Wishing Chair: News

Wishing Chair is returning to Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute in Radford VA. Kiya will be doing her performance art worship service, The Gaia Psalms, on Monday Night, WC will be performing and joining in Phil Ochs night. More on the calendar page.

We'll be in Cincinnati Friday and Indianapolis on Saturday. More on the calendar page.

Hope to see you there!

A Joint Production of Converse College Music Department and the Spartanburg Repertory Company in the Hazel B. Abbot Theatre Jan 28-30th. www.lyingtotheseagypsy.com written by Kiya Heartwood of Wishing Chair.

Our latest CD, "Stand Up 8' has made the Best of 2009 list for Mark Manning's radio show in Kansas City and was just reviewed By Sean Hickey for the Daily Local news in Philly. Here's the link: http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2010/01/01/entertainment/srv0000007199686.txt

Hello all.

Post Thanksgiving thoughts - we are grateful for those of you who have supported us and our music throughout the years. Here's to many more!

Kiya has been accepted into the graduate program in composition at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. To help raise the money for her tuition she is doing a series of one-night only solo shows this winter. You can check them all out at www.kiyaheartwood.com. If you are interested in hosting her, or in booking Wishing Chair for a show of your own please let us know at booking@wishingchair.com!

Our CD release party is at Natasha's Bistro and Bar in Lexington KY this Friday Sept 11th at 9 pm. Stand Up Eight features 10 new tunes with longtime bassist Dave Arms and a good mix of stand up folk and roll.
Tickets are $10 Reservations are suggested. see you there!

WC's 8th and newest CD, Stand Up 8, is now hot off the press! You'll be able to get your own copy here, via CD or download shortly. Stay tuned!

We will be part of a great weekend of music Aug 21-22
in Whitesburg KY at the Mars Fest.

We are nominated for two 2009 JPFolks awards for Best Contemporary Folk CD ( Folk and Roll) and Best Contemporary Folk Song " Dishpan Brigade" The awards will be presented August 29th at the Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville, TN.
Pretty cool, huh?

Next weekend WC will be performing Saturday night at the operetta debut weekend of Kiya's "Lying to the Sea Gypsy" at the Cheltenham Arts Center in Philadelphia. The show opens on Friday and WC will play a set on Saturday night.There's also a show on Sunday. More on the calendar page.

WC and Kiya will be featured at the Emrys Foundation Annual Meeting. Emrys honored Kiya with a scholarship last year to study Composition. WC will be doing three school performances this week in SC and will be performing on Saturday at Haw River St park in NC for the UUA TJD Annual Meeting.

This week WC plays a lunch show at the Spartanburg Public Library at noon Weds and a school show Thurs morning, then Kiya is off to perform with the Calliope Feminist Choir in Athens OH Sat and Sunday.More on the calendar page.

This Weds. we have a concert at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, a concert for the School for the Deaf and Blind in Spartanburg and Kiya is off to Ohio to rehearse her pieces with the Calliope Feminist Choir of Athens. Whew!!!! All the details on our calendar page.

This week we are working in the studio and visiting our families. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Check out the calendar page for more details.

We are doing a special concert and Sunday service in Grey this weekend. Check the calendar page for more details.

Wishing Chair will make a brief appearance this weekend at the Western Carolina UU Cluster Gathering in Hendersonville, NC.
Hope we see you there!

Friends,
Hang in there. We have been working on the new CD and we are hoping to get it out in late April.

Wishing Chair and many others will be performing at a tribute concert for famed pianist John Gault, who passed away earlier this week. The concert will be from 6:30-9 pm Friday Feb 13th at the UU Church of Spartanburg.

Kiya is solo in Montclair NJ this coming weekend. WC is back in the saddle in February. Our condolences to Reba Heyman over the loss of Vic. He was one of the fairy godfather's of Folk and an amazing person. We will all miss him.

2009 brings two new Wishing Chair CDs and an Operetta... "Stand Up 8" is due later this month and is WC's eighth release and Kiya's third solo CD will follow this Spring. Kiya's first operetta, "Lying to the Sea Gypsy" will premier this March. Here's wishing everyone a healthy happy and productive new year.

We are finishing the new CD and enjoying a much needed rest. Kiya has some solo shows in early January in NYC. We are back out in February with the new CD. Happy holidays!

We are off to Philadelphia this weekend for two house concerts. More information on the Calendar page.

WC is home for a couple of weeks trying to get the new CD out and Kiya's opera finished.
Happy voting.

Happy Halloween. Kiya is solo in Kent, Ohio this weekend. Please vote early. Si se Puede.