Ray Weaver: News

Wow...sorry...I see it has been more that a year since I have updated the news! Well, the first Jes CD did great...his next one is due out in September. Morten Wittrock and I wrote all of the tunes on the new one again...I have an ebook coming out and a full schedule of dates ahead in the summer, which you can check out on this website...

It really is about to happen...as of June 17, 2010 I am back in Denmark and playing music and writing again more or less full time. Hopefully more than less! I have loved my time at home in the US and I have enjoyed much about having a full time day job and being part of government.

But, I guess the die was cast for me many,many years ago...

I was born to sing for people, tell tales, tell jokes, write songs, write stories and entertain...I can do that in Denmark. For reasons I cannot explain, I have found an audience there for what I do.

The idea of having to account for my whereabouts to a boss just never settled comfortably around my neck...and I have had some great and tolerant bosses!!

But if there is a song to write or a story to tell, I want to go! And I regret every opportunity missed...

I will miss my family, my American friends, baseball and weekends in Ocean City the most, I think...

But we land in Denmark on June 17 and on June 18 I hit the road for a five day run on the Danish island of Bornholm, playing my music with the great pianist Morten Wittrock...and it goes on from there.

It gets hard...but it also feels like what I was born to do...

The Jes Holtso CD that I wrote the songs for is doing better than I could have dreamed of...and he is based in Denmark. There is at least one more CD to do there, and the reviews have generated interest from other artists as well,,,

The time just seems right...

I will be doing stateside dates and I will Keep everyone posted via emails and the website.

Thanks for the support you have all shown my family and myself while we have been stateside...and we look so much forward to seeing all of our Danish friends again...

As always, peace...and don't look back!!!

Jes Holtso's CD has been out for about 3 weeks now and it is getting great reviews all over Denamrk and getting a ton of airplay. It has been picked up for release in Germany, Austria and Poland. That means a lot more potentila listeners and customers! It is a great R and B, blues CD!! Morten Wittrock and I wrote all of the songs. It is available on Itunes!!!

They played me on WPOC last Saturday!!! How cool is that?

Please check out the latest links of new stories and videos in the links section. I am going to start being a lot more active 'round here! Stay tuned!!!

Jes Holtso and Morten Wittrock are doing another Weaver/Wittrock song on Danish National Television TONITE. I'll post the youtubes when they are available and keep you posted on the progress of the CD.

Those of you that have been following my work for a while have probably noticed a reduction and readjustment in some of the live performing; in short, I am not playing out as much.

While that may seem, on the surface at least, a bad thing, it is, in fact, quite positive.

The reality is that as the songwriting end of my music heats up, and I am asked more and more to travel to play, record and work with my own material, I have less and less time and energy to give to the pub gigs. As much as I love them, something just has to give. Being on the road and away from my family is hard, so I have decided that when I am home, I want to be home. There are have also been a number of times lately when someone has come out to hear me because they heard an original or found me on the web and were confused by a nights worth of covers; that's not what they came for.

And let's not forget that I still have a pretty intense day gig...and I ain't no spring chicken!

I will be looking at more opportunities like last weekend's fine time at the New Deal Cafe and similar venues where the focus is on the music and the song and not so much the Raven's game playing behind my head...because if the game's on, you KNOW I am gonna be watching it!!!

Hope to see you out there...