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Hello Lovelies,

Thank you for visiting www.TenCentPoetry.com. This is a place where you can come to listen to Ten Cent Songs, get updates on tour schedules and album production, watch music videos, read interviews, and follow our tour blogs.

We have had an INCREDIBLE summer. We’ve successfully performed over a hundred self booked shows throughout the South East. We’ve played the main stages of festivals with a full string section, intimate, red velvet curtained theaters, sloped front porches, laundromat parking lots, live radio shows, buzzing craft fairs, tear jerking weddings, alternative schools, private house concerts, community fundraisers and block parties.

The tours continue into Fall 2011. We are on the road 15-18 days out of each month, always circling back to our homebase, beloved Asheville, NC.

In September 2011, we celebrated our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of being full time, independent musicians on Rosh Hashanah. The shofar was blown and we looked ahead into our second year of Ten Cent tours, music and projects.

We’ve played for thousands of dear folks like yourself, with only one blown tire, one episode of sweet talking a tow truck man, and one excruciating episode of sciatica.

In October 2011, we took a trip to Tennessee and recorded a LIVE album at the WDVX Blue Plate Special featuring unreleased songs “The Spice Market,” “Throw a Little Glitter in My Eyes,” “Into the Woods,” “The River Rises.” The sales from this recording are going into a pot to fund our first time trip to The Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN and SXSW in Austin Texas in 2012.

We took a trip to Greensboro and had the honor of making a music video withMonkeywhale for the song “The Spice Market.”

We are growing quite fond of playing house shows. These intimate gatherings strike our strings and hold all of the reasons we come together. Food, song, stories, candles, neighbors. If you would like to host a private concert in your home, we can send you anelectronic pamphlet and the how to.

Spring 2012 will bring the Ten Cent Poetry Chamber Orchestra Project. A larger than life display of song, combined with rich costumes and projected imagery. The Ten Cent Poetry Chamber Orchestra will debut in Asheville, NC.

Please use this site to join the mailing list, stay tuned with projects and donate and contribute to our path of song. Thanks for all of your clapping and high fives, all of the emails of encouragement that you send, every ticket you buy and every dollar you put in the tip jar to keep the Ten Cent Poetry mission ALIVE.

In Song, Chelsea Lynn La Bate