And now, here’s Doris!

ANNOUNCEMENTS!  SIDE BY SIDE will celebrate our “25th Anniversary Year” beginning SUNDAY, January 4, 2009 (6:00 pm) at the Kennedy Center and the Millennium Stage!  Watch for details and check out our previous appearance (9/11/99):  www.kennedy-center.org, click on Millennium Stage, click on Past Performances, Side by Side, September 11, 1999.  This was great fun and broadcast worldwide and live at that time AND is still available!  

SIDE BY SIDE’s 25th Anniversary Concert – Thursday, May 21, 2009    7:30 pm
At BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD!   www.blackrockcenter.org   About 100 tickets remain!
Mark your calendar and come celebrate with us!  Surprise guests.

DORIS & DICK CERRI!  - Monday, October 27, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Dick Cerri and I will be featured on a radio program in Pennsylvania at www.wdiy.org (it is streaming on web, click on LISTEN) with DJ, Steve Aaronson, regarding the wonderful tribute concert to Tom Paxton held in Virginia by the WFMA on May 3.  The three of us go down “memory lane” and we chat about WFMA, Dick’s “Music Americana”, folkies who are no longer with us and other topics.  This station features live folk music programming five nights a week and it is on the web!
 

VACATION NEWS:  Annual trip to Lake George NY to visit my Burnett family with Mary Susan and her kids and Sarah and her kids! Fun in sun, boat rides, water skiing (not me!), ice cream, 51/2 hr. tour of lake by boat!

MORE VACATION NEWS!  David and I had a grand vacation on the West Coast, my first visit!  David made my lifelong dream come true at “the place where dreams come true!” - Disneyland! It was all I hoped it would be.  I was a kid again whirling around in teacups, traveling through the jungle and the rainforest, viewing Nemo from a submarine, watching birds singing in the Tiki Room (one of Walt’s original attractions featuring his animatronics inventions), soaring through the night with Peter Pan, dodging bullets from pirates in the Caribbean, choo-chooing around the park in the open air train, dining at lunch in the evening setting of the Blue Bayou Restaurant, laughing at the antics of Alice and her Wonderland friends, boating through the miniatures in Storyland and on and on.  It was fabulous!  We also saw SeaWorld, the San Diego Zoo (where I took the tram ride over and over, I loved it so!), Universal Studios (goodbye King Kong!) and toured the Stars’ homes by bus!  Wow!  Can’t wait to go back…

NOTES: 

Doris is Music Director for Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES).  Please contact her directly if you would like to join a fun chorus.  ALL levels of ability welcome!  You do not need to be a member of NOVES.  (dorisjustis@yahoo.com)   Green Hedges School, 415 Windover Ave, NW, Vienna VA (just off Nutley St)  www.noves.org  703-437-3161  September 21 is our first rehearsal.

In November, SIDE BY SIDE celebrated John Denver and his music at a special concert at Gilman School in Baltimore MD.  Several students participated by making slide presentations to go along with the songs we sang – Tradewinds, Wild Montana Skies, This Old Guitar (beautiful solo by Sean) – to name a few.  It turned out wonderfully and we are pleased!  You can view this at www.gilmannews.com/videos/assemblyjohndenver1.php

Also, check SIDE BY SIDE’s concert:  www.kennedy-center.org , click Millennium Stage, click on Past Performances, Side by Side, September 11, 1999.  This was great fun and broadcast worldwide and live at that time!  Soon we will appear again at Millennium Stage!  Watch for details!

I perform for weddings, receptions, memorial services and house concerts. Please use contacts above if interested in booking.

OLDER POSTINGS:

My new website debuted last spring and Karen Tupek is continuing to construct, update and change it. Please check it out and let me know what you think! Dick Kait (keyboardist) and I are working on our duo and will “debut” soon – stay tuned!

Those of you who gave me kitty behavior ideas, thank you. Toby Noel has been to the vet and we are working to find out what is making him aggressive and generally anxious.  Everything checked out for Toby. Wondering, has anyone had experience of pets (cats) with lead poisoning? I am exploring that idea since there’s no solution yet…

My summer was lots of fun and included a trip to Lake George NY to stay with the Burnetts, which I do each summer. This time it was with Mary Susan and her two girls, Sydney Grace and Annelise. Her sister, Sarah, could not come as she was soon to deliver! (Welcome, Theresa Lucille Begg!) And Barbara (the mom) had to stay in Virginia to start teaching earlier than usual. David flew up and joined us for the end of the week. We had a blast.  The three days it was “just us girls” was wonderful. We have not really been able to do that before.

Sean and Janet just got back from their vacation on the west coast. They celebrate their anniversary in October!

WFMA note:  On Saturday, May 3 we will celebrate our dear friend, Tom Paxton. Confirmed for May 3 – Tom, of course, and the Chad Mitchell Trio!

(Please note: Recently, I performed at weddings, receptions, memorial services and house concerts. Please use contacts above if interested in booking.)
 

Doris's Previous Message:  I now have my own website after all these years!  You will find info on me and Sean (SIDE BY SIDE) and other work I am doing on my new website. I am, therefore, returning to mainly “folk music”, my first love. I will do solo gigs, work with Sean, and collaborate with other musicians from time to time.

My bout with shingles is ending. Though some discomfort, energy and appetite returning. Toby Noel has tried to be patient as “play time with kitty” was almost nonexistent for over a month.

And speaking of my dear kitty - Anybody with “kitty” ideas?   Though my Toby Noel is a sweetie at times (1 1/2 years old), he surprises me and bites me on the leg!  It has become a real problem and I have punctures on my lower leg.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to break him of this bad behavior?

 

News: 

I have begun to work with keyboardist, Dick Kait.  We find that we have lots of music in common and
we are both open to new ideas.  So, I will keep you posted.


NOTE:
I am Music Director for the Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES) and though we are off for the summer, we will start again in the fall.  Please contact me if you would like to join a fun chorus.  ALL levels of ability welcome!  Here is info:

One performance a month
Rehearsal twice a month
Green Hedges School
415 Windover Ave, NW, Vienna VA (just off Nutley St)
9:30 am – Chorus rehearsal,

11:00 am – Chorus performs
www.noves.org  703-437-3161

Listen to Doris's much-requested song about dearly-departed pets:  Rainbow Bridge (Click to listen)