July 7, 2008
Has it really been this long since we updated the
website?! We promise to do better! We want you to know that we've
been busy: we're nearly finished with our third CD, Third Thyme's The Charm,
due out this fall! We just got back from Rochester, NY, where we performed
at the 25th Wedding Anniversary party of Jim and Christine Zapetis, two
wonderful folks who are still very much in love. We had a blast!
This week, Teresa is going to be in the studio laying
down some more vocals, and figuring out what to do about the bass conundrum.
Six months ago, while setting up for a gig with another band she performs with (Play
It With Moxie), Teresa experienced yet another ill-timed instrument
calamity...one of the hotel personnel dropped her 3/4 Clevinger electric upright
bass in the parking lot, and cracked the pickup on the A string. It's been
out to the Bay Area and back for repairs, but it still isn't playing right, so
we've had to make some adjustments, both with performances and with the studio
work.
Our next gig will be at
Fencon V in Dallas, Texas in early October. It's going to be a great
time, so come if you are able!
For those of you who haven't heard it yet, check out
our mp3 of Brenda's song, Blue Spell, which is uploaded for your listening
pleasure at our
myspace page!
Stay tuned for more news!
August, 2007
It has been a very busy summer for all of us.
Brenda has moved her home base to beautiful Danville, Indiana, and we have all
been taking turns in the studio. The process is always slower than we
would like it to be, be we feel very confident that the final product will have
been worth the wait.
We now have a presence on myspace.com. Please
check us out and
become a friend!
Because of our studio and other commitments, we haven't
had many performances this year, but please ake a look at our
gig schedule. We will be performing at
Savannah Pagan Pride at the end of September. It promises to be a lot of
fun, and we hope to see some of you there!
Thanks for your patience, and most of all, thanks for
the love!
April, 2007
Hey, everybody! We are in the studio, working on
Third Thyme's The Charm...this is going to be such a great CD! We
are all very excited about it! A special thanks to all our wonderful fans
for your patience. We will do our best to ensure that the wait is worth
it!
Mary's most excellent solo debut, Courting My Muse,
is available now, and you can buy the CD by visiting her website:
www.magnusretail.com. This album
is smokin' hot, in the way that only Mary can make it. Get yours today!
August, 2006
This year is flyin' by, and we Sisters hope that you
are having a great summer!
Mary has been working on her solo CD, Courting My Muse, and is
looking forward to its upcoming release. We will all be in the studio
again very soon! We have been working on new material for the next Three
Weird Sisters CD, Third Time's The Charm, and are very excited
about the new songs. Keep an eye on our gig page, as we are starting to
add new performances to the roster.
January, 2006
It's hard to believe that 2005 is over. We are
getting ready for a great year! Teresa was recently interviewed by
bassgirls.com. Go to their website to read all about it!
November, 2005
Note to Disgruntled Harry Potter Fans: We didn't do it!
Earlier this year, our band was contacted by Warner
Bros. to request our permission to use the name "Weird Sisters" in the
upcoming movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. As fans of the
books and the movies, we were enthusiastic about the negotiations.
However, the Canadian band, The
Wyrd Sisters, objected venomously to Warner Bros.' minimal reference to the
name in the film, and filed suit. Warner Bros. broke off negotiations with
us as a result, and ultimately dropped all reference to the term "Weird
Sisters" in the movie. We have since received several angry emails,
apparently mistaking us for the Canadian band, and taking us to task for
fighting with Warner Bros.
FOR THE RECORD: we had NO objection to Warner
Bros.' plans, and in fact looked forward to the movie. The actions of The
Wyrd Sisters have apparently upset the Harry Potter fan community, and in fact,
cost us, the Three Weird Sisters, a substantial amount of money, due to
the terminated negotiations. The folks who have confused us with the other
band have accused us of being mean spirited, and we want to set the record
straight. Any communications with The
Wyrd Sisters should be directed to them, not us.
August, 2005
Scotland rocks, y'all!
We had a GREAT time playing together in Glasgow, and having the entire band
together was a true and wondrous treat. We played to a full house of
enthusiastic music lovers, and we thank everyone who came to the show.
In other news, we are
down to our last box of CDs for Rite the First Time.
We need to order a second pressing, and we have you, our fans, to thank for our
success!
July, 2005
I can't believe it's been so long since I updated the
news page...sorry everybody! It's been a very busy and event-filled year
for the everybody! Due to all the chaos, we ended up taking about
four months off between gigs. We do have some new things on the
gig schedule, so please check it out!
In just days, we are heading off for the U.K. for our performance at the 63rd
Annual World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland. This will be
the first time in a year that the entire band will get to perform together
(Gwen, we miss you!). Stay tuned...I'll try not to let the updates lag so
much in the future! - T.
November 2004
Breaking News! All of the Three Weird Sisters
will be gathering in Glasgow, Scotland for the 63rd Annual World Science Fiction
Convention (WorldCon
2005)during August 4-8, 2005. This is a rare and unique opportunity to
catch Gwen, Brenda, Mary and Teresa together for combined performances.
The membership rates for the convention go up at the end of November, so book
early!
The USA contingent of Three Weird Sisters will also be performing on
the West Coast in
Southern California in August, 2005: Three Weird Sisters has been invited to be the Guest of
Honor at Conchord 19. So all you
California fans, please take note. We hope to see you there!
September 2004
Thanks to all the wonderful folks who came out to see
our concerts at Savannah Pagan Pride! Y'all were wonderful, and we had a
really terrific time! For those of you who haven't experienced this
wonderful city, Savannah is a marvelous place to visit, and we thoroughly
enjoyed ourselves; particularly our fabulous meal at
The Lady & Sons Restaurant, which
has the most wonderful, beautifully prepared and presented Southern Cuisine that
you will ever eat anywhere, period. Paula Deen's cooking is most
definitely worth the weight!
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Wow, time has been slipping by so fast! Our
Executive Producer, Bill Sutton of
Bedlam
House Ltd., informs us that we sold 10% of our Hair of the Frog
inventory in the first week of release alone. We are thrilled! We
also have some fine reviews on the
Amazon.com website. We invite you to add yours if you haven't already.
We have been hard at work preparing for our upcoming
shows at the Savannah Pagan Pride Festival and at the Witches Brew Gala Event in Sandy
Springs. We are so excited to share some new material with you. We hope to see you at one or both events!
On a bittersweet note, Gwen's official Bon Voyage date is
Monday, September 27th. We are truly going to miss her...
August 2004
Hair of the Frog is was released
on August 28 at the Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore in Atlanta! We performed
for a wonderful, overflow audience: yes, we packed the house! And we
raised over $1500 for the
Bionic Priestess Project!!! Thank you to
everyone who came out to support both the Three Weird Sisters and our dear
friend, Lady Galadriel. We have the best fans in the world.
For those of you who were unable to attend the release
party, we have very exciting news. Our dear sister, Gwen Knighton, has
accepted a proposal of marriage from the Love of Her Life, Joe Raftery, a lovely Irishman living in London, England. In September,
Gwen will be moving to London to begin her happily ever after!
What does this mean for Three Weird Sisters?
It means that we will be collaborating with Gwen from across The Pond;
Three Weird Sisters are not breaking up; we are going international!
We are also adding another sister. We've asked our wonderful friend, Mary
Crowell, (that's pronounced Crow - ell) to join the band, and she has graciously
accepted. Mary is an accomplished singer/songwriter who plays a wicked
piano. She also plays the clarinet. Everyone who has heard and seen
her perform knows that there's just something about Mary! We all love her,
and we know that you will too.
March 2004
Hair of the Frog is in the can, as they say, and
awaiting final layout. Because of an unfortunate glitch in
communication, Erin McKee will not be able to provide our cover art;
however, our own dear Venessa Austin Price Sylvester has graciously
agreed to take this task on. The preliminary art is fantastic,
and we are very excited to have her working with us again.
Thank you for being so very patient. We trust that you will
find the wait well worth it!
October 2003
We're finishing the last
tracks on the second CD, and it's all coming down to the last few
details. Marvelous artist Erin McKee is working on our cover
art (no easy task that, given the title, Hair of the
Frog, for cryin' out loud.) And we've been actively
gigging and polishing our parent band, Year and a Day,
that includes George Powell on bass, flute, accordion, guitar, and
(soon) banjo , and
Bill Sutton on guitar, mandolin, whistles and (soon) uillean pipes.
We've learned that the
hoops we'd have to jump through in order to record F.A.P.
are just too darn many to navigate by release time. We're
so sorry, but we'll keep on performing the song in our act because....
well, it's a great song that should be heard.
In the meantime, we've
been having a great time giggin' at The Java House, The Daily Grind,
Sweet Java Brown, and Pagan Pride Day. We're heading to Ohio
to support Gwen and Brenda's husband Bill, both having been nominated
for Pegasus Awards. We're also very excited about performing
at the premier of
Mythic
Journeys in June 2004.
June 2003
We're back in the recording studio working on the second CD tentatively
called Hair of the Frog (or HotF for short). We've got
seven tracks laid down that include Mama's Hands, Orbiting Jupiter, Falling
for Lancelot, Hymn, Ordinary Love, Like Their Feet Have Wings, and Pointy-haired
Boss. Other songs we're working on are F.A.P., What Granny Taught
Me, Discovery, My Karma Broke Down, Annabella, Ordinary Life, and a few
others. It's sounding real good so far. We're hoping to have it
ready for release in September/October. Pray for us!
November 2002
Wow! Are we floored! Brenda won a Pegasus Award for Best
Spine-chilling Song, In a Gown Too Blue, and the entire band won the
Pegasus as Best Performer(s). And THEN we put a private concert into the
Interfilk auction that earned combined bids of $800! That's the largest
item ever sold at an Interfilk auction. The concert itself was a real
gas, with the two bidding sides deciding on the set list, and the Sisters
singing on the fly. What a whirlwind! What a great time!
What an honor! THANKS!
October 2002
The Sisters are traveling to OVFF
in Columbus, Ohio where they are individually and collectively nominated for
Pegasus
Awards in five categories. Weird Power!
Watch for
Gwen
Knighton's release of her first solo CD at the end of the month. Box
of Fairies is a delightful offering from
Bedlam
House that showcases Gwen and her harps.
August 2002
We played a split gig with the Border Collies at the Red Light Cafe and
then Brenda flew off to England for a week, returning with Ghod's Own
Bodhrán (a wonderful birthday gift from the Sisters!) Gwen has a
new song, Falling for Lancelot, that we're working on. Life is
good!
July 2002
We're back on track with regular rehearsals once again, readying new
material for the forthcoming CD, Hair of the Frog. Three Weird Sisters is hoping to get
back in the recording studio this fall. Gwen got bitten by the Songwriting
Muse, and is generating a new composition or two every week. We're
loving her most recent songs, Hymn, Ordinary Love, and Free
Fall.
Brenda's even penned a new ditty, Pointy-haired Boss, and the air cooks with
our cover of the Cheryl Wheeler/Janis Ian song, Orbiting Jupiter.
Once again, it was Standing-Room-Only
at the Phoenix and Dragon for the Sisters' Summer Concert.
We also really enjoyed our afternoon performance at the first
North
Georgia Celtic Festival sponsored by our good friends,
Emerald Rose. They
did a fantastic job organizing the festival, and we hope this gets
to be a regular event.
Oh, and the nominations for the
Pegasus
Awards are in. Three Weird Sisters did very well with a nomination
for Gwen's Song of Fey Cross in the category of Best Song that
Tells a Story, for Brenda's In a Gown Too Blue in the Best
Spine-chilling Song category, and for the band itself in the Best Performer
category. We're thrilled, to say the least!
June 2002
While strolling though Supercom (a communications trade show in Atlanta)
with Bill Sutton and Rob Wynne, the
Bedlam
House Boys, Brenda was introduced to a Weirdo* colleague of Rob's named
Pam Bishop. Pam's been a fan of the Sisters and reported that Rite
the First Time is played every day at naptime at the
Kindercare
Preschool on MacFarland Road. The music is so pleasant and relaxing,
that it lulls all the babies into Lullaby Land. Indeed, the CD was Pam's
music of choice in the labor and delivery room during the birth of her
child. We're pleased and flattered no end! Thanks, Pam!
*Three Weird Sisters fans have taken to calling themselves
Weirdos. It's beyond our explanation. We don't find it weird at
all that they like our music. We're keen on it ourselves.
May 2002
The three songs up on MP3.com are Little Boy Blue, Song of Fey Cross
and Pity Party.
Little Boy Blue made it to #76 on the Top 100 World Folk list
for MP3.com
and is featured for the week of May 13th as the first song on the
top of their Featured list in Folk.
WooHOOOO!
November 2001
We all had a great
time at OVFF (Ohio Valley Filk Festival), Everybody was wonderful to us
and the concert was a heck of a lot of fun. We also had the distinct
pleasure of serenading Terrance Chua (the sweetest, cutest, and most humorous
magistrate in Singapore!), and rubbed shoulders with some incredibly talented
folks.
The biggest news is
that our very own Brenda Sinclair Sutton was awarded the prestigious
Pegasus
Award in the category of Best Filk Song for her tune "Strangers No More!" Now, those who know Brenda realize that she has been
involved in the filk community since Gwen and Teresa were in diapers (just
kidding...well, since they were in grade school, anyway! *wink*). This Pegasus award is a huge compliment
and acknowledgment to her dedication and talent. Way to go,
Brenda!
Venessa Austin Price
Sylvester, the wonderful artist who created the artwork on Rite the First
Time, has her own website! Please check it out and give her your
support! http://www.palecrescent.com.
Our
debut CD, entitled "Rite the First Time,"
is available online through
CDBaby.com
and Amazon.com! CDBaby
even lets you preview four of the songs: Spring Strathspey, Rite of
Passage , Boys Want Sex in the Morning and Dumb Dumb Dorothy.
As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome, and you can direct those to our
webmistress
.
Things are rockin' with
the 
...stay
tuned!
