Saying hello to everyone from sunny Tamar Valley. It's been a beautiful start to the year. Tasmania is a very special place, is it not? 

Today will see us take the festival choir for a rehearsal (just an excuse to have a sing together really) and then some relaxing time spent watching beautiful friends like Fred Smith and Lucie Thorne make music tonight. How spoilt are we? 

Penny & Carl have resolved to put "Penny & Carl" much higher up the priority list this year. We had a funny old year mostly driven by "money stress created fear" (you know the one?) and realised that happiness is worth a whole lot more.  So Carl has begun work on a solo recording and Penny is starting up some class-work in drama and voice and aside from that we will be letting musical possibilities lead us where it feels right to go. 

Penny will be at Newstead Live! in a couple of weeks with Salvation Jane (Reunited)! How crazy is that? We're cobbling together some old and new recording so check out www.salvationjanereunited.com to have a listen to the sounds we've been making. 

Here's to NEW! 

Spring is in the air!!

Well...2011, I gotta say, you arrived with a barrage of storms and upheaval. We suffered losses and worked out how to "make do" with changing lots landing our laps. With 2 months of this tumultuous year left to go, we seem to be looking up and out for the first time. :) 

Hooray for that! 

So we look to plans for Festivals in Tasmania over lovely January and a return to our favourite home base Newstead Live! This time though, Penny appears with the reunited form of the yummy group, Salvation Jane who have recording plans afoot... 

Carl and Penny plan to make 2012 the most creative year yet, looking at further European travels over July/September and a possible white christmas tour in the US leading into 2013. 

Carl has plans to record his first solo work since 'Hayfever' and Penny  is wanting to stretch her writing limbs. With a new house and new hopes in our sights, we'd love to see you sometime along the journey. 

TRAVELS

Yup we're hittin' the air, taking in the UK, and smatterings of Europe. July will see us at the City of London festival as well a handful of lovely gigs and house concerts, meanwhile Europe hosts us as concert makers and workshop facilitators in Vienna,  both for singing and theatre making. Here are the details:

LONDON:

City of London Festival, 3 FREE Event appearances
http://www.colf.org//events/Jazz-World-Music/1191-Pacific-Sounds--Carl-Pannuzzo--Penny-Larkins.cfm:
July 15 @ 17:30 Commuter Music: Liverpool Street Station, West Exit EC2  

July 16 @ 14:45 Pacific Sounds: Canada Square Park, Canary Wharf, London E14

July 20 @ 12.30 Devonshire Square (nearest tube Liverpool St)

PLUS:
July 19 @ The Halfmoon Inn, Putney (with Rebecca Moore and Totally Gourdgeous)
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=454996&interface=halfmoon

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VIENNA, AUSTRIA:

WORKSHOPS:

As part of Jugendinwien, Penny and I will be doing some exciting work with music and theater:

Singing (Carl): July 25 to 27, 2011
9:00 to 12:00  (age 13 to 18)
16:00 to 19:00 (age 19 to 25)

Theatre Penny): July 25 to 29, 2011
12:30 to 15:30 (age 13 to 25)

Both FREE! Info: www.jugendinwien.at

CONCERTS:

July 29th: at Cafe Korb, Art Lounge (www.cafekorb.at)
1010 Wien, Brandstätte 9
T: + 43 -1-5337215

July 30: Heuriger am Sandhofer, Purbach am Neusiedler See  - Kellergasse / Kellerplatz
www.sandhofer.net  (best wine and food in Burgenland!)
bookings: Hubert or Birgit: heuriger@sandhofer.net

Meanwhile, let your friends know, wherever they may be. You see we're realising the ILLUSION is that we are often easiest and most beneficially experienced than simply talked about. Feels a little like a special thing for those to whom we are held close and special in the way our music can seem to touch personally. But therefore could we be like a secret that's a bit daggy and embarrassing to share? As in the case that someone may never know that your favourite thing to do is snug up on a couch in your tracky dacks with a book, when all that the rest of the world sees is the efficient business woman in a suit??

Pehaps consider the many daggy fashions that have gone before or even returned and realise that we my be a kink in the hair-do, but it's the feeling the flick gives that makes the difference :)

So tell your friends to get comfy with us

Your tracky dacks!

More soon and seriously...