Tin Penny: News

2010 has already been a busy year for the Weltons. We wrapped up a trip to California and Vegas at the end of January, then packed Larry off for some carpal tunnel surgery the beginning of February. Those of you who know him won't be surprised to learn that he was playing guitar an hour after we got back from the hospital. (And I thought I was going to get a break!)
We're working on new material, both original and other artists. Seeing the Beatle's "Love" in Vegas inspired us to add a couple of Beatle tunes to our repertoire. Stay tuned! And check out our photos from the Las Vegas Trip in our photo gallery.

Tin Penny will be on the Town Green in Manchester on the 4th of July at 4:00. Manchester is reviving its traditional Independence Day celebration, which, if you are old enough and local enough to remember, was quite the rippin' party. Come down town for some old-fashioned fun, and bring the kids!

Warmer days find us emerging from our long winter slumber to line up some summer engagements. We'll dip our toes in at the River Run in Plainfield in May, Radiobean in Burlington in June, LACE in Barre come July, and the grand finale: RhinoFest in Plainfield August 22. As the dates firm up, we'll add them to the calendar (with links, so you can check out the venues). We'd love to fill in the gaps, so if you have a suggestion, you know where to find us. Sing out!

We discovered a great new open mike at the Barn in Pawlet. The open mike is hosted alternately by some pretty talented local musicians (one of whom is old family friend Will Mosheim). If great music is not enough, we can assure you the food is fantastic, the cost is reasonable, and the staff is first class: friendly, efficient, and unflappable, even when they're super-busy (so don't let the full parking lot scare you away).
Check it out: http://www.barnrestaurant.com/welcome.shtml
-Beth

Come hang with us at Al Ducci's famous Italian Pantry in Manchester Center. We're playing June 8, and with a little luck (meaning a good turnout), we'll play again--and again! Down home songs, down home food--what more can you ask?
Check out Al Ducci's at http://www.alduccis.com.
Ciao!

While we had Matthew cornered last Saturday, we managed to book another show at the Ball and Chain Cafe in Brandon. This one is for Saturday, August 16th at the usual 7PM time.

A nice late summer evening event with the windows open.

Well, we had a great time. We tried out some of our new stuff, including our new song "Peachy Keen" which is our first collaboration tune. We even brought an electric guitar this time and nobody threw anything.

Some of our Wildwoods Music Co-op friends were there as well as some new folks. Hope we didn't scare them off!

We have another B&C gig coming up in June, so if you didn't make this one, hope to see some of you there next time.

Cheers,

tp

Hey folks!
Just letting you know we've got some new material to debut at our summer shows. We've got some original stuff, including an autoharp tune with music by Larry and words by yours truly; a truly lovely piece that Larry wrote for me (sigh!); and an oldie of mine--and i mean OLDIE, as in 1970's era--that I used long ago to sing my girls to sleep when they were little. We've also got some familiar songs--new for us, though--and another John Prine. Just can't have too many John Prine songs in your repertoire!
Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks?
See you soon!
Beth

We just plugged two new gigs into our calendar:

We'll be playing at the Killington Library in Killington, VT (yes, like the ski area, only the town, not the mountain), sponsored by the Killington Arts Guild. We'll be there at 7:00PM on Tuesday, June 17th (our anniversary!!). It's open to the public and it's free (as far as we know at this time).

Here's a (long and compicated) link:

http://www.killingtontown.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={2DB54404-B2D7-4B3D-A77F-A81B9F7D1E5B}

Also . . .

We'll be performing at the Church of the Wildwoods in Chittenden, VT along with our good friends and Wild Woods Music Co-op cohorts (no relation to the Church of the Wildwoods BTW) WoodChucks' Revenge on Saturday, May 3rd. It's a benefit supper with live entertainment (the 'Chucks and us). There's eats, so there will be a donation. (We're thinking it's something in the $5-10 range per person. We'll find out exactly and post it in the next few days.) Dinner is at 5:00PM. Tunes will start between 5:30 and 6:00. We'll be swapping 20-25 minute sets with the 'Chucks. No preachin', just food 'n folk music. Should be good fun.

Here's their website:

http://wildwoodumc.org/

Hope to see you at one of these events if you can make it.

"It'll Have to Do" is available at the following Vermont establishments:
Briggs Carriage Bookstore in Brandon: http://www.briggscarriage.com/
The Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center: http://www.northshire.com/
New Morning Natural Foods in Manchester Center

We finally received the shipment on Tuesday, March 4th. If you'd like to check it out, we plan to have some with us whenever we're about or drop us an email and we can tell you how to find a copy.

You will also be able to download one or more songs from the CD (or the entire CD for that matter) in various formats, including high quality MP3's, at various locations around the net, including iTunes (more on that later).

or, if you just can't wait,

you can download them right this minute at:




Check it out.

Alllllllllsooooooo . . .

You can buy the CD, download songs, or a digital copy of the entire CD (including artwork), at CD Baby.

Follow this link:





Now we're gonna start peddling ourselves about for live gigs, so we may see you close by in person sometime soon (we hope)!

Tin Penny's new CD, "It'll Have to Do," will be available March 1, 2008

It looks like this:



And here's the back (and the song list too):



So how cool is that? (OK, well, we think it's pretty cool . . . )