Singer/Songwriter - Rachel Sedacca: What's News?

Heading south to the Los Angeles next week!

Tuesday, April 22nd - Un-Urban Coffee House in Santa Monica
I play one full set 9:30-10:30pm might split into two, looks like it'll be a great turnout. This is the series that Keith Wolf is hosting over there. After years of my aunt who lives near there telling me I must go and play there, I connected with Keith through the Folk Alliance and am excited about coming down.

Saturday, April 26th - "Don't Call Us Tori" at Karma Coffee in Hollywood
Started in January of 2004 by Shannon Hurley and Steven Leavitt, Don't Call Us Tori is a showcase of independent female singer/songwriters. Don't Call Us Tori was started with the goal of helping independent female performers share their audiences for a great evening of music.

The CD looks and sounds great, the Ventura Release was a huge success! It will be available via my website for purchase & download this week. Check the merch page for links!

Yours,
Rachel

I am so proud to say that I made it on the bill for the Live Oak Music Festival this year! It's almost in my backyard, set at the magical Live Oak Camp off of Hwy 154 in Santa Barbara County.

A very cool, family event MC'd by the fun and zany Joe Craven, this is one of the best events I've attended to date. Those of you know that's sayin' something 'cause I've been around ;) The whole production and hospitality crews are amazing and it truly is an event that has something for everyone.

I'll be playing the Hot Licks stage on Saturday morning with my band including Steve Temmel, Dan Wilson & Jack Joshua as well as special guest Sid Lewis with some of the hottest banjo pickin' you've heard. As everyone stretches and pours a cup of camping coffee, mosey over there to the stage or tune in via Acorn radio, our own little camp broadcast that can keep you in touch even when you're chillin' at your camp as I often do. You don't wanna miss anything! Check out the lineup!

2008 PERFORMERS:
Nanci Griffith
Dan Hicks and the Hotlicks
Mike Marshall
Poncho Sanchez
Nappy Brown
The Derailers
Queen Omega
with Soul Majestic
Nigerian Brothers
Gibson Brothers
Eilen Jewell
Inga Swearingen
Campbell Brothers
The Stairwell Sisters
Banshee in the Kitchen
Cache Valley Drifters
Whiskey Chimp
Resination
Don Lampson
Rachel Sedacca
Louie Ortega
Bungee Jumping Cows
Gove County String Quartet

I hope to see you there this year! http://www.liveoakfest.org/pp/index.shtml I'll be the girl in the big school bus with the big smile and the hand fan! ;)

So the "Patience Pays" CD release party is just around the corner on Sat. April 12th here in Ventura at Billy O's! I am so excited! It's gonna be a blast to play with the whole band and finally have the new album in hand to share with you all! The afterparty will be an All Star Invitational Showcase / Band Scramble which will see us through til the end of the night. All the fun starts at 7pm and dinner will be served while the vittles last!

I also have added a Central Coast CD Release party on Sat., May 10th. This will be for my much loved San Luis Obispo supporters and will be at the Musica Del Rio House Concert venue in Atascadero. Fred and Sharon Munroe have such a great, intimate venue and the weather should be beautiful!

Last but certainly not least, I have made the bill for the Live Oak Music Festival in Santa Ynez! A benefit for KCBX public radio, this an event that I have wanted to play for years! Last year, I had such a great time working with my friend Sid Lewis, I made it my goal to make the bill this year. Guess what? I made it! I am so excited to be kickin' off the day on the Hot Licks Stage Sunday morning and am so grateful to all the friends at KCBX who believe in me.

I've also started booking my fall NW tour and am scheduled to play at some really interesting places! Check out my tour dates!

Stay tuned,
Rachel

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“PATIENCE PAYS” FOR LOCAL WORDSLINGER RACHEL SEDACCA
Local singer/songwriter releases her second studio album “Patience Pays”

Ventura, Ca – March 20, 2008 – Ventura County singer/songwriter Rachel Sedacca is releasing her second studio album “Patience Pays”. Rachel is planning a CD release party on April 12th, 2008 at Billy O’s in Ventura, California. Joined by producer Steve Temmel on lead guitar/dobro, Mark Parson on the fiddle, Danny Wilson on the mandolin and “Hippie” Mark Searcy on harmonica and kazoo it promises to be a night of great music.

With her first album release “Lucky Like Me” in 2001; Rachel had much success and warm reception all over the western states. As an independent musician, Rachel earned valuable experience working as her own booking agent, tour manager and publicist, taking her as far as Nagoya, Japan for a two week tour in 2003. The “Young & Beautiful” spring tour of 2006 consisted of an 11 state, 5,600 mile, solo journey in her 35 ft. 1971 GMC school bus “Patience”.

It is from Rachel’s travels that she gathers the most material for songwriting and as the title track says, it’s all about making having “Patience” pay. Rachel copes with rising gas prices by staying home away from home in her school bus, which is converted to a state registered motor home with a bathroom, a full kitchen, a front living room and a cozy bedroom. Rachel says “It’s my solution to lodging on the road. I couldn’t bear packing and unpacking bags every day. This way, I stay in the same room with an ever-changing view, and the food’s great too!”

The CD release party will start at 7pm on Saturday, April 12th and guests will enjoy dinner and a signed copy of “Patience Pays”. Immediately following the CD release party, Rachel is planning an invitational showcase/band scramble ‘til last call. Her goal is to showcase musical friends to her following here in Ventura as well as introduce them to some of the incredible talent we have here on the gold coast. “I always like to mix it up a bit, widen the circle,” she says. To highlight the special occasion Rachel and friends will dress in cocktail attire. It’s sure to be unforgettable.

I am so excited and honored to be asked to open up for Stevie Coyle out at Casita Enguita House Concert! It is run by an incredible singer/songwriter and moving force behind "Women on the Move" Joan Enguita, a fellow friend and FAR Wester. Here's the info as she passed it along to me:

Casita Enguita House Concert Series
Lancaster, California
Saturday, 4/5/08 2:00 p.m.
Suggested donation $10
Please email or call for address/directions
info@joanenguita.com or 661-618-0964

Featuring Stevie Coyle (from the Waybacks, who has now gone solo)
Opening, we will have the charming Rachel Sedacca from Ventura

So I'm gearing up for the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis! I went last year and it was AMAZING! The top three floors of the Marriot in Memphis are just packed from 10pm to 3am with muscians showcasing in every room. It is such a perfect fit for me and I have made so many friends and connections through these events. The folk umbrella can be really big and there is such a variety of music and styles, I can't wait to share my new album and absorb so much great music from all the fellow folkies! If you'll be in Memphis, here's my showcase schedule:

Thursday2:30-3:30 Fan Club Cruises round
11pm - Nancy Cassidy House Concerts
12am - GoGirls Rm#2

Friday
10:30 Concerts in Your Home
Saturday
2:10 - Stars under the West FAR West

Let ya know how it all turns out!;)
Rachel

Well, tomorrow is New Years Eve and I am so happy to say that the final vocals are recorded on the new album and looks like we'll be sending them off for duplication in the next couple of weeks! I already have "Your Best Friend" included on the programming for Luftansa Airlines and am looking forward to a relationship with them to "jump the puddle" as they say and visit Europe someday.

I have secured the room for the CD release party on March 8th here in Ventura at Mai's Cafe and Da Aloha Lounge. It's a great room and I'm looking forward to a very special night, hoping that many of you will make it out to celebrate with me.

I am thankful for my continued good health and wish all of my beloved family, friends and fans some piece of mind as we bring this year to a close. It was a big year for me but nothing like I expect my 2008 to be.

I'm always planning on goin everywhere and my friends can tell you, I'm the planning type. It's worked for me so far although the list is forever growing! It's not easy when you wanna go everywhere! The bus is running strong and I'm thinking that I may head north to the lush and green Pacific NW for a late summer/ fall schoolbus tour.

Have a wonderful New Year and I hope to see some of you as I'm out and about next year! Thank you for your support, it's my everything.

Love,
Rachel

What a year! I have been having such a great time working with Steve Temmel on the upcoming album "Patience Pays". Just about here folks! Hope you can make the CD release party on March 8th here in Ventura!

It's been a very productive year and I have made so many connections with the folks who really care about music and songwriting. It's been so inspiring! I can't wait to release this new body of work that I am so proud of. Had it not taken so long, it wouldn't include several of my most recent and favorite new originals.

All good things in all good time huh?

Hope all is well in your camp. See you out there on the road in 08!

Rachel

So much has happened this first half of 2007 and I'm looking back as I move forward. I said goodbye to one of my oldest and dearest friends Kelly Getz, an amazing and incredible artist with so many mediums and on so many levels. We will miss her always.

So far this year I have been back to one of my favorite places Butte Montana for the Art & Heritage Revival Festival where I sat on the jury for a songwriting contest at "Venus Rising", led a song workshop during the open house at Butte's Museum of Fine Arts where later that night gave a well received performance for the fine folks of Butte, MT.

Made it out to Memphis for Folk Alliance where I got to meet and learn from and witrh some of the people I have admired and followed throughout my career. I knew that was somewhere I needed to be and was I right!! I'm looking forward to attending the western regional in November up in Vancouver, WA.

Another place I knew I needed to be but hadn't made it yet was Live Oak Music Festival under the oaks in the Santa Ynez Valley. I worked with Sid Lewis an old musical friend of mine from Chico, with his Jamming 101 workshop that was such a blast! Got to eat breakfast with that zany Joe Craven donning whichever colorful wig or hat along with some fuzzy slippers jumped from his traveling costume stash that morning. I have to say a hearty thanks to eveyone that makes Live Oak happen every year. I have attended, performed as well as worked production at many festivals and events and I gotta say, Live Oak tops my list. Backstage hospitality, a variety of top shelf talent, wonderful treasures provided by all the great vendors and all in all just a well rounded, family event that I think has it all!! Don't miss it in 2008, I surely won't!!

We also kicked off a new acoustic series called "OASIS" here in my hometown on Oxnard Shores. July 7th saw the first in a series for unplugged, stripped down, good, clean music! A sort of meet the artist, living room type of evening that went better than I could have hoped. A great turn out and a beautiful, twinkle light paradise made it a wonderful success! August 25th will be the second in the series with a songwriter showcase in the round. This show will feature myself, Jess Leedy, Steve Temmel and "Hippie" Mark Searcy giving us a real variety and a combination that can't be found anywhere else in the world!

August will find me in Denver, looking forward to playing at the Cafe at Swallowhill. September I'm headed to Jackson Hole, WY to accompany Kelly's artwork as part of the Jackson art festival. I'll be performing at the Hard Drive Cafe on Maple.

So much to say, such a short attention span! Please visit links on my website via my family tree or my tour dates for more info.

All good things in all good time!!

achel

I have been learning so much and have recently had a much needed shot of inspiration resulting in a handful of what I consider to be great new songs!! I'm excited about my future in music and have lots of adventures planned for '07. I will be at the Live Oak Music Festival, a fundraiser for San Luis Obispo's KCBX radio, and working with the amazing Sid Lewis at his "Jamming 101" workshop. Please come and say "Hi"!!

My plan for a national fall tour in my bus "Patience" has been rescheduled to happen next spring, giving me more time to focus on getting this record done and raising mopre gas money prior to. I hope to do some regional touring in the schoolbus in the meanwhile as soon as the summer sets and the weather cools a bit.

I've been pretty well when it comes to my health and fared well through my first MS exacerbation with almost no lasting symptoms and no permanent nerve damage. As my friend Lisbet's mother always said "Knockers Up!"

Thank you for your ongoing love & support!
Rachel

I spent a week in Memphis at the 19th Annual Folk Alliance Conference and am so inspired!! I hooked up with so many people from all over the country who do what I do, or help to get it done. I learned a thing or two and am looking forward to getting this 2nd record done and released by the end of the summer.

I am looking ahead now to the fall and the promo tour for the new ablum which I am calling "Patience Pays". I'll be headed through the south and southeast this time. Got any folks out there that I may get to meet? Love your input!

Keeping well and keeping the faith,
Rachel

I am so excited to be heading off to Memphis next week for the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis! I'll be showcasing in Kari Estrin Management & Consulting room on Saturday night and will be promoting the new album "Patience Pays"!

We have started the recording process and I'll be in Memphis with demo CD's of the title track "Patience Pays" and "Dear Love". I'm working with Steve Temmel at The Ranch studios here in Ventura. You may remember him as the incredible long haired guitar player that's accompanied me for years. He's also a talented engineer and so far we are both really happy with our results. So stay tuned, I'll post samples on my music page as soon as they are fit for consumption.

I'll say "Hi" to the King for ya!

I am so happy to have accomplished so much this year, it has been trying but on the whole productive. I started the year with an MS diagnosis, hit the road for 7 weeks by myself in the Spring. Said goodbye to my old dog Kona and am now officially dogless, I am now working with management in the direction of Nashville. Although I have made several attempts at live recording, a new, full studio album is crucial and a long time coming. I am now working on the skeletal foundations and expect to have it in hand for an incredible fall tour in '07.

A big hug and a heartfelt thank you to all of you who have stood by me and given me the fuel that keeps me moving in this musical direction, despite the million other activities that are always pulling me in different directions.

I am looking forward to 2007 and all the incredible things that I know lay in store for me and my music.

Wishing you a happy and safe holiday.
Rachel

Well, I'm off and running again, headed for AZ and a handful of great shows!!

I'm so excited to play at Pier 54, on the lake in Tempe on Friday the 6th of Oct. Then I'm returning to Fiddler's Dream, a top shelf listening room in Phoenix. I am honored to then be on the bill for the 28th Folk Festival up in Prescott, with a solo spot on the sharlot hall museum and also a chair in the songwriter's circle in the afternoon. I'll then be tearin back down the mountain and across the valley to Mesa for an encore house concert at Lainey's Casa, and oasis and wonderful audience awaits. Phew!!

So, things are movin' along...check out my calendar, update your info and spread the love by signing my guestbook huh?
Rachel

Well, I have been a busy bookin' bee! I've got big plans for the following months and am reaching out into unknown territories...

Happy to return to Arizona in October and be playing at some new and favorite venues out there. Happily, I'll be including a couple performances at the 28th Annual Folk Festival out in Prescott on this trip and can't wait to be a part of it!

Then I'm off to Salt Lake City, invited to perform as part of the Bridger Folk Music Society's Guest Artist Series. This house concert type show will be at Crumb Brothers Bakery in Logan.

Heading to Houston in November to introduce myself to Texas and make some arrangements for my Southern Tour this next Spring.

I'm back in Colorado come December and may even put some skiis on, or may just GET on an intertube, we'll see. Another in-studio Live@Lunch with a private house concert to follow.

Phew! So, that's a start of what I'm up to...tell a friend!
xoxoxox
Rachel

Well, I've been working hard these days, playing even harder and trying to get the R&R I need to keep well at the same time. Had a great show at BB King's, I think my "party posse" really made it a success, a huge thanks to all of you who turned out to support me, it really meant alot to see familiar faces on every floor of the club. Boy did we make a scene huh?

It's been so fun playiong with a full band that, while I'm sticking a bit closer to home lately, I'm excited to play more full band, packed dance floor type shows. All the extra rehearsal time and logistics of pulling it together and pulling it off is really worth it! So, I hope to see you all out there around the county and show you some of the new "Rachel Show"!! Next up will be a night at the "Beachcomber" our sweet little neighborhood bar on Silver Strand Beach. The new owners are great and want to bring some live music to the beach. It'll be Saturday, August 19th at 7:00pm so mark your calendars! Hope to see you there!

I am so happy to have been invited by Howard Frieberg to share the stage with a 30 minute "tweener set" before the amazing Melvin Seals and JGB at the Ojai Classic Rock Festival in Libbey Bowl, downtown Ojai!! With Stu Allen, the incredible lead guitar and vocals, they are sure to rock the house and bring us back to the days of rockin' with the fat man. Garcia, that is.....

What an incredible tour!! 5,500 miles, 23 venues, 10 states, 6 weeks, 1 girl. I have spent the week trying to get things back in order, it's quite a shift after living in the bus on tour for 6 weeks! Please check out the links on the family tree and meet some of the fine folks across the west that I am now happy to call my friends.

How was my trip? You know, I don't even know where to start! Maybe with a quick comment to each state line I crossed.

To Arizona-your people are all so cool, that's the only way I figure you survive the heat! Big thanks to Tilden Brown for saving me from the roadside before I even arrived in Phoenix! You taught me enough to see me through to the end of the road.

To New Mexico-I loved the gorgeous mesas, that's something California doesn't have. Oh, and all the crazy roadside sculptures? The desert wind tried my "Patience", but we made it. To the town of Madrid, NM - I told you I'd get outta there! However, I WILL be back! My kinda place!!

To Colorado-Now I've seen you from one border through to the next, all amazing!! Hope to come back to see you dressed in snow! Big thanks to the Michael Waido Band for filling up Avo's with yer "peeps"!!

To Nebraska-How sweet your eastern side rolls! I can't wait to return, love the Old Market area of Omaha and hope to spend more time around town next time.

To Iowa-How can 100 people drive by a girl sitting in the engine compartment of a schoolbus with grease up to her shoulders on a hot summer day and not ask her if everything is okay? Hmmm....maybe we'll get along better next time?

To Minnesota-Home to my big brother and his beautiful family, not to mention my huge, extended music family that is ever growing. I, of course, will come back to you. Huge thanks to Big Al for help with the new bus tires, you will always look out for me.

To South Dakota- Must you do construction on every street in Sioux Falls at the same time? And how'd you like to be one of the drillers or blasters on that Mt. Rushmore gig huh? Young men think they work hard nowadays! Thanks for showin me the town Brett, you really made my trip! I loved all the gunslingin'! And the one-armed bandits!!

Wyoming- Close encounters with Devil's Tower, the prarie dogs and my first fishing experience on my own will mark my visit. I'd love to come back and take the stage there in Buffalo, some fine folks there!!

Montana- Five dates and some time to wander was hardly enough to take you in. I have a feeling that I'll be spending more days with you in the future. Downright "Butte"iful!! Dug for crystals in the mountains and drove through passes with snow on the ground! Next time, I hope to play some music for all the great people in Billings too!

Idaho- My date in Pocatello fell through, so I cut west and found myself at the Craters of the Moon National Park. It is currently neck & neck with Death Valley for my favorite National Park in the country. Haven't seen em all though. Yet.

Nevada- Such an interesting contradiction. Gambling and Prostitution, but zero-tolerance for marijuana? Interesting. Love to come back and spend some time in the biggest little city with my sista Shelly. Despite the necessary paranoia.

California-What can I say, I love you and always will. Even if you're difficult.

The tour is going better than I'd even dared hope! The music has been feelin so great and I've met so many amazing folks and new friends so far, it's hard to miss home. I am having such a great time feedin' my soul out here on the road.

Arizona was a hot and rocky start but wound up to be an incredible trip! I am so thankful for my new friend Mr. Jim Tilden Brown, a talented musician and a chivalrous gentleman indeed! Fiddler's Dream was, as always a wonderful place to play music as the audience is packed with music lovers, there for that express purpose. The house concert at Lainey's Casa was a blast and Jim and I had a great time there with so many hilarious new friends. I was sad to leave the desert but anxious the escape the heat. So, with kisses for my friends in Arizona, I moved on and got on the road to New Mexico.

It was a bit farther to Albuquerque than I thought it'd be, but the views of the mesas were breathtaking. After getting through the 90 mph red dust storm on hwy 40 while climbing uphill, I finally made it to the Sol House for another amazing and intimate house concert. The next night landed me in Madrid, a magical town just outside of Albuquerque, filled with my kind of mix of artists, hippies, and country folks. I can honestly say they welcomed me so warmly and made it hard to leave. I'll definitely be going back to Madrid!! Leaving town, had a small setback concerning transmission fluid, but got over it and headed into Bernalillo for The Range Cafe. What a place!! Got to sample some authentic New Mexican chile and once again had a very warm welcome! My last stop in New Mexico was the 2nd Street Brewery in Santa Fe, where I was honored to have Mr. Andy Cameron, a local animal doctor, sit in on the fiddle. We had a blast and wrapped up my first trip through NM on a high note!

Took some time to get up into Denver, but I finally made it and played a house concert under the clear blue skies and the warm winds with an audience of about 20 adults and as many kids! I was so impressed with the good behavior on the munchkins part and was so happy to be able to engage them with my music just as I'd hoped. The bus made quite a splash in the suburbs of Englewood there in Denver and "Patience" got lots of attention and admiring tourists. She has been wonderful and got a bath today which was desperately needed!! I'm in Ft. Collins right now for the very first time and it's a really neat town! Got a nice lunch and tour of the town by Philip from KRFC after playing the Live@Lunch segment there at the studio. Tomorrow is a night at Avogadro's Number and I'm so looking forward to it! I'll be sharing the night with some ultra talented local musicians of the Michael Waido Band who will be joining me on the road to Omaha.

I'm having the time of my life,
xoxox
Rachel