HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (Phew, we made it!)

 "NEW YEAR'S EVE"
© Bill Burnett and Peggy Sarlin

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New Year's Eve has got to be the weirdest of holidays. Unlike most others, which commemorate  someone's birth, or celebrate of the end of a war, or the beginning of a season, or some kind of big religious or philosophical event or concept, New Year's Eve is all about the passage of time. Which is a pretty dreary subject, when you get right down to it.  That's why I think there are no real New Year's songs.  "What Are You Doing New Year's" and "Auld Lang Syne" are about it, right?  So Peggy Sarlin and I took a stab at capturing the ambiguous nature of the holiday in this song and I thought it was appropriate to trot it out for this combination new year and new decade.  Please, let me know what you think of it...

Happy Hollandaise and High Hopes for a Great New Decade From The SongMine!

Hello and happy happy EVERYTHING SongMiners.  I am grateful the long dreary decade some are calling "The Aughts" (meaning the Zeros) is coming to a close and 2010 is just around the corner, ripe with promise.

My New Years Resolution is to get the SongMine back up and running after a long hiatus.  Maybe I'll make it a bi-weekly event for the new year.

To end the aughts on a happy note, please enjoy this holiday greeting from ChalkZone. (Directed by the amazing Bob Nesler.)

And then be sure to scroll down and see my perennial holiday hit "Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!"  See ya next year.  Meanwhile, for heaven's sake, go have some fun at the SongMine!

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Christmas X 3 at the Coffee Gallery

We had a swell time last Friday at Coffee Gallery Backstage and I sang MY perennial holiday favorite "Christmas Christmas Christmas"--captured by Donna Barnes-Roberts for her wonderful new blog What You Missed at the Coffee Gallery Last Night which you should definitely check out on a regular basis:

© Bill Burnett

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Backboners! New CD!

Watch for The Backboners at the esteemed music venue The Bodie House Wednesday Feb 27, 2010

And I want to spread the news that The Backboners  has made a cool new CD called "We Dreamed It All"--that's the cover to the right. Contact me if you'd like to get one. They'd made great New Years Gifts!

Beasts of the Spirit LIVE

I'm sure to be back doing another version of this with Backboners soon, but this one was fun, with the Coffee Gallery Backstage audience providing the bestial background voices...

© Bill Burnett

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