From Erica, nearly verbatim, forwarded by her #1 fan.

---- Steve


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hello friends and happy holidays:

Erica Smith and the Tumbleweeds
Saturday, December 29, 2001 10pm
The Sidewalk Cafe
East 6th & Avenue A
New York City
no cover / 2 drink min.

I'm sending this one a wee bit early because I know lots of folks are leaving town! Please come down and join us whilst we joyously celebrate a CD release. We will have crates and crates of discs on hand for the humble price of $10.

Hail, hail, the band will be there: Dave Campbell on drums, Jon Sobel on bass, Kenny Davidsen on piano, Andrew Heller on guitar. I feel priviliged indeed to work with such fine musicians and nice folks. They are the core band for the next CD, due out in the spring . . . . but more on that later!!!

If you'd like to have a listen/gander at the new CD, please visit http://www.cdbaby.com/listenhere and click on . . . uh . . . my head. You can buy it there, as well as at Other Music NYC (West 4th St. across from Tower records).

Mmmmm, what else. Oh, for those of you who have neither a 10-pound daily planner nor a palm pilot, but spend hours and hours at your computer -- surely I'm not the only one! -- go to http://www.maidmusic.com and you can download a very special e-invite. If you click on it once you will get an adorable wintery movie in Quicktime. Wheeeeeeee!