogen its soil
lacks.
*Dolphins can't sleep, if they did they would drown. Instead,
they are awake for 8 hours and let each side of their brain take 8 hours
off at a time.
*Edward Teach was also known as Blackbeard the
pirate.
*The major flavouring in the soda Dr. Pepper is prune
juice.
Dave-O's Cool Metal
Picture-O-The Month
Guess What Dave's making next!
(if you are right, we will send you some
cool Aoede merch
!)
click for more
of Dave's gallery pics
WORDPLAY
made up
words-o-d-day
LOLLIPLOP
When a sucker
falls on the ground
MUPPART
paintings done by puppets
(whether real or urban myth, these are great if you
like wordplay!)
BEST
Mis-Translation:
Belgrade
hotel elevator: To move the cabin, push botton for wishing floor. If the
cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing
floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
(and a Close
2nd)
London Office: After tea
break staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the draining
board.
Quick
Quote:
"When one tugs at a
single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe."
--- John Muir
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