It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions http://pammeswan.com/news.html Pamme Swan: Notions Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:18:48 -0800 Year Of Firsts Review http://pammeswan.com/news.html#47 Mike Jaquays, writer for the Mid York has a new review out on my 7th CD, Year Of Firsts. Please click my Press and Review link to read.

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#47 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions Craig Brandon Linked ME! http://pammeswan.com/news.html#46 WOW! Starting the New Year off to a great start! While cruising some of my favorite websites, I ended up at the Adirondack Museum's site to learn Craig Brandon, author of Murder In The Adirondacks, Grace Brown's Love Letters and The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette to name a few, is scheduled to lecture at the museum on January 15th. So, I went to Mr. Brandon's site, got his contact info and emailed him about my song Boom Town. He responded that very afternoon and linked my site to his! I'm thrilled to say the least!

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#46 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions Year Of First's DONE! http://pammeswan.com/news.html#45 2011 has been a roller coaster year to say the least. Everything got in the way of this CD but alas, it is done and is available through iTunes. Look for the link on my home page. Snippets of the 13 songs with the exception of Year of First's, Lucky Lou, Spirit House and Dr. Bronner (which are full length versions as I'm feeling some Christmas generosity) have been uploaded to my Swan Song page. Enjoy them as I will edit the audio times to shorten them back to song samples on December 6th. 


I'd like to thank my old band mate's Ed Vollmer and David Williams for their ukulele and washboard skills on Dr. Bronner. And Steven Skollar for his mandolin work on Damselfly, Year Of First's and Woodchuck And Crow. A HUGE hats off once again to Rich Grant who has spent endless hours mixing my music and editing my art. 


May your holidays be filled with fine food and drink, togetherness, great music and less packaging! Shop Local and download, download, DOWNLOAD!

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#45 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions Anne La Bastille's Memorial http://pammeswan.com/news.html#44 I usually post to my blog, The Traveling IndianLily which can be reached by going to my links page. But have decided that really cool news should be blogged here. I've been asked to perform my song Ode To Anne at Anne La Bastille's memorial service Saturday, August 20th. I'll likely catch the 2nd shuttle in Eagle Bay and perform around noon. I'm quite excited and very honored with this and also a bit emotional. The last time I was at Anne's Lake was when I zoom recorded the thunderstorm that opens her song. Adirondack Life magazine also posted my email and link to my website on their letter's to the editor page in this month's issue. I'm very much looking forward to playing Anne's song on her sacred Adirondack ground.  

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#44 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions CD Name Change http://pammeswan.com/news.html#43 Year Of First's came to be two years of firsts. Oh well! Can't force creativity! Songs happen along when they do in their own sweet time. There is a song Year Of Firsts on the CD which I'm now naming Hooked On Folk. I just couldn't come up with art work for the cover that correlated with Year Of Firsts. Sitting here at my mac after moving my studio back down stairs where it belongs, and after getting Mom's rugs up on the wall for sound absorption. I realized the CD had to be called Hooked On Folk, as the rug with the bone ivory guitar pin, the last thing my father gave me was pretty much slapping me in the face hanging on the wall right next to where I do my recording. This CD has been in the making for 3 years. Proof of my aging ADHD! It'll be good to get on the other side of it and onward...ta la. 

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#43 Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions Wrapping up Year Of Firsts http://pammeswan.com/news.html#42 Now that these holidays are OVER and my kids are some what settled. Nick is in Ithaca scraping by and Aurora will be moving into an ole house that her and her buds are working hard at cleaning up. It's time to wrap up the CD I've been recording since before my father died. It's taken quite a while to actually wrap my head around this reality. As sick as he was, It was a sudden shock. So with Skyway plans pretty much underway and scheduled for June 11 this year at the Hooks Wiltse Field in Hamilton, it's time for me to get the other 7 original songs recorded. This is my first CD where I'm mixing originals with some of my favorite old folk song covers. It seemed such a shame not to add these songs as they bring me a pure sense of gratification in performing them and my listeners, the simple joy of hearing them. While performing last summer at the the Long Lake Author's night, I pulled "Stewball" out as I noticed a lot of younger children in the crowd. I used to sing Stewball to my kids when they were little as it was a favorite of mine being a normal horse loving child myself. While I was packing up a young girl around the age of twenty ran up to me and told me how happy that song made her! She and her family used to sing that song in her childhood whenever they went camping. She said she hasn't heard it since. Well this of course made my day. Driving back down the moonlit dirt road to Stillwater was when I decided to record these favorite covers of mine and get them on the CD. They have been a good therapeutic "balm for sorrow" in dealing with the tornado of feelings I've been beat up with since my father's passing. Funny how these songs come out before the tragedies happen as I wrote Balm For Sorrow a good year before my father passed. 


So! I'm gifting myself with a new CD and my birthday is my new release date! May 19th, 2011 The new disc will be called Year Of Firsts even though it won't be released well into year two. post Dad.

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#42 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions News, Journals, Blogs, They Are All The Same To Me http://pammeswan.com/news.html#41 To get to my Traveling Indian Lily Blog please click on Blinks on the home page. Ta La!

]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#41 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions LIfe Full Spiral http://pammeswan.com/news.html#39 Other than my monthly gig at the Georgetown Inn. I have a New Years Eve folk gig at the Mountain Top in my home town of Sherburne.
I'm rooting through my writing basket and do have a new crop of songs to record this winter. If I feel like it. I'm looking forward to snow! And lots of it...really!]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#39 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions Skyway NIght http://pammeswan.com/news.html#38
Club Ed ~ The Colgate Inn
Same Blood Folk ~ Nichols and Beal
The Hook ~ The Barge
Steve Golly ~ Rusch's
Tommy Hoe and the Barn Cats ~ The Hour Glass]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#38 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions Skyway 2009 Is Coming! http://pammeswan.com/news.html#37 Skyway Bands
2009
Hosted by Meredith Leland Getchonis
and Chris Cashion
And This years Skyway Performers are!

Adishakti Dancers
Tumbleweed Gumbo
Zach Fleitz
Commander Cockroach and the Mexican Bus
Emilee Smith
David Chlad
Putter Cox and Friends
The Mark Shiner Trio
Matt Nakoa
Earthman Embassy

This years Skyway chair built by Bill Brown and painted by the young artists of Kathy Herolds Center for the Arts
The chair is on display each Saturday in the Farmer's Market on the village green at Adrianna's Thoughts in Wool. Raffle tickets can be bought there for 5 dollars to win the chair
We are looking again for businesses to donate gift certificates or whatever they can to raffle donation
The raffles will go on through out the day with the Skyway Lounger being raffled off last at the end of the show
Donations can be in check form and sent to The Friends of Music PO Box 143 Hamilton 13346
Skyway board of director are Pamme Swan Jimmy Wunderlich and Meredith Leland Getchonis
www.myspace.com/skywayfestival]]> http://pammeswan.com/news.html#37 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 It is what it is! - Pamme Swan - Notions