Went to see Suzy Bogguss last night down in Sellersville, PA and wound up having a Kathy Konnection - Craig Brickhardt was the opening act and opened with Your The Power which Kathy recorded.

Got home at 3:20 am and made it to work for 8:00 am with no problem.

Kerry Fraser - Helmet

Got a busy month of December coming up.

Fri 12/2 - Bridgeport at Lowell
Sat 12/3 - Bridgeport at Manchester - Tax free shopping and a great sport card shop near the arena
Sat 12/9 - Suzy Bogguss at the Birchmere
Sun 12/10 - Suzy Bogguss at Sellersville, PA
Thu 12/14 - Kathy at Harrisburg, PA
Fri 12/15 - Kathy at Kingston, NY
Sat 12/16 - Kathy here in New Haven, CT

Thanks to all that have emailed me or posted on Kathys Clowns list. I do try to update when something comes up but if I don't do it right away, I have a habit of putting stuff off to the side then never get back to it.

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CMA Perdections

Entertainer - Brad Paisley
Female - Carrie Underwood
Male - Kenny Chesney
Group - Rascal Flatts
Duo - Big & Rich
Single - Summertime
Album - The Road And The Radio
Video - 8th of November
Event - Brooks & Dunn
Musician - Randy Scruggs – Guitar
Horizion - Carrie Underwood

Did wind up going upto Keene, NH on Saturday for the Americian Songwriter Circle show and made a few requests which both Pat Alger and Richard Leigh did my Kathy releated songs (Goin Gone by Pat and a Killer version of Come From The Heart by Richard and everyone joining in with guitiar and vocals)

There is still 4 dates left on this tour and if you have a chance, please go out and support this as it is great that they are bringing the songwriters to New England to tell the stories behind the hits. The remaining dates are:

October 29 Rochester, NH Rochester Opera House

November 2 Amherst, MA Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

November 3 Albany, NY Hart Theater @ the Egg

November 4 Fitchburg, MA Monty Tech

Just happened to look at my google news aleart email for mattea and saw that there was a songwriter series tour hitting New England starting today so I just had to go and it was worth it. Got my ticket online at 2:30 and thought I had the 4th row. I got to the theatre around 6:15 for parking in the small lot near the theatre and went over to get my ticket and asked how sales were and was told not good. Couldn't go in until 7:15 or so as the artists didnt get in until 6:30 and were doing a sound check.

The 15 to 18 of us who brought tickets plus the staff of maybe 15 or so got to enjoy a great show with Ralph Murphy, Tony Arata, Darren Bessette, James Dean Hicks, Pat Alger and Richard Leigh. Each artist did 4 songs each taking turns like a songwriter in the round format.

Got to hear Seeds and after the show the artists shook hands with most of us and thanked us for coming. I wound up buying 3 CD's and a tshirt for this little tour. Thinking of going up to Keene, NH to see them again on Saturday, they are in New London, CT tomorrow but I am going to a SoundTiger game in Providence.. Oh well..

Kathy Mattea "House of Gold" CMT Studio 330 Sessions