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Hey everybody!

This is Chase writing, and we're smack dab in the middle of the fantastic Festival of New American Music that takes place in Northern California. Citywater just had a successful debut with the festival, and I don't think we could've asked for anything better. It turns out that all of the excruciating 7AM rehearsals we had paid off, big time. I'm actually a little bit surprised that I'm awake right now, and writing this at 2:00 in the morning. In about six hours, the group and myself will pack our stuff and head up to Sierra College and play an outreach concert as part of the festival. Very exciting stuff! A lot of memories will be made for us after this, ones I don't think we'll be likely to forget anytime soon.

Here's one of them:

We had just finished playing a concert with Pauline Oliveros on one of her pieces she devised called "One Hundred Meeting Places", but Sunday was quickly looming over the horizon, and we still needed to rehearse. Luckily for us, we were able to get the hall from 10:00PM to about 12:00AM and get some last minute detail work in. And then, a surprise guest showed up and listened to one of our runthroughs. The guest was noneother than the world class marimbist and New Music Queen, Nancy Zeltsman, also a guest artist on the Festival lineup. That was an exciting moment for all of us, even though we were trying to maintain our composure and at least a slight sense of professionalism. She was even gracious enough to attend our concert on Sunday, and what fun that was!

Well, there's lots more stories to tell, and I'll certainly get around to a few of them, but like I said, there's still a concert to play in the morning. So for now, I'm signing off, and sending out all the wonderful thanks to the people of Sacramento who've been so wonderful and supportive. We've got some more tricks to pull out of our sleeve, so stay tuned-- literally-- because this game is just gettin' started.

All the best,

Chase