I’ll be performing two acoustic performances today (Friday, 22 February 2008)

The first is my regular Friday slot at Crazy Sharks [Crazy Sharks (132, 136, 38)]. The performance starts at 2 PM SLT.

The second is a performance for the THON Fundraiser. My performance is at 5 PM SLT. This fundraiser benefits the Penn State Dance Marathon that is held each year.

The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world, with all proceeds benefiting The Four Diamonds Fund, Conquering Childhood Cancer, at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. After a year-round fundraising effort by the students of all Penn State campuses, THON culminates in a 46 hour no-sitting, no-sleep Dance Marathon in the Bryce Jordan Center.

There are several performers on the roster:

3PM SL TBA
4PM SL Tone Uriza
5PM SL Rich DeSoto
6PM SL Lyndon Heart
7PM SL Kafka Dinzeo
8PM SL Grace McDunnough

Find us at the Mill Pond sim. [Mill Pond (20, 236, 28)]

My performance time for the show at Old Salt’s Pub this coming Sunday will now be 3 p.m. SLT. Ricardo Sprocket (Rich Petko) has a real life schedule conflict, so I accepted his request to trade. So, the lineup for now is:

noon - Snow Gretsky
12:30 - Stalkerwolf Breed
1:00 - Ricardo Sprocket
1:30 - Luigi DiPrima
2:00 - Silas Scarborough
2:30 - Angel Stormwind
3:00 - Rich Desoto
3:30 - Matthew Perreault
4:00 - Maximillion Kleene
4:30 - Kim Seifert
5:00 - Etherian Kamaboko
5:30 - Chronic Skronski
6:00 - Lyndon Heart
6:30 - Dann Numbers*

I want to share with you the music of Grace Buford (Cylindrian Rutabaga). I just love this woman’s voice, her soul, her passion, and most certainly her music.

From time to time I will be sharing links of other Second Life musicians on my blog. It just seems right to share this community of talented musicians. To use this “widget” just click on the button above the prices. You can forward to the next tune and you can purchase individual song downloads or the entire album! These prices are probably some of the best you will find for her tunes online. Support the artists; buy their tunes!
Grace Buford

My new release will also be on this system in the near future. In the meantime, how about buying some safety songs for the kids in your life?
Rich Palmer

Some of you may remember the great club known as Old Salt’s Pub. This club had to shut down some time ago. I can tell you that I’ve absolutely missed it. Old Salt’s Pub was owned and operated by CaveCub Milk and Hooper Peel at the Kokomo sim.

Well, some of the “old guard” as it were will be reconvening on a special “re-rez” day of Old Salts Pub on Sunday, 24 February, 2008 from noon to 7 p.m. SLT.

Here’s the lineup of performers:

noon - Snow Gretsky
12:30 - Stalkerwolf Breed
1:00 - Rich Desoto
1:30 - Luigi DiPrima
2:00 - Silas Scarborough
2:30 - Angel Stormwind
3:00 - Ricardo Sprocket
3:30 - Matthew Perreault
4:00 - Maximillion Kleene
4:30 - Kim Seifert
5:00 - Etherian Kamaboko
5:30 - Chronic Skronski
6:00 - Lyndon Heart
6:30 - Dann Numbers*

Many thanks to Kat Vargas for coordinating this event. She has advised us that many of the original hostesses will be on hand throughout the day to help us all relive the spirit of this club and the atmosphere there. Some of these include Kitten Fluffball, Jen Jensen and Evilynda Baphomet.

Kat advises that Haven Colville will be working with CaveCub and Hooper to rez Old Salts on his quad sim. This should give us the opportunity to have 100 or more people attend without major issue!

*(My only regret is that Dann was not able to follow my performance as we used to do in the past. We formed a great bond back then and had some hilarious times heckling and even encouraging each other during our performances.)

Some of you are probably wondering where I’ve been lately (and perhaps some of you haven’t even noticed. Hehehe).

I’ve found it necessary to limit the number of performances in Second Life in order to get some projects done. I’ve been working on my CD for over a year — and have absolutely discovered that my constant time in Second Life was a detriment to getting it finished. So… I’ve been taking some time to update my equipment, software, and instruments, as well as to learn some aspects of recording where I have NEVER focused any attention (midi, for one). It has been refreshing to spend some time working on the craft, so to speak.

However, I will do short runs of performances from time to time. This week I will be doing some shows at Club Wicked, the THON benefit Friday, and of course, Crazy Sharks. Remember, you can find my calendar at my promo site, richdesoto.com.

Also, while I’m thinking of it, don’t forget to visit my profile at thesixtyone.com. If you have a membership (free) there you can help bump the songs up to the front page!

I recently learned that my children’s CD “Sing a Song for Safety” is now available on Amazon’s mp3 store.

You can purchase the entire downloadable album for $8.99 or get individual songs for $.99 each (USD). If you have kids in your life that you would like to help educate about fire and life safety this could be the CD for you!

I’ve recently created this new widget, courtesy of Sprout, to help promote my upcoming CD/album project. I would absolutely appreciate it if you can get the share code and post it to your favorite sites! (Just click the share link in the lower right hand corner. It will give you a menu of most of the popular social networking sites, as well as the html code for cut and paste.

This album is fun to produce, but it is obviously taking me longer than I would like to get it done. That’s part of the challenge of being a working musician that also has a full-time career.

I’m reworking the Rich Desoto web site (again).  For now, this blog will serve as the news and updates section.  I know that it is not entirely integrated into the site that currently exists, but I wanted a quick and efficient way for me to post.

I’ll be looking at some other options, as well.  Please excuse the dust and construction mess for now.