Fall into Bliss

It is still summer, but you can feel fall in the air.
We had a beautiful night for Truffles 25th Anniversary celebration.  It was a great night of live music and a wonderful tribute to Truffle.  Lots of dancing!
 If you didn't make it out to Three Chimneys, come out for some live music on October 1st.  You can see Tom Yoder, Bliss, Truffle,  and special guest the Adam Ezra Band at the Harvest Moon Music Festival to benefit Womenade at Wine Cellar Farm in Durham.  Party with a purpose!
Get out and see some live music, acoustic music, local bands, singer song writers, or a someone you have always wanted to see live.
I am heading to the Life's Good Music Festival in two weeks.  It is a great line up and it raises money for charities focused on helping kids.  Bliss was in the finals of independent, unsigned bands considered to play at the event.  I think we capture the Life's Good spirit, so we will try again next year.
Check out our new website! www.bliss4.net
Find your bliss, follow your bliss~
Kristan  and the Bliss Gals

New Bliss Website and Truffles 25th Celebration

We are getting ready to launch a new website!  We built it ourselves on Host Baby.  The nice thing is we can make edits and add CD Baby, an audio player, live shows,  and I am working on getting this blog on the site too.
What do you look for in a website?

Also, we are looking forward to playing Friday September 9th at Three Chimneys Inn for Truffles 25th Anniversary of playing together.  Wow, 25 years of great live music!  I hope Bliss will be celebrating 25 years of playing great acoustic music in 2032.
Truffle has been a big part of my life.  They were our college band, and played an epic graduation party in 1987, THE Halloween party in the barn in ME and at my wedding to Rick, they had my whole family dancing, all night.  We are are really happy to be playing with Truffle in their celebration.  We hope you can make it out for some great live music!
Follow your Bliss,
Kristan

Bliss for a Cure

We (Bliss) played two amazing events earlier this month;  Concert for  Cure at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye and the Pan Mass Challenge.  Both were fundraisers for Cancer.  Concert for a Cure raises money for breast cancer programs including On Belay.  On Belay is a program that helps children facing the loss of a parent , On Belay.  Check them out at  www.on-belay.org
The Pan Mass Challenge is the single biggest fund raiser for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund.  Last year alone they raised $31 million.  Lance Armstrong rode this year.  Listen to Billy Starr the founder and Lance talk about the fight to find a cure @  www.pmc.org
Both locations were beautiful and the people there were all helping to make a difference. Our song Justify captures it pretty well~
 always looking to feel better
 searching for meaning, striving for goals
 but the true joy is in the faces
simple life
belief in a cure
some to hold
did it happen for a reason
can we always find the answer
or do we justify
check out the video at www.bliss4.net

thanks and
find your bliss
    follow your Bliss

Bliss Evolution

Bliss is changing...

You can look at change with disappointment or as an opportunity.

We see it as an opportunity to evolve.

Carolyn has decided to leave the band to play with Taylor Groove.  We are happy for her, she is playing the Olde Time Music she loves, following her bliss.  We will miss her mandolin, harmonies and unique outlook.  

It gives us the chance to evolve our sound.  We are adding Karen on keyboard for some songs.  Piano is Karen's first instrument, she is an amazing teacher.  I am really looking forward to adding the keyboard in part because when I see Karen play the piano she plays with passion and clearly loves it I know that that will come through in the music.  That is what it is about.  You may even hear Cathy singing harmony in addition to her amazing violin playing.

We hope you find your bliss, 

Follow your Bliss

Thanks, Kristan

(Karen and Cathy)

Bliss in the Studio

We are finishing up our first full length CD at Thundering Sky in Berwick ME.  WE are excited that we are going to have some special guests add a little groove to Bliss!  More to come...
Come see us at the Lowell Riverfest where "Culture Flows" this Saturday June 11 3pm.