Saturday, September 8, 2012

Recordings nearly complete

We've been recording for the album, A Castle Rock Christmas, all summer. The St. Francis of Assisi Choir, Castle Rock Community Ringers, Castle Rock Ad Hoc, are all done. Next some of the instruments (guitar and flute) and the Castle Rock Chorale record next week. Then on to engineering.

We announced the album at the Castle Rock Museum's 15th Anniversary party on August 18. We are offering the album in pre-sales for $10 to help fund the production.  Response is good with several people buying multiple copies to give as Christmas gifts.

The new song, The Castle Rock Star, poem by Hellen Lowry Marshall, is now a catchy country tune. It is brought to life by the music of Matt Sirbu. We sang it at the 15th Anniversary party and gave everyone the words to the refrain and asked them to sing along. Sing they did! It was fun hearing the partygoers sing along with us.

You can pre-purchase the album on castlerockhistoricalsociety.org. Your purchase will fund production as we go into the engineering and brochure design phase. More to come as we progress.

Namaste.