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Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

To get to my Traveling Indian Lily Blog please click on Blinks on the home page. Ta La!

Swan's Studio Is Moving

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

I'm finally at a time in my life where my upstairs, back room studio just doesn't cut it. No more hauling guitars and other instruments up and down the stairs. No more, I should be recording but I should really clean the kitchen first. No more, No More. I'm building a studio in my back yard and away from the house that grows dirt and is the main culprit of my focusing issue. I had signed up for a Loc-N-Logs seminar as I've always dreamed of having a log cabin in the woods to pretend I'm Anne La Bastille only with out the blond hair, pink lipstick and German Shepherds. I ended up canceling this seminar as log walls just are not conducive to good sound recording. My friend and fellow artist Steven Skollar had a studio built for himself and his wife Michelle, also an artist. in their back yard in which I was lucky to tour. Nice studio! Bigger than what I would need but simple, spacious and full of light! So Steven gave me the contractor's name and there I went. Jerry Snyder is is name and building really nice simple structures at a REALLY reasonable price is his game. Mr. Synder stopped in last week with his box of photos, proof that he and his team built them. In flipping though this shoe box size box full of photos. I realized I've driven by and admired many of these structures as they are all built in my area. Mr. Snyder is a busy man. He's hired. So! I have visions of studios dancing in my head to say the least. Still in the design process...I hope to have it up by fall! Oh! I'm also the Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and every other Sunday girl at Michaels Fine Dining and Spirits in Sangerfield NY tending bar! I also have picked up the second Friday of every month playing from 8-11ish too. Nice. If the walls there could talk! Its a lovely and lucky old building to be renovated. Life is good tho the winter long at the beginning of what I feel is part two of my life with out Dad but with a huge mind basket of beautiful memories to draw upon. ta la

LIfe Full Spiral

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

I mostly use my blog which can be found under the blinks link at The Traveling Indianlily.
Other than my monthly gig at the Georgetown Inn. I have a New Years Eve folk gig at the Mountain Top in my home town of Sherburne.
I'm rooting through my writing basket and do have a new crop of songs to record this winter. If I feel like it. I'm looking forward to snow! And lots of it...really!

Skyway NIght

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The music will continue on through the night from 7 till 9ish with musicians performing at these venues in Hamilton.

Club Ed ~ The Colgate Inn
Same Blood Folk ~ Nichols and Beal
The Hook ~ The Barge
Steve Golly ~ Rusch's
Tommy Hoe and the Barn Cats ~ The Hour Glass

Skyway 2009 Is Coming!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Skyway is September 12th starting at 11:45 in the Hamilton Village Green in memory of Craig GetchonisÂ
Skyway Bands
2009
Hosted by Meredith Leland Getchonis
and Chris Cashion
And This years Skyway Performers are!

Adishakti Dancers
Tumbleweed Gumbo
Zach Fleitz
Commander Cockroach and the Mexican Bus
Emilee Smith
David Chlad
Putter Cox and Friends
The Mark Shiner Trio
Matt Nakoa
Earthman Embassy

This years Skyway chair built by Bill Brown and painted by the young artists of Kathy Herolds Center for the Arts
The chair is on display each Saturday in the Farmer's Market on the village green at Adrianna's Thoughts in Wool. Raffle tickets can be bought there for 5 dollars to win the chair
We are looking again for businesses to donate gift certificates or whatever they can to raffle donation
The raffles will go on through out the day with the Skyway Lounger being raffled off last at the end of the show
Donations can be in check form and sent to The Friends of Music PO Box 143 Hamilton 13346
Skyway board of director are Pamme Swan Jimmy Wunderlich and Meredith Leland Getchonis
www.myspace.com/skywayfestival

A Good Horse Video

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Finally its done!
Sorry to take you all back to winter in this video!
A Good Horse was recorded back in 2004 on my Once Sated CD.
It's one of those sad but true songs that just fell into my lap.
Thanks to Reyna Stagnaro for her mandolin, her home setting and Fred the wonder horse!
Thanks To Jimmy Wunderlick of Orbital Sound for his harmonica.
Big Thanks to Rich Grant of Digital Media and Design.
What would the town of Hamilton do with out Rich!

Mad Arts 3rd Annual HERstory!

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

For woman's her-story this year I chose two different woman to sing about.
Two woman as different as day and night having left strong historical footprints here in Central New York.
The first woman once lived in a farmhouse on a hilltop overlooking the valley between Waterville and South Hamilton not far from my home. In the early 1800's, she bore 10 children who were highly educated but as corrupt as they could come. She beat them not because they stole but because they got caught and rewarded them when they didn't.
This rowdy family of outlaws recruited many others and roamed throughout Central New York and other neighboring states stealing horses, guns, wagons, jewelry and pretty much anything they could get their hands on.
They counterfeited money, made illegal whiskey, burned down buildings and went as far as murder when people got in their way.
The woman who helped mastermind this gang that grew to be over 200 strong was none other than Rhoda Loomis

The second woman who has greatly inspired me was as good and Rhoda was bad.
I discovered her while sitting at the hard times cafe randomly pulling her Woodwoman II book down from the bookshelf over table nine while waiting for breakfast one stormy morning in Eagle Bay.
I became addicted to this woman's life's story right away and now have most of her books.
Unlike Rhoda Loomis this woman had no children but dedicated her life to conservation and health of the Adirondacks and wrote about the ecology of many places around the world. She took twenty five years in which she studied and made the cause her own but sadly witnessed the extinction of a loon like bird called the Poc or Giant Grebe which once nested on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
This woman never married ( but had some steamy affairs) and lived in a cabin she called Thoreau II inside the blue line of the Adirondack Park.
Still alive today, this womand and is truly an amazing strong woman who has lived and incredible and meaningful life.
Her name is Anna La Bastille

Songs From Mountains East And West Thank You!

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

“Songs From Mountain East And West” has been a wonderful, inspirational journey back into the stories of the lives of several characters from the Adirondack
Mountains and Central New York. I’ve spent many hours reading and researching the following characters that I’d like to send up thanks to. Chester Gillette and Grace Brown to start. Noah John Rondeau and the whole Loomis clan. Thank you for calling out to me to read your stories and to the many authors who’ve written and researched their lives.
Anne La Bastille my new heroine in my older age! You are with me on every excursion into the Adirondacks.
A huge thanks goes out to Rich Grant and Leigh Yardley who spent many hours helping me in my Dell to Mac transition.
Also on my thank you list is Robert Hankey for giving my folk music a home for the past two summers and to Catherine Light for her marketing help and insightful artistic direction.
Thank you Jimmy Wunderlich, Reyna Stagnaro, Anne Leone and Steven Skollar for your fine musicianship and recording skills.
Songs From Mountains East And West was recorded at Orbital Sound Studio, Colgate University and my home studio here in the Hamilton area.
For the past two years I’ve had fleeting feelings of the terrible, lonely sadness Grace Brown must of felt as she and her unborn child floated down to their death in the back corner of South Bay on Big Moose Lake.
It helps me to think she was reincarnated to my Grandmother who raised five children with a loving husband and in a loving home.
So, I’d like to dedicate this collection of songs to these two woman. Grace Brown, March 20th, 1886 ~ June 12th, 1908 and my grandmother Eleanor Celia Brown-Swan,
September, 28th, 1913 - .

Aurora's Fault

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I know! I know! I should go out an get a real job. I honestly had this intention! Get a simple little cooking job or go back to bartending. I've been wanting a normal life after being so busy this summer. Tommy Hoe told me I would never have a normal life. He's right along with this little voice in my head that says. Screw it an stay home! With the price of gas and living so far out it wouldn't be worth it anyway!
So much for that degree in Landscape Design! I don't need to be shoveling snow!
I'm just having so much fun these days staying home and feeding my free range bunnies, kayaking and hiking, reading and writing.
My daughter Aurora is going to school in Ithaca and has been calling me every now and then requesting recipe's from dinner's I've made in the past for birthdays , holidays and drama club overnighters. Which got me thinking! So I'm having a ton of fun here uploading some of my favorite recipe's to my White Swan Gone Green blog which you can find under Swan Store!
So this blogging addiction I now have will have to be blamed on Aurora. Thanks honey!
I'm also selling my Uncle Milty chair turned Skyway Lounger. You'll see a link for that also under Swan Store Link!
The CD is pretty much done!
Few more things to wrap up.
It'll be for sale on line soon through Tunecore.
Most of the songs not in their entirety of course are already here on this website.
Hope you like.

Skyway Another Success

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

On behalf of the Skyway, I would like to thank the following people for the behind the scene efforts to make the 2nd annual Skyway a success.
David Grace, David Williams and Jimmy Wunderlich are on the top of this list. Grace for updating the band schedule and getting the lovely Skyway sign to its spot in the park each morning and Williams for donating his time and sound equipment.
Jimmy Wunderlich! You out did yourself. Your stage organization floors me and thank you for all the time involved with manning the website!

A HUGE Thank you to Linda Sybist of Van Tine Imaging for the great posters!
And of course Van Tine Imaging for the Skyway banner that really made the stage.
Thank you handyman men Bill Brown and Ford Seymour for your erecting of the Skyway Banner.

The small things that tweaked this years festival will not go unnoticed either. Thank you to Perry’s, The Earlville Opera House, The Palace Theater, Subway, Sushi Blues. Big Apple Music and Greg Yates for their raffle contributions.
Thanks to the Colgate Bookstore for the ad in the Mid York and the use of the money box and the Stahl family for tending to the raffle table all day!

Hugs to artists such as Rich Grant for the lovely horse on canvas print, Bill Brown for the 2008 Skyway Lounger and to my dear friend Leigh Yardley for painting it!
Thanks to my mother, Audrey Swan for the 2008 Skyway hooked rug. Nice hooking Ma!
The Adishakti Dancers. You ladies are just beautiful!
The bands this year were all wonderful! Hats off to Dangerboy, Craig’s last band for their 2nd year performance, the Silent Fury from Syracuse, Robin Schade, Bruce Pegg, Peter Leone, Captain Morgan and the Rhythm and Keslie and the Rhythm Makers.
A special thank you to Reyna Stagnaro, JImmy Wunderlich and Steven Skollar for this summer’s porch practices at my home.

It was Jimmy Wunderlich’s idea to have some of last years performers in venues though the town in the evening. Thank you to the Colgate Inn and Same Blood Folk for their rocking performance out front.
Tommy Hoe and the Barncats! Bless you and the Hour Glass and your contribution! Awesome!
The writers! Sami Martinez, Mike Jaquays and David Hollis. Without your words and stories. Skyway wouldn’t be half as special as it is.

This years festival wouldn’t of been possible without the financial help of renting the park. Thank you Charlie and Sally Getchonis.

Meredith! Hosting Skyway is your calling! Great job!
Eddie thanks for the zoom lesson! Hope you are feeling better!

To all the people who bought raffle tickets, and or wrote out checks to keep the next generation of kids in music. You know who you are. We thank you!

Skyway is an on going process as is the music program in all schools. As Sally White kindly said, Every little bit helps with costs of things that pop up during the school year.
I’m just glad to help and applaud these kids and the older musicians for getting up there and sharing their music.
Sincerely,
Pamme Swan