A New Year!!

Happy 2012!!!

We hope 2012 shapes up to be as amazing as 2011 was.  It was our first year as a singing duo, and we're happy to report that The Sassy Songbirds performed approximately 40 shows last year and put out our very first CD, "A Sassy Holiday"!!!  Every home we visited was truly special and touched our hearts in many ways.  From Country Villa Glendale Senior Care in Glendale, to Alternative Senior Care in Huntington Beach, to The Chicago Club at Laguna Woods in Orange County... we appeared at numerous venues last year and were asked back many times to perform other themed programs.  We actually visited Sunrise Senior Living in Hermosa Beach 4 times last year and were able to show off our Christmas Show, Patriotic Show, Broadway Show, and St. Patrick's Day show!  I think we can say that we're old friends with all those audience members by now!

We are very excited for 2012 and for the imminent arrival of Kristen's baby girl, due March 2nd.  So, while Kristen is in the nesting phase, we have already started booking gigs for late April, May, and June and will begin working on our 2nd CD featuring Broadway Hits and Favorites!

So, we hope your New Year is starting off wonderful because ours definitely is!!!  Below you will find a list of all our themed programs, and a video montage of various performances from last year!  We hope to hear from you soon so we can bring some joy, laughter, singing and Sass to your audiences!!

(also to see more specific videos of themed programs, scroll through our blog to see clips from Halloween, Veterans Day (tap dancing), Christmas, etc.)

Themed Programs Include:

30s, 40s Standards

Broadway 

A Salute to Uncle Sam

St. Patrick's Day

Father's Day

A Salute to Uncle Sam (4th of July/Veterans Day)

A Sassy Halloween

A Classic Christmas

 

Halloween

We hope everyone had a great Halloween.  Because we sure did!  Our shows were filled with dancing, costumes, witchcraft, and lots of snapping, clapping, and toe tapping.  We even adapted our name to "The SPOOKY Songbirds" just for the weekend!  One of our audience members brought her original vinyl of "Monster Mash" from 1962!

 We also had great feedback from our show at Grandview Palms Assisted Living where we performed for their Memory Care Unit.  Our new friend and contact from Grandview Palms, Lynne Talbert, had this to say about our performance:

 "Kristen - Many thanks to you and Alexis for the wonderful performance yesterday at Grandview Palms Assisted Living. The resident turn-out was amazing. So many comments after you left. There were tears while you were singing beautiful songs that brought memories to residents. Since I have worked there I have never seen such a response to entertainment we have had. Music is a perfect therapy for those with Alzheimer's. The "Sassy Songbirds" brought more happiness and joy to our residents than I can tell you - THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart."

This is why we love what we do!!!  We knew that was a special performance and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it.  We appreciate Grandview Palms for having us there!  Thank you!

Below you will find a sample video from our Halloween shows over the weekend.  We hope you enjoy.

Getting Ready for the Busy Season!

What have The Sassy Songbirds been up to you might ask?  Well, don't worry because we have been busy birds!  We finally finished our CD "A Sassy Holiday" -- now for sale for $10 or 3 for $25!!!  Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing a Holiday CD and we can arrange to send one to you.  We can't wait to bring them along to all our upcoming performances and we actually sold 3 at our performance last week at Vintage Mission Inn.

We also participated in the Long Beach "Walk to End Alzheimer's" Walk on October 16th.  The Sassy Songbirds were a part of team "Upside to Dementia" and really rallied to raise funds and get involved.  So much so, that "Upside to Dementia" won an award for raising the most donations by a family team!  $4795.00!!!!  We are so proud to be a part of this community and to be surrounded by friends and family who really support us and the cause.  (Upside to Dementia is the name of Kristen's blog about her Dad's journey with Alzheimer's and you can find a link to that on the upper right side of our blog.)

And the past two weeks our motto has been "Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse!!!"  We have four performances this weekend, three of which are Halloween themed.  So, we are learning a whole new show and we're pretty excited about it!  As we all know, there aren't an abundant amount of true Halloween Songs, but we used our imagination and incorporated songs like "Old Devil Moon", "Old Black Magic", "Love Potion Number Nine", "Puff the Magic Dragon", "Witch Doctor", and many more with similar themes.  We are of course featuring Halloween favorites like "Monster Mash", "The Addams Family", "Ghostbusters", "Witchcraft", and "A Pirate's Life for Me".  Below is a behind the scenes video of our rehearsals...

After Halloween we are busy getting ready for Veterans Day, and then Christmas!  So we have no time to waste as our calendar is filling up with gigs!  We're so excited.