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2012
last updated January 30, 2012
4/13 (Bethlehem NH) The Highlands Inn off Rte 302, 603-869-3978 or 1-877-LES-B-INN or email vacation@highlandsinn-nh.com to take the weekend off for a getaway with me at this award-winning inn! Our favorite thing to do up there is go hiking and then go out to eat at the White Mountain Cider Company. That plus my show is TOTALLY worth the trip to those beautiful mountains!
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Kevin and me playing Prince's "Kiss" live, totally silly and unrehearsed at a house concert in RI, 12 May 2002
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Dear Sweet Fans, Please keep in touch!!!
Tuesday, January 29, 2012
Tonight's Butterfly Mixtape...
Just a little reminder that I will be on the radio tonight, midnight to 3am EST, for my radio show, Butterfly Mixtapes. Tonight's show is going to be a sort of retrospective of Ani DiFranco's work, inspired by the recent release of her brand new album, "Which Side Are You On?" I often post to Facebook during the show. You can write me on Facebook if you have any Ani requests, or call into the station directly: 401-792-9030 or 1-888-303-WRIU (9748). I hope you'll be listening!
Tonight! Sunday, January 29th
midnight to 3am EST (technically early Monday)
Butterfly Mixtapes
WRIU Kingston
90.3FM (in southern New England & Long Island)
or online at www.wriu.org (worldwide)
Be peace y'all,
Kristi
Tuesday, January 14, 2012
Kristi's Best of 2011 Butterfly Mixtape...
Just writing to let you know that tomorrow night, for my radio show, Butterfly Mixtapes, I'll be playing my top 9 albums and top 9 songs for 2011. Granted, I didn't get to hear EVERYTHING that came out in 2011, but of what I heard, this is my Best-of. :)
I hope you'll be listening!
Sunday January 15th, midnight to 3am EST (technically early Monday)
Listen on the air at 90.3FM or online at www.wriu.org/butterflymixtapes
Be peace y'all,
Kristi
Tuesday, January 7, 2012
Hallo Beautiful People!
Another year has come to a close and a another new year has begun. My birthday is in January too, so I always feel the new year of my life at the same time. For at least a year now, probably longer, I have been feeling behind - behind on deadlines I had set for my music projects (like the Sacred Whore album, its tour, a new and improved website, this newsletter!...), my financial goals, my life goals...
I wonder if you too felt the energy of chaos swirling around you as you planned the foods and travel and gatherings and gift-givings of the season. Whichever holiday you celebrated, winter solstice is a time of acknowledging and honoring the darkest day of the year, and welcoming, celebrating, and calling back, the light. The winter is a time of introspection, hibernation, and reflection. The holiday buzz is a bit glitzy for the needs of the season.
To actually make space for reflection during the dark days around solstice, I taught a rich yin practice the week leading up to the holiday. Yin Yoga is a slow and profound practice that creates deep openings in the body and is restorative to the cartilage, ligaments, and joints. We get deeper by holding shapes in stillness for more time. In some ways this may seem like an easier practice, but sitting still and stilling the mind are sometimes the most challenging. I taught reflective quiet classes that week, and I sang in a friend's Solstice yoga classes that week too. What a lovely honoring of the shadow and of the light!
Every new year, we reflect on what we have accomplished and how our goals may have remained or changed. Then, we set new goals, new intentions, resolutions, for the coming year. In my own reflections and meditations on Solstice and New Years, I have been thinking of how we honor the darkness, celebrate the return of the light, give and receive gifts, clean up and de-clutter, make check lists and wish lists, and resolve to do better. Lots of this activity brings our attention to the past (reflection) and to the future (goals). What my yoga practice teaches me most, and what I have been bringing to my classes this week, is that we can only be ready for the future if we are fully present in the now. I invite you to take time to cultivate now-ness, presence, a still-point inside, through meditation and especially on your mat and in your day-to-day life. When we get really fully present in our bodies and in the moment, we can set into motion the groundwork for any intention. We can't control the outcome. Life will happen and possibly alter our plans. But we will be ready, because we will have all of our energy present to deal with whatever happens.
So even though I feel behind, I know my work is just to be right here right now. I am steadily working on things. Yes, it is slower than I want. But regardless, the more I stay in this moment, the less I tell the story of the past or explain the details of my plans, the more work I can get done right now. So, today, I created this fancy new Vibedeck, an online retail store for my music that pays me directly. It is supercool for many reasons. Some of my discography is available digitally here for the first time. Some of it is free! Some of it you can buy at whatever price you want! Some of it has a fixed (totally reasonable) price. I have wanted to have a storefront of this kind for years. In this moment, I have one. Please go visit it, and share it on all your social networks and through your email lists: http://vibedeck.com/kristimartel . I wanted it to get to you before the holidays. Think of it as a belated solstice gift, sent with lots and lots of love and gratitude.
And, even though I feel behind - I think I have wanted the new website to exist for about 3 years now(!) - I am diligently working on that new website. I am currently in contact with a few designers, attempting to create a budget that I will add into the kickstarter campaign that I am creating to fund the forthcoming vinyl (yay, vinyl!) release, "skybound & anchored." Steve Rizzo is mastering the audio right now. Hopefully I'll have news on the kickstarter campaign soon. If you know of any swanky web designers whose work you think would suit mine, please send their info my way.
I also have some truly fancy news I can't quite tell you yet... I am biting my tongue until I get the official go-ahead. It's very good news. Hopefully the kickstarter campaign and this announcement will all come at the same time!
So... what did I accomplish in 2011? Did you make this sort of list?
1. I let go of some of the things I thought I absolutely had to do during this lifetime.
2. I supported my loved ones through a variety of losses.
3. I played over a dozen shows, a few of them especially important shows, like Yoshi's San Francisco, the Oakland Art & Soul Festival, & Lilypads, right here in Wakefield RI.
4. I got really clear about plans for the vinyl EP release, "skybound & anchored."
5. I networked with many record labels, recording studios, & radio promoters.
6. I DJ'd some 20+ radio shows on WRIU.
7. I became the AAA Music Director at WRIU.
8. I listened to tons of new music.
9. I taught many people to play the piano, to sing, to write songs, to read and write music, to understand music theory.
10. I cooked and baked lots of good food for my family.
11. I practiced many hundreds of hours of yoga.
12. I got a scholarship and with your help raised money to get certified as a yoga and wellness teacher!
13. I got certified and registered as a yoga teacher.
14. I became an ordained minister(!?!).
15. I started teaching yoga and now teach 5 classes a week.
16. I started seeing people privately as a wellness coach.
17. I paid off about two thirds of the debt my former manager left me with.
And when I see that list, I realize how silly it is to feel behind. The list of goals may be longer. But I am accomplishing enough. Since I was little, I wanted to help people heal through music. Even if right now that means singing while teaching yoga, I am definitely still doing that very thing, every day.
Every other Sunday midnight to 3am EST (technically early Monday morn), I play lots of favorite and new music on the radio for my show, Butterfly Mixtapes. You can listen by turning your dial to 90.3FM if you are in southern New England, or from anywhere in the world online at www.wriu.org . I often have a theme for my shows. Next week's show (January 15th) will be a best-of 2011 show, playing my favorites from the past year. I hope you'll be listening.
Recently, I came across some really great videos of my show at Yoshi's San Francisco! Quartet Rouge had their set videotaped, and so the songs that I sang with them are up online:
With Quartet Rouge, I sang Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am" - http://youtu.be/-s93Cq6i6Q8
& Doris Day's "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" - http://youtu.be/gJ43jDday1g . Enjoy! And you can always check out what new videos I've put up or am liking here at my Sealed Lip Records youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/sealedliprecords .
Meanwhile, I had a lovely time being the vocalist and occasional pianist with my drummer Matt Niebels, as part of a jazz quintet at The Breakers in Newport on New Years Eve - totally out of my element and super fun. I want to be performing more. Do you know of venues near you that would love my music? Let me know! So many venues have changed or closed in the past few years, and I have been doing so much more teaching, that I just haven't been able to keep up with bookings. Any and all help with contacts is much appreciated. You can book me places too. Think outside the typical venue box - house concerts, yoga studios, concert halls, colleges, clubs... Just ask.
And with the new year I have new yoga offerings for you:
I am now on the schedule at Laughing Elephant Yoga (formerly Sundance) in East Greenwich RI on Saturdays at 3! I absolutely adore this community - so open-hearted and generous - and the new space has wonderful energy. These 75 minute classes will be a bit more vigorous than the slow flow and stretch classes I've been teaching at Raffa Yoga and The Herb Wyfe Holistic Health Center (formerly The Studio @ Wickford Cove). The room will be mildly heated; the music will sometimes be a bit more funky; there will still be tons of attention given to alignment, breath, and mindfulness, but we'll move at a quicker pace, fitting more poses into the class:
Laughing Elephant Yoga
58 Main Street
East Greenwich, RI 02818
http://laughingelephantyoga.com/ (new website in the works)
401-339-5144
Saturdays 3-4:15pm (vinyasa flow)
Drop-in $15
10-class card for $108
Monthly Unlimited $120
I'm still teaching 3 wonderful, growing classes each week at Raffa Yoga in Cranston:
Raffa Yoga
19 Sharpe Drive
Cranston RI 02920
http://www.raffayoga.com/
401-463-3335
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4-5:30pm (slow flow)
Sundays 11:15am - 12:45pm - (yoga stretch)
And although attendance has been low, I am still offering very affordable classes at The Herb Wyfe Holistic Health Center in Wickford RI:
The Herb Wyfe Holistic Health Center
23 Brown Street
Wickford RI 02852
http://www.herbwyfe.com/yoga.htm
Wednesdays 10-11:30am (transformational vinyasa)
$10 per class
I also offer private yoga and wellness sessions by appointment. I use applied kinesiology, Integrated Energy Therapy, yoga practices, and my overall knowledge and experience with herbs, supplements, and diet, to help clients with weight, diet, depression, cholesterol, sugar, and other overall health issues. In private sessions you get to focus on exactly what you need. Some of this work can be done over the phone or through email, though I prefer in person sessions. Feel free to email me with any questions.
Soon, I hope to see you at a show or on your mat!
I am full of gratitude for all the love and support you, my dedicated fans, continue to give me so freely over so many years, even when I am slow to get my songs out into the world. I am honored by your dedication. I can't do what I do without you.
Sending so many blessings to you in this new year.
Shanti, shanti, shanti...
Kristi
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