November, 2021 - "Nature Will Have Her Way" Video just published!

Dear Friends - As COP26 in Glasgow winds down with plenty of talk but little action on the climate crisis taken so far, we're excited to release a video version of our latest single "Nature Will Have Her Way".

Please take a moment to enjoy the music and humor, but do take heed... Watch it now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-FsiZXEHbSw

Peace & Love, Penny & Slim

"Nature Will Have Her Way" and a new Gamba video

 

Dear Friends, As the crazy continues, hope this finds you all well and enjoying life.

Dark humor alert: We've just released a new web-based single called "Nature Will Have Her Way".  It features Penny singing a tune by Slim, a breezy jazz-pop bossa nova with a comic but dire warning for humanity. It should be available on all the major streaming services soon, but you can listen and/or download it (free) here now: https://slimandpenny.com/web/articles/NatureWillHaveHerWay/

Also, we recently uploaded a new video from Penny's viola da gamba session in our project studio earlier this month.  This one is "Touch Me Lightly" by Tobias Hume: https://youtu.be/En3dn-V0R3M

That's it for now. Peace & Love, Penny & Slim

August, 2021 - Just when we thought we were out of the woods edition

Dear Friends -

Hope this finds you safe from the virus and its growing list of variants -- there is some nasty stuff going around! Please protect yourselves and your loved ones as best you can.

Meanwhile, some fun music stuff to report:

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For our Santa Cruz friends, it's Gambas At The Blitzer! Come see Penny this Saturday afternoon (Aug. 14) at the R. Blitzer Gallery. In a rare treat, she'll be performing solo viola da gamba in the art gallery from 1 to 2pm. Please See Details Below...

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Since our previous newsletter, we uploaded a video of ourselves performing an instrumental version of Neil Sedaka's "Laughter In The Rain", recorded live in our project studio: https://youtu.be/cNk0CLVk2_A

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For our harmonicist friends Slim presented a workshop for HarmonicaUK's "Chromatic Weekend" back in June, which was on Zoom (again) this year. The topic was "Clean Mic'ing & Processing Techniques for Chromatic Harmonica (Live & Studio)" and should you be interested, the replay is here: https://youtu.be/wthzlshpVBs At the tail end of the workshop Slim played a bunch of harmonica choruses on "Bye Bye Blackbird", this link skips all of the preceding talk if you'd just like to hear some playin': https://youtu.be/wthzlshpVBs?t=4153

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Gambas at the Blitzer
August 14, 2021
Saturday, 1 - 2pm

•  Penny Hanna, viola da gamba, performs renaissance and baroque music by Hume, Simpson, Bach, Marais, Abel & Kühnel in the gallery

• Exhibit of viola da gambas and early guitars by luthier Charles Sutton

• Exhibit of paintings by Frank Galuszka

R. Blitzer Gallery
2801 Mission Street (2nd floor)
Santa Cruz, CA
rblitzergallery.com
(831) 458-1217
 

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That's it for now, do take care!

Peace & Love,

- Slim & Penny

This Life We've Had

Slim & Penny at Ralph's Showplace, Oakland, CA - 1973

 Howdy Friends -

This year has already brought many changes in our lives. We're very sad to have just lost Penny's sister and former bandmate Maggie Reynolds (memorial page is here: https://slimandpenny.com/web/articles/MaggieMemorialPage/), but we're happy that there's new leadership in D.C. and grateful for the vaccine.

We're also happy to release our latest web single "This Life We've Had" into the wild today.  Yet another love song written for Penny, this one for her 2020 birthday (perhaps in a few years we'll have a Birthday Sessions Vol. 2?).

Listen and/or download here:

https://slimandpenny.com/web/articles/ThisLifeWeveHad/

Hope this finds you all happy, healthy, and looking forward to somewhat more normal times ahead...

- Slim & Penny