Gary Schnitzer's blog

Violin Romance Recordings will have had 80,000 plays of it’s tracks on our MySpace page (www.myspace.com/violinromancerecordings) by the end of Christmas Day, if not earlier. Now THAT’S a Christmas present!

Thanks to all our fans and listeners for this gift of the season!

And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We have a new music page up at Facebook.com:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6256769348

It will take till about Wednesday to clear, but there are a lot of complete Violin Romance music tracks available for listening at this page.

For those in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex area, I will be a vendor October 6 and 7 at the Cottonwood Arts Festival in Richardson at Cottonwood Park near Coit and Belt Line. My booth will be backed up to the creek, at the end of Row 1.  Show goes from 9-6 both days.

Admission to the show is free.

I will be playing and selling my CD’s.

More info on the show at http://www.cottonwoodartfestival.com/

In addition to “Nightingale”, I now have two more advance tracks for my upcoming CD, posted at www.tagworld.com/violinromance

These are probably not final versions, since I may be adding some extra environmental background sounds or other effects. But the violin performance is all there.

In addition to the chant “Nightingale”, there is now posted the chant called “Dawn” and “Sunset”.

About a month ago, Rob, my recording engineer, and I, went to Rob’s dad’s lakehouse on Lake Louise, a small private secluded lake in East Texas. We did some recording out there. After a ride for an hour or so at night around the lake in a small fishing boat with one of those quiet electric “trolling” motors, listening to the night sounds, the crickets, and seeing all the stars, I was inspired to come back to the house and play an improvised piece of musical chant. I titled it “Nightingale”.