Saw this post on rec.music.christian, so I wrote Carolyn and asked if I could forward this to you all, and she said yes. So here it is. It's pretty self explanatory. Those of you who peruse r.m.c may already have it, but I wanted to forward it especially because of the up to date tour schedule.
[begin message] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: 24 Jun 1995 20:47:32 -0500 >From: marends@cln.etc.bc.ca (Mark and Carolyn Arends) >Subject: re: R. Mullins/A. Cleveland/C. Arends tour UPDATES >Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway >Path: news.tyrell.net!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail >Newsgroups: rec.music.christian >Lines: 149 >Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu >Nntp-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu > >From: marends@cln.etc.bc.ca (Mark and Carolyn Arends) >Subject: re: R. Mullins/A. Cleveland/C. Arends tour schedule UPDATES >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >On Friday, June 23, Rose wrote ... >> >>BTW, can anyone PLEASE tell me who Carolyn Arends is and what style of >>music she performs? Thank you!! :D > >Who is Carolyn Arends? .... The greatest showperson of the 20th century ... >no, wait ... that's David Letterman. > >The truth is I'm Carolyn Arends. It may be rather uncouth for me to >respond to your question ... but I've never suffered from an over-abundance >of couth :) > >Anyway - I'm a new artist on Reunion Records who's first album does not >come out until August 3 - so there's no shame for either of us in the fact >that you've never heard of me. I'm your archetypal singer-songwriter with >a guitar. Last description I heard of my music was "acoustic-pop with a >folk flair" - i.e. your typical band approach (bass, drums, acoustic >guitar, and lots of Gordon Kennedy's liquid electric gtr) mixed with tons >of folkier instrumentation (accordian, mandolin, fiddle, etc. - Rich >Mullins played hammered dulcimer on a tune ... which was very fun). >Lyrically I've been most inspired by Mark Heard ... musically I've been >influenced by a ton of different people. I'll leave any further >descriptions to more objective listeners (hopefully there will eventually >be at least a few listeners who are not relatives of mine...!) > >Speaking of which, I'm also a huge fan of both Rich and Ashley. So you can >imagine how immensely delighted I am to be going on tour with them. I've >gotten to know them a fair bit in and out of the studio (Brown Bannister >was producing my record at the same he was executive producing Ashley's). >Ashley and I will get to know each other supremely well as we're travelling >together in a van across North America ... her, me and her two youngest >kids. (No fancy tour bus for us ... Rich likes to drive his jeep with his >dog!) I am very much looking forward to it. > >Hopefully I'll figure out how to post this response. I don't get onto >rec.music.christian very often - I either need different software or a >different server to get into newsgroups (gee, can you tell I'm new to the >internet?) If anyone does eventually hear my music and wants to send me >feedback and/or any questions ... please e-mail me at marends@cln.etc.bc.ca > >Here's a couple of updates to the tour dates Rose posted. They're still >subject to change ... > > Here's the tour list: > > International Bible Society presents > > The Rich Mullins > > Brother's Keeper Tour > > with special guests > > Ashley Cleveland > > and > > Carolyn Arends > > (This is all the info I have _and_ I'm not responsible for typos.) > > ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE > >9/11 Greenville, SC >9/15 Atlanta, GA >9/16 Birmingham, AL >9/17 Jackson, MS >9/18 Lafayette, LA >9/19 Beaumont, TX >9/21 Lufkin, TX > 9/21 is now - San Antonio, TX >9/22 Houston, TX >9/23 Dallas, TX >9/24 OKC, OK >9/26 Albuquerque, NM >9/28 Phoenix, AZ >9/29 Las Vegas, NV >9/30 Los Angeles, CA >10/1 Fresno, CA >10/3 San Jose, CA >10/4 Walnut Creek, CO > 10/4 is now - Klamuth Falls, OR >10/5 Klamath Falls, OR > 10/5 is now - Eugene, OR >10/6 Portland, OR > 10/6 is now Seattle, WA >10/7 Seattle, WA > 10/7 is now Portland, OR > add 10/8 - College Place, WA >10/9 Spokane, WA > 10/9 is now a day off >10/10 Missoula, MT > 10/10 is now TBA >10/11 Idaho Falls, ID >10/12 Salt Lake City, Utah >10/13 Grand Junction, CO >10/14 Colorado Springs, CO >10/15 Denver, CO > add 10/17 Scott's Bluff > add 10/18 Grand Island NB >10/19 Ames, IA >10/20 Davenport, IA > 10/20 is now Peoria IL >10/21 Chicago, IL >10/23 Fort Wayne, IN >10/24 Louisville, KY >10/25 Cincinnati, OH >10/26 South Bend, IN >10/27 Grand Rapids, MI >10/28 Akron, OH >10/30 Williamsport, PA > 10/30 is now Bloomsburg PA >10/31 Syracuse, NY >11/2 Burlington, VT >11/3 New York, NY >11/4 Philadelphia, PA >11/5 Washington, DC >11/7 Roanoke, VA > 11/7 is now Raleigh, NC >11/8 Raleigh, NC > 11/8 is now a day off >11/9 Charlotte, NC >11/10 Lynchburg, VA > 11/10 is now Roanoke VA >11/11 Knoxville, TN >11/12 Nashville, TN >11/15 Bowling Green, KY >11/16 Anderson, IN >11/17 Ann Arbor, MI >11/18 Columbus, OH >11/19 Toledo, OH >11/21 Marion, IL >11/22 Springfield, IL >11/24 St. Louis, MO >11/25 Kansas City, KS >11/26 Columbia, MO >11/28 Little Rock, AR >11/29 West Plaines, MO > 11/29 is now Jonesboro, AR >11/30 Fort Smith, AR >12/1 Tulsa, OK >12/2 Springfield, MO >