Meet us at Lake Farm County Park, Shelter #2 at 1:00 on Sun, Sept 19. This is a farewell-and-thank-you event for our friends, families, and fans who have been our caliComrades for the past 5+ years. We’ll be picnicking and playing a variety of songs, along with musical friends of ours. Family-friendly atmosphere, so invite everyone you know; we are!

Bring your own food and drinks; alcohol is permitted. Lawn chairs, blankets, anything picnic-related (except water balloons which aren’t exactly a good combo with electronic equipment!) We’ll have CDs for sale: 1 for $5, and 3 for $10, and Sue’s gonna bake up a bunch of chocochip caliCookies. Let’s see, what else? Leashed dogs are allowed at the park with a Dane County Dog Permit; $5 for a daily pass, available at the park or online:

https://www.reservedane.com/permits/purchase.aspx

Tentative performance schedule:
1:00 calicoDrifters
1:30 Bill & Bobbie Malone
2:00 calicoDrifters
2:30 Keith Heimforth & calicoDrifters
3:00 Graham Webster
3:30 calicoDrifters

Directions to the park: The park is about five minutes south of South Towne Mall in Madison. Exit US Hwy 12/18 at South Towne Drive and go south. Cross the RR tracks/bike path and turn left onto Moorland Road (Moorland will turn into Lake Farm Road). Campground entrance is on Lake Farm Road. To reach the shelters, go past the campground entrance and in about one block, turn left (east) onto Libby Road. Proceed 0.5 miles on Libby and turn left into park. Shelter #2 is the second shelter on the right. For a map and more info about the park:

http://www.countyofdane.com/lwrd/parks/lake_farm.aspx

Hello caliComrades:

Just a quick update on what’s goin’ on in our little, teeny-weeny world – a world that sometimes intersects with other teeny-weeny worlds such as yours, hence this update.

1. Last week we performed at a benefit House Concert on Madison’s East Side hosted by Susan Webster. The event raised over $750 for Haitian relief. To donate to or learn more about Susan’ project you can visit her website: http://haitiproject.org/

2. We had to cancel our next show at Tuvalu Coffee House in Verona which was scheduled for April 24. But we added a show on May 6 to make up for it (see number 3)

3. (see number 2)

4. (just kiddin’ about seeing all those other numbers… this is just the kind of stupid stuff we here at calicoDrifters think is really, really, really funny)

5. On May 6 we will be performing another House Concert at the Cambridge Historical Museum (http://www.cambridgehistoricmuseum.org/) in Cambridge Wisconsin. We’ve played in Cambridge before – at a House Concert at the Oscar Hanson House (http://www.ohhanson.com/). The Hanson House is moving their House Concerts to the Museum and we’re kicking off this new venue from 4pm to 6pm. Kids are free… There is a $5 suggested donation at the door.

It should be a lot of fun… and, as you may have noticed, we are spelling “House Concert” with both a capital H and a capital C. This is due to the fact that we hold them in such high regard (see numbers 1 and 5… well this is already number 5… so finish this one, then see number 1…).

6. Lastly, we have been nominated for a MAMAs award (http://www.themamas.org/) for best album of 2009. No kidding! We didn’t even campaign during the primaries. C’mon! We tried to make it clear in our last fun-filled, news-packed, near-documentary-format Upcoming Events email that we have no illusions about winning this prestigious award. As a matter of fact, due to the number of times we have been nominated and lost over the years, it is becoming something of a comfort to know that it won’t be us walking that red carpet, grabbing the award and the microphone, thumping our chests and pointing up to heaven, then gushing over all the support we’ve received from Jesus over the years with ticket and CD sales… (as well as how he helped us out in the third inning of our last home game). So… darn it… if you do feel compelled to go out there and vote, do it for all the right reasons – whatever those reasons might be… I can’t even think of one and, heck, we’re the ones being nominated! Though that may not be entirely true: if you yourself are being nominated for a MAMAs award in the same category, the previous statement doesn’t apply. So, do yourself a favor and vote for yourself. We did. I mean… you know… we voted for ourselves… we didn’t vote for you. We might have voted for you in other categories… Ok… that’s enough of this. Do what you want, we’ll still love you.

7. We’ve been meaning to get some new music up there on the website… we’ll try to get something up there this weekend… Don’t hold your collective breaths.

8. See you next time…

9. Sincerely,

Thomas and Sue