Holiday Decorating and Holiday Shows: Check out GlennaBell.com!
Happy Holidays, Everybody! I’ve been doing some “virtual” decorating, and I hope that you’ll take a few minutes to check out my Web site, which -- just like magic -- will now play and sing “Be My Valentine (On Christmas)” for you when you click www.glennabell.com
Getting into the holiday spirit can be fun if you don’t overdo it, and it was a pleasant reprieve to spend a little time doing something new and creative with my site. Soon enough, life will be back to its frenetic pace, as I’ll be playing a couple of holiday shows in Houston before I’m off to NYC to wrap up my new release, Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex, Love, and Murder, which is sounding GREAT if I do say so myself. Producer Big Kev has Big Plans for these songs, and I can hardly wait to let the cat out of the bag and tell you all about it! Soon.
In the meantime, I’m wishing EVERYONE a VERY Merry Christmas and the HAPPIEST New Year ever, as always.
I also want to let all the Houston people know about a couple of holiday shows that are right around the corner: This Wednesday, December 16, I’ll be atBoheme on Fairview in the Montrose to do a benefit for children hosted by Zoolander of 104 KRBE, one of Houston’s big commercial radio stations. Boheme is one of Houston’s newer, hipper spots, an intimate space with a chic vibe, plus wine, beer and variety drinks. Each act in the line-up will be doing a few Christmas or holiday songs, including Kady Malloy, who was a semifinalist on American Idol, and Low Man’s Joe and Versecity, two popular local bands, plus a dance trio. Having KRBE participate will give us a lot of visibility, which should bring a strong turnout to help the kids. And the Houston Chronicle music editor, Joey Guerra, who named The Road Less Traveled album of the year for 2008, will also be plugging the event via the Chronicle. I feel sure that this will be a really good time for a very good cause. The entertainment begins at 7:30 p.m. and all of the details are on the “calendar” page at www.glennabell.com . . .
I’ll also be doing a show next week at Rudyards on Waugh (also in the Montrose), which is one of inner-city Houston’s landmark music venues where so many local, regional, and national acts have played through the years, so much music and so many memories have been made . . . And we’ll make some more on Tuesday, December 29, on the upstairs stage—my friend Jimmy Pizzitola and me, plus a touring act from Brooklyn, New York: Rebecca Pronsky. It will be a casual, upbeat, late-night show, as Rudz traditionally doesn’t get going until about 10 p.m. So this one will be just right for all of the night owls and college students on Christmas break. Rudz also has amazingly good food for a pub, and they serve eats ‘til midnight and drinks ‘til 2 a.m. Y’all come!