Hi Folks

Christmas is just around the corner and the beginning of another year is on its way. We cannot believe how quickly 2012 has flown by. We have had a great year and thank you all for your continued support. Just to finish off the year we played at the Kamo club on Friday the 30^th November with a great turn out and plenty of dancing. We were also happily surprised by Des and Sharon Fatt who travelled over from Dargaville to catch up with us. On the following Wednesday we also played for the Kamo Club Dance Sections Xmas break up. This has become a regular gig for us and a most enjoyable one at that. A great night of fun and entertainment was had by all with plenty of dancing, awesome stuff every one. Our final gig for the year was a half hour spot at the summer show. Thank you to Tony and his team on the sound and to Malcolm and the committee for inviting us to perform. The weather played its part with a good number of people staying to watch. A couple of llamas even turned up to listen, very interesting that was.

We now look forward to 2013 and probably the main event being the 20^th anniversary of the Norfolk Island Country Music Festival in May. If you haven’t booked your ticket yet make sure you do. This will be another awesome week on Norfolk Island. Come and join us. Firstly though, January will see us in Marton on the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th for the Marton Country Music Festival and then in New Plymouth on Monday the 21^st for the TSB Bank Festival of Lights. We have an hour and a quarter spot to do in the evening from 8:45 ‘til’ 10:00pm. We are really looking forward to these two events so if you are in the area please come along and see us. We would love to catch up.

I will be in Kawakawa on the 27^th of January for the vintage railway fund raiser. I will be going solo as Annette has another engagement that weekend. This has been a regular event also and is a great afternoon of a variety of music and entertainment.

Last but not least we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you all in 2013. Once again thank you so much for your support during 2012 it has been very much appreciated.

Take care and keep it country.

Best Wishes

Annette and Kim

Hi Folks

If you are reading this news letter then you are on our new look website. We would like to thank Karen from Northweb for all her work in designing the new site and also to Annette for all her hard work and time spent sourcing photos and adding captions and getting the links set up to itunes and the like so that people can download our songs and order our albums directly off the website.

To bring you all up to date on what we have been doing it was with sadness that we attended and performed at the memorial concert for our dear friend Cindy Poole on the 22^nd September. Cindy’s family put on an awesome show and it was a privilege to be asked to sing. Thank you Milly. Our condolences go out to David and to all of Cindy’s family and friends.

On the 29^th September Annette travelled to Rotorua  to M.C. the Entertainer of the Year Awards. She is becoming a real pro. at this having mced at the Norfolk Island Country Music Festival in 2011. We would like to congratulate Hayley Smith for once again taking out the senior title. Well done Hayley.

During October we celebrated with the Whangarei RSA women’s section on their 67^th birthday. A great afternoon was had by all. Our Mountain Mist Band bass player, Tiny Heathcote, also celebrated his 60^th birthday on the 13 October. We travelled to Paparoa to join Tiny and his extended family and friends to celebrate and sing a few songs and to enjoy an awesome birthday dinner.

On the 14^th October I was guest artist at the Onerahi Variety Club where everyone enjoyed a great afternoon of country music. On the 19^th we performed at the Whangarei RSA. It was a great turn out and apart from some issues with our new laptop, which Annette managed to sort out, we had an awesome night and look forward to being back in 2013. The following Sunday I went to Tauranga to sing at the New Zealand Country Music Star Awards. A song I had written, titled Now He’s a Drifter, made it through to the final of the original song section. It is a duo song but unfortunately Annette could not make it down so I performed it as a solo and was lucky enough to win the section. So Annette and I will be performing it at the 2013 E.O.Y. Congratulations to Hannah Cosgrove who was runner up. Hannah is a talented singer/songwriter who is writing some great country songs.

We have a few gigs coming up in November and December so will catch up with you all near the end of the year.

Take care and keep it country

Annette and Kim