Sue and Dwight - May 2010 News

Hiya

April came and went in a blink and it’s May!

Here’s where you can find us this month if you want to catch a show…

3:30-5:30pm EVERY SATURDAY IN MAY at The Cameron House, 408 Queen Street West (Toronto)
We play two sets in the Front Room. It’s laid back and hanging out at this great little club, listening to tunes, is the perfect break in your hectic Saturday.

There has been some confusion about the future of this wonderful music venue so here’s the scoop on what’s happening. As you know, The Cameron House was listed for sale awhile ago. It was owned by three separate owners and two of them wanted to pursue other ventures. Long story short, the other owner decided to buy them out. So the “new” owner is really an old owner who loves The Cameron House and it will live on. There are plans to do some renos…bathrooms are on the list …so there may be a short closure to get that work done but the timing hasn’t been decided so it’s business as usual. Please keep supporting The Cameron House…there’s so much great music there!

Here’s some other stuff…

RADIO PLAY: We are continuing to send our new CD to radio stations across North America and have been very happy with the response! A variety of songs have been played on folk shows all across Canada and the US. “Imagine my surprise” to learn that ‘Diamonds On Velvet’ was played last week on a Jazz show!

One folk music show in particular, from Ohio called ‘Detours’, has been a great supporter, and have had us on their playlist for (knock wood, hope I don’t jinx it) 7 straight weeks!! And ‘Mercury Rising’ made a respectable showing on programs with an Earth Day focus this month. Thanks to the Internet you can listen to shows from all over the world either live or in some cases by podcast, so I try to catch as many as I can, particularly those ones supporting our music. As a result, I have been exposed to a lot of great new music I might not otherwise have heard.

We still haven’t cracked the CBC beyond the one play back in December. If you have any ideas how to make that happen, let me know!

SOMETHING VERY COOL: As some of you know, ‘One Song’ from our new CD pays tribute to singer-songwriters with a social conscience and mention a couple of Pete Seeger songs in one of the verses. So, I sent a copy of the CD to Mr. Seeger a little while ago as a thank you for his inspiration. You can imagine my excitement when we received a reply in the mail a few days ago. While most of the letter was a form letter there was a personal note for us added in, so I am very very excited about that! He’s not only a folk icon, but a very nice man as well…and he turns 91 this week!

BUSKING: Continues to be fun and a great way to get our music out there. And you can meet some really NICE people. One day my friend Kim and I were busking together up at Finch and this young woman stopped to look at our CDs. When she saw ours, she said “You’re part of Sue and Dwight? I’ve been wanting to see them for ages.”…seriously, she really said that!! Of course I looked around expecting Ashton Kutcher to pop out from around the corner telling me I was punk’d. It was all quite surreal. 

RECENT REVIEW OF ‘LITTLE CHILD BIG WORLD’ CD POSTED ON MY FACEBOOK WALL THAT MADE OUR DAY…WEEK…MONTH…YEAR: “Just thought I’d let you know, I am sent many albums each week, most have only one or two really good songs on them. Yours, however, is one of the best all around albums I’ve gotten this year. There are no filler songs, songs that were added just to fill up album space, you know, B rated songs. You and Dwight should be very proud of this album, it’s first class al the way!”…Norm Whitman, DETOURS, WYSO FM, Yellow Springs, OH

Well, enough about us. How are things with you? We’d love to see or hear from you so don’t be a stranger…ha ha, accidentally typed strangler but corrected it. Don’t be one of those either.

Sue (and Dwight)