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The Tour - "Fire and Magic" - The Tour web page.

Moody Blues tribute
band, “Blue Onyx” (also the UK’s excellent and ONLY one) are teaming up with the
Kindred Spirit band to perform a series of very special concerts.

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The concerts, apart
from the Marlow festival appearance, will be in theatres or arts centre
with excellent lighting and sound and you will need to buy tickets in advance.
All special events coming up are listed below:-
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All Special Events coming up so far in 2010 and 2011:-
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Marlow Festival
Saturday, September 11th
The Kindred Spirit duo of Elaine and Annie had a visit, in June 2009, at a High Wycombe duo gig, from Paul Mansell and Andy Fowler, presenters of Marlowfm radio. They recorded the gig on a hard drive recorder, which they broadcast on their station and they have also been enthusiastically playing tracks from Kindred Spirit's latest album, "Metamorphosis". They are organising the weekend Marlow Festival in Marlow's lovely "Riley Park" and planning to launch the Marlowfm station in permanent premises in September but until then, find out more and listen online at http://www.marlowfm.co.uk/.
The full band have been invited to perform at Marlow FM's Festival in Riley Park, Marlow on Saturday September 11th. The excellent Moody Blues tribute band,
"Blue Onyx" (pictured below) will also be performing.
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On stage in Riley Park
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Leatherhead Theatre Concert
Saturday, December 4th, 8pm
The excellent, and only UK Moody Blues tribute band, "Blue Onyx" (pictured below) and the Kindred Spirit Band will be performing a special joint concert at Leatherhead theatre. Leatherhead theatre is a smart, comfortable venue with spacious foyer and bar areas and tiered seating for an audience of up to 500. There will be expert lighting and sound engineers dedicated to providing an experience of the highest quality. The stage area is also large enough for band members to enjoy interacting with each other and produce a thrilling and engaging performance. Find out more from the theatre web site.

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Tickets - £14 concessions £12.50
BOX OFFICE: 01372 365141 - BOOK ONLINE
WWW.THE-THEATRE.ORG
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Kenton Theatre Concert, Henley
Saturday, February 26th, 8pm
The Kindred Spirit Band will be performing a special joint concert with Moody Blues tribute band, Blue Onyx, at the Kenton Theatre. The Kenton Theatre is the fourth-oldest working theatre in the country. It is a
Regency gem, set in the heart of Henley-on-Thames, with a warm, friendly and
cosy intimacy that makes you want to come back. The 234-seat auditorium is professionally equipped. A coffee bar and licensed bar are open for performances.
BOX OFFICE: 01491 575698
www.kentontheatre.co.uk
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Tickets - £TBA
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Farnham Maltings Concert
Sunday, May 22nd, 7pm
The Kindred Spirit Band will be performing a special joint concert with Moody Blues tribute band, Blue Onyx, at Farnham Maltings. The Maltings benefits from original architectural features, creating an
interesting space. The venue is conveniently situated at the heart of Farnham. We have ample parking and are situated just off the A31 from London and Winchester and within
easy reach of Guildford. The Maltings is also less than ten minutes, walk from
Farnham's main line station.
BOX OFFICE: 01252 745444
www.farnhammaltings.com

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Tickets - £TBA
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All Saints Church - Band Concert
Dedworth Rd, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 4JW
Saturday, July 10th
This was an evening Kindred Spirit band concert in a truly lovely setting. Food was included in the ticket price and there was a bar to provide refreshment throughout the evening. We sang a special song, called "Sandra's Song", to the friends of the church including Sandra's family, as a memorial to Sandra. Sandra died of cancer about a year ago and she wrote the song lyrics, while Sue, the church organist, wrote the tune. We followed the song, which talked of life being full of colour and God's rainbow with our new "Children of the Stars" song - also about life being full of colour.
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Live Lounge Concert - Monday, May 31st - 6pm
The evening concert was a special joint one with Kindred Spirit and the excellent, and only, UK Moody Blues tribute band, "Blue Onyx" in the Radio Brookland's FM
Live Lounge concert hall (1st floor, Weybridge library, Church St.). Richard Taylor was depping for us on bass at this - his first - Kindred Spirit gig and he did a superb job!

Photo taken by Tom - of "Tomodo Photography" - tomodo.net
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The whole thing was broadcast live over the internet and live video streaming via
U Stream and you can watch a replay of the day and concert at:-
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bfm-live-lounge.
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Pegasaurus
Saturday, May 22nd - from 2pm
This was a live music, day long festival in aid of the Air Ambulance being held at the Nag's Head, London Rd., High Wycombe.
There were several bands including the Kindred Spirit trio of Elaine, Gavin and Mike. We performed from 8pm but there were also jamming sessions starting from 2pm.
The audience were really into our music - dancing and singing along - and we had a great time! During the evening we were sketched by artist Peter Classey - see the cartoon below.
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The sketch
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The trio on the night
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Richmond May Fair
Saturday, May 8th, 12.45pm
This day long fair (around 10am - 5.30pm) held on Richmond Green, Surrey suffered from cold weather for the time
of year with patchy drizzle! The Kindred Spirit band performed a 40min spot just after the juggler (12.45pm) and we
seemed to go down well to those who were prepared to brave the chill!

Radio Brooklands FM - Monday 25th January
Kindred Spirit appeared on the Brooklands FM's "Surrey Unsigned" Show on Monday 25th January with friendly host, David Durant and studio engineer, Lance.
Annie, Gavin, Mike and Elaine chatted, played quite a few numbers live, discussed the reasons they chose various pieces of music for David to play and generally
messed about like naughty school children! Annie was really chuffed to get to read out the weather forecast (with sound effects from Gavin - mainly)! Here are a few pictures
of them (below) in the new Brooklands FM studio (we were - in fact - test subjects for the new studio - which seemed to work OK)!
You Tube - Best Days:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhdOlxFkGkc&feature=related
You Tube - I'll Always Love You:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTelkoZtudg&feature=related
We've had some lovely comments from David and Lance on Facebook and via email:-
"Hi Elaine,
It was a pleasure meeting you and your band this evening! You were great fun and fantastic
musicians! I hope you had fun and enjoyed the experience too! Thank you on behalf of
Brooklands FM and please convey our appreciation to Annie, Gavin and Mike, they were
awesome!
DD x"
"Dear Elaine,
Once again, thank you so much for your fantastic company and musicianship
last night, it was without a doubt a memorable 'Surrey Unsigned' and one of
those 'special' shows I will always remember!
The email below says it all! I understand our esteemed colleague John Cull
is going to air the attached track on his show tomorrow morning around
10:15!
Best wishes,
David x"
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"Dear All, Please find attached a slightly mastered MP3 of the final track
played by Kindred Spirits of David's Surrey Unsigned show last night.
They were a great bunch and David did a brilliant job getting it all
together and keeping them under control!
Anyhow I thought that you might like to hear the "sound" of St1 on its first
real programme last night.
If David agrees then I think that we should give this track a good airing
once or twice (or more) this week.
It's called "Best Days Of Our Lives" and I believe that the Kindred Spirits
can be seen and heard at the Crown in Chertsey this Friday evening.
All best wishes,
Lance."
"Best Days" live from Brooklands FM
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Above - Elaine has control of the studio mic (shared for speaking on air). Right - Annie tries even harder to prevent Gavin from speaking!!
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New Gig Reviews on Lemonrock
We list all our gigs on Lemonrock - a great live music listings site - because this site sends all members weekly listings of all gigs coming up in their area and this really helps
to bring music lovers to our gigs. Annie and I have had a number of gig reviews on Lemonrock and the most recent one entitles "A Dose of the Vapours" (November 29th, by Jim
Wilsher) is really funny - and worth a read. I can also recommend joining Lemonrock; free for music lovers and a small yearly amount for bands; it is really working for live music!
Read the Kindred Spirit Lemonrock reviews:-
http://www.lemonrock.com/kindredspirit?page=reviews
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Susie Fison depping for Annie
We are getting more band gigs than ever before now as well as building up enough of a following for the band that we can
attract a paying audience. Add to that the good reviews
we are getting for the new album and I am confident that we
can increase the number and the quality of the gigs we get in 2010. It is always tricky to juggle dates so that everyone
can be
available for a particular gig, when the band members have other commitments like young families, a “proper” day job, studies
for exams etc.. In order to increase the
availability of the full, five-piece band for gigs we have asked the superb Susie Fison,
who currently plays flute for the UK’s only Moody Blues Tribute band, our friends, “Blue Onyx”
to dep. for Annie, to ease the
band availability over some dates where Annie won’t be around.nyx” to dep. for Annie, to ease the band availability over some dates where
Susie Fison
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Susie is a charismatic and accomplished flautist. She is classically trained and
currently plays in the Henley Symphony Orchestra as well as the
wonderful Moody Blues tribute band, “Blue Onyx” and occasionally in
the Tanglefoot Ceilidh band.
In her current groups, Susie has not had much opportunity to improvise
but we know
that she can from times she has come up and joined in with us at Kindred
Spirit gigs.
She can’t wait to have the chance to do more.Susie was “unleashed” at her debut duo
gig with Elaine on
Saturday, August 22nd, at the Bull in Riseley. She did a great job
and we have been re-booked for December 12th!
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You can see Susie in action with
Blue Onyx from the You Tube clip
below:-
Legend of a Mind video clip
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