Change Happens
With great excitement, I'm happy to announce that I've just retired from my day gig as a software engineer, leaving tons more time for music projects. Needless to say, as a lifelong musician, I've been looking forward to this ever since taking my first full time programming job back in 1991. In my world, programming is big fun but it doesn't hold a candle to making music.
For local folks, I have some less positive news, which is that we've been told there will be no Seascape Village Farmers Market this summer (and so we won't be doing our Sunday gig there any longer). This along with last year's demise of The Beach Break at Seacliff State Park means we have no upcoming duo gigs to announce at this time. However, Penny continues to perform with The Cherry Trio and The Cabrillo College Jazz Ensemble as well as directing the Cabrillo Stroke & Disability Learning Center Choir, while both of us are putting in lots more time in our project studio.
New Music
Earth Day 2019 is happening this Monday with many events preceding it this weekend. Even if there's no good environmental news to celebrate this Earth Day, we can still make a bit of music and have a laugh at our collective selves, and it's in that spirit that we've added our brand new recording We'll Still Have This Love (which carries a not-so-subtle climate change message) to the Birthday Sessions set on our website. Also since our last newsletter, we've added the somewhat autobiographical tune When We Were Young to that set. Both of these new tunes were written for (as well as sung by) Penny for her 2018 and 2017 birthdays, respectively.
Penny and I hope you're all enjoying springtime in good health and remembering to love and care for each other (in addition to Mother Earth!).
Please have a listen here.
- Slim
All our published recordings can be heard at www.slimandpenny.com, and our 2 CDs are on all the popular streaming services.
