Ok, kids, honestly, been so busy keeping the sites up to date with new pics and getting new tour dates…AND trying to catch up on laundry/personal hygiene/food intake whilst on the road…I’m gonna keep this real shorty short. It’s been more of an adventure than ever before…the best time by far than ever before…and the best energy from the kids than ever before. Me and the guys are having the time of our lives…been playing a hectic schedule – so far in a week and a half have had one full day off…which is today..and the other two days we didn’t play were heavy duty travel days. Right now we’re in Texas…and wow…last night’s Lubbock show and Friday’s San Angelo show were really awesome…it’s such a thrill to keep meeting new people and people we have only known thus far online. We love you guys…and we love the opportunity to be on the road. You gotts understand, once you’re out here – it’s tough to head back, though we miss everyone at home so much…I think I speak for all of us when I say that having the chance to play our music in front of new people and having them respond the way they’ve been responding…it’s a dream come true for sure. It’s a thrill. Like the kind you may find on Blueberry Hill even. Well, so far we’ve been to Jamestown, NY; Athens, OH; Muncie, IN; San Angelo, TX; Lubbock, TX…and on to Dallas area tomorrow. We still gots us plenty o’ tour in front of us…so I bid you a fond farewell until we meet again. But just to let you know back at home and for all those of you tuning in to see how we’re doing, whether it be on Myspace, FB, Reverbnation, Ourstage…whichever….we’re winning them all over one fan at a time, kids! Thanks for caring about us and sending the love while we’re out…it means more than you may know. Very inspiring all of you…SEE YOU ALL ON THE ROAD! When I have a few more minutes…I’ll be giving a more detailed account of big adventures and each show…including my first roadrunner experience near Spring City, TX!!! Now, on to one more huge, dead, winged bug on our windshield….

Fall tour ‘09…check http://www.soraia.com for tour dates being added daily. Keep telling your friends to vote for Soraia’s “Not the Woman” video and keep it #1 for September!! Dallas/Ft Worth area this week (9/21/09-9/25/09) then on to Houston, TX area for the weekend.

Finishing up two new songs in the studio and working on finishing three more writing. Stay tuned for more to come…Summerfest was incredible…check out the new pics in our Photos section. Updates coming soon!

Well, it’s true. We’re opening the opening night of Summerfest 2009 on Thursday, June 25th:) We are all so excited…and ready! Tickets are almost gone for this event at the Marcus Amphitheater… it will sell out very soon, so if you want to see your Soraia fiends starting off with a bang…get ‘em while you still can. These Bon Jovi fellas have a knack for selling out 23,000 seat arenas like no one’s business. See you in June—- lookout for us on our way to Summerfest in the following places: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin! Love love love.

My ooooooh MY!!! It’s certainly been an adventure since we’ve last been in touch with y’all…and I mean y’all because we’ve been in the South for a little while now. It’s funny how time passes when you’re traveling and playing…no sense of where we were last night and this blog becomes an exercise in memory more than a recollection….it’s been a wild spin, kiddies! Well, since leaving the sweet relaxation of Galveston beach, we headed to Bottomless Beer Tuesdays at Gary’s Spot in Tomball, TX. Let me tell you what…I’ll be the first to admit I thought “Tomball..?Gary’s Spot…? It’s probably in a strip shopping center and has the smallest stage and live music is secondary—-or worse…”. Boy, when I’m wrong…I’m so wrong. Well, not completely….they were in a strip shpg center…but the stage and Gary’s were HUGE. The lighting and sound was definitely the best quality of a venue for original bands that’s just shy of medium-sized…and what a night we had…and played with a great band called Paris Green, too. The great thing is Gary runs his place like a real live music venue…by that I mean he starts the music part of the evening by having everyone stand, hand on heart, for our national Anthem. He tells all the rules since it’s an 18+ venue…just tells you to have fun and behave. Then they turn the lights down on stage and introduce the band…it was AWESOME! We sold the most cd’s thus far at this venue and we are DEFINITELY going back in the fall for another round there…great venue—-great booker…best times. On the way from Tomball to New Orleans…we were stopped for a bit in Louisiana…the policeman brought a drug-sniffing dog on the bus…and though we stood on the side of the highway for a bit…it didn’t seem odd in the least that this occurred. Why? I have no idea…but it seemed representative of what’s supposed to happen…so there it is…drug-sniffing dog in the bus…no problems…on to the show!!!! Wednesday we played New Orleans…a cool red house place that so fits the cover of our “Shed the Skin”, a place called Circle Bar..it was like playing in your grandpa Vampire’s swampy living room. THE BEST…and the kids got WILD…and we got to play “Bloodletting” and sing the part about New Orleans…I’ve been waiting to do that song in New Orleans for a while—and it was mad dirty, sexy, tough, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It was a good show. Soooooo gooooooood. We got on a last minute show to Baton Rouge last night…where unbeknownst to us there were tornado watches all over the place. I’ve decided there’s nothing better than a sweaty rock show in the mouth of a huge thunderstorm at midnight in Baton Rouge at Chelsea’s Cafe. A thunderstorm to top all thunderstorms. It was just badass. So, to sum up—we have gotten ourselves a taste of good ole Louisiana….drove through the best thunderstorm to get back to New Orleans from Baton Rouge, and are taking today off and getting ourselves to Birmingham, AL for a show tomorrow with our friends Selling Mary. NEWS: We are heding back to the east coast after Saturday’s show for a huge opportunity that has reared it’s head at us…we are fingers-crossed and focusing on its fruition…but we’ll be back for about a week before finishing our tour up the second two weeks of April. Thus, we are missing our Colorado area and Los Angeles area shows, very unfortunately…we really wanted to head out there—..but…alas…opportunity knocks once in a while and we are answering the door. In partnership with NailHead we have made the decision…and though we have a driving need to continue on…we shall prepare for the best and get back on the horse in a week and a half. I’ll blog more after Birmingham, post some new pics, and get up some new vids to Soraia.com for you guys at some point quite soon:) Sue