Howdy everyone and happy fall!!

Its my birthday month and what better birthday gift than to grace the pages of the world famous New Yorker magazine?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2009/11/02/091102goni_GOAT_nightlife

Although they still label me “adult entertainer turned blues diva,” it is an amazing accomplishment to be enough of a personality to get a caricature in the New Yorker!! And actually, this isn’t even the first time! They drew me once before, many years ago but this is the first time I actually was able to obtain a copy. I am very proud.

Please also check out this link below and vote for our cd super hero for the House of Blues Radio Hour record of the year. It is very nice to be honored with all this great company! So many of my friends are on that list – Dani Wilde!! The Insomniacs, Ana Popovic, Maria Muldaur, Nathan James, Shemekia, Jason Ricci. I am just so pleased to be in such wonderful company.

http://www.thebluesmobile.com/contests/ecs6.shtml

We recently appeared on Bill Wax’s BB Kings Bluesville show on Sirius/XM radio. The band and I chatted with Bill and played some of our all time favorite blues songs.  Bill and the other folks at XM/ Sirius have been so supportive and really played Superhero a bunch. We are all grateful.

This is the last tour of the year for us, and its lovely to be here on the East Coast watching the leaves change color and the temperatures drop. We will end the tour down in Florida, where it’s a bit more like the California weather to which we are accustomed. Im looking forward to seeing all of my Florida fans and friends.

We played a great show in Alexandria at the Birchmere with Commander Cody guitar whiz, Bill Kirchen. What a great guy! Other tour highlights have been our show in Lincoln, Ne at the Zoo Bar and our late night sushi party with Guitar Shorty and band, courtesy of Robbie at Wasabi. His restaurant is great. Please go there if youre in Lincoln. We also had an amazing Halloween show in NYC at the City Winery with special guest Sue Palmer. It was awesome seeing all the costumed participants getting ready for their Greenwich Village parade. The best costume I saw was a man wearing a half matador, half flamenco dancer outfit and his friend was dressed as a bull. That was the best!

Its been a fitting ending to a year that was so full of activity, I can hardly catch my breath. I feel most alive when I am working but I am looking forward to spending some time at home on my Electra bicycle in December and January. I am planning on working on my book  – adding some chapters that include my healing and positive affirmation philosophies. The Memoir, The Toughest Girl Alive,  had already been finished and adapted to the stage but now that I have added beating cancer to my already colorful life, I feel strongly about including a few chapters on my optimistic outlook and how it has helped me transcend so much.

We still have some openings in December and January and are wide open for New Years Eve, so if you are even thinking of having a party, let me know. We are very affordable and would love to come to your house and show you a rockin good time!

2010 already looks exciting. We have been negotiating with Moxie theatre in San Diego about doing my stage play and hope we will confirm it soon. In addition, 2010 will bring us back to Europe and Canada a few times for festivals and of course, we will resume our work in the USA. I am also busy at work with my United By Music family, establishing a non-profit agency here in the states. We hope that we will be able to eventually bring www.unitedbymusic.eu to the USA and feature more musicians like the awesome Sujeet Desai, www.sujeet.com whom we featured at the world congress for down syndrome in Dublin, Ireland in August.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support and kindness. It has meant so much to see you all at the shows in such a turbulent economy. As I say on the bandstand every night, when you spend your hard earned money on live music, you are doing a community service and it really helps keep music alive.

Speaking of keeping music alive, my friend, songwriter Peter Case had emergency heart surgery and like so many of us, has no insurance. Please consider donating to his fund and to the recovery fund for drummer Richie Heywood of Little Feat. Richie played on my Whole Lotta Love cd and is an amazing musician. Add to that list, Encinitas songwriter and musician Steve White and his battle with esophagus cancer. I will play a benefit for Steve on December 19th in Encinitas. It is my hope that 2010 will bring a solution to so many of us across this great country who remain uninsured or uninsurable because of the corrupt insurance companies standards and pre-existing condition clauses. You can google any of these great musicians for more information.

May your holidays be filled with warmth and music and your new year - full of laughter. Remember, we all have the strength inside us to transcend whatever comes. Tap into that reservoir of strength and surprise yourself. You can overcome anything!

With Big Love and Gratitude,

Candye

Candye Kane band shows

11/13 MY BIRTHDAY!!! Indialantic, Fl/ Lous Blues upstairs

11/14 Boca Raton, Fl/ The Back Room

11/15 Sebastian Beach, Fl/ Earls Hidaway

11/17 and 18 Key West/ The Green Parrot

11/27 Solana Beach, Ca/ The Belly Up Tavern Happy Hour

11/28 Sherman Oaks, Ca/ Cozys

11/29 Los Angeles, Ca/ Redwood Bar

11/30 Solana Beach/ Belly Up Tavern/ Benefit for Calypso Café Fire 8:00 – 8:45 pm

12/6 San Diego/ Private party

12/10 Cleveland, Ohio/ Fat Fish Blue –special guest w Blue Lunch

12/11 Columbus, Oh/ www.whiskeydicksbar.com/ Laura and CK special guest for Blues for a cause cancer benefit w/ Sean Carney

12/12 Phoenix, Ar/ The Rhythm Room (whole band)

12/13 Tucson, Az/ The Hut

12/18 Solana beach/ Belly Up Tavern

12/19 Encinitas, Ca/ Friends of Steve White benefit/ Encinitas library

2/27 Phoenix, Az/ Blues Blast Festival

5/14 and 15/ Kwandendamme, Holland/ Blues Festival

8/20 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada/ Blues Festival

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