Online CD Release show broadcasting LIVE on March 15th! Join us!

Hello, hello!

I just want to let you know that on March 15th, we will be broadcasting a LIVE show (from Austin, via Concert Window) on the internet that you can tune in to! It is pay what you want, so you just login, pay as little as $1 and watch the show from the comfort of your home...what a deal! There will also be an online chat room you can participate in, run by my good friend Carrie Elkin, and I hear she is a hoot in the chat room! So mark your calendar and get ready to pour a cup of tea or a glass of wine, grab some snacks, sit in your favorite chair (in your PJs even!) and watch the show.


A BIT MORE ABOUT THE SHOW - CONCERTS IN THE GROTTO & CONCERT WINDOW

So this will be our second CD Release, but the first one to get broadcasted all over the world. We will perform all the songs from the album Return to Waves, and will be a full band. Who is in the band? Well, all the fine folks who played on the record!

Paul Curreri on keys
Devon Sproule on lead guitar & harmonies
Andrew Pressman on bass
Matthew Shephard on drums
Vanessa Lively on guitar & vocals

The actual show will be hosted by Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin at their music series Concerts in the Grotto. If you live in Austin and would like to attend in person, please go here for more info and RSVP as soon as possible toconcertsinthegrotto@gmail.com

Show details:
Sunday March 15th
7:30pm (CST)
Concerts in the Grotto (East Austin)
Broadcasted online at Concert Window

Click here to watch the show online:
https://www.concertwindow.com/5217-vanessa-lively


I hope you have a lovely day. Sending hugs from Austin!!

Vanessa

CD Release Show + New Website!

Well it's really here. The day has finally come to celebrate the release of Return to Waves - hooray! I am so excited to play these tunes live with the artists who were such a huge part of the record: Paul Curreri, Devon Sproule, Matthew Shephard and Andrew Pressman. It will be a fun time for sure. If you live in the Austin area, please come join us. It's an early Sunday show at Strange Brew in South Austin. Here are the details:

Sunday February 8th
6-7:30pm
Strange Brew Lounge Side
5326 Manchaca Rd.
Austin, TX 78745
(512) 828-7636
http://www.strangebrewloungeside.com/

New Website for Music & Art
We just lunched a new website for my music & art! The art section is coming very soon, and you will be able to see my oil, acrylic & watercolor paintings. A big thanks to my very talented husband Jason for doing all the hard work to create it!

www.vanessalively.com

I hope your February is off to a great start. Please feel free to write back with some updates on what is going on with YOU! It is fun to hear from everyone...

Lots of love,

Vanessa

Whoa, 2015! You came in with quite a BANG!

Well friends, my New Year started out quite differently than most! I was on my way to play a New Year's Day show at Radio Coffee in South Austin, where I was excited to share the stage with many friends & welcome 2015 with open arms...but sadly, two young fellows blew through a solid red light at a very fast speed and our cars collided, all in a split second. It was surreal and shocking, but I was so incredibly grateful that everyone involved was okay. The cars didn't make it, but all people were alive and well - just banged up a bit. So these past days I have been healing up and taking it very easy. I can't stress enough how very grateful I was to walk away from this and go back home to hug my husband and my little baby boy. Things like this really make you stop and appreciate life and not take it for granted. Oh, and I am feeling better & better every day! I should be fully recovered in just a couple of weeks.And coming soon...Return to Waves CD Release party FINALLY!

In happier news, I am so excited to celebrate the release of Return to Waves after all this time. CDs are on their way out to radio and such, and the band has been jamming in preparation for the fun event. It has been a blast playing these songs. If you are in the area & would like to join us for the Austin show, come out to Strange Brew Loungeside on Sunday February 8th at 6pm. More details on the show coming soon!

Also, another great album review just came in from Europe for Return to Waves! You can read it here:
InsurgentCountry.net

I hope you all have a beautiful year ahead of you. Happy 2015!

With Love & Gratitude,

Vanessa

Well hello...it's been a while!

Since I last wrote, quite a lot has happened. We had a successful Kickstarter campaign (thank you all), then we finished the album and had it sent of to press. Right after all that, I had a baby! Jeremiah James Lively was born on April 14, 2014...I am including a few pictures of him below. It has been a wild adventure ever since. It feels like it has been forever & also just the blink of an eye at the same time...


I have been sending out all the Kickstarter packages, and we are finally at the very last ones (whew!) It took a lot longer than I thought it would, but I know everyone was expecting that and has been wonderfully patient. Now that the CDs are in y'alls hands, it is time to start thinking about the release. I am planning for a Fall release and will send the details as it gets closer. Until then, if you don't have a copy yet and would like to get one, just let me know and I will send it your way!

This weekend I will be going to Topeka, KS for the Last Minute Folk Concert Series at UUFT. The show is on Saturday August 16th at 7:30pm. If you are in the area and would like to attend, you can purchase tickets here: http://lastminutefolk.org/next-up-for-last-minute-folk/

I hope that you are doing well. Send me an update or just write back to say hello! I would love to hear from you...

Have a great day!!

Vanessa

It's a New Year with exciting new adventures!

Happy 2014!!

Wow. We are already 14 days in the the new year of 2014! I hope that everyone is doing well and feeling inspired for the year ahead. I haven't written in a while, but we have been busy continuing to work on the next album and also getting ready for the new addition to our band (well, if he is into music that is...)

It has been a little crazy trying to do it all at the same time, but we are working hard to move forward and see about getting things all ready before the baby comes. We really will be needing to reach out to our community for support in this project now more than ever. We are keeping the budget low, and will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in just a few weeks to try & help offset most of the cost. If you all can help us to spread the word when this happens, it will help us keep it short & sweet. We just really would love to meet our goal and be able to move forward & release these new songs into the world, and share them with all of YOU!!

In the past couple of weeks, we have had an outpouring of love and support coming our way from all our friends, family & community. I am feeling so very grateful for all of you and feel excited to enter this new chapter bravely. Having so much encouragement really makes a huge difference in our lives and I only hope that I can give back to you all in some of the ways that you are giving to me. All I can do for now is send LOVE, say THANK YOU and continue to create songs & art and put it out there hoping it will have a positive effect in the world in some small way...

I wish you the best in the year ahead.

Love,

Vanessa

North Texas Shows / Baby on the Way / Recording the Next Album

BIG NEWS...
Good Morning friends!
As some of you may already know, Jason and I have a baby on the way! We just found out it is a little boy, and he should arrive late March. As we were walking along South Congress this past weekend, Jason's dad found this gold bling with the male symbol on it, so I sported it all day in honor the boy.

...and so the album recording begins!

With this news, we decided to go full speed ahead in the recording of my next album. I am so excited about this project. Jason Lively will be co-producing & co-engineering with the wonderfully talented Paul Curreri who is a great singer-songwriter, producer and arranger, and also a great friend of ours! We start this Monday, and will be launching a crowd-funding campaign in the near future.

Heading to North Texas today for some shows

Tonight, Jason and I will be performing in Fort Worth atWoodshed Smokehouse from 6-9pm, then tomorrow night atThe Dallas Museum of Art at 9pm. Then on Saturday morning, we will perform at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market. We hope to see some of our North TX friends out there!

I hope that you are having a great week. Thanks again for all the love & support...we couldn't do it without you!!

Have a beautiful day,

Vanessa

We are going to Europe today!

...and off we fly!

Hello friends,

We are heading out on a plane today to go to Europe. Jason and I are really excited to see some familiar faces and also meet many new ones! This tour is going to be a lot of fun, and also a whirlwind. We have show after show zig-zagging across Belgium, The Netherlands & Germany for almost three weeks straight. It will be a wild adventure...and we'll also hop over to Spain for a few days of paella eating & seaside lounging!


Uncovering Stones (US Version) is sold out!

We have completely run out of copies of our last album Uncovering Stones. We will have download cards available from here on out for a while in lieu of reprinting the physical CDs. Also, CD Baby still has a few in stock, so those will still be available.

I am hoping to get back into the studio for another album later this year, so we will have that in hand sometime in the near future...but don't worry, if you are in Europe, you are in luck! We have plenty of European copies to go around and will have them with us at all our upcoming shows.

I hope that you have a wonderful September...

Sincerely,

Vanessa