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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Show this Sat!
HI all. This is my next gig with Suzi and the band. I'll be on Trombone! So, no writing this week just practicing.
Suzi plays live at Southpaw with Little Miss Ann!
Little Miss Ann from Chicago
rocks out with
The Suzi Shelton Band
Saturday, March 5th at 12:30pm
The Suzi Shelton Band at Southpaw - Brooklyn, NY
Hello Friends! Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your continued support and encouragement. Your notes, your emails, your photos and your videos mean so much to me.
We are so excited to kick off our spring with Chicago's own Little Miss Ann and her band at one of our favorite hotspots - Southpaw!
This concert will benefit a local preschool that is near and dear to my heart, Brooklyn Free Space, and all are welcome! I will be joined by my band, my awesome horn section, as well as Emma and The Brooklyn Gumdrops!
There will be food, raffle prizes, stroller parking and endless fun! PLEASE GET YOUR TICKETS AHEAD OF TIME! It is quite possible that this show will sell out.
For full listing go to suzi's website suzishelton.com
*whole band show
Suzi TV! Tomboy In A Princess Dress
Suzi Sings her brand new song "Tomboy In A Princess Dress"
with Steve, Albert and Emma
at Brooklyn Arts Exchange/BAX
January 30th 2011
Little Miss Ann from Chicago
rocks out with
The Suzi Shelton Band
Saturday, March 5th at 12:30pm
The Suzi Shelton Band at Southpaw - Brooklyn, NY
Hello Friends! Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your continued support and encouragement. Your notes, your emails, your photos and your videos mean so much to me.
We are so excited to kick off our spring with Chicago's own Little Miss Ann and her band at one of our favorite hotspots - Southpaw!
This concert will benefit a local preschool that is near and dear to my heart, Brooklyn Free Space, and all are welcome! I will be joined by my band, my awesome horn section, as well as Emma and The Brooklyn Gumdrops!
There will be food, raffle prizes, stroller parking and endless fun! PLEASE GET YOUR TICKETS AHEAD OF TIME! It is quite possible that this show will sell out.
For full listing go to suzi's website suzishelton.com
*whole band show
Suzi TV! Tomboy In A Princess Dress
Suzi Sings her brand new song "Tomboy In A Princess Dress"
with Steve, Albert and Emma
at Brooklyn Arts Exchange/BAX
January 30th 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Life, liberty and taxes
Well, we're done for 2010.
We owe.
It'll be better next year, right? Actually it will be. We have finally formed our own company: Creative Stages NYC, LLC. This will enable us to do our own work through our company. Those that know us will understand and are wondering what took so long?! For those that don't know us, we're artist-performers, teachers, writers and all around creative types. Not so good with the financial stuff, till now. So, this Creative Stages NYC will enable us to book work through us and we will be able to use it as a platform to produce work: first off, publish 2 children's books I've written.
So what's next? The sky's the limit, unless I step on my cape:)
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The Playwright
11:41 pm and everyone is asleep.
I much enjoyed my morning with my students at PS 6 in Manhattan, we're working on Romeo and Juliet and sometimes my day-job feels so fluffy-too easy. Like I won the lottery and got to do whatever I wanted. It helps that I have an amazing partner and we both enjoy "working" together.
So, I got home by 2 and I got to hang out with Cole, who's 3 but, has the vocabulary of a twelve year old, with a Brooklyn' accent! I walked in thinking I'm running late for our babysitter, but no one was home. I did my usual little whistle to see if they were hiding somewhere...but no one. A minute later the front door opens and there is Cole and Samantha, our babysitter and I run up to him to give him a big hug and he shuts me down. "Are you the first one here? Where's mommy? I want mommy here first, not you!" I look up at Samantha and she smiles. She says they had a great day and were just getting back from the library. I thank her and tell her we'll see her tomorrow. She says goodbye to Cole, but he's still standing at the door with a long face and not budging. I ask him to say goodbye to Sam, but he's frozen. Samantha sneaks out down the hall. When I close the door I explain to Cole that he was very rude to Samantha and that I'm upset with him. By now, he's unfreezing and taking me in. I ask him if he would like to say goodbye to Samantha and he says, "yes, but she left." We open the front door and hear Sam going down the stairs and he yells, "Thank you Samantha, I'll see you tomorrow!" She replies, with a giggle, "bye Cole."
The rest of the afternoon is all about tickling, laughing and napping. We then go upstairs to our neighbors right above us. We're so lucky that in our Co-op apartment building we have wonderful families and friends. Cole has a playdate with Sophie who is the same age. They have a wonderful time running. That's what they like to do-run. And Sophie's little sister Clementine follows. I hang out for a while, then come downstairs to check my phone. The rest of the afternoon is all about schedules. Jen doesn't get home till 8 or 9. and Suzi's watching Cole while I take Sebastian to see his friend's Caleb's playwriting premiere at 7.
Cole's excited to spend the afternoon with Emma again. They love each other so much and he needs sister time.
I pick up Sebastian from his violin lesson at 6:30 ready to get a quick bite, but he's not hungry. He's never hungry. We then run into Caleb and family in front of IS 51 and he goes in with them as I park. I find out from Stuart, Caleb's dad, that they got to see the new Spiderman show on Broadway last night. Since Stuart's a writer and reviewer I was interested to hear if it was as bad as everyone has said...it was, but entertaining. We then got to hear some great plays written by 7th graders. Sebastian was really excited to hear his friend's play especially since the boys have grown up together and now attend different middle schools. This was the school that I had wanted him to attend, but he decided on Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, which now seems like the right choice. But two years ago, I was so impressed by their theatre program that I tried to push Sebastian in that direction. But he stayed strong with his decision and his reasons for Brooklyn Prospect that I had to agree. And I'm glad I did.
On the way home I asked him what he thought of the plays (and maybe even secretly thinking to myself that he would say, "WOW! what a program, I wish I was in this school!"). He said he really enjoyed them a lot, especially Caleb's and that he was doing something similar in his ELA (English Language Arts) classes. I asked what that was. He said he had to write a scene for a story that they had just read in class and that he was just about done. So, with that in my head. I left it alone. We all have our journeys.
I much enjoyed my morning with my students at PS 6 in Manhattan, we're working on Romeo and Juliet and sometimes my day-job feels so fluffy-too easy. Like I won the lottery and got to do whatever I wanted. It helps that I have an amazing partner and we both enjoy "working" together.
So, I got home by 2 and I got to hang out with Cole, who's 3 but, has the vocabulary of a twelve year old, with a Brooklyn' accent! I walked in thinking I'm running late for our babysitter, but no one was home. I did my usual little whistle to see if they were hiding somewhere...but no one. A minute later the front door opens and there is Cole and Samantha, our babysitter and I run up to him to give him a big hug and he shuts me down. "Are you the first one here? Where's mommy? I want mommy here first, not you!" I look up at Samantha and she smiles. She says they had a great day and were just getting back from the library. I thank her and tell her we'll see her tomorrow. She says goodbye to Cole, but he's still standing at the door with a long face and not budging. I ask him to say goodbye to Sam, but he's frozen. Samantha sneaks out down the hall. When I close the door I explain to Cole that he was very rude to Samantha and that I'm upset with him. By now, he's unfreezing and taking me in. I ask him if he would like to say goodbye to Samantha and he says, "yes, but she left." We open the front door and hear Sam going down the stairs and he yells, "Thank you Samantha, I'll see you tomorrow!" She replies, with a giggle, "bye Cole."
The rest of the afternoon is all about tickling, laughing and napping. We then go upstairs to our neighbors right above us. We're so lucky that in our Co-op apartment building we have wonderful families and friends. Cole has a playdate with Sophie who is the same age. They have a wonderful time running. That's what they like to do-run. And Sophie's little sister Clementine follows. I hang out for a while, then come downstairs to check my phone. The rest of the afternoon is all about schedules. Jen doesn't get home till 8 or 9. and Suzi's watching Cole while I take Sebastian to see his friend's Caleb's playwriting premiere at 7.
Cole's excited to spend the afternoon with Emma again. They love each other so much and he needs sister time.
I pick up Sebastian from his violin lesson at 6:30 ready to get a quick bite, but he's not hungry. He's never hungry. We then run into Caleb and family in front of IS 51 and he goes in with them as I park. I find out from Stuart, Caleb's dad, that they got to see the new Spiderman show on Broadway last night. Since Stuart's a writer and reviewer I was interested to hear if it was as bad as everyone has said...it was, but entertaining. We then got to hear some great plays written by 7th graders. Sebastian was really excited to hear his friend's play especially since the boys have grown up together and now attend different middle schools. This was the school that I had wanted him to attend, but he decided on Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, which now seems like the right choice. But two years ago, I was so impressed by their theatre program that I tried to push Sebastian in that direction. But he stayed strong with his decision and his reasons for Brooklyn Prospect that I had to agree. And I'm glad I did.
On the way home I asked him what he thought of the plays (and maybe even secretly thinking to myself that he would say, "WOW! what a program, I wish I was in this school!"). He said he really enjoyed them a lot, especially Caleb's and that he was doing something similar in his ELA (English Language Arts) classes. I asked what that was. He said he had to write a scene for a story that they had just read in class and that he was just about done. So, with that in my head. I left it alone. We all have our journeys.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
To be or not to be lazy
Yup.
I'm so lazy.
I never write.
I do other things.
Tomorrow I won't procrastinate?
That is the question.
I'm so lazy.
I never write.
I do other things.
Tomorrow I won't procrastinate?
That is the question.
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