Well, it's newsletter time again.
This is just a quick one to wish both of my fans L'shannah Tovah (Happy New Year) and may we all see peace, prosperity, and good health in this New Year. And we should all schepp naches (feel pride) from our children. Obviously, I'm not talking to you, Mom.
I've got a lot of potential projects in the offing. I can't tell you about any of them until deals are made, papers are signed, and cigars are smoked. OK, not the cigars. But basically, what it means is, this will be a pretty pathetic Newsletter, at least in terms of news.
However, I am willing to hint cryptically at some of them. And I am willing to tell you what I'm not going to be doing. I won't be playing catcher for the Cleveland Indians, for instance. And I won't be making funny faces at the orangutan at the zoo only to agitate him and watch him almost smash through the glass. Again.
But, I will point your browser in the direction of Radio-J. (That's http://www.radio-j.com/ if the link doesn't work.) Radio-J is a brand new, all Jewish content, web-based radio station. It broadcasts out of Cleveland, Ohio (where I make my home, at least suburbanaly. I think I just made that word up.) and is run by two good friends of mine, the father and son team of Phil and Shawn Fink. Phil has been in Jewish radio forever and his talented son seems to be following in his footsteps.
I'll also tell you about Eastern Connecticut. I worked at a couple of places there last year for their Jewish Federation and they must have liked me, because I'll be there again this December 7 - 10. The contract is not inked yet, but I feel safe in listing this as a go-ahead event. If all goes according to plan, I will be doing sessions with the day school on Friday morning, leading the music and delivering a Sermon in Song" for a Friday night service, doing music for a Saturday morning service, performing a Saturday night adult coffee house concert, doing sessions with religious school classes Sunday morning, performing a family concert Sunday afternoon, and doing songwriting sessions with one of the synagogue high schools on Monday night. Whew! There's barely time to get to the casino in all of that. (The Mohegan Sun Casino is right there, and it's the largest casino in North America, I think.) I'll share all of the details, like times and locations of all those events, another time.
I've been working on getting gigs in California, in the Los Angeles area, and it looked like I had some lined up for June of 2008. But June is not the optimal time for gigs in synagogues in Los Angeles or anywhere, for that matter. So, I'm trying for Fall/Winter 2008. If you have any contacts there, please let me know, or pass along my info to them and point them toward this page: http://www.noahbudin.com/booking.php
In the meantime, I'd like to share some of these memories I found while organizing some of my stuff.
This is me and my son, Zac, at a Children's Music Network conference in Wisconsin in about 1995 or '96. Zac just turned 19 last week.
And here I am, a mere pup myself, performing at the Coventry Street Fair, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, c. 1978, about the same age as my son is now.
That's me in the middle. OK. It's not, but you can tell which one I am, right?
And, here I am today.
OK. That's Burl Ives in "Heidi." But, I'm not far behind.
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