If you didn't catch Maia's appearance on this weeks' Acoustic Cafe you can listen to the archive on their site
You can also watch a cool video Acoustic Cafe cut together from her appearance click here to check it out.
Hey Friends,
If you're flying Delta Airlines anytime this month (October) be sure to tune into their music channel on the plane. "Unbreakable" from my new album Echo is on Delta's playlist!
Plus it'll help drown out the sounds of the crying baby behind you. Glad I could help.
Thanks,
Maia
Portland, Oregon's 'AM Northwest' from September 9
Maia had a memorable time at the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia.
"It was great to hear and hang with the other acts and the tried and true house band. Everyone with Mountain Stage is talented and professional.
Somehow they manage to create a stress free environment and still hit their many marks." The show recorded on August 9 for NPR’s ‘Mountain Stage’ will be airing the weekend of October 2 on most NPR stations.
Mountain Stage has been featuring live music by a diverse group of artists for over 25 years, including performances by the Indigo Girls, Iris DeMent, Wilco, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, k.d. Lang, Sarah McLachlan, R.E.M., Ani DiFranco, Janis Ian, Neko Case, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Steve Earle just to name a few. "I'm honored to be in the company of this Mountain Stage alum. What an A List of singer songwriters."
You can hear Maia’s ‘Mountain Stage’ appearance on your local NPR station.
Visit the Mountain Stage site for a complete list of stations and times.
Thanks to our new partners, Blix Street Records, September 15 marks the release of Echo in physical CD stores! Yes, you can get it at Borders, Barnes and Noble and local ma & pa's as well as anywhere music is sold online. Feels like forward motion!
Just got home from a west coast run that took us through northern California and the Northwest. Now I have two days to catch up at home (pay bills, remind my dog who I am) before we fly to Charlotte, NC to open for the Indigo Girls. I've been a fan for years. That should be ridiculous fun.
"Walk With You," the song I co-wrote with Edwin McCain is now available on iTunes and Edwin is singing the you know what out of it. It's so worth the pocket change to hear him do his thing. It's slated to be on his upcoming greatest hits album which hits stores February, 2010.
The October tour is shaping up as I type. We'll be posting dates as they confirm.
Hope to see you out there!
Maia
All right...good stuff has brewed or is brewing. NPR featured me chatting about Echo in an "All Things Considered" episode with Melissa Block a couple weeks ago but you can still hear it by going to NPR.org, searching "maia sharp" in the top right corner and clicking on Maia Sharp: A Songwriter Set To Arrive. They then made "Death By Perfection" their song of the day which you can also hear if you make those moves.
My label, Crooked Crown Records has just joined forces with Blix Street Records, best known for a catalogue of recordings by the late, great Eva Cassidy. Blix will market and distribute Echo (in physical music stores as well) and double our efforts in general. We're really excited about it...they are good people who do good business. Expect to see Echo in brick and mortar stores September 15. In the meantime it's still just about everywhere music is sold online.
I'm back on the road through November with only a couple breaks for sanity's sake. Please check the tour dates. We are always adding new stops.
Hope to see you out there! Thanks for checking out the site and hopefully, the new album.
Maia
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Maia's song 'Death By Perfection' off of her latest CD Echo is NPR's Song of The Day today!
In school I was the only one in my class that groaned at the sight of a substitute teacher sitting behind the big desk. Everyone else saw this as a free day. Some even recognized an opportunity to try out some new taunts or practical jokes. All I knew is that he or she would most likely demolish the pronunciation of my name during roll call and then I'd be Maria, May - uh or even My-E-Uh all day to my particularly obnoxious classmates.
As the years went by I grew to love having a name that hardly anyone else in my world had and no one I'd met until very recently shared the spelling of it that my mom and dad had chosen for me. I wouldn't change it for anything. Now that I'm on tour for my new album, Echo, the new groan is that when potential new fans hear it pronounced correctly on the radio (local, satellite and syndicated, most recently NPR's "All Things Considered") and they try to find me online, maya sharp, mia sharp, mya sharp, maya sharpe, mia sharpe or mya sharpe might not get them all the way there...to maiasharp.com. Hopefully this blog post will help remedy that. Then all that's left is the misspelled name on my daily Starbucks cup.
© Maia Sharp 2009
