Hi Folks, 

Yes, it's all finally happening! The Legacy CD is finished and the accompanying DVD will be a full swag of interestingness for you all, I hope. As well as 15 of my best political songs from over the years on CD, the DVD has an 8-minute music video of "Black Carrie", live footage from Woodford Folk Festival and the Harp in Sydney, a slideshow of weird and wonderful pictures I took on my travels around the world, and some beautifully inspirational videos from international environment groups.

You can see the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyI5hAvkIug 

For the title track, I've re-written my 1992 song "Legacy" to bring it up to date with current global events and concerns, and included a new song "Black Snake Range" about my lovely mountains here. In addition, I've re-recorded "So Lucky" finally to my satisfaction and also "No Way In, No Way Out" as the original version from 1991 was a too poor-quality a recording to put next to the other material. It's OK on Archive Vol.2, because they're all of a piece, but right next to the spanky recordings I made later, it sounded a bit tatty. But the new version I'm very happy with. Huge thanks to Mal Webb and Peter Haydon for all their help in recording

The songlist is a follows:

      Legacy 2010 
Black Carrie 
Mother Song 
Lionhearts 
 Our Apartheid 
 Black Snake Range 
 Car 
 No Way In, No Way Out 
 Safe Home 
  Guenevere and the Fire 
 The Old Man in the Rock
Aunty Betty 
 Madness, Mines and Mortgages
 Steel-Hearted Annie
So Lucky

Some of these songs have been unavailable for years, as the albums there were on have been out of print, so I'm very happy to be able to make them available again.

Gigs....

Penelope Solo: Legacy CD/DVD Launch Tour

Greens Fundraiser Concert - Wollongong
Fri 18th June 7pm
Diggers Club Auditorium
Cnr Church & Bulli Sts, Wollongong
$15/10
With Local federal candidates
George Takacs (Cunningham)
Peter Moran (Throsby)

Greens Fundraiser - Brunswick
Thurs 17th June
Details TBA

Legacy CD/DVD Launch and Greens Fundraiser - Sydney
Sun 20th June  7pm
The Harp Hotel
900 Princes Hwy Tempe
$20/15

Greens Fundraiser - Daylesford
Sunday 27th June 2pm
Palais Theatre, Hepburn

Legacy CD/DVD Launch and Greens Fundraiser
Friday 2nd July
Greens Campaign Office
288 Brunswick St Fitzroy 7.30 pm. 

Greens Fundraiser   Perth
Sat 3rd July
Fremantle Fibonacci Centre
Details TBA

Greens Fundraiser - Sunshine
Sun 29th August
Details TBA

also coming up...

Stay tuned for other CD launch tours around the country in 2010.

Penelope and Green Politics

Now folks, I've never been backward in coming forward about my politics and the tours around this album will be no exception. Put bluntly, much of the money raised by this album will be going into The Greens. This is partly because a dear friend, long-time supporter and Greens campaigner, the lovely Stephen Luntz has chosen to sink several thousand of his own dollars into financing the project, and partly because I think it's a good thing to do as I believe Green politics are more important than ever and I'm damn grateful that there's folks out there willing to get down in the dirty world of electoral politics and give it their all. I haven't yet (though Stephen's been working on me).

 Interestingly, Stephen is funding the project out of royalties for a law textbook his father wrote - the very same one I've been sweating over for the last year or so - so there's a nice little feedback loop for you. And yes, I paid full price for my own copy!

So many (but not all) off the launch tour gigs will be Greens Fundraisers. 70% to them, 30% to feeding me. Greens members around the country are warmly invited to contact me if you'd like me to do a gig in your area and to raise some dosh for your local branch.. 

And if you'd like to have the music but you're not comfy about financing the Greens with your purchase, that's fine, too. If you buy one directly from me via mail-order, the money will go to financing my law degree instead - sound fair? 

Lotsa love, Penelope.

Totally Gourdgeous  - 2010 

In other news Totally Gourgeous won  the Best Live Act award Nominated by the Folk Alliance Australia Members for 2008 - whoo-hoo! 

AND we also won the Mary Poppins Infinite Song Contest at the National Folk Festival in 2009 for our rendition of "Jolly Holiday" Who said we weren't a serious band!

Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival
22-24th Oct 2010 

Tasmania Sustainable Living Festival
Nov 5-6th (TBC)

Anyone interested in booking Penelope  penelope@penelopeswales.com

If you're looking for some other great acoustic/roots
artists playing in your area, have a squiz at
www.tradmusic.com  a great gig guide with gigs all
over the world, run by really nice people.