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Elisa plays holiday parties and corporate events
News: European tour log
Awards: Sam Ash sponsorship, ASCAPLUS award
New Song Lyrics: Yours for a Song
Upcoming Gigs: NYC 11/8, NY 11/12, NJ 11/19

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Elisa can perform her own music or cover holiday songs and pop, rock, and jazz standards as an acoustic solo act, duo, trio, or band. Contact info@elisakorenne.com or 917-497-3949 if interested.

Hello, everyone! It's good to be writing to you again. This past month has been chock full of activity. I spent the last half of October performing in England and France, and it was a remarkable experience.

I started out my European tour in England, where I was privileged to perform at the Twickenham Folk Club, the Blue Cat in Stockport, Cafe Viva, and the Bedford's "Acoustix Night" showcase. I had numerous adventures of both the musical and non-musical sort. When all trains to Twickenham were canceled due to a "security alert" just when I needed to get to my show, I ended up meeting a lovely mother and daughter who guided me on two tube lines and three buses and walked me to the door of the venue. I spent another day walking miles and miles across my old stomping grounds in London (I spent a year living in London when studying at the London School of Economics in 1998). And I thoroughly gorged myself on "flapjacks"--a brick-like concoction of oats, vegetable margerine, and sugar sold in every corner store like Twinkies are in the U.S.

The second week brought me to France, where the adventures got better, spiced up by the language gap--which was occasionally bridged by the fragments I remembered from college French classes. My first performance in France, at the charming pub-cum-listening room Toucouleurs in Brittany, was a true test of my performance--and French-language!--skills. I managed to conduct most of the three-set performance in French, and what I didn't know how to say, the audience taught me. You can imagine how giving the introduction to Butte (my song about the Montana madame) in French was a titillating experience: "How do you say 'prostitute' in French?" Apparently, there is no good equivalent to the English word "madam," borrowed as it is from the French word for "Mrs." So, after some back-and-forth with the audience, I settled on "head of the prostitutes" (la chef des prostituées). In between sets, Yvette and Ivan, the lovely proprietors of Toucouleurs, invited me to partake dinner with them. Having a relaxed, home-cooked, two-hour French meal in the middle of my performance--complete with a full cheese course--was one of the most civilized experiences I've ever had. I hope to bring this relaxed way of enjoying food and conversation over meals into my everyday life. It sure beats eating the remains of yesterday's take out standing up in front of an open refrigerator!

Between Toucouleurs and the Nevers-a-Vif festival, I had two days off in the Breton countryside, where I visited various medieval towns and beautiful, windswept, cliff-lined coasts and learned Breton dance at an authentic Breton dance class attended by about eighty Breton farmers, Peter and Suzanne Batley--my entertaining hosts at the St. Croix Julo Bed & Breakfast, and me. Driving a bit too cavalierly in my rental car, I also managed to get a French speeding ticket. Or at least, I think I did. In France, there are no police cars to pull you over; instead, there are gray camera boxes on the road, which will take a candid shot of your license plate if you happen to be driving over the speed limit ("say cheese!"). After encountering a flash on the bridge between St. Malo and Dinard, I'm waiting to see if the ticket manages to find its way from the French government bureaucracy to Hertz and then to me!

From Brittany I traveled to Nevers, where I opened the Nevers-a-Vif! rock music festival. The story of how this festival found me is one of my favorite music business stories. The wonderful programmer of the festival found an article about me in Siren Song Magazine when searching on the Internet for a band called "Siren Song." He clicked on my website which was listed in the article, and, after hearing my music, invited me to play the festival. The festival was an incredible experience. I was the only artist performing twice, and I performed for the largest crowds so far in my career. The day after the opening night, the regional paper published a review of the festival with a photograph of me and the headline "Elisa Korenne ouvre en douceur" ( which I think means something like "Elisa Korenne opens with sweetness"). I was the only acoustic artist at the show, and had a blast getting to know the many rock acts that shared the stage with me. Let's just say that coffeehouse gigs are not quite as exciting.

I'm glad to be back in the U.S., though I look forward to my next visit to Europe. This month I'll be performing in New York City on the 8th, the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in Monticello, NY on the 11th and 12th, and at a new coffeehouse in New Jersey on the 19th. Have a great month!

• I am pleased to announce that I've received one of the prestigious ASCAPLUS awards, an award given by ASCAP to up-and-coming artists.
• I've been asked by Sam Ash Music to be one of their sponsored artists.
• I'm also happy to tell you that I've been invited to be on the teaching artist roster of CREATE, an organization that brings performing artists into the New York City public schools.

This is one of my newest songs--a love-song homage to antiques, thrift stores, and second-hand things. It's not yet officially recorded, but if you're interested, I'll put a live recording up on my website.

Yours for a Song
© 2005 Elisa Korenne

I could be yours for a song
Been in this window too long
With the vintage hats and stained mugs
Dusty books and broken toy trucks
Improved like wine
A better flavor with time
Take me home for a song

I’m yours for a song
I was built to be strong
Like antique globes and fondue bowls
That old boat motor that will never be sold
Made to last
A treasure from the past
Take me home for a song

Treasures can hide in plain sight
A trifle’s a prize if you look at it right
Once you place me where I belong
Everyone will see what you saw

Here where I’m yours for a song
Come back later, and I may be gone
You might spend all life long
Trying to find me again
Right here I’m yours for a song
And if you go wrong
It was only a song
Only a song
Only

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Kutsher's Resort
1 Kutschers Road
Monticello, NY
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110 Mercer St.
Hightstown, NJ 08520
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