"Summer Love & Music" Tour - Now in its Final Leg!!

So when I say final leg, I'm not talking about a leg of lamb or not even a chicken leg :) All I'm saying is that this is the last week of our "Summer Love & Music" Tour and its been an incredibly inspirational month. I'll recap the whole month and tour in another post when its over, but for now I'll say its been 20 amazingly fun performances so far playing to kids from 1 to 92 (actually I think some were closer to 100 years old). Seeing how playing music for people young and old makes them light up has been such an amazing feeling. It constantly reminds me of why I am on this new mission to help people remember how important music is in all of our lives!

If you're local to the Philadelphia area I invite you to join us for some of our final dates on the tour which include:

• Thursday August 28th (Noon) at The Bourse, Philadelphia/PA
• Friday August 29th (8 PM) at The Ardmore Music Hall, Ardmore/PA
• Saturday August 30th (Noon) at Barnes & Noble, Plymouth Meeting/PA
• Sunday August 31st (7 PM) at Coffee Works,Voorhees/NJ

The show this Friday night(8/29) at the Ardmore Music Hall is going to be a very special event and will feature 7 incredibly talented artists on the bill ( okay maybe just 6 incredibly talented artists plus me :)). We've got 12 year old Valerie West singing today's pop tunes like she was already a star, 15 year old Brooke Falls bringing Broadway tunes to the stage and if you close you're eyes you'll really think you're there and 17 year old Kelsey Coan will get your Country music engine started like nobody's business. Then we move on to the over-18 performers who wish were still under 18 and we've got Kim Edwards who was a finalist in the Philly Songwriters Project contest this year, Jeff Twardzik who has a male country voice like no other and who has opened for many country stars including Diamond Rio, John Michael Montgomery, Lee Ann Womack, Dwight Yoakam and more and then Leigh Goldstein whose songs, beautiful bass voice (I still think he's a baritone) and his funny comedy on stage will leave you laughing out loud and smiling on the inside (money back guarantee on this one!). Somewhere in the middle of the show I'll also be doing my Love Songs thing, whenever I'm not emceeing or playing stage hand to make sure we finish on time (you know us musicians we love to be on time!).

So if you live in the Philadelphai region (and you're reading this before this weekend :)) definitely try to come out for the show. It promises to be a fun night of music and community with friends, fans and family alike with so many musicians in attendance as well.

I'll be back on Wednesday with another post promoting Music Empowers which happens to be one of my favorite Music Education Foundations.

Peace, Love & Laughter,

Vincent James @ LoveSongs.com

"Summer Love & Music" Tour in FULL SWING!"

Our Summer Love & Music Tour is now in full swing - To date we've done 10 performances so far including stops at bakeries, diners, coffee houses, nursing homes and one incredible gig at The Bourse down at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Come to think of it all of the shows were incredible as we got a very positive response every where we have gone. The Bourse was just a little extra fun as we had tourists from all over the world taking pictures and videos of the 4 performers on that day and sharing it with their side of the world. To learn more about where we'll be next in the Philadelphia area this month (and beyond) please click on KEEP MUSIC ALIVE at LoveSongs.com

It seems everywhere we go I'm reminded of how important our mission is. In some instances people seem to have forgotten what its like to hear live music (or is it possible that perhaps they've never experienced). Once they realize that the music they are hearing is LIVE in person they are like WOW this is really cool. I can honestly say we are just in the beginning phase of whats going to be a lifetime mission to reawaken the world to the importance of music, live music, pre-recorded music, country, R&B, pop, rock, ALL kinds of music!

Last 4 weeks was especially crazy in my world, hence why no new Blog entries. We'll be trying to post every day again going forward - wish us luck and as Shannon said way way back - "LET THE MUSIC PLAY"!!!

Peace, Love & Laughter,

Vincent James @ LoveSongs.com

Wedding Music, Indie Artists & Voting Chart Updates!

This week we launched several updates at LoveSongs.com. First up, we've doubled the number of Wedding music selections in an effort bring our categories up to date from music over the last few years. Whether you're trying to figure out what music to walk down the aisle to or what tunes to dance away the night with..we've got them all right here at www.lovesongs.com/wedding-music.html. If you have suggestions or comments please post them on our Facebook page at LoveSongs.com on Facebook

Yesterday we also launched two Voting polls that used to be very popular on the site. When we relaunched our new site design last year these polls kinda got lost in the shuffle, but they're now back by popular demand. The new polls are:

• Vote for Alltime Favorite Love Song
• Vote for Alltime Favorite Love Song Artist

So whether you are a HUGE Michael Jackson fan, a Barry Manilow fanatic or Celine Dion is your gal - come to LoveSongs.com and tell us which song & artists are YOUR all time favorites!

This week also we've added Sara Spicer as our Indie Love Song artist of the month for April. Sara is a young Philadelphia gal whose voice sounds like she's the princess of Nashville. To see what I mean take a listen to Sara's song "Give Me A Sign" on the front page of LoveSongs.com and learn more about Sara on her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/saraspicermusic . Sara joins Jeff Twardzik as our two inaugural Indie Love Song artists and you can see & hear both on our new Indie Love Song page @ www.lovesongs.com/indie-love-songs.html .

Christina Perri is back and making us feel "HUMAN" all over again!

The Philadelphia gal who brought us "Jar of Hearts" and "A Thousand Years" is back again with the a song that will give you chills when the chorus hits you. "Human" is the lead single off Christina's just released CD "Head or Heart" - it starts off slow and you wonder where its going, but the soaring chorus will hit you like a tidal wave and you'll instantly be drawn into Christina's "Human" world. : "But I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human, I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
Cause I'm only human..."

That's all for toooooday folks - Happy Friday and please have a safe and fun weekend!

Peace, Love & Laughter

Vincent James @ LoveSongs.com
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