photo: Stuart Mattingly
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Tour Schedule
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2009
last updated May 5, 2009
1/7 (Brattleboro VT) Kristi will be doing a live interview on Ken & Becca's This Show is So Gay on 107.7FM WVEW, 9pm, EST
3/1 (Providence RI) The Hi Hat ***CANCELLED due to inclement weather*** 3 Davol Square 401-453-6500, with Kevin Silvia. Check out their menu online. Free parking, 5pm doors, Music at 7:30pm, $10 at the door.
3/8 (Providence RI) The Hi Hat 3 Davol Square 401-453-6500, with Kevin Silvia. Check out their menu online. Free parking, 5pm doors, Music at 7:30pm, $10 at the door.
4/22 (Providence RI) The Hi Hat 3 Davol Square 401-453-6500. Check out their menu online. Free parking, 5pm doors, Music at 7:30pm, $10 at the door.
5/9 (Wakefield RI) Trinity Energetics Open House to share their new healing center with the community at South Kingstown Office Park 24 Salt Pond Rd Building H Suite 3. The open house, with free gifts and reiki and guided meditation and an introduction to their practitioners and services, is from 11am - 3pm with my set at 1pm, 401-263-1107 ot 401-742-2345 for more info
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K r i s t i M a r t e l
Kevin and me playing Prince's "Kiss" live, totally silly and unrehearsed at a house concert in RI, 12 May 2002
Tour Diary
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Hallo Beautiful People!
I am performing at a very special show this Saturday. A dear friend of mine is beginning a new healing business and has created an open house event to celebrate its beginnings. She has asked me to perform to help manifest their vision of a new healing community. Her new business is called Trinity Energetics, and she and her business partners offer Aromatherapy, Aromatarot, Crystal Therapy, Psychic Readings, Magnified Healing, Deep Tissue/Trigger Point and Sacred Stone Massage, Reiki, Reiki trainings, and Tarot. At this open house they will be offering a free guided Abundance/Prosperity Meditation while receiving Reiki to help us all revive the spirit of abundance, refreshments, information about all of their services, free blessing gifts for everyone, and the opportunity to meet the practitioners. Come celebrate spring, new beginnings, and the energetic seeds of our future. I am honored to be a part of the watering of those seeds. Show details to the left.
Meanwhile, our own seeds are planted. Our plans are well underway. I am going to New York City to train for dancing in my "Sacred Whore" video. It's been years since I danced. I am very happy to be dedicating myself so fully to this task. We are working to confirm a Little Rhody kick-off show when I get back in late June. After my month of training, we will be going into the studio in Connecticut to record the album and its videos. We are gathering the musicians, funding, and the booking/publicity/management team as I write this. It is a huge task, and tough economic times to pull all this off, but we are making it all happen by watering the seeds and propping up and sheltering the seedlings when the wind blows so hard. I will be SO happy to train in NYC, record the album and its videos, design the graphics, and send off those masters to be duplicated. I will be absolutely thrilled when we are stepping onto the plane to do the first show of the world wide tour. We want to bring this work to all the places that need to hear it: all over North America and Europe, but also places like India, Cambodia, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Egypt, Uganda, Congo, Nigeria... The list is long, and I hope you will help me get there. Send energy, prayers, love, light, hope, peace, money, contacts, whatever you have that you think will help me bring "Blessed Community" and "Sacred Whore" to the communities in our world most torn by the effects of war, child prostitution, greed, pollution, fear. It all boils down to fear. And I intend to spread as much love as possible. Love to heal the wounds of fear. Love always overcomes fear. Always.
So, check out the donations page. And I hope to see you Saturday.
Love and peace,
Kristi
3:13 PM
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Hallo Beautiful People!
I have so many things to tell you!
Firstly, I am very excited to announce that our plans for my next album, "Sacred Whore," are well underway and getting more and more exciting. We are right around the corner from getting into the studio for the album (hopefully in May). The songs are written. I am working on scoring them and creating their arrangements. I have created music video outlines for four of the songs: "Gutter Mouth," "Sacred Whore," "Here In My House," and "Blessed Community." The songs are so vibrant that we are planning to make a documentary film about the concepts behind them, my writing process, and the making of the album and its videos. We've picked a studio and line producer for project, and we think we will call it, "The Sacred Whore Project." The team of musicians and engineers is manifesting. And we just need the funds to move forward. Obviously, this project is much bigger than all of my previous albums, so we are going to need to raise more funds. And so we have created a whole bunch of new fun titles and packages to inspire your giving nature:
MOST FAVORED FAN: Donating $10 makes you a Most Favored Fan.
FRIEND OF THE BAND: Donating $30 gets you a personalized and signed copy of the new CD way before anyone else gets it, aka The Pre-Order.
ROADIE: Donating $50 gets you a signed and numbered limited edition copy of the "Sacred Whore Demos" (some of which you've heard on MySpace) plus a personalized and signed copy of the new CD way before anyone else gets it.
COLLECTOR: Donating $100 gets you the Pre-Order and the Demos, but also (this was Littlebird's fabulous idea!) a signed and numbered copy of the limited-edition CD single, bound, an old marathon of a song, an extended vocal techniques performance art-ish Kristi rarity, released previously only on the live concert tape "With Mouth and Hands." Me and the NYC band and Denise went into the studio to record "bound" in December 2002. The 100 copies of the single are here now -- well, there's almost 70 left. We will never reprint this limited edition single, so get it now while it is still available.
NEXT OF KIN: Donating $300 gets you the Pre-Order, The Demos, the bound single, plus your name in the credits!
PATRON SAINT: Donating $800 gets you all of the above PLUS two tickets to a Sacred Whore CD Release Party in Rhode Island, New York City, or San Francisco, and two tickets to a Rhode Island or Connecticut concert that includes a live video shoot that will be used to make the documentary.
ANGEL: Donating $3,000 gets you all of the above PLUS a one-day VIP pass to the studio in Connecticut with me and whatever fantastic musicians, actors, dancers, and crew happen to be working with me that day, during the making of the "Sacred Whore" album, videos, and film. You may even get interviewed and be included in the documentary!
***ANY donation amount at all (really -- from 8ยข to $8,000!) helps, and gets you a special place in my heart!***
All of these ways to help and more are at Kristi's help page.
That's right. We are going to release a signed and numbered limited edition (300 copies) release of the "Sacred Whore Demos." They are currently being designed and should be ready in about a month.
There are some new videos up on my kmetal video page: www.kmetal.net/video.html . One is from right after Littlebird died in 2003, and two are as recent as October! Go check them out and enjoy!
An old fan of mine emailed me out of the blue saying he made me a Facebook fan page! Thanks thanks thanks to Rick from Santa Cruz! Go check out the page and add mine to your own Facebook. My fan page is YOUR page! You can post comments and create a dialogue about a performance you saw or add photos you took at my shows...all on this page! Leslie added a photo from the March 8th Hi Hat show. :)
Thanks so much to everyone who came out for our snowdate on March 8th at the Hi Hat! What a beautiful and powerful night of connecting and music and fun! The show was such a great success that we decided to book another for April, even though the only available night was a Wednesday, the 22nd. We are hoping to get a Thursday night in June and maybe even a Saturday night in the future, once we prove that we can pack the place and make it worth their while. Please come on out in support of that effort, on a school night, to hear me and the baby grand and my special guest backing vocalist Angela Romans who just learned the Def-Leppard-like backing vocals for the song "Sacred Whore," for this special night. :) Mark your calendars!
Wednesday April 22, 2009
The Hi Hat www.thehihat.com
3 Davol Square
Providence RI
401-453-6500
Check out their menu online. Free parking.
Doors at 5pm, Music at 7:30pm, $10 at the door.
See you out there!
Be peace y'all,
Kristi
7:17 PM
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Hallo Hibernating New Englanders!
We are officially confirmed for a show at The Hi Hat on March 8th to make up for tonight's snow cancellation. You can view the press release here. Mark your calendars:
Me & Kevin Silvia (kevinsilvia.com)
at The Hi Hat (thehihat.com)
3 Davol Square
Providence RI
401-453-6500
Doors open at 5pm
Music starts at 7:30pm
$10 at the door
We can't wait to see you all there! The Hi Hat is a swanky jazz club with a large stage and a baby grand piano, a lovely layout with circular booths and two beautiful bars, yummy food, and abundant free parking. So go check out their menu and get directions at their website.
It's been so long since I've had a Little Rhody show - I am so happy for this reunion! I will have my keyboard in addition to the baby grand, and Kevin on guitar and backing vocals, so if you have any songs of mine that you have been just dying to hear me play live and you are going to be at this show, send me an email with your request, and I will try to make it happen. See you there!
Love & hot chocolate on this icy snowy March night,
Kristi
8:29 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Hallo Beautiful New England People!
I am so sorry to report that the Hi Hat and Kim and I just decided to CANCEL tomorrow night's show due to expected inclement weather. I hate to do it, but I really want you all to be safe at home in the snow storm.
We are hoping to reschedule the show for next Sunday, March 8th. I will send out an email and post details here as soon as we know for sure.
I so hope you can all come to the rescheduled show instead!
Love & warmth for the late winter storm,
Kristi
8:32 PM
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Hallo my fine friends!
We are so happy to get these details to you! You can view and print the press release here.
Me & Kevin Silvia (backing vocals & guitar)
at The Hi Hat
www.thehihat.com
3 Davol Square
Providence RI
401-453-6500
Doors open at 5pm
Music starts at 7:30pm
$10 at the door
We can't wait to see you all there! The Hi Hat has a large stage with a baby grand piano, a lovely layout with circular booths and two beautiful bars, yummy food, and abundant free parking. So go check out their menu and get directions at their website. It's been so long since I've had a Little Rhody show - I am so happy for this reunion! If you have songs of mine that you have been just dying to hear me play live and you are going to be at this show, send me an email with your request, and I will try to make it happen. See you there!
Love & peace,
Kristi
P.S. There's this little interview I did on Brattleboro VT community radio's "This Show Is So Gay" that you can hear here. Check it out!
9:04 PM
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Hallo Good People!
Well, plans do change! We were working on a January date at a new-to-us venue with a lovely vibe and piano for our beloved Providence, but their rental fee would have made seats way too expensive, so we looked elsewhere. We found that our old favorite Hi Hat has a new sound engineer, which makes that room perfect for us now! We are very happy to return to the Hi Hat and to (finally!) announce a Little Rhody Show for you! I will perform at the Hi Hat on Sunday, March 1st, so mark your calendars now, and when I have all the details, I will pass them on to you.
We also ended up not moving as planned! Things just didn't work out with the new place. One of the consequences of this almost-move is that the Sealed Lip Records Post Office Box was returning mail most of the month of January. If you sent something our way and it got returned to you, our humble apologies. Please resend it. When you do, we will get it. Our Post Office Box is fully functional once again.
We had wonderful winter holidays. We hope you did too. We cried so many tears of joy while watching Obama's inauguration. Plans for the Sacred Whore album and videos are moving more slowly than we had hoped, largely because of the slower economy. Nonetheless, we are making steady progress. We are meeting engineers and visiting film and sound studios in RI, CT, and NYC, and we will be in Los Angeles meeting musicians, producers, agents, and publicists in early March. We hope to assemble our team and pick our location very soon, and as soon as we raise all the necessary funds, I'll be in the studio!
Be peace y'all,
Kristi
8:23 PM
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