Wishing Chair: News

We will be playing in Darlington MD at the Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival www.smaf.org for more details.

We are performing at the Gamble Rogers Festival in St. Augustine this weekend. Hope to see you there!

Our hearts go out to everyone concerned in the tragedy at Virginia Tech.To quote Cheryl Wheeler.." If it was up to me, I'd take away the guns."

This week we are home working on the new CD and enjoying the Spring. Next week its back to PA and NJ.
Hope to see you there.

The Spring touring season is getting a great start. Its a big week with shows in the DC area South Carolina and a guest appearance at Holly's show in Charlottesville.

The new year is rocking with Eddies Attic, SC and a two week Texas tour. Hope to see you soon.

WC came home with Best New Folk CD for Underdog, "Sue Mundy " was voted Best Roots song and "Sidewalks" was runner up for Best New Folk Song. With over 25,000 entries in these national awards we are extremely honored to have won.

Hello Chairfriends.

We hope you are doing well. It has been a busy and full fall, lots of shows, fundraisers and visits with old and new friends all across the country. The upcoming months find us digging in and working on
several new projects: a new Wishing Chair CD which we expect to be
out this coming summer, a best of Kiya Heartwood CD featuring songs from her early years with Stealin' Horses as well as her solo
projects, a best of Wishing Chair Songbook which will feature what we consider to be 30 of the best and most playable songs from all six WC CDs and a new WC T-shirt.

We're beginning fundraising for the new CD and we'll be coming up with some fun ways to help get it off the ground:

1. you can of course, pre-buy CDs.

2. we're working on getting an on-line, silent auction together with
Wishing Chair paraphernalia from the past 11 years, posters, early T-shirts, rough mixes, recording notes, photos, etc. That one's a biggy and we'll keep you posted as to when that will be ready to go.

We have a few instruments that we are willing to offer for sale before the auction starts, for individuals who may want to consider them. One is a fretless banjo from the 1940's and the other is a
Guild, hollow body electric guitar, both in excellent condition.
Please contact us if you would like more information; info@wishingchair.com.

3. If you work for, are connected to a non-profit organization, or want to give money to a non-profit this year, you can fund a benefit concert for them, make them money, get us a gig, and get yourself a
tax deduction all at the same time. Everybody wins! Contact us for
further information if you are interested on hearing details.

With the holidays coming up it is our sworn duty to remind you that your support of independent music is what makes it possible for us and thousands of other musicians like us to make a living bringing original, grassroots music to communities like yours all across the country. To that end, all our products will be available on our
website or you can email us directly: info@wishingchair.com. They make great gifts for yourself, family and friends.
CDs, Books (Beginning Songwriting, Teach Yourself to Play Accordion and the upcoming songbook), ChairNotes (blank notecards and cards w/ lyric excerpts inside), ChairWear (embroidered shirts, ballcaps and a new T-shirt coming out soon).

Remember that you can download all of our music at itunes and at emusic. And this is the only way right now that you can get The Ghost of Will Harbut, as it is currently out of print.

Fundraising Info:

With our fundraising for the new CD gearing up, we are making that info available starting now. If you would like to donate in advance to help fund the new CD, we have many options, all of which are
outlined here. Feel
free to print it out and help spread the word.

That's all for now. Hope to see you at a show soon.

Love and light,

Miriam and Kiya

Our dear friend Susanne Millsaps passed away last weekend from breast cancer. Susanne was very instrumental in our early career with booking help and general cheerleading. She was a great friend and the world is a little dimmer without her beautiful light.

JP Folks has announced the nominations for its 2006 awards and we are proud as punch to tell you that we have 4 nominations for Underdog:
Best Americana Song: Calamity Jane
Best New Folk Song: Sidewalks
Best Roots Song: Sue Mundy
Best New Folk Album: Underdog

A big mazal tov to Kiya for writing some wonderful and inspirational music.

You can check out all the nominees at
http://www.jpfolks.com/home.html<http://www.jpfolks.com/home.html>.
Be sure to scroll down the home page to see us in the albums covers of the top nominees.

Last week we performed a series of concerts with MA songwriter Greg Greenway in Virginia to help raise money for www.voteno.org. We raised over $5000 to help stop hate from getting written into the VA constitution. We leave next week for a Western tour. More info on the tour page.

Kiya's anti Bush song, Bully Circus, is featured in the Summer edition of the famous folk magazine SingOUT! Check it out at http://www.singout.org/

We have been selected as a finalist in the Music to Life Contest at Kerrville this June with Kiya's song Outlaw Wedding.

Underdog is up for Outstanding Recording by a Duo or Group
And Outlaw Wedding is up for Outsong of the Year.

Interested in hosting a house concert? Our booking agent, Sherri Powers is rapidly filling the 2006 schedule.
Contact Sherri at :booking@wishingchair.com
For more on house concerts see:
http://www.jrp-graphics.com/houseconcerts/resources.html

Wishing Chair - messages to the outlaw circus.

"Kentucky-based duo Wishing Chair serves up a lively batch of original songs that follow on to two of the oldest traditions of folk music: storytelling and political broadside.............."

To read the whole review check our press page.....

Hey Ya'll, We are proud to say "Underdog" was voted #11 on the OutVoice top 40 CD List for 2005

Underdog got a great write up in Sing Out! this month. You can check it out on our press page.