Like A Red, Red Rose Newly Sprung in June …

Like A Red, Red Rose Newly Sprung in June …

“O my Love is like a red, red rose
  That’s newly sprung in June;
  O my Love is like the melody
  That’s sweetly played in tune.”  (Robert Burns)

“Eyes full of sorrow, never wet,
Hands full of money, all in debt,
Sun coming out in the middle of June,
Everyone's gone to the moon.” (sung by Jonathan King, 1965)

Greetings Friends, Family, and Music Followers: 
 

Summer season is off to a great start. First, Dave will be backing up the wonderful vocalist and guitarist John Dilao on keyboard for the first time, Sat. June 11. We’ll be treating your ears to a collection of some of the best jazz, R & B, standards, and bossa nova at Plate & Vine Restaurant, The Hilton,Concord, CA, US from 6:00 – 9:00 pm.

Then on July 3, Chappell & Dave return to Unity of Walnut Creek, 1871 Geary Rd., Walnut Creek, CA.  We will be the featured music for the two Sunday morning services, 9:30 & 11:30 AM doing original spiritual songs and rockin' gospel. Remember you canwatch the service online at this link.

We’re looking forward to another performance forBread and Roses, “hope and healing through live music.” We’ll return to the Veteran’s Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System in Livermore this month, June 15, 2016.

Our holiday song “Cause to Celebrate” has been released. You can listen to it, if you’d like to celebrate Christmas early, at our new soundcloud link, or on the usual web site and Facebook.
 

One of our most popular songs, “Love Fills My Sails,” was originally written to celebrate Chappell’s brother, Ken Ekken’s wedding and recorded on our CD Wings of the Morning. It now has been added to the permanent playlist on Women of Substance Radio Music Podcast. Here is the link to our song on WOS Radio and Podcast.

 

We’re on a triple bill show at First Street Café in Benicia on July 8th, with Mark Comstock and Mardi Morillo. You can look them up and listen to their music on Facebook! We’ll go on second, around 8:00 pm.

Mark your calendars for August 6 at The Backroom, a beautiful listening room in Berkeley. Please come out to support this new venue for acoustic, folk, jazz, blues, and traditional music. Bring your friends, too--hear us perform with Sam’s grand piano. We’ll share the bill with the group, Woodbarry.

Dave has a series of poetry readings coming up in July, first at Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael with Marin Poetry Center poets (July 7), July 13 at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco; then sharing the stage with Red Indian Road West poets Kim Shuck and Nanette Deetz, July 16, at Beast Crawl in Oakland. Stay tuned for details!

We’d love to have you go to our sites and review our CDs. It would help us a lot. To post reviews at Amazon and iTunes - 1) Here’s the Amazon link. Click on this and it will take you to our CD cover. Next to it you’ll see "Be the first to review this item."  Click on that and you’re ready to write!
2) For iTunes (If you have the icon on your desktop. If you’re not a part of iTunes, just do the one at Amazon): Double click on your iTunes icon on your desktop
Choose iTunes store on left side of page. In the search box (upper left hand corner of page) type Chappell and Dave Holt.
All of our CDs will come up on the page, so click on the cover mini of Stone & Fire
Now you are on the page that lists all the songs from Stone & Fire and below the track listing you will see “Customer Ratings” and “Customer reviews.” Underneath “Customer Reviews” it says “Write A Review.” Click on that and you’re ready to write.

House concerts, live music in the intimacy of a home, are a great way to experience music! Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting one in your area by replying to this newsletter. Don’t forget to like the band page and support live music, https://www.facebook.com/ChappellandDaveHolt/, and Chappell’s artist page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/chappellroseholt/?fref=ts. If you’re on Instagram, you can find Chappell at her name, lower case, one word.

Happy spring to all; hope to see you at our shows,
Chappell & Dave Holt