That’s right!  Merry Christmas, everybody.  What are you doing on the computer?  What am I’m doing on the computer?  X-mas Eve and Willie Nelson’s Stardust works its late night magic.  Blue Skies smiling at me as it drizzles rain outside.  

A new record for a new year.  Well, three new records for one year to be exact.  March, I’ve been told, so now I’ll tell you, “March, my new triple record called Three”.  See you in the spring.  Until then: shoveling, shoveling, shoveling. 

Happy holidazing…

Joel

Tired of your family? Need to rock?: Dave Marsh and the True Love Rules, Boxing Day @ Carleton and Monday the 29th @ Tribeca

Congratulations to the Joel Plaskett Emergency on their recent two nominations for the 2009 East Coast Music Awards!  Joel has been nominated ECMA 2009 Single of the Year : Joel Plaskett Emergency - Face of the Earth and ECMA 2009 Entertainer of the Year.   The Awards show for the ECMA’s will be held in Corner Brook, Newfoundland on March 1, 2009.  For more information about the ECMA’s, you can go to their official website at http://www.ecma.ca .

KCRW in sunny California features a daily download they call “today’s top tune”. Each day, a new song is featured for just 24 hours on kcrw.com and on the podcast pages of itunes. Today, and today only, the Joel Plaskett Emergency’s “Fashionable People will be featured.  You can go directly to the KCRW website (http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/tu ) and get the song!

Congratulations to the Joel Plaskett Emergency on being named a finalist in the Pop/Rock category for Fashionable People in the 8th annual Independent Music Awards!

Thanks to all who came out to the free Myspace secret show at the Grawood last night.  We had a great time in our dancing shoes.   Good singing, Halifax.  Full moon fever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first-ever Canadian Independent Concert series produced in HD. Series 1 Features: Joel Plaskett Emergency (Hometown Halifax, Nova Scotia), shot at the historic Opera House in Toronto.

Wednesday November 5,2008,

9:30 PM (Local Time)

inDEF sessions: Great Lake Swimmers & Joel Plaskett Emergency

Please go to http://www.cineplex.xom for a complete listing of participating theatres across Canada.

Individual tickets are available online at www.cineplex.com as well as at participating theatre box offices. inDEF Sessions, the remaining two concerts in the five concert series is the first-ever Canadian Independent Concert Series produced in HD and features two one hour concerts from two different artists and bands.