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! 

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. 

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...

Penny Larkins and Carl Pannuzzo did call themselves PotnKettle for a little while... Lots of people told them to stop so they did BUT they still liked the concept of Potnkettle for their little grab bag of things that they do.

So..it's simple. The names are the band. The 'umbrella' title of Potnkettle encompasses workshops, individual teaching, choir faciliation...all the other bits. One day we'll even get to the stage that we structure our web-site that way, just you wait.

We've got big things happening. Quiet Places (intimate concerts held every month @Theatre Royal, Castlemaine) are going crrrazzyy.. June 9th: Kavisha Allana & Alicia Egan; August 18th: Fred Smith & Liz Frencham...the next you'll have to just get excited about. WE know who they are and it's exciting we promise.

We're also going overseas to promote beautiful new album 'the cradle'. As we are a reliant on people power type of affair if you do particularly love it, it would be great to get some words. If you don't know of it yet, let us know! We'll send you a copy! Or you can buy it from Burke's Music Store, Trad & Now, CD Baby or iTunes... no excuses... We'll be in London around July 13th, Vienna around July 25th. Other places are still slotting in. It's a short trip but hopefully an experienced filled one.

There are other lovely and smaller bits...house concert in Barker's Creek June 11th, Denmark Festival of Voice (that's not small, just a long way away...), Western Australia June 3-5.

Recommend us to friends, get them to sign up via email... 'LIKE' us on facebook.

Keep in touch :)

Penny & Carl

We are very very VERY proud to announce that the new cd is ready with a capital 'R'. Launched on Sunday at the beautiful Burke & Wills Winery, we are currently selling it through us (us@potnkettle.com.au) or Burke's Music in Castlemaine or it will be available digitally very soon but you know that's not as nice as a real true lovely CD quality copy.... :) CDbaby will also be stocking it soon. 

"The Cradle" is the result of much negotiation and compromise, of musical offering and collaboration and we feature two very special guests in 'Mal Webb' and 'Pete Fidler'. If we haven't already we'll pop a track up here soon for you to sample... :) 

It's been an amazingly challenging time for a lot of people in the world. Music sometimes feels like such a piddling offer to make in times of severe hardship but then... sometimes it can enable some pretty miraculous processes to result... 

love and hope and thoughts,

Penny & Carl

Already so far, Woodford Folk Festival, Newstead Live and 2 different lots of recording. This Friday we play in Maryborough then get to work on really planning the year. Both of us have day jobs too! :) Just a couple of days and just to make it possible to tell more stories really whether by inspiration or renumeration.

Coming UP, our new CD, an appearance at Braidwood Folk Club, Candelo Village Festival, National Folk Festival and Denmark Festival of Voice just to name the signposts! 

This year also a new series of Quiet Places at the Theatre Royal featuring (only so far) Michael Kennedy, the Blue House Kev Show, Helen Begley, Lucie Thorne, Tristram Larkins and more.... 

Keep yourselves safe everybody! :) 

Penny 

See you there and more updates soon..... 

It's been a funny busy time.  Working with the lovely Jamie Dawson and his crew up at Carriageworks for the Sydney Children's Festival and then arriving home to the sad news of the accidental death of a very old and dear friend of Carl's. 

Spring now is showing it's pretty face and I guess that gives us a very present way of realising that cycles will be what they will be. 

Speaking of pretty faces, GORGEOUS VOICES is just a quick day event this year so if you owe yourself a treat in the singing department come on up and share your voice with other like minds. http://www.gorgeousvoices.org.au/index.html 

Then I'm off on an adventure but Carl will be at Kangaroo Valley with Totally Gourdgeous and then he will be at Wangaratta festival of Jazz and Blues with the Zoe Frater Quintet. 

Mullumbimby Music Festival happens November 26-28th and we are pretty excited about being part of that! :) www.mullummusicfestival.com

I (Penny) having had a very 'good choir girl' musical education and Carl has been life-changing with his allowance to trust the music.  Our approach felt a bit shaky for some I'm sure but hopefully most will have taken a new sense of their individual musical journey with them. 

NOW we are hard at work with the Sydney Children's Festival 'family' choir. :) Such a nice framework and place for discovery.  Jamie Dawson and his team at Carriageworks are just a splendiferous bunch of tight-rope walkers... And we love that they go without a net! :) 

As to gigs...City Library this Thursday, Spenserslive on Sunday night and Builders Arms on Oct 3rd! Hooray!