It’s been quite a year, so far. We finally finished the new CD and it saw release in August. Since then every track on it has seen radio airplay, at least, once. Many of the songs have been played several times. The overwhelming favorites seem to be “Caffeine” and “Porchlight Blues”. Some music from our first CD has also been on the Folk DJ’s minds. Many of them will be playing “Season of Hope” and “Buddy, I’m Just Sick To Death of Christmas” as part of their Holiday programming this year. The big news about the new CD is that it was in seven categories on the first round ballot for the Grammy Awards. That’s the round of voting which actually chooses the final nominations. Even if we don’t get nominated it’s thrilling to get that close. We’ll know for sure when they announce the official nominations on December 1st. As always were slowing down the pace a bit. We will, of course, be staging our annual “Christmas Show For People Who Can’t Stand The Holidays (music of the Sacred, Secular, Cynical, and Silly)”. But, this year it won’t be in a public venue. We’ll be doing it as a house concert for a private party. Our good friends, the Gilberts, throw a Winter Solstice Party every 21st of December. Our show will be part of that this year. In January we’ll be at Grounds For Appeal Coffeehouse in Berwyn, IL. In February we will kick back into our normal touring schedule. We’ll begin with a house concert in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on Friday February 25th. From there we go to Pittsburgh, PA to open for Red Horse at the Carnegie Lecture Hall. After that we’ll be all over the map. Check our calendar for details. We have plans to tour in West Virginia, Upstate New York, Kansas, Missouri, and points west. Don’t forget to check out out new CD, “Two Guitars, A Dulcimer and an Attitude”, on iTunes, Amazon.com, or go to our page at CD Baby buy the disc or download it. It makes a great stocking stuffer (especially if you know someone with oddly shaped feet). More later. Sandy and Steve http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/andinaandrich