"From One Home To Another"
with Love
Total time: 43 minutes
Released March, 2006
1. DANNY BOY
2. THE SKYE BOAT SONG
3. A RED, RED ROSE
4. MEDLEY:
A. I'M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES
B. I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS
5. ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
6. INDIAN SUMMER
7. THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE ME
8. AVALON
9. MELANCHOLY BABY
10. MEDLEY:
A. KEEP THE HOMEFIRES BURNING
B. LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
11. GIVING TREE, an original tune
12. AMAZING GRACE
"From One Home To Another"
for Christmas
A Harp-and-Song Sing-Along
Total time: 40 minutes
Released December, 2005
[Click on the links to hear samples.]
1. DECK THE HALLS
2. IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
3. ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH
4. JOLLY OLD SAINT NICHOLAS
5. WE THREE KINGS
6. O HOLY NIGHT
7. WHAT CHILD IS THIS?
8. HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING
9. HURON CAROL
10. THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
11. THE FIRST NOEL
12. AWAY IN A MANGER
13. JOY TO THE WORLD
14. COVENTRY CAROL
15. O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
16. AVE MARIA
17. WHILE SHEPERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT
18. UP ON A HOUSETOP
19. I SAW THREE SHIPS
20. GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN
21. I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
22. GIVING TREE, an original tune
23. JINGLE BELLS, with a sing-along audience
24. SILENT NIGHT, with a sing-along audience
25. WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, with a sing-along audience
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Skye Hurlburt
Traveling Sound
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Harmony, RI 02829-0111
Personal Notes:
I began doing Harp-and-Song Sing-alongs in senior living facilities throughout Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and eastern Connecticut in 2000 and have since entertained thousands of seniors. Although I have been thrilled with the success of my small business as a Daytime Entertainer, it has been a disappointment that, for the most part, I have had to leave my own state of Rhode Island in order to make my living performing. With this special project, it is possible for me to go "From One Home To Another" within my own state to nursing homes and adult day care services that could, otherwise, not afford my entertainment. Thanks for your interest in my "From One Home To Another" project.
-- Skye
Previous recordings (no longer available):
"A Sing-along Sampler with Skye", 2000
"Live at the Library with Travelin' Light, 1999
"A Jazzy Evening with Travelin' Light, a jazz duo", 1998
"Songs in Season: a Musician's Guide to Becoming a Daytime Entertainer"
is available for purchase online at Melody's Traditional Music
Some reviews:
"This is not a songbook, but a business guide to becoming a daytime entertainer. Songs in Season explores the possibility of finding places to entertain during the day from among the 17,000 nursing care facilities and 25,000 assisted living facilities in the United States, and hundreds of other senior groups and organizations. There are also suggestions for expanding your repertoire to include other age groups. This book tells how the author does what she does, so you can forge your own path. 95 pages, 17 chapters with samples of contracts, brochures, confirmation letter, scheduling sheet and calendar, invoice, and information about repertoire, instruments, accompanying your voice, equipment for daily gigs, presentation hints, clothing, giveaways, venues, organization, booking, programming, talking to seniors, and much more."
--Mary Radspinner, Melody's Traditional Music
"I read it cover to cover and loved it! In a nutshell, being a daytime entertainer is one way to make music a viable livelihood. Skye is doing it!"
-- John Lozier, Harping for Harmony Foundation
"I wasn't able to get to her workshop (heard it was marvelous) but I have her book and it's superb...has every possible detail anyone could need for preparing for, finding, booking, performing, handling business matters, and expanding a gigging career. The book is extremely thorough, but written in a format that makes it easy to read and locate specific information. It's heavily indexed and has a great appendix with forms for correspondence, calendaring, examples of many kinds of publicity materials, and photographs of equipment transport and setup arrangements that are lightweight, efficient, require only one-trip, and no heavy lifting. When you see how organized and detail-obsessed Skye is, the 'how does she do it?' aspect of her 400 daytime gigs per year career becomes more understandable."
--Sharon Brennan, Daytime Entertainer
"Even if you have played at many concerts you'll find something in this book that you did NOT know. From this point of view the book is an excellent introduction to what I would broadly term 'concert promotion' and the behind the scenes work involved. In Skye's case the book is slanted toward a senior-specific market but many of her ideas would be relevant to anyone who wishes to perform in public. Her style of writing is open and easy to grasp with an emphasis on practicality. Skye will get you thinking in new ways and before you know it you might be having that Carnegie Hall debut on a local level at a number of senior's venues and other places that none of us are taught in music school to consider."
--R. Matthews, BC Harps Newsletter (British Columbia)
"If playing the senior circuit is not for you, there are still plenty of ideas [in Skye's book] for procuring other daytime jobs, getting organized, establishing good public relations, and creating your own niche."
--Jan Jennings, Harp Column Magazine
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