Lainey Edwards

Merry Christmas!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!

Well I hope you are enjoying the holidays as much as I am!  If you remember back in July that some department stores were advertising some of their sales as “Christmas in July”. I didn’t wanna hear anything about Christmas in the middle of summer, but now I could not be more ready for it to be here!  It is such a busy time of year and especially as we wrap up the year with some end of the year shows.  This coming Tuesday, December 14th I will be playing & hosting the night in the lounge at 12th & Porter from 7-10pm with guests Mason Douglas and Tonja Rose!  It was originally Erin Ashleigh’s show, but she had a death in the family this week so had to return to Oklahoma and asked me to take the reigns on this one.  I wanna send out my love and prayers to her and her family in this tough time! 

It’s hard to believe that it has been close to 8 months since the May Nashville Floods.  Terry and Wanda Seay, friends of the Nashville music community, they will be hosting a very special show in their home December 18th.  They were out of town at the time of the flood and wanted to do their part and give back to the city.  They have a huge line up of songwriters and I’m so honored to be asked to be a part of the night.  To make your reservations you can contact Terry Seay at Terry.Seay@itsallaboutZmusic.com   Going to be an amazing night for a great cause.

Also, mark your calendars for Jan 20th-Susan Greene has put together so many great shows this year and its not gonna stop in 2011.  We will be playing in the lounge at 12th & Porter 7-10pm.  Line up includes, Lainey Edwards, Billy Dawson, Adam Gregory, Jon Nite, Jenny Gill, Dillon Dixon, Shane McAnally, Trevor Rosen, & Josh Osbourne.  AMAZING night!!

A lot of you have been asking about the monthly chat.  We will resume the chats on January 11th. For those that would like to watch we will be broadcasting the show at 12th & Porter this Tuesday and might be able to chat a little bit, but the regular chats will begin in January.  I wanted to you to be able to enjoy the time with your family and for us to kick off the new year big!! 

Thank you all so much for being such a huge blessing in my life!!!  There are a lot of exciting things planned for 2011 and so glad that you will be a part of them.  I always love hearing from you all so please visit me on my website, facebook, twitter or myspace :)  also so you can get the latest updates!!  And HEY I might even come close to your town in 2011 so stay tuned!

Lots of love,

L

Wanna hear Lainey Edwards & Keith Urban sing together?

I DO :)  I’m sure you’ve all heard about this new contest that Guitar Center and Keith Urban are teaming up on.  If you haven’t hear is a little sneak peak of what it is.  It’s called YOUR NEXT RECORD WITH KEITH URBAN.  There are wonderful prizes, but probably the best one of all is you record a single and Keith will sing on it with you.   It is a contest and you never know how they can go, but I really wanted to give this a chance.  It is not a popularity contest but a way for people to be introduced to all kinds of undiscovered music.  The way they have set up voting is a little different.  You have to listen to other people’s music and then mine will pop up in rotation and then you rate them best to worst & here is your part…….VOTE ME AS YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST ;)….super simple….hopefully you are already a fan of my music and what I do.  The details on how to register and vote are a little long, but it could TOTALLY BE WORTH IT!!   I promise you when Keith and I’s song goes number 1, you are all invited to the #1 party :)!!!!!   From the bottom of my heart, my toes, my soul, and anything else I list to tell you my love and appreciation for your support!  HAPPY VOTING!  

P.S. PLEASE CONTACT ME @ TALOAENTERTAINMENT@YAHOO.COM to let me know if you have any trouble voting and I will try to help you through it.

step 1: go to:

http://www.ourstage.com/

step 2: register

step 3: go to your email and confirm your ourstage account and you will be ready to rock! attention: the confirmation email could be in your spam folder…..

step 4: login with you username and password

step 5: go to  http://www.ourstage.com/profile/laineyedwards

THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP…..FOR ME TO BE IN THE TOP ROTATION AND HELP YOU FIND MY SONG QUICKER…YOU MUST DECLARE ME AS YOUR FAV ARTIST……it will ask you “Is this your favorite artist?” you will then click the lime green button “Make This My Favorite Artist” on the right side of the page

step 6: then click the SONGS tab in between OVERVIEW and PLAYLISTS

step 7: next to ‘SHADOW GIRL’ click on my picture

step 8: above Add, Favorite, Comments, Tag, Buy, Flag, Share there is a (competing in Guitar Center) lime green button, click that

step 9: above CURRENT STANDINGS click on the word JUDGE

step 10: listen to 15 seconds of each of the artist and click and drag them into the Drop Zone in your favorite order

step 11: my picture and song should show up somewhere in the first 20 artists (*ONLY IF YOU DECLARE ME ASYOUR FAVORITE ARTIST) then you can put me in as your (drag item 1 here)I know this is alot of steps but there are alot of deserving artists out there that need to be heard so give them a listen but vote for me! haha! Thanks! Remember you can vote once a day, daily from only 1 email address and computer!

Awww Destin in January!

I know many of you may not believe me that I didn’t plan getting the heck out of Nashville to get away from the blizzard that just hit, but it was pure luck!! :) Oklahoma got hit pretty hard as well!  Wanted to post a few pics from the vacay and a few pics that I have been receiving from people in Nashville and Oklahoma!

We came to Destin back in June and it was 90 degrees everyday and sunny and gorgeous, water just crystal clear and the most beautiful blues and greens you’ve ever seen, this trip its been cloudy and a little cold….cold being about 50-60 degrees.  YES I know its better than being in Nashville or somewhere where its 20 degrees and snowing, but we had to where jackets and scarfs on the beach today!  Its still beautiful and so nice to be here!

This picture we had stopped into a restaurant called Harry T’s right off the harbor in Destin for some coffee cause it was cold.  The waitress (which was the same waitress that we had when we were here back in June, who’s last name is Edwards & she is also originally from Nashville :) weird I know), but she said ya’ll just missed the dolphins playing.  I was so disappointed, but about 5 minutes later here they were.  It was beautiful!! I love dolphins but to have about 10 of them about 15 ft away, was awesome!!

Oklahoma:

Nashville:

My Idea of Vacation ;) and what its all about!!!

Hope everyone is safe if you are near the blizzard ;) & hopefully I can capture some beautiful sunny pictures of Destin tomorrow and You know I will be sharing :)

Lots of love,

L

To You ;)

To all my amazing friends, first of all I have to say thank you so much for coming to my new site!!! I wanted to do something new, at least new for me in 2010!  I wanted to start keeping a “journal” for all of you!!

2009, was such an amazing year and I can’t thank you enough for your continuous love and support!!  Last year was a beautiful year, it consisted of many exciting things, I’m gonna highlight a few!  It started off with finishing up & releasing my very first album!!! That has been a dream of mine since I was 12 years old and that became reality last year!!  HoI didn’t think it could get any better than that, but it did, on April 11th I released my album to my home state, Oklahoma @ the amazing Riverwind Casino in Norman.

I brought my band from Nashville, Billy Dawson, Nathan Veenstra, Jenn Stone, Albert Svendall, Adam Popick, Mason Douglas & Erin Ashleigh.  Billy & Erin did an amazing job by opening up the show with some of their tunes.   We did a lot of songs off the album & a few covers…ended the night with Believe & surprised the audience when a whole choir came marchin’ down the aisles groovin’ to the beats of believe!!  That had always been a dream of mine to have a choir and thanks to a few friends that made that happen!!  Then just when they thought the show was over, Erin and I ran off stage, had the fastest wardrobe change of my LIFE and took a second to breathe while the band ended believe and then closed the show with a simple, but beautiful version of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”  I ABSOLUTELY did not want that night to end!!!

Can’t wait to do it again!

Then, in October we started the STREET TEAM VIDEO CHATS!!  I wanted something that could be fun and casual and it has been just that!! What’s so cool is you can be anywhere in the WORLD and watch this show!!   We have people tuning in from Australia (keep in mind its like 2 AM over there :), Uk, and all over the United States!  It was also a way to get to know you all and for you to get to know me & spotlighting some of my very talented friends.  Some of them are co-writers on my album & others are ones that I believe in and want to share them to whoever I can :)  Guests we have had on so far,  to kick off the VERY first one we had, Ryan Nicholson, Billy Dawson & David Bradley & Nathan Veenstra on percussion.

Second show, Billy Dawson & Justin Zimmer. (no pic) :(

Third, right before Christmas we did a special show with just Ryan Nicholson and I sharing some songs you know and some you have never heard…songs that we have written and don’t get to play out very often.  These have been some special nights!

To kick off the NEW YEAR in January, I had Cory Batten & Mason Douglas on!

I’m pretty sure there are no words to describe that night, other than incredible…click on the link below to watch the video.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3940703

Hope you enjoy keeping up with me through this blog!  I wanted to use it as another way to connect with you.  I am going to be writing to you about my week, whats going on, even telling you when its not all pretty & perfect world stuff :) if there was such a thing, but I am really excited about this year and I am so glad I get to share it with you!!  I am so blessed to be writing songs, singing, and performing for a living,  I am a lucky girl!!!

Lots of love,

L

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Also, my album is NOW available on ITUNES!!!!! only $9.99!!!