Tish Note - August 2023

August 22, 2023
(It’s Marvin’s Birthday!)

Hola Amigos!

Yes, it’s been a HOT summer! Looks like Mother Earth is giving us a taste of things to come. On the good side, it is opening our eyes to the reality of where we are and how our little planet is hurting. Also, it is making me/us think about practicing more earth friendly changes and really appreciate those who are out there making big positive changes in the world.

It has been mostly a low-key summer for me. I’ve been catching up on reading, doing some writing, cooking, and spending time with my grand-kids as often as possible. It’s so fun watching them change from babies to toddlers to children that are amazing little human beings.

Workwise – we produced hard copies of the DVD “My Heart, My Life”. It is an audio-visual chronicle of the first 25 years of my career, highlighting my journey through highs and lows in stories and videos from that period. I’m proud of this work and I hope you’ll buy a copy so I can share my story with you. It is now available at the website store, and I’ll have copies available at my shows.

'My Heart, My Life' DVD

Another thing – I’m producing a single of one of my recent songs called “He Was A Wild One” – about an aging prize horse. Being a part time “ranch gal” now out in Arizona now, I get to observe horses close up and have begun to understand and appreciate their personalities and grace. I’ll be releasing this single soon. Stay tuned!

All that grandma and Business news aside - I have some gigs coming up that I’m real excited about! This Friday, August 25, I’ll be playing at Austin’s 04 Center. It is a very comfortable and great sounding venue (with convenient parking!). I’ll be accompanied by Marvin Dykhuis and Chip Dolan. Marvin and Chip have been gigging and touring on their own and with their trio Grouchy Like Riley all summer, so this will be a fun reunion for us. Opening for us is singer-songwriter Nick Garza, who has been gaining much attention around San Antonio, Austin and the hill country lately. I’m happy he’ll be joining us on this show! (Plus, his mom and I are friends from high school where we used to sing together 😊!)

September 9, Marvin, Chip, and I will be playing in Paestum, Italy. The city is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the landing of Allied liberation forces in WWII. Austin’s Camp Mabry 36th Army Division, began the liberation of Italy landing in Paestum on September 9, 1943. The full details are in my February newsletter.

I’m excited to see our Paestum friends again since having played there in 2019. This will be quite a party with Austin veterans, students, and arts organizations participating in this event. Taking advantage of this trip to Europe, we’ll also be doing some tourist excursions to other parts of Italy and to Portugal!

Well, I gotta go now – I’ve got some practicing to do. With some help from my Italian friends, I’m working in a little Italiano into my music for the Paestum show! Stay cool and healthy!

Ciao! Tish

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Tish Note - June 2023

June 12, 2023

Hola Amigos!
 

Just a little update and some exciting news from mundotish! I’m looking forward to a mostly at home summer both in Austin and in southern Arizona. I hope you have a good summer too.

All my springtime shows went well and even pretty great. The christening of our “truck stage” at the Tubac ranch went better than we planned. Instead of the fifty or so reservations we expected, we got over 200! With a little adjusting of logistics and help from good friends and neighbors, it worked out great and everyone had a wonderful time. The weather also cooperated to make it a beautiful and memorable event. Now that we know that it works, we’ll begin to plan how and what we will do for future events at El Rancho.

Here’s some exciting three-fold news:
I now have my five most recent albums/CDs available to download from the website store! We still have hard copies of most available for purchasing, however, if you are a 21st century music downloader, this is good news for you!

Now, a bigger surprise! While looking back through my catalogue and closets, I discovered that I had a documentary that was produced by my friend and award-winning producer, Hector Galan, from 2004. Honestly, I had dropped the ball on its release back then, and eventually thought that we had never finished it. I kept thinking that “one of these days” I’ll bring it up to date and release it. When I stumbled upon it recently and watched it, I was pleased that it was indeed a complete and interesting portrayal of the early days (1970’s and 80’s), through the early 2000’s of my life and career. Actually, it was quite an emotional discovery for me to revisit all those years on film. Over the years, I have gotten many requests for this DVD which there was always a rumor of it coming out. Well, it’s here! It’s called “My Heart, My Life”. Right now, it is available to download only, but soon, I will produce hard copies with artwork etc to have available on the website and at shows or if you are someone who prefers a hard copy DVD. Next step after that is I will begin work on producing “Part Two”, that will portray the 2000’s to present. And no, I won’t take 20 years to produce it! I’m targeting its release in 2024-25, depending on which way we go on production.

Another interesting development at mundotish is that I also will join the 21st century in how and when I will release new songs. I have several new songs that I’m happy about and am excited to share. My plan for these is that I will release them as singles available to download as soon as they are complete. That way you get songs fresh off the block and don’t have to wait for album or CD releases. You can start your own collection and playlist as they come off the production line. Down the line, I will produce hard copies of these as “collections” but I’m excited to begin producing and releasing songs one at a time.

Anyway, that’s the news from here. Thanks for your loyal and continued support. I hope you will enjoy the documentary and my new music that I plan to have out this summer. I hope these months are filled with sunny days, starry nights, and good times with family and friends. I’ll update with fall tour plans soon.

Abrazos and best wishes always!

Tish