The Martine & Trina Show

Yes, it's true. December 11th, the wonderful Trina Hamlin and I will do a double bill show here in Indianapolis. We haven't done a proper show together for a while and felt like it was time. It will be my first show at Earth House, a wonderful community based venue here in downtown Indianapolis, that is an amazing old church. 

During the day in the same space is the 3rd Annual Alternative Gift Fair where MuseKraft and 30+  local artisans will have their wares on sale for your Xmas present buying pleasure.

Tickets are on sale at Brown Paper Tickets now, so grab your mates and put a xmas group together and come and be with us for the night for a lot of fun music.

xxM

Art....and music.

This is my guitar, getting a beautiful new dress. She looks amazing, no?!

Xxm

Check 1, 2, 3

This is a shot from the last time I played a show here in Indianapolis at the Indy Indie clubhouse. It's where I am going to record my live cd in three weeks time and no doubt, the audience will look somewhat similar to this.

I have been rehearsing with Dionne and my friend Jamie Price who will be sitting in on djembe with us for a few songs and slowly have been getting the set list ready for it. I am sure I should be more nervous than I am, but its just a live show. I know I only get one chance to make the cd sound pretty and part of me knows that I have to get myself to a place where I just let go of my perfectionist and let it just 'be'.

It's going to be a live performance with all the cracks, pops, garuffs, laughs, moments of blankness and spontaneity that a live show usually carries. And that is going to be a beautiful thing to capture on tape (or disc, as it is now known...).

The show is pretty much sold out and will be filled with warm, loving, excited humans who are there to be a part of the magic of recording. Peoples who will bring their voices and their hearts ready to lay it all down with me. Then the recording will be mixed, mastered, pressed and sent out into the world with all it's character and beauty.....and it will be, as it is.

And for that, I am tremendously grateful.

xxM

The path...

I find that my path, my journey is never boring.

Never has been, never will be.

It's sometimes beautiful, straight and clear. Other times dark, cloudy and unclear. Sometimes, its even beautiful, unclear and filled with leaves....lol.

I thought about that when I saw this staircase in Turkey Run State Park today. Hiking in the midst of.such beauty reminding myself to stay present, to breathe. The words of Pema Choudron ringing in my ears;

"As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new."

I know that my brain can get so caught up in the 'what ifs' that I forget to pay attention and breathe in the now...and then look at what I can miss out on.

Back to breathing.....in and out.

That's all I can control...

Xxm

Hand art...

For the days when your brain and heart forget...and a tattoo parlor isn't close by.

Budget cuts?

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Fall....

As does it....so do I.

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