OT – new CD

[wendyzski]

According to all the signs and portents (as well as the online order-tracking system for DiskFactory) we expect that our first CD “Faire Warning” will arrive today.

Tracks include:
1) In Merry Measure – Fred Lauritzen
2) Korabushka – Trad.(ish)
3) Why Does Love…? – T.R. Ritchie
4) Bell-Bottom Trousers -Trad.
5) Metal Man/Sidhe Beg, Sidhe Mor – Trad.
6) I Wish They’d Do It Now – Trad.
7) Mingulay Boat Song – Sir Hugh S. Roberton
8) Heaven’s A Bar – Tim Laycock
9) The Butterfly – Turlough O’Carolan
10) The Star of the County Down – Trad.
11) Red Is The Rose – Trad.
12) Give Me My Yellow Hose Again – Anon. (17th Cent.)
13) Sail Away – Mary Benson
14) Carrickfergus – Trad.
15) A Sailor’s Prayer – Tom Lewis
16) John Barleycorn/Over The Waterfall – Trad.
17) Clare To Here – Ralph McTell

Cds are $15 and will be available online, at our concerts, and on finer street corners everywhere.

Save 10% – order both “Faire Warning” and “Simply Entitled” (John’s solo project) for only $27!

Clearance! Buy a copy of “Faire Warning” for $15 and get your choice of Minstrosity CD’s for only $10 each!  (Minstrosity is the “old” group I was with for 9 years.  http://www.minstrosity.com)    Complete your collection! (and give us back our closet space…)

Order details, shipping costs, schedule updates, and all sorts of other nonsense soon to be updated at http://www.merrymeasure.com

[osprey]

We have a bonafide star in our midst.  Well done, WendyZ!

Just curious, don’t answer if it is at all personal, but how much does it cost a group of musicians to make a CD these days?  studio, pressing, cover art, all that stuff.

 

[Lion_Lop_Lover]

Aww, congrats!! How exciting it will be to get the CD and run through it

[babybunsmum]

wow wendyski!  congrats!!!  i’m so excited for you… you’ll have to let us know how it feels to hold your very own cd in your hands, crack it open & pop it in the player

[wendyzski]

Well, this is actually my 5th CD (4th if you don’t count one where I only did backing vocals).  I had 3 releases with Minstrosity (www.minstrosity.com) but this is the first for Merry Measure.

It is also my first project where I was in charge start to finish, as our old hammered dulcimer player used to do this.  I had to schedule the recording, decide on tracks, get licensing permissions, choose a manufacturer, oversee recording and mixing, design and layout all CD art and graphics, get everything on deadline to the various parties, pay, track and receive them.  I also am doing all the order fufillment.

Including recording time at $75/hour (for every hour of recording you do 3 hours of “mixing and fixing”), this CD is coming in a hair under 6k.  Based on past performance with Minstrosity, I expect to pay back our costs in about a year before we see profit.  The shortest ever break-even we did was 6 months for the instrumental CD.  The flute guy borrowed money from his MIL to pay the engineer, and I put the actual manufacture and shipping on my credit card.

[KatnipCrzy]

Do you do live perfomances at Renaissances Faires, etc?  Or am I misunderstanding type of music?

Just curious- there are some Ren Fests here in Michigan- and it is interesting to go.  The people-watching factor alone is worth the price of admission.

[osprey]

OT of the OT, but the hammered dulcimer is such a neat instrument!  Our family are big fans of John McCutcheon who is a virtuoso hammered dulcimer player, and we’ve gone to a couple of his shows.  It is mesmerising watching him play.  For those in the US that have no idea what I am talking about, do you remember a series of commercials for the US Postal Service done around Christmas time with the song “Mail Myself to You”?  That was John McCutcheon.  I made one of my many bunny videos using it as the soundtrack.  You can see it here on YouTube.  The instrument that sounds something like a harp is the hammered dulcimer.

[babybunsmum]

have to admit… i had no idea what a hammered dulcimer was until i googled it.  sounds beautiful!  and the bun, palmer, is totally like my pinky bun

[wendyzski]

Posted By KatnipCrzy on 03/13/2008 12:40 PM

Do you do live perfomances at Renaissances Faires, etc?  Or am I misunderstanding type of music?

Just curious- there are some Ren Fests here in Michigan- and it is interesting to go.  The people-watching factor alone is worth the price of admission.

 

 

Yes, and we did 5 of the 7 weekends of the Michigan Faire in Flint last year.  We usually end up either there ot Kansas City (same company and same time).  We are also in the running for a new October show in that area.

We’vre not been able to get into the smaller shows in easter MI yet, though we keep trying.  I was the Queen at the Silverleaf Faire back in 1994.

 

[Lisa_43]

Wow! congratulations on your new CD.

[Gravehearted]

WTG wendy – that’s so exciting!

do you have a myspace or other place where we can listen to some song clips?

[wendyzski]

clips are available at http://www.merrymeasure.com

clips from my former band are at http://www.minstrosity.com

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