Alicia McGovern: News

Hello from The Netherlands!!  We are having such a great time so far!  Erik and I spent a couple nights in Amsterdam when we arrived; what a wonderful city!  We were able to explore a little and also sleep and settle in before beginning the tour.  

I had a wonderful gig at In The Woods on Saturday night- what a wonderful venue with great people who made Erik and I feel at home right away.  So much fun.  Yesterday was a wonderful afternoon, a cozy House Concert with our new friends in Ter Aar, full of wonderful people, good laughs, and connection through music... and on we go!  

Hello from Ireland!  I'm back in a place I love and haven't been in ages.  What a bonus to be able to come to Ireland to visit a friend "en route" to The Netherlands!  More to come very soon!  Next stop, Amsterdam, and on to many points in The Netherlands, beginning with my first show of the tour at the amazing venue In The Woods Saturday evening (1/28)!!

What a great time at the 30A Songwriters Festival this past weekend in the South Walton Area, filled with so many wonderful venues, audiences, staff, volunteers, and so much great music!  Thanks, everyone!   

Hi everyone!  I am SO excited to share that I am listed as one of the top Folk Artists of 2011, and that Words Through The Seasons is listed as one of the top Folk Records of 2011, by the annual airplay summaries compiled through the Folk DJ list!  Thank you SO much Folk DJ's!!!!!  

Thank you all for your amazing support in 2011!  I am wishing you all a beautiful and abundant 2012; this year is going to be magical!  As always, Think Good Thoughts, and they WILL shape your world!  You hold the power to change and beautify the world!  Thank you for being a part of mine.  

Blessings,

Alicia

This is going to be so much fun!  Click here for more info!

Thanksgiving flew by like a bird; Erik and I spent ours in the red rock desert of southern Utah on a camping and climbing trip.  So I am wishing you a belated Thanksgiving, and could not let it pass by without expressing the extreme gratitude that I feel for all of this: for all the open arms and doors, and for all the open hearts that have so graciously received mine.  In sharing music with all of you, the biggest gift I have received is the way that so many of you have taken the time, and been courageous enough, to share your own journeys with me, even the hard parts.  I cannot adequately express how thankful I feel for all of it, but it has been an enormous gift that you have given me, and I am continuously grateful for how it shows me this: that my heart's mix of quirkiness and dreaminess and joy and sadness and love and so many other things that want to be heard in a song is not so completely different from yours.  Thank you for sharing this with me.

I have just come back from an amazing weekend in Sisters, OR.  What a wonderful festival of community and connection through music.  I am honored beyond words to have won the Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest held at the Festival.  Thank you a thousand times to the Community of Sisters for so generously opening your hearts to me, and to the spirit of Dave Carter for permeating this event with your presence and your legacy of songs that touch the Heart.  My heart is so full from all of it. 

I'm thrilled to share that I am a Finalist in the Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Sisters Folk Festival in Sisters, OR!  I am so very honored to have the opportunity to pay tribute to Dave Carter in this way. I am grinning and brimming with Gratitude!  I hope you all are well, and if Sisters is in your neck of the woods I would love to see you! 

I am so excited to announce that I am going to be playing at the Moab Folk Festival this year (November 4-6)!  This is one of my most favorite festivals EVER, one that is so intimate and lovely, and over the years I have seen many beloved artists on its stages.  So I am SO very thrilled and honored to be playing, in the company of an AMAZING line-up of artists who inspire me.  This year, I am more excited than ever for the first weekend of November in Moab! 

Hello from Alaska!  I am playing today at the Forest Fair in Girdwood at Noon on the Beach Stage, and tomorrow night at The Tap Root in Anchorage at 8 pm.  This visit finds me loving the company of my dear friends here in AK and enjoying the thrilling return to the land of the midnight sun.  I hope you are enjoying the light of summer in your corner of the world. 

Hi everyone!  Just wanted to share the good news that I am a Finalist in the Susanne Millsaps Performing Songwriter Showcase!  I am so honored and excited to be a part of this Showcase, which will be held on July 16th in conjunction with the Mountain Music Festival in Snowbird, UT.  For more information on the Susanne Millsaps Performing Songwriter Showcase and the Mountain Music Festival click here!

Hi everyone!  Excited to share that Words Through The Seasons charted for both March and April on the Folk DJ Charts!  I am so grateful to the Folk DJ's who have been so supportive of this record.  I hope everyone is enjoying Spring and want to extend a special welcome to new visitors to the site-- thanks for coming over and visiting!  If you are so inclined, enter your email address under the "contact" tab so that I can send you my next newsletter and keep you up to speed on things in my musical world.  Thanks as always to you all, friends old and new, for all of your support, for your smiling faces at shows, for the emails and guestbook notes, and for all that you do to make me want to keep tryin':)  Ya'll are amazing. 

Happy April, Happy Spring!  I'm updating my site a little bit.  Check out the newly added "Press" link, with reviews and my recent interview with Ed Muitjens on johnnysgarden.nl! 

Happy February!  I am so excited to share more great news about the record!  Words through the Seasons has  charted this month at #2 on the EuroAmericana Chart!  I am so thrilled, and so touched by the incredible warmth of the response I have gotten from the EuroAmericana DJ's and Reporters.  Thank you SO very much!!!!!

Hi everyone!  Just found out that Words Through The Seasons charted at #5 on the Folk Charts for the month of December!!!  I am overjoyed by this news.  Wow!  Thank you so much to all the Folk DJ's, and to all of you for all of your support and encouragement of Words Through The Seasons.  So excited!!!!      

Happy New Year!!  Thank you all for making 2010 such a phenomenal year for me-- I hope that it was just as phenomenal for all of you!  I hope you all had a great holiday season.  I wanted to share a review that Rein van den Berg posted on Johnny's Garden, a Dutch Internet site run by John Smits (so thankful for my new Dutch friends) and devoted to my kind of music!  How's your Dutch?  

Happy New Year to all of you and wishing you many blessings in 2011! 

Through most of November, I've been sending out the CD to Folk DJ's all over the country, and even to a few overseas, and have been overwhelmed and grateful for how supportive the Folk DJ community has been!  I'm so excited to share that Words Through the Seasons charted on the Folk Charts for the month of November at #34!

Also, a short review of the album by Hearth Music's Devon Leger was recently published by Victory Review Music Magazine, which is based in Seattle.  I've been very grateful for all of this support from the folk community, and wanted to share all the good news. 

If anyone is interested in ordering the CD as a gift for someone for the holidays, I'm following the lead of a couple of my music friends who are offering to gift wrap and ship to address of your choice.  Just follow the "Purchase CD's" link to order it on paypal and under special instructions ask for gift wrap and include what you'd like the "to/from" to say.  Or just email me and let me know.

Hope everyone is having a happy December! 

Had so much fun at the Folk Alliance Region-West (FAR-West) Conference Oct 21-24.  This was my first regional conference and it was so amazing to see what is going on folkwise all over the west.  I played some showcases, went to some great panels and workshops, and made lots of new folkie friends.  A slice of heaven.

I've also had a couple of cool radio spots recently.  On Tuesday, October 26, I had an interview with Heather Miller-Rodriguez of Lyrical Venus Radio, a station that focuses on women singer-songwriters.  So much fun!  The interview should be up on the archives at some point.

Also, Last night local artist Shaney McCoy and I shared a live performance/ song swap and interview on KRCL, our local Community Radion Station here in Salt Lake, with Mark Cantor on the Fret-n-Fiddle Show.  We had a blast-- I couldn't have asked for a better Halloween evening.  We were there promoting the upcoming IAMA songwriter-in-the-round that is happening this Friday-- check out my calendar page for details! 

And Thanks Heather and Mark! 

So excited to officially announce the release of my new CD, Words Through the Seasons.  If you get a chance, please click on the "Where am I Playing?" link.  I'm having CD release parties in Salt Lake and Ogden in the coming weeks!  The CD is now available for purchase on this website by clicking on the "Purchase CD's" link.  Thanks as always for your support.  Hope everyone is enjoying the fall season so far! 

Thanks for stopping by my cyber-home.  Words Through The Seasons is on its way back from duplication and CD Release Parties are in the process of being planned.  Yay!!  Click the "buy" button for the last chance to pre-order!  Pre-orders still include free shipping.  Lots of excitement in my musical world.  Just sent an update out to my mailing list with lots of details.  If you aren't on my mailing list, you can sign up by clicking the "contact" button and filling out the short form.  Hope you are all enjoying the fall; Happy October!

Just got back from a great trip to Portland!  I played at the Portland Center for Spiritual Living, a vibrant and beautiful spiritual community, and In Other Words Bookstore, which is the country's last surviving non-profit feminist bookstore.  Great fun.  What a wonderful city Portland is; I was able to visit with some great new friends, and to reconnect with an old friend I hadn't seen in years.  Got to walk in some moss-covered woods with huge, thick trees, ferns, and wet soil.  Thankful for the journey and for all the beautiful people I met, connected with, and re-connected with there...

Hooray!  So excited that Words Through The Seasons, my new CD, is off to duplication.  Thanks so much to everyone who has been involved in getting this project to that point.  Pre-orders are still available, but in a different format than before since we can't add anyone else's name to the cover at this point.  But all pre-orders placed include free shipping and are still much appreciated!!  Hope everyone is enjoying the start of the cooler weather and the promise of autumn in the air....

This really wasn't a gimmick.  Just a case of running a bit behind on the design work, so I'm not taking down the pre-order button yet.  We are getting there, though!  You will be the first to know when we get to duplication.  So feel free to pre-order if you still want to!

Hello Friends!  I am just getting back from Lyons, CO from a week-long Song School in conjunction with Folks Fest.  What an incredible adventure!  This song school featured teachers like David Wilcox, Darrell Scott, and Steve Seskin (I know).  I had heard about it for years and decided to make it out this year.  What an incredible journey it was to be among so many other people who are so passionate about songwriting and to get so many perspectives from different teachers.  I know that my experiences there will continue to teach me for a long time.  In addition to the Song School, this was my first Folks Festival.  This is the largest folk gathering I have ever been to.  A self-professed "folk geek", I had the most amazing feeling of Community among the thousands of people singing every word with John Prine and other heroes of mine. Now I'm back home, playing catch-up and getting everything ready for the CD to go to duplication!  As planned, I mastered the CD at Airshow Mastering while I was in Colorado, and am so freakin' excited for how it has turned out!! 

I'm working on getting the design work together, so I need to stop taking pre-orders in the current form within the next couple days.  I can still take the straight order for the CD after this, but I'll have to finish the credits that will go into the CD.  So, if you are still interested in donating at the level where your name will be listed in the CD ($50 or more), I would love it!  Just make sure you place an order soon on the "buy" page if you want to be involved at this level.  I had a couple issues with the pay pal links not working and all of it should be working well now (although apparantly if you are using Internet Explorer's newest version they recommend switching to Firefox or Mozilla or another browser if you get an error message).  Thank you SO much to all of my "pre-order angels" who have wanted to be involved with the CD in this way- I have been SO amazed and so touched by the support from these preorders, and I can't wait to get you the final copy.