Monday, March 29, 2010

Elllllllllllaaaaaaa!!!!!!

Ella
Ladies and Gentlemen,

We love Ella Fitzgerald.

She continues to inspire us every time we hear her phenomenal voice.
And this morning she is featured on NPR.org. We are thrilled, and want to share it with you, too.

Click here to hear (ha!) the MARVELOUS Ella!!!

And Happy March 29th! :)

love,
Erin and Her Cello

Friday, March 19, 2010

Ooooweeee It's Spring!

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And we have LOTS of SHOWS this SPRING!!!

Mark your calendars:
Monday, April 19th, 8pm at The Delancey:
& Erin and her Cello!
On va surement chanter en francais pour ce spectacle!
(yes, we will sing our french chansons.)

Then, we're thrilled to announce that we will be performing
another residency at Rockwood Music Hall!
You will be able to catch us, along with the most wonderful musicians,

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY!
7pm Sharp! (Friday May 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th!)


Seeing as how we have lots of time between now and then, we're working very hard on new songs, as well as taking cello lessons with the beautiful cellist, Stephanie Winters. In fact! You will be shocked at how much more music we are composing-- especially with the help of our new bow!!! (Thanks to Stephanie and Johnson Strings!)

We hope to see you at our shows this SPRING!
Oui, Oui!

Bisoux a tout le monde,
love,
erin and my cello







Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Artists We Adore

We adore Omara Portuondo. (And had we not had a gig on February 27th at Rockwood Music Hall, we would have definitely seen the beautiful Omara at Town Hall.)

This Tiny Desk Concert, however, makes us very happy.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Last Saturday in February = A-CELLO-RHUMBA!


Oh My A-CELLO-RHUMBA!!! It's already February 2010?

Well, in that case-- we need to remind you that we have a show at the end of the month...at ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL!
Save the date! SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 7pm!

This show will feature:
Aya Kato on piano,
Christa Van Alstine on Clarinet,
Mike McCurdy on drums,
Anna Marquardt and Adam Enright singing backup vocals, and ... MORE!!!
(We like to have tricks up our cello pluckin' sleeves.)


We'd love to see you there. We love Rockwood, and we love our audience. :)
We don't, however, like it when the groundhog sees his shadow.

THANK YOU!!!
love,
erin and her cello

Monday, January 25, 2010

2010...and giving back!!!



Happy New Year!!!

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

It's been a while! We were so busy during the holiday season with our wonderful family and friends-- it was amazing! In fact, 2009 was amazing!? BAMCafe, Joe's Pub, StandUP NY Comedy Contests, a Rockwood Residency...! Wait a minute, the entire decade has been amazing...we started writing our own music... Yahoo!!!

Amidst all this amazement, we wanted to tell you about the work we do with Musicians on Call. Once a month, Erin and her Cello play in hospitals throughout NYC. It's our way of giving back. We have been given so much in our lives, that why not play for others who are stuck in hospital beds!??!

We are very excited because tonight we will be playing at the Mt. Sinai Kravis Kidzone TV! KidZone TV is the first live, interactive broadcast studio in a children's hospital in the world and offers live and pre-recorded programming for viewing within the hospital. Children in The Zone can participate in program production behind and in front of the cameras, learning new skills and sharing them with others. Those who are confined to their room can participate in a range of activities broadcast on KidZone TV, such as games shows and question and answer sessions with musicians, actors, magicians, and sports stars..." How do you like that! (Prior guests have included KT Tunstall and Magic Johnson!) We are going to take our loop pedal and hope that the kids will help us create a song...right on the spot! We are going to get them to shake their TINY BUNS! (hahaha inside E&HC joke!)

In addition to Musicians on Call, we'd also like to introduce you to another incredible healthcare foundation, Bach to Health! Eric Roter, M.D. (“E.R.”), a Board-Certified emergency room physician and Juilliard trained cellist decided to use his classically trained cello skills outside of the emergency room. He recreated his NYC street-playing experiences by merging his recently recorded videos of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece “Cello Suites” with his own videos of Manhattan. Each of the 36 videos focuses on specific medical conditions he personally encounters in the emergency room and each is dedicated to a top-rated health-care charity to be used as a 24/7 “benefit concert” on the internet. It is truly remarkable. Below you will find the Prelude of the First Bach Cello Suite in G Major, my all time favorite. Interestingly enough, Dr. Roter, or "E.R", dedicated this Prelude to Multiple Sclerosis. My amazing mom, Tonya Hall, has Multiple Sclerosis, and she handles it with dignity, beauty, and strength every single day. We'd like to thank Dr. Roter for giving back not only in the emergency room, but through his beautiful foundation, Bach to Health.

Thank you all for your support. We wish you a happy, healthy,...and hopefully hilarious!... 2010.

love,

Erin and Her Cello




Musicians on Call, Bach to Health, (and Erin and her Cello) can be found on facebook! Become a FAN!

Friday, December 11, 2009

OUR FIRST MUSIC VIDEO!!!

"On My Stoop" from andrea lira on Vimeo.



Ladies and Gentlemen!

OUR FIRST MUSIC VIDEO!
On My Stoop!
Directed and Animated by
ANDREA LIRA!

Spread the Word! We will get it up on Youtube, too! But for now...on Vimeo. (it's pretty)

Happy Weekend!

love,
Erin and her Cello

"On My Stoop" is available for download on itunes, emusic, rhapsody, cdbaby.com, etc!

Monday, November 30, 2009

A Dainty Dose for December!

still from "On My Stoop" by Andrea Lira.


Ladies and Gentlemen!

Oooh, we are so very excited!!!!
We have lots of treats in store for you!

1) OUR FIRST MUSIC VIDEO.
Animated and directed by the amazing Andrea Lira, we cannot wait to show it to you! See photo above to get a dainty dose, and stay tuned!

2) A NEW WEBSITE! Presently under construction! Hence this here interim blog for you to politely peruse. We haven't widely publicized our blog-- so have fun catching up!

In the meantime, you can find our debut album on ITUNES,
you can befriend us on
MYSPACE,
you can become a fabulous fan (friend) on
FACEBOOK,
and, I guess we are tweeting? So you can follow us on
TWITTER!

Happy December!
Don't forget to smell the pine trees.

love,
erin and my cello

PS we also volunteer for
Musicians On Call. it makes us feel good.