Sam Gazdziak from the respected country music blog The 9513 was at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA on Wednesday night and wrote this review of the show.

The Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA) is happy to announce the 2nd Annual Stars Go Blue for Colon Cancer benefit concert to be held on March 23, 2010 at 7:00pm at the Loveless Barn in Nashville, TN. The concert will feature intimate and rare acoustic performances by some of Country Music’s elite songwriters; Rodney Crowell, Gretchen Peters, Mike Reid, Barry Walsh and Peter Cooper.
Tickets are $35 each with front row tables for 4 available for $500. 50% of the net proceeds from the Stars Go Blue for Colon Cancer concert will be donated directly to the Blue Note Fund.  The Blue Note Fund gives small monetary gifts to colon cancer patients in need.  Food and drinks will be available for purchase at the event. Tickets can be purchased online.

Voting has ended for the The Alternate Root's Valentine Sampler, and "The Way You Move Me" has made the final cut. The complete sampler, with cover art, can be downloaded from The Alternate Root website now. Thanks for voting!

Gretchen appeared with Suzy Bogguss and Matraca Berg on ITV's prime time show "Amanda Holden's Fantasy Lives" tonight. UK residents can watch the episode here (Gretchen appears approximately 5 minutes in). Sorry, video link does not work outside of the UK.

Interactive roots/Americana magazine The Alternate Root is putting together a Valentine's Day sampler; songs donated by artists for free download by readers. There were over 500 submissions for the Valentine's Day Sampler and the folks at The Alternate Root narrowed it to 33 songs as finalists - and "The Way You Move Me" is one of the finalists! The FREE sampler will contain the 24 most popular songs as voted by the readers. You must create a user account and login in order to vote. The songs are available for listening in the player on the website and the ballot is just below the player. The 24 songs with the most votes will be on the FREE sampler and the artist with the most votes will be featured in the March issue of The Alternate Root Magazine. 

Last Saturday night's benefit for Planned Parenthood of Middle & East Tennessee, which was cancelled due to the snowstorm in Nashville, has been rescheduled for March 25th. See the event page for details.

The "Evening of Stories and Storytellers" show with Minton Sparks and Marshall Chapman scheduled for 1/30/10 at the Rutledge has been cancelled due to inclement weather. We will be rescheduling the show some time in March and will post the new date as soon as it's confirmed.

Gretchen has donated an exclusive track to Songs For Haiti, Paste Magazine's campaign to raise funds for Haiti's earthquake victims. Simply make a donation at the Paste website, and receive music as a thank-you from Paste Magazine and the artists who have made their music available for free. Gretchen's track is a live version of Tom Russell's song "Guadalupe", from their album One To The Heart, One To The Head, recorded at the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez, CA on 9/9/09.

One To The Heart, One To The Head has made an appearance on Country Universe's Best Country Albums of 2009 alongside albums by Kris Kristofferson and George Strait, among others.

I'll be online for a live chat on January 9th, 2010! Laura217 is hosting the live chat at her fansite. I'll be there to answer questions, let you know how the songwriting is coming, quash rumors (and start some!), and find out how you are all doing. We'll start at 3PM Central US time - early enough for those in the UK and Europe to participate. See you there!

Gretchen's conversation with Art Of The Song's Vivian Nesbitt and John Dillon about songwriting and creativity will be broadcast on KUNM-FM on January 30. You can listen online.

The Wine, Women & Song (Gretchen Peters, Matraca Berg & Suzy Bogguss) appearance on Another Country has made BBC Radio Scotland's Best of 2009 broadcast. Listen here.

I'll be online for a live chat on January 9th, 2010! Laura217, whom many of you know from the forum at www.gretchenpeters.com, created a chat room for last year's Circus Girl webcast back in August of 2009. It was such a success that we've decided to try another chat, only this time I'm going to be in the chat room too, instead of on the stage. Laura has organized the live chat at her fansite for January 9th. I'll be there to answer questions, let you know how the songwriting is coming, quash rumors (and start some!), and find out how you are all doing. We'll start at 3PM Central US time, so as to allow for our friends in the UK and Europe to participate. Pull up a chair, make a cup of tea and come chat with us at Laura's site on Saturday Jan. 9th - see you there!

One To The Heart, One To The Head, the western-themed album coproduced by Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell has made several year-end lists so far, including the alt-country blog Country California and the longtime folk DJ/journalist Mike Regenstreif.

Wine, Women & Song (Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss & Matraca Berg) will be making 2 US appearances in February - February 6th in Columbus, OH, and February 24th at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA! See the Tour page for details.

Watch a clip of Gretchen and Barry Walsh playing "Sunday Morning" on BBC Radio Ulster with Gerry Anderson.

Listen to Gretchen live in the studio on Ralph McLean Country this Friday night at 8PM GMT.

Listen to an in-studio session with Gretchen & Barry Walsh on the Dutch Radio 6 program NPS Roots between 8-9PM CET.

Wine, Women & Song (Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss & Matraca Berg) will be doing their first US show outside of Nashville on February 24 at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA. One show only - tickets on sale now!

The UK double CD compilation "Bandaged Together", a fundraiser for the UK charity Children In Need, was released today and includes a track by Gretchen. It can be found at all major Tesco stores in the UK, ordered online here, or downloaded from iTunes. Gretchen recorded the song "When You Wish Upon A Star" with Viktor Krauss on bass, Christine Bougie on lap steel, and Barry Walsh on glockenspiel.

Gretchen has a track on the new Bandaged Together CD, a compilation for the UK charity Children In Need. She has recorded the classic Disney song "When You Wish Upon A Star", by Ned Washington and Leigh Harline, with Viktor Krauss on bass, Barry Walsh on glockenspiel, and Christine Bougie on lap steel. The CD can be ordered here starting 9 November. £6.50 from the sale of each CD will benefit The BBC Children in Need Appeal. Many thanks to Terry Wogan, Hellen Bach and Norman Macintosh for making it happen.

New video posted - The Cowboy Train with Tom Russell, Paul Zarzyski, Wylie Gustafson, Sourdough Slim, Barry Walsh & Thad Beckman.

Gretchen's report on the Cowboy Train for BBC Radio 4's "Front Row" with Kirsty Lang can be heard here.

A little bit of video from the Silverton-Durango train with the awesome Sourdough Slim.

Listen to a Voice Of America interview with Gretchen about Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary.

Gretchen will be playing live on KPIG's "Please Stand By" at 10AM Sunday morning, Sept. 6. You can listen live at KPIG.

Last night the Just Plain Folks Awards were held at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, TN. The judges for these indie awards screened over 42,000 albums and 560,000 songs, making these the largest music awards of any kind in world history. Gretchen was nominated in ten categories (a record) and won the following awards:

Best Holiday Album: Northern Lights
Best Country Album: Burnt Toast & Offerings
Best Live Album: Trio
Songwriter of the Year

Gretchen also performed on the show; closing the night out with "To Say Goodbye" and "Independence Day".

Gretchen has received an amazing 10 nominations for the Just Plain Folks awards this year. The judges for these indie awards screened over 42,000 albums and 560,000 songs, making these the largest music awards of any kind in world history. The awards take place tonight in Nashville. Gretchen's nominations are as follows:

country album of the year: Burnt Toast & Offerings
holiday album of the year: Northern Lights
live album of the year: Trio
contemporary song of the year: "Breakfast At Our House" & "This Town"
country song of the year: "Ghost"
holiday song of the year: "Northern Lights" & "Waitin' On Mary"
traditional holiday song of the year: "(Charlie's) Angels" & "Christmas Time Is Here"

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An Evening with Gretchen Peters, Marshall Chapman & guest TBA - benefit for Planned Parenthood of Middle & East TN

RESCHEDULED DUE TO THE SNOWSTORM! DETAILS TBA!

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Stars Go Blue for Colon Cancer benefit featuring intimate and rare acoustic performances by Rodney Crowell, Gretchen Peters, Mike Reid, Barry Walsh and Peter Cooper.

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Wine, Women & Song featuring Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss & Matraca Berg

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