The last two years have been filled with crazy touring schedules and a lot of airplanes, but I’m more than excited to be home and announce some shows on the East Coast!  I just spent a full week and a half  home and had a great Easter holiday with family and friends. I even unpacked my suitcase and organized my taxes. Feels great!! Hope you all had an awesome Easter as well!

Anyways, here I go again but just on a little jaunt around the East Coast in my car. I’m very excited I don’t have to worry about airports and luggage weight.  My first stop is in Halifax opening up for a new friend, Zachary Lucky, from Saskatchewan. I’m so excited to have randomly stumbled on Zachary’s music. My stepdad told me he heard this song about Saskatchewan on CKUA in Alberta and showed me this song. I fell in love with it!! Then we saw he was playing the Company House and I was actually home and not touring! So, I invited him to come and stay at our house tonight and then I’m opening the show for him THIS Wednesday in Halifax! The last time I tried to play Halifax and open up for Suzie Vinnick, I got stuck in NFLD airport and didn’t make the show. This show, I will make and you won’t want to miss. Zachary Lucky..you got to check him out.  Beautiful music.

The East Coast Music Awards are coming up in Moncton, NB and I’m looking forward to the weekend with friends I haven’t seen in ages and A LOT of great music.  I have two shows around ECMA’s, one being a private showcase, but the other is a House Concert.  If you would like to attend this house concert, feel free to email me at kim@kimwempe.com.  All are welcome!

After the ECMA’s, I head over to P.E.I to play with good friends Tim Chaisson and Katie McGarry. I haven’t seen Tim since the ‘Whose Song Is It Anyways’ showcase! Tim and I are a playing a House Concert in Charlottetown, so please let me know if you are interested in attending this House Concert as well. Like I said, all are welcome. Katie McGarry and I will head down to Baba’s Lounge in Charlottetown on Thursday night, April. 19th! So please spread the word and bring out your friends. Excited to get back to P.E.I!

On the road back home to Antigonish, I make a stop in Truro to open up for David Myles at the Marigold Cultural Centre! Truro and surrounding, hope you can make it out! I love the Marigold and David Myles puts on one of the best live shows I’ve seen.

After Truro, I head home. Home for month!!! The end of April and all of May will be spent writing the last few songs for my upcoming album I’ll be recording in July and August.  And so it begins again…

Hope to see you around folks!

Much love and thanks a ton for your support…

Kim

Here we are in 2012! I want to genuinely thank you for your support. This past fall tour across Canada, I was blown away by the generosity of house concert hosts and by the enthusiasm of the audiences at the shows. Whether you came out to a show, bought a cd, bought jewlery, hosted a house concert, had us at your venue, put us up, spread the word, shared a link on facebook or twitter, it all helps and I want you to know I appreciate it. I have so many great people to thank and you’re one of them!

I’m excited to kick off the Winter January blues with some co-writing sessions and musicians visiting! Tim Chaisson stopped by for a quick visit where we recapped our December tour, ‘Whose Song Is It Anyway’ by covering each others tunes again! If you missed that tour with Chris Kirby, Andy Brown, Tim Chaisson, and I, hopefully you can catch it next fall when we head out on the road again. Till then, here’s some video of me playing Tim’s song ‘Souris River Girl’ and some footage of Tim covering ‘Rhythm of the Road,’ a song I wrote with my good friend Carmel Mikol.

http://youtu.be/QnSmz_e7A3o

http://youtu.be/CG8-l-zT4Gc

The next friends to visit are Ria Mae, Dave Gunning, Carmel Mikol, and Chris Kirby! I’m pumped to write with these amazing folks.  It’s inspiring to be around other writers and performers, and share ideas and collaborate with them.

I feel renewed and excited about many things coming up this year!  These next months of shows, I’m playing with some great friends and musicians I look up to including David Myles, Jim Bryson, Thom Swift, Chris Kirby, Suzie Vinnick, Roxanne Potvin, and Joanna Barker.  If you’re around, I’d love to see you at a show, and if you can’t, please spread the word and tell your friends about the shows!

I head out the end of January until the end of March (see dates to the right!). I hope you can make one of the shows and if none of them are in your area, I’m releasing more dates for April and June in Western Canada, as well as some great East Coast dates I can’t wait to announce!

Hope to see you out on the road soon!

Much love,

Kim

kim@kimwempe.com