End of the Year

What a year! We lost our wonderful bass player, Haddon, but kept him as a friend and added a wonderful bass player, Beth, AND added her as a friend, so we are definitely in the plus column! After years of work and false starts, we got our CD finished and are thrilled by it. Part of putting it together was to chronicle where were are as a band and a side benefit is to analyze what we did and figure out what we could do better. It's a success on both accounts. The third benefit is raising money through sales of the CDs for our church's building debt fund. That one's a work in progress and we hope/plan/pledge/resolve to try some web-based marketing this year.
Plans for 2010; Mike wants us to work on traditional bluegrass instrumentals and all of our instrumentalists are pretty enthusiastic, I think. Chaz has already perfected a new one. I just dragged out Soldiers Joy yesterday and began re-learning it. It was WAY fun! My goal is to write and finish more childrens' songs this year, aiming for the goal of 15 that we all like for another CD. I hope to write more grownups' songs along the way, too.
All that along with New Year's Resolutions of more exercise, better diet, peace on earth, yadda yadda yadda. I think I have a good head start on the yadda resolution.