Tune in to Breakfast Television at 8:40 on Thursday, November 5th to hear a little more about my east coast love story!

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Carmel Mikol and I are on the “Guess Who’s Driving?” Tour this month and would love to see you at one of our shows! See what we’re up to in the Guess Who’s Driving Tour Video Blog.

What a month, what a summer, what a time….I just found out that I got a Music Nova Scotia award nomination for Folk Recording of the Year for my “Where I Need to Be” digital EP I put out in May!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited it’s ridiculous!!! Voting opens September.17th but it’s only open to Music Nova Scotia members! (It’s not much to become a member so check it out!! http://www.musicnovascotia.ca/) If you haven’t checked out the EP yet then you should!! It’s on iTunes and available at all of my shows!!

Alsoooo…I uploaded my “Where I Need to Be” video for the “iLove Nova Scotia” contest!!! To vote, and I hope you do because I reallllly need your help, please visit http://bit.ly/ilovens!!! You can vote as many times as you want, just reopen your browser!!!

Other news…well…there have been many setbacks with the recording of “Painting With Tides”, and after much thought, I’ve decided to officially release in Spring instead of this Fall. I still need to do a lot of work and if we miss the Fall deadline, then it’s Winter and I don’t think the feel for this album is very Winter at all!!!! It has spring written all over it!! For those of you who were really lookin’ forward to the album, I’m very sorry you have to wait another 8 months or so!! I hope you understand and once again I’m so sorry! For now…it’s just my EP that I am working on promoting, getting out there, and touring! And if you got the “All Access Pass” digital EP, which is only available at my shows, then you get all the exclusive monthly downloads, new every time, with live cuts and touring footage! I highly recommend these! I love sending them out every month and getting responses.

On other news still! The “Guess Who’s Driving Tour” hits New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario in November just after Music Nova Scotia Week in Yarmouth!! Dates for this tour will be coming soon!! I’m looking forward to seeing even more of Canada with Carmel and hitting the road once again! This means that me and Carmel will have only missed two provinces on our tour! Hopefully we get to those two very soon and then we’ll have cleared Canada!!

I’m also looking forward to attending so many events coming up in the exciting months ahead!!! I love Fall! Atlantic Film Festival, Wolfville Deep Roots Festival, Celtic Colours, Halifax Pop Explosion, and then Nova Scotia Music Week, which Carmel and I are showcasing on the Saturday!!! These are all killer festivals and you should check them out if you have a chance!!! Amazing music at all, guarunteed!!!

Well folks! Congrats to everyone who got Music Nova Scotia Award Nominations today!!! I wish you all the best of luck and thank you to Music Nova Scotia for all your support! ;P Also thank you to everyone who helped me out and supported me over these last two years and made the “Where I Need to Be” EP possible! Adam Lomas, Scott Ferguson, Krista Keough, Kurt Firla, Mickey Quase and Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, my family, my friends, and so many others…thank you!

Continue to support live music wherever you may be…it keeps the world goin’ round and a smile on our faces…

Lotsa love and yes…excitement!

Kim

We made it safe and sound to Edmonton. Tonight Carmel and I are playing a show at the Haven Social Club. We’ve also got a very special guest joining us… Ontario’s Wax Mannequin.

Can’t wait to see you all tonight…

kim

Come wish us well as we hit the road for the next few weeks!

I am just finishing up my morning coffee after watching Canada AM and eating my usual peanut butter toast (yes, I have routine lol…I am such a morning routine person). Anyway…found out that Canadian pork is safe. Turns out even if the pig is infected, the meat is still fine. The strain stays in the lungs. Get that! So…I love how this swine flu is on the news so much that it actually starts install irrational fear in you. You have 100% more likely chance of dieing in a car crash but yup…I’m kinda still scared to get swine flu! lol bhahahahaa. Anywaysssss…

So the weekend in Antigonish was amazing! I sold out my first show at the Justamere Cafe and it was wicked! Thanks to everyone who came out to that show and for those of you who couldn’t get tickets, I’m back with Carmel Mikol on May.22nd at the StFX Art Gallery as part of the “Guess Who’s Driving Tour?”

So…what is the “Guess Who’s Driving Tour?” you ask yourself?! A frickin’ fun time! That’s what it is! Carmel Mikol and I are hittin’ the road together and eventually making our way back to Newfoundland where we had our first trip together and first experience with NFLD together for the ECMA’s! Carmel was driving…and let me tell you! It takes some patience people! I do not know how many times we got lost and she said she knew where she was going! lol bahahahahah. Carmel also likes to think it’s safe to drive 7 hours on 2 hours of sleep! I’m gonna go ahead and say that is unsafe! lol…I love Carmel though! She is sooooo wicked and we had so much fun together travelling around the ECMA’s so we agreed to do it again closer to summer. So! Here we are. She dropped me off outside my house the day we got back, after ferry delays, crazy storms that almost blew the vehicle off the road, duct taping Carmel’s eyelids because she refused to stop driving, finally convincing her to sleep a couple hours because it wasn’t safe to drive and we both had to work early the next day, and finding out that both of our bosses had let us off the hook just outside Halifax! I said, “Well good to know we can tour together, but next time, I’M DRIVING!” lol bahahahahah. “And now I’m going to sleep!” What a time…

Here’s a list of our shows folks! Nova Scotia and NFLD watch out! And thank you Ian Foster for all your help with NFLD! Check him out peeps! www.ianfoster.ca!

“Guess Who’s Driving Tour?”

Halifax – Company House, May 21, 8pm $10
(w/ Norma MacDonald)

Antigonish – St. FX Art Gallery, May 22, 8pm $10

Sydney – May 23, The Upstairs Club, 8pm $5

Truro – May 24, Fair Trade Community Café, 7pm

St. John’s, NL – June 2, The Grapevine, 10:30pm

June 3, Distortion, 10pm

June 4, The Bull & Barrell, 12am

June 6, Rose & Thistle, 10pm

Corner Brook – June 8, The Bar Room, 8pm $5

Stephenville – June 9, Clancy’s, 11pm $5

So…for those of you looking to do something this weekend..check this. I’m playing for my supper, like alot of musicians do lol, at the Carleton on Saturday afternoon! Starts at 2pm and what a time it will be! It’s hosted by Kev Corbett and the others playing are Ashley Condon and Bob Ardern.

Secondly…some wicked gals are on tour, a big boots and lipstick tour that is, and you should check them out! I’m playing with Lynn Jackson and Ambre McLean at Gus’s Pub on Sunday night and Just Us Cafe on Spring Garden on Monday Night! Gus’s Pub is a 10:00 show and Just Us is a 7:00-9:00 show. Hope to see ya out folks! These girls need to be heard “livvveee”!

So…folks…it was nice talking with ya and I hope the rest of your week and weekend is lovely! Don’t forget about Mother’s Day either! I know my Momma is one of the most influential, beautiful, supportive and amazing people in my life and she deserves ALOT back from putting up with me! (Especially in high school…ugggghhh lol) She is the thread that runs through my veins (and don’t you dare steal this line for your card! and if you do you gotta do one of these..-Kim Wempe- ahahahahah) …so make sure you take a moment to tell your Momma you love her and if you’ve lost her, take time to be grateful for the time you had with her and if you tell her you miss her, she’ll hear you…I swear…

“Keep your feet on the ground and eyes on the stars…”

Love…
Kim