Happy New Year!

We wanted to be among the first to wish you the best of New Years in 2008. 2007 was great for us, and we hope as you reflect back it was a good year for you. Now, we move into resolutions and planning, and looking forward to the seasons ahead.

We ran across a quote that struck us as very relevant for this time of year. It was attributed to Edmund Burke, and read, "The greatest mistake is made by the one who does nothing, because he could only do a little." In 2008, we want to take that idea to heart. Our resolution is to do what we can, even if it is a little, because if everyone did that--well, it's better than compounding interest in savings. The planet wouldn't be the same.

As always, welcome to those who are new to our mailing list and newsletter. We'll never spam you, or give your email to anyone else.
If you wish to be removed from the list, there are easy ways to do that, and feel free to let us know. Our goal is to keep you informed about what's happening with our music...not to bother you.

1. WAMMIE NOMINATIONS
2. BIRCHMERE DATE
3. 333 PHOTOS
4. BACA SHOWCASE
5. UPCOMING SHOWS

1. WASHINGTON AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION

The Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) recently announced the nominations for 2007. We are honored to have been nominated for both Best Contemporary Folk Duo/Group, and Best Contemporary Folk CD for Dreamers, Lovers, and Outlaws. Siobhan was also nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Vocalist. The WAMMIES, as they are called, are the Washington DC area equivalent to the Grammy Awards. The awards show, where the winners will be announced, will be on February 17th. Keep your fingers crossed for us--and if you are a WAMA member, vote for us--but do it quickly. The deadline for ballots is tomorrow, January 2nd.

2. BIRCHMERE DATE

We are very excited to announce that we have been booked to open for Hal Ketchum at the Birchmere Music Hall--one of the premier music clubs in the US. It is an honor to be able to play that stage, and to open for Hal. That's not happening until May, so you'll hear more about it before the date, but we wanted you to know about it now.

3. 333 PHOTOS

We put up a few photos of our performance at the 333 Coffeehouse in Annapolis, Maryland, that we played on December 21st. It was a very nice evening, and we appreciate, Jane Meneely for inviting us. The venue and folks there are wonderful, and if you are in the Annapolis area and haven't been there to hear the music--by all means, go!
You'll love it.

We know we have a lot of photos up overall, by the way, but you'll look at what interests you, and skip the rest. We like to remember and recognize the places we've played, and hope you enjoy them.

Check them out at www.dreamersloversandoutlaws.com, and click on photos.

4. BACHA SHOWCASE

We'll be headed to Massachusetts in a couple of weeks (January 13) to play a brief set at a showcase for the Boston Area Coffeehouse Association. This showcase is important for us, because the venues--the Boston area coffeehouse coffeehouse coordinators, committees, etc., will be there to listen and deciding if they might like to have us come play at their venues. It's not a public show--open to members of BACHA only, but if you happen to be a member, we'd love to see you there...and, this is another time when we'd ask you to keep your fingers crossed for us.

5. UPCOMING SHOWS

Aside from the BACHA showcase, we'll be doing several important shows in the coming couple of months. Here's a short list:

February 9 -- Acoustic Brew, State College, PA
February 14 -- The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
February 17 -- Strathmore Music Hall, Rockville, MD
February 22 -- Minstrel Coffeehouse, NJ

You can check out our schedule at www.dreamersloversandoutlaws and click on "calendar/schedule" for more details on each of these, and other shows that are upcoming.

We're also pleased to announce that later in the spring we'll be opening for Colin Hay (from the band, Men at Work) at Sanctuary Concerts. We'll give you more about that--and more--later.

Finally, a reminder for all our friends from Song School in Lyons,
Colorado: remember, Song School sells out, so make your reservations now. We want to see all of you in August, and since we've just passed the season of "no room at the inn" we don't want an encore of that scenario in August, in Colorado.

Ditto, by the way, for the Swannanoa crowd. Contemporary Folk week classes do fill up, so as soon as you can, reserve your place there as well.

We'll see you all down the road--and remember, do what you can. If we all do a little, the world can change.

As always, check out www.dreamersloversandoutlaws.com for the latest information.

Siobhan and Michael

OK, I find I can write things down once....and I'm writing it in our other site....www.dreamersloversandoutlaws.com. Go there for the latest word, photos, general news, concert schedule, etc.....it's all there.

Hello everyone....

We've been writing on the Dreamers, Lovers, and Outlaws site, so check there for updates. There is a lot of news and happenings, and we'll be sending a newsletter out in the next few days, so stay tuned. Hope all our friends in the midwest and Texas are staying dry, and those in the west are staying cool.

Be good to yourselves this Labor Day weekend, and you'll be hearing from us in a few...

M&S

Hello everyone....

OK, I'm not that great about entering updates here on this site...but we are pretty diligent posting updates, photos, and other information on the site for the new disc--- www.dreamersloversandoutlaws.com. So if it looks like this is getting stale, it's only because we're entering things over there...Step on over and have a look. I think you'll like it. Drop us a line, or leave a note in the guestbook there.

Thursday we head to Kerrville, TX, for the Folk Festival and New Folk contest there. Wish us luck!

Thanks,

michael

Well, we've returned (finally) from the Folk Alliance conference. We were scheduled to return yesterday, but serious snow and ice in DC forced us to stay in Atlanta overnight. We really wanted to get home, but the side benefit of being stranded in ATL was seeing Siobhan's brother Aidan and his partner Christine, the great duo, Friction Farm.

First, about FA, we want to thank the NERFA Board for their support of our appearance at FA in Memphis. We couldn't have gone without them, and we were really humbled to be able to represent NERFA at the event.

Second, we were very pleased with the reception to our performances and the roughs of our new disc that folks listened to while we were there. We played several different showcases, from Fox Run (thanks Neale and Laurie), Vic's Kick Ass Women (Michael was an honorary woman for that one), the formal Performance Alley showcase, FOCUS (the Washington DC organization promoting live folk music presentations here in our home town), the Kyser Short Cut Capo showcase suite, and the Help Me Rhonda suite of showcases. In every event we had venues approach us about booking, and also some DJs asking us when our disc would be ready. It is humbling and exciting to see the good response to our music. And, we want to thank those with whom we showcased this year--Red Molly, Amy Speace, and Corrinne West--it was great fun. Thanks also to Charlie Pilzer for sitting in with us on upright bass for one of our showcases.

Now, we're on to the followup, making sure the dates and routings will work when we put tours together, and doing the final work on our disc (we finish mixing in the next couple of days, Charlie at Airshow masters on the weekend, and replication begins Monday). We should have them in fine time (barring any disaster) for our release show at Cafe Lena March 31.

We also spent time learning and sharing about many other aspects of the business while we were there. Siobhan presented on the impact that song contests can have on a career. We sat with major music managers (thanks for the time, Tom Simonson), talked with the cooperative label Azalea City, listened to presentations on radio play, promos and press, and other aspects of marketing. We also sketched out a new project with Mae Robertson for later this year....stay tuned for word of a new and different recording project coming soon on the heals of Dreamers, Lovers, and Outlaws, but very different in nature. All in all, it was a great learning experience, and a positive exposure of our music to those who will book us to present, or play us on the radio. Thanks to everyone who came and listened to us...we were honored that among so many hundreds--yes hundreds--of outstanding acts over a three or four day period so many came to hear us present.

It seemed from watching that people were moved by Let It Come, entertained and intrigued by Valentino's Ghost, especially. If you haven't yet, click over to the music section of dreamersloversandoutlaws.com and listen to clips of early mixes of those and other songs there.

That's it for now. We'll be writing more soon....music stuff, life musings, etc.

m

The time is almost here. The new disc, DREAMERS, LOVERS, AND OUTLAWS, is scheduled for release in April. Check out all the info about it, and hear some clips at dreamersloversandoutlaws.com

We'll be seeing many of you at the upcoming Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis. Check out our showcase schedule at dreamersloversandoutlaws.com, the website for our upcoming duo cd, to be released in April.

NOVEMBER 5, 2006
Roundhouse Artists Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers will appear in concert at the West Market Concert Series, November 5, 2006, 7pm, Reston, VA For more information contact: 703-435-3777. Ticket Donation $10.

NOVEMBER 10,11 & 12: NERFA CONFERENCE
Roundhouse Music Agency will be at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference, the premiere booking conference for contemporary acoustic and traditional folk artists in the Northeastern United States.

TRICENTRIC SHOWCASE Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers have received an official juried Tricentric Showcase at the conference - a wonderful accolade! Be there at 10:20pm Friday Night.

GRAND AFFAIRE SHOWCASE You can also see our Grand Affaire Showcase from 11:30pm -1:30am Friday night. Alongside Siobhan Quinn & Michael Bowers, we will present such fine artists as Kate McDonnell, Dave Crossland, Tena Moyer Friction Farm, Jaime Michaels, and others.

WORKSHOPS: The NERFA Workshop Panel has also selected Siobhan Quinn's "Flexible Voice: A Master Vocal Class." For presentation on Friday.

Don't forget that Siobhan and Michael will be at The WestSide Cafe *July 22*
Frederick, MD for a special set starting at 8pm. With Brennen Leigh. $8 The WestSide is a non-smoking venue, open to all ages. Food, beer/wine/spirits are served.

Siobhan will also be sitting in with the DelRaves for the National Anthem at the Bowie Baysox Stadium in MD, July 23.

July 30-Aug 5 Swanannoa Gathering
Siobhan and Michael will be at this great weeklong musicians' workshop to perform and teach a Master Class in Voice near Asheville, NC.

Aug 6 Private Event, Sterling VA.

Upcoming Siobhan Quinn & Michael Bowers Gigs:

July 1 "Every Cobblestone Tells a Story" (c), a year-long workshop/songcycle project begins! Funded by the Alexandria Commission for the Arts. THANK YOU!

July 22 The WestSide Café
Frederick, MD for a special set starting at 8pm. With Brennen Leigh. $8 The WestSide is a non-smoking venue, open to all ages. Food, beer/wine/spirits are served.

July 30-Aug 5 Swanannoa Gathering
Siobhan will be teaching a master class in voice at this very special weeklong musicians´ workshop near Asheville, NC.

Aug 12: Private function

Aug 13-17 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Song School

Aug 20-26 Recording Sessions for new CD!

NEWS: So is there anyone out there who is NOT soaked by the rain?
Alexandria, VA --our home base-- has had some pretty hard times as of late. Along with much of the mid-Atlantic we've had severe flooding and unprecedented rain. Our well wishes go out to those we know have suffered greatly at the hands of these storms. We´re some of the lucky ones, no damage to our place and our roof still intact over our heads. Although a friend of ours had her ceiling fall in on her up in New York City, literally, as she slept (she wasn´t hurt, thank God!), so we´ve been very lucky.

Had a great time performing at the Mountville Folk Festival on June 24, with the likes of The Dreamsicles, Andrew McKnight, Steve Key, Jerry Bresee, Tim Grimm, Pat Wictor and the fantastic Lisa Taylor. What a blast!

EXCITING NEWS! Siobhan has just been awarded a grant by the Alexandria Commission for the Arts to write songs on the untold history of the city. The project will take place from July 1, 2006- June 30, 2007.

Some of you know that Siobhan has been a museum director a few times in her life, as well as a Coordinator of Cultural Affairs at a large community college up in New York State. The project, entitled Every Cobblestone Tells a Story ©, will be a song cycle developed from oral histories and writing workshops with the community at large.

A listserve will allow people to log on to the web and register to tell of their personal connection to historic events in Alexandria. Michael will work alongside Siobhan as both a community participant and her accompanist but don´t expect him to be silent on the songwriting front… he loves history as much as Siobhan.

Check back for Autumn updates!

Michael and I are just back from the Folk Alliance Conference 2006 in Austin,Texas. Texas and the Southwest hold an important place in our hearts, and our music. But I digress.... We have a long list of follow up calls to make and a serious bunch of gig offers to nail down. Looks like we'll be touring quite a bit through that part of the country--starting in April! We had the great pleasure of hanging with Jami Lunde of Awnry Girl Productions and we'll be performing a house concert for her in early April, We'll be heading out to our dear dear friend Susanne Milsaps' place in Salt Lake, down to Tucson, back to Santa Fe. Did I say back to Santa Fe? We'll be recording there, and Michael will start on another project out there as well in April and May. NEW YORK... NEW YORK.... We appear at Our Times Coffeehouse in Garden City Long Island on Friday, February 17. Then we take a couple of days in the snow in my old hometown of Troy, NY. We'll be returning to that neck of the woods in May on Michael's birthday weekend --going to Connecticut and the Carriage Barn at Waveny Park, and then the Hyde Park NY Public Library.

The Grande (Margarita) Affaire was a hit out of the park at Folk Alliance. We presented a powerhouse show of some new and renewed friends such as good buddies Kate McDonnell, Wishing Chair, Annie Wenz, Sarah Sample, Eric Schwartz & Jeff Black together (Lord help us!), Butterfly Sky, Jaime Michaels of Santa Fe, Annie Gallup with Sean Kelly, Dave Crossland, Sean Altman, The Grandsons, Beth Wood, James Lee Stanley, Blues master Ray Chesna, Miss Wow herself Tena Moyer, Stephanie Corby, Robin Greenstein, and we missed Scott & Michelle Dalzeil who were unable to attend. Corinne West filled in for them. Special Thanks go to friend and supporter Vic Heyman for putting all the work into getting the hefty showcase on the Showcase Tables (and Reba for keeping him sane through the project of placing 2000 showcases in print!!!!)

Thanks for visiting. Onward & Upward!
Siobhan

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