Lorna Vallings News

Radio Interview - 4ZzZ FM Brisbane

April 29, 2004
Aussies take note! John Frame of 4ZzZ BRISBANE 102.1 FM has interviewed ! Lorna Vallings for an up-and-coming, thrity-one minute (3 part) special next week - 5th May, 2004.

They will have copies of Confidential as giveaways for listeners too, so tune in! 4ZzZ has been broadcasting from Mt. Coot-tha to the greater Brisbane area since 1978. 4ZzZ plays real music chosen by real people, not computers. This ensures that there is always a fresh supply of new and interesting music and opinion on 4ZzZ, that you won't hear in the mainstream media.

Special Chicago Performance

April 24, 2004 is coming to Chicago to perform at PFLAG's 30th Anniversary Gala event, "Vive L'Amour!", Saturday, April 24, 2004 at Maxim's de Paris. The event is a fundraiser with tickets starting at $100 U.S. Accompanying the contemporary-folk, twelve-string acoustic rocker will be Chicago's own piano-pounding musician Beazely Phillips and members of the Beazley Phillips Band. Vallings will be performing songs from her three albums, which are available on-line at www.lornavallings.com.
PFLAG's 30th Anniversary Celebration will be a formal, evening affair of fine food, live entertainment, and dancing, with special guests: former NFL star, Esera Tuaolo, and chanteuse Desiree Irwin.
Where?...Maxim's de Paris, 1300 Astor Street, Chicago, IL When?... 6:00-10:00 pm, Saturday, April 24, 2004 Tickets?... Call (202) 467-8180 or visit www.pflag.org

Confidential AVAILABLE NOW!

February 1, 2004
Confidential is a available now to buy from www.LornaVallings.com (our prices include shipping costs) and CD Baby!

Expect to hear songs from Confidential on college radio stations across Canada in the spring. And tune into the following radio stations to hear songs from Confidential: WXPN 88.5 FM - Philadelphia, PA, WXPH 88.2 FM - Harrisburg, PA, WJFF 90.5 FM - Jeffersonville, NY, WKHS 90.5 FM - Wharton/Baltimore, MD, WPKN 89.5 FM - Bridgeport, CT, KOOP 91.7 FM - Austin, TX, 4ZZZ 102.1 FM - Brisbane, Australia

Canadian tour dates are being booked for the summer and fall.

Confidential Update -- BLACKOUT 2003!!

September 15, 2003 The infamous blackout has caused some fallout! It was all gloom and doom (mostly gloom). With no power to the city, the provice -- heck, the entire eastern seaboard! -- Lorna lost some key mixing and mastering dates. The manufacturing schedules for CD-makers everywhere went to pot. It was chaos! A free-for-all of scheduling, re-scheduling, and scrambling!
The end result? Confindential will tragically be pushed back until (dare we say it?) January 2004! To start a fresh new year with a new album! This is to make things less painful for the engineers and other recording artists who are also working at the Rogue Studios -- where Juno-award winning albums are born, and Ocean Way in Hollywod California - mastering lab to the stars such as R.E.M.

Alternative eCommerce -- LV at CD Baby

September 1, 2003
Lorna Vallings CDs are now also available at CD Baby for on-line and telephone purhcase. Both Taste and If Wishes Were Horses can be ordered through their well-received, friendly service. Oh, sure, the Webmonkeys at LornaVallings.com work their tails off to keep her CD order (yes, you can buy 'em here, and cheaper too!) page working smoothly, but CD Baby can also take your order by PHONE (the Webmonkeys are jealous)! You can preview some of her songs in their streaming audio (audio quality isn't too bad either).

Browse other artists and take advantage of their excellent reputation and customer service. (If the LornaVallings.com e-commerce engine doesn't work with your operating system, you'll love CD Baby's more universal and very secure on-line sales engine. Visit CD Baby today!

Award Nomination -- 2003 OutMusic Awards

May 9, 2003
Lorna Vallings has been nominated for a 2003 OUTMUSIC Award for Outstanding New Recording by a Female Artist for her 2002 folk-rock alt-pop offering: If Wishes Were Horses.

Designed to encourage the participation of musicians from all around the world, this year's entrants hail from the U.S., Canada, and Australia, and include veteran performers as well as debut artists working in a wide range of genres including jazz, rock, folk, country, classical, spoken word, R&B, synth-pop, and hip-hop.

The winners of the 2003 OUTMUSIC AWARDS (OMAs) will be announced at the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St, in New York City on June 1, 2003.

Sneak Preview -- Everything

	Everything © 2002 (Rough Mix)
April 4, 2003 Introducing a sneak preview of Everything, the first single from the album-in-progress, Confidential.

CD Review -- GuitarGirls.com

February 6, 2003
Visit GuitarGirls.com to read a review of the album If Wishes Were Horses by California-based writer Renee Westbrook.

Renee Westbrook also writes for Female Musician.com (produced by the monthly magazine The Female Musician) and the BRC BLURB. Her poems and short stories have been published in Fabulous Realities Magazine. She is also a songwriter who has studied technique with Oscar-winner Molly Ann Leikin (short film songwriter).

GuitarGirls.com was founded by Lynn Carey Saylor a singer/songwriter/guitarist and co-owner of Los Angeles commercial recording studio, Skip Saylor Recording. (Frequented by award-winning artists such as Madonna, Boys II Men, Foo Fighters, Guns n' Roses, k.d. lang, Elton John and Santana -- who partially mixed a track from his 8-Grammy winning album Supernatural in their facilities.)

TV Tunes -- Mercy Peak

October 16, 2002 Not one but two songs from the recently released If Wishes Were Horses will be featured in the New Zealand TV Series Mercy Peak. The TV series is a quirky drama about a broken-hearted, big-city doctor who moves to small-town New Zealand. It is broadcast in Canada on the "W Network" (formerly WTN) and in New Zealand on "TV One".
Episodes 35 and 38 will feature the songs Ordinary and the bluesy The Storms.

CD Launch Event -- If Wishes Were Horses

Toronto, Ontario - June 22, 2002
A multi-media CD release event for If Wishes Were Horses is scheduled for the weekend of June 22nd,2002 in Toronto at the heritage buildings of the historic site of the Gooderham & Worts Distillery Complex. The all-Canadian event will feature not only Lorna Vallings and her band, but also a string quartet performing classical arrangements of Vallings's music, and an exhibit by a local visual artist. The evening event will also provide a rare opportunity to visit a Victorian industrial building on the site of Canada's oldest and once largest distillery. A portion of proceeds from the event will be donated to charity. Tickets go on sale June 1, 2002 -- CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!

Where?...Gooderham & Worts, Malt House, 55 Mill Street just east of Parliament
When?... Saturday, June 22, 2002, 8:00 pm
Admission?... $8 in advance, $10 at the door.

Toronto Performance -- IndieFEMME Showcase

At Holy Joe's - April 23, 2002
Lorna will be performing as part of the IndieFEMME showcase for Toronto-based independent female recording artists. Also on the ticket for the Tuesday evening showcase are Linda M., who contributed some melodic background vocals on Lorna's new release If Wishes Were Horses, and acoustic guitar-wielding Marni Levitt who's promoting her debut EP Origin. Holy Joe's is a cozy, little venue upstairs from the Reverb at Queen and Bathurst -- perfect for an intimate, acoustic set.

Where?...Holy Joe's, 651 Queens Street (Queen/Bathurst, above the Reverb)
When?... Tuesday, April 23, doors open at 8:00
Admission?... $5 CDN.

New Sound Samples!

January 25, 2002
On its way to the mastering lab, If Wishes Were Horses is almost ready for release! Starting January 25: All new "Forty Second Samples" of songs from the new album! These short MP3 files are for free previewing of the new album. Visit the MP3 Page to download the samples. As always -- play 'em loud!

Confidential Album in the Works...

October 30, 2001
Chasing If Wishes Were Horses is the stark album, Confidential, which will revist Lorna's roots as an edgy, alt-folk-rock, guitar-slinger. Lorna is already writing new songs and Confidential promises to feature a sexy alternative rock tune that rivals "Taste" in its steamy intensity. Titles on the album will include "No Angels," "At Arm's Length," and "Everything."

E-Commerce Enabled!

August 10, 2001
Lorna's site is now e-commerce enabled! Through ImagineNation™, their secure servers and their webPeddle™ software, we are now able to process credit card payments quickly and efficiently.

Our previous credit card processor who shall remain nameless (but whose name starts with a "P" and rhymes with "ayPal") could not accommodate music fans quickly or efficiently (and they were not very nice.) WebPeddle™ allows us to offer secure credit pard payment options that are quick and more user-friendly. Orders paid by credit card are guaranteed. They are processed in real time (payments will be accepted within seconds!) and we can ship within 24 hours of receiving a CD order.

The webmonkeys are terribly excited!

New Single Sneak Preview...

Sneak Preview...

If Wishes Were Horses...(Excerpt from Rough Mix - MP3)

CBC Radio Interview and On-Line Feature

March 2, 2001 CBC radio columnist Cate Friesen begins a series about some of the ways Canadian singer-songwriters are being heard these days.
Click here to read the article as it used to appear on CBC Canada's web-page. Or click here to see what is left after they cleaned out the archives. To Listen to Cate Friesen's feature with Lorna Vallings and Blaise Pascal click here (the audio archives still work!).

Bustin' out on the Charts!....

February 28, 2001
This news bulletin just in: Lorna's song, "Taste", peaked at #15 on the Top 30... in Lebanon! (No, really! Lebanon!)
Visit RML FM 99.1/98.8, in Beirut, Lebanon
(Flash is required at their funky cool site!)

Soundtrack -- The Skulls

Universal Studios' The Skulls (2000)
This Universal Studios release, starring Joshua Jackson (Dawson's Creek, Urban Legend), Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious, Pleasantville, She's All That) and Craig T. Nelson (Coach, The Devil's Advocate) features Lorna Vallings' title song from her CD release "Taste". As the background music of a steamy love scene and the music played during the closing credits, "Taste" is featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture. The release date of The Skulls is March 31, 2000 in North American movie theatres and November 24 in the U.K.