"BLAST FROM THE PAST"www.blastfromthepastshow.info
Update: Happy really hot summer!! We hope that you have been doing great, we have been very, very busy and we wanted you to know a few of the things we have been keeping ourselves busy with....
Daryl Shackleford (The Duke & Delvis) went on a mission trip with his church to Peru. He was gone a large part of the month of July. We are happy to have him back home and ready to get back to work spreading the oldies.Barry Wiginton (Mr. Bassman) paid a visit to LA and to West Palm Beach, FL in the month of July, so he was gone for a couple of weeks. He said that he loved LA and wants to go back again. He already has plans to go back to West Palm Beach. Barry has also purchased his first home and is working hard to get ready to have the group over for a BBQ.  We are glad he was able to soak up some west coast sun but he is back and ready to hit the road with the oldies group once again.Tiffany Mitchell (Lil Bit) has made numerous trips to Destin, FL where she has had the opportunity to enjoy some fun in the sun. Congrats to Tiffany for being accepted into Nursing School. She will begin classes on the 19th of this month. Wish her luck (she is going to need it)!Brenda Mitchell (thats me) has been holding down the fort and working hard to book bigger and better shows. I have taken my laptop to the country club and have spent long days in the sun finding more venues to perform our show. It has been a lot of fun and I enjoy working hard and seeing my work pay off. Barney, my husband, is doing great and has been busy doing his own "1 Bullet Deputy" shows across the state. I am ready to hit the road running dragging a poodle skirt behind me....Here are a list of the new shows I have booked in the past month: Our biggest and best show to date will be on Thursday night, Aug. 19th at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, MS. Our show will be in one of the many conference rooms at this luxurious hotel on the coast. We are privileged to be able to perform our show for one of the finest hotels on the coast and hope that our fans in that area will come out to see us. As I mentioned above, Tiffany, starts nursing school on this same date, for this reason, we have chartered a plane to take her from the B'ham airport directly to Gulfport, MS and then back to B'ham again after the show. I asked Tiffany if she felt like a star since she will be flown in for the show, perform, sign a few autographs and be flown back home...her answer, "Show me the money"! Gotta love 'Lil Bit'. Barney will be at The Butterbean Festival in Pinson, AL on Sat. Sept. 4th so come out to see him if you are in the area. We have a recording party planned for Sat. Oct. 2nd...this will be the day we put the finishing touches on our new Holiday CD. You are going to laugh your head off when you see the CD cover!! On Oct. 5th, Tue night we'll be performing in Tallassee, AL. We will be at the high school and our show begins at 7pm. We would love to see our Montgomery, AL fans at this show. On Oct. 16th Barney will be at the Attalla City Fest....dont miss him and his 1959 Custom Ford car. Oct. 30th we will perform for the good people in Opp, AL for the OppFest. This will be a daytime event and everyone is welcome. I wont bore you will the details of all the Holiday shows we have booked just yet...I'll at least wait until the weather cools off before hitting you with that info.  Last, but not least, we have been contacted by channel 33/40 here in the B'ham area about performing live on their morning show, "Talk Of Alabama". The date for this live performance is Monday, Aug. 9th, which is THIS Monday morning at 9AM. Please dont miss it..we'll be promoting our upcoming Beau Rivage show and some other events. If you happen to miss it we'll be putting it on YouTube and on our web site, so try to catch it there.That is about it, for now...but there will be lots more news in the near future...I just dont want to jinks the shows by announcing them before the contracts are signed. Thank you for being a fan of our Acappella Oldies Group, " Blast From The Past". Dont let the name fool you, we were "Back In Time" for the first part of our performing years but felt the need for a name change and 2 fresh voices. For the past 10 years Daryl and I have been bringing you the best in Acappella Oldies Shows and will continue to do that in the future especially since we now have Tiffany Mitchell and Barry Wiginton on board to complete the look and sound of the wonderful 50's & 60's. We look forward to performing in a city near you soon, Brenda Mitchell for "Blast From The Past" Acappella Oldies Show www.blastfromthepastshow.info
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Happy June 1st!!
Just wanted to you guys a quick note to say that we have 3 shows lined up for the month of June.
Thursday, June 10th at the Cullman County Farmers Market. This is located on the corner of 1st Ave NE and Arnold Street and will be a very informal show. We'll be taking requests, provided we know the song.
Thursday, June 24th at The Birmingham Public Library, B'ham, AL - This will be a very unique show located in the Atrium area from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Snacks are provided by the library. The acoustics are great and there is plenty of close parking at the rear of the building so bring your smiles and festive attitudes and come join us for a night of Rockin Acappella Oldies! We'd love to see all of our B'ham fan club at this event.
Saturday, June 26th sponsored by Main Street Cruisers Car Club - Cleveland, TN - We will perform from 5pm - 7:30pm on the Bradley County Courthouse steps. For more information on this show view www.mainstreetcruisers.com
Up Close & Personal
Barry Wiginton is our bass singer and is from Tallassee, AL where he graduated from Faulkner University in Montgomery. Barry is a great asset to our group and has the perfect bass voice. He is kind and talented, a hard worker but knows how to have fun, especially on stage. Barry has just purchased and moved into his new home in Calera, AL. We are very happy to have the opportunity to work with this very talented young man and look forward to many more years of fun with him on stage and off.
Daryl Shackleford sings a lot of lead in our group and is a whiz with the sound board. Daryl does all of our recording and is very patient and persistent in making sure every note is on key. We appreciate his ability to perform the Elvis songs with all of the enthusiasm and charm that songs like that take.
Brenda Mitchell, that's me, works hard to book our shows and manage all the events. It takes hard work and dedication to keep a show like ours on the road spreading the oldies and I love it. I am happy to put all of the time and effort into our show. I know someone else could probably do a better job, but I know for a fact that they would not enjoy it as much as I do... :-)
Tiffany Mitchell has blossomed into not only a wonderful singer/performer but beautiful young lady. If you want a real treat just come to our show and watch this classic beauty at work. She sings like no other and has fun doing it. She brings excitement and personality to the stage and we appreciate all of her abilities on stage and off.
So, there you have it..... our group, "Blast From The Past".... We love each and every one of you guys and know that we would be nothing without your love and support... We thank God every day for the abilities that we have been given and want to use them to not only spread the oldies but to spread cheer and enjoyment to all of our fans. We will be taking the month of July off due to some of the members of our group being in LA and out of the country for a while. We have some shows in the works for Aug - Dec and I'll be updating you guys about those soon.
Thanks to you for your continued kindness toward us,
Brenda Mitchell for
Blast From The Past
Acappella Oldies Show
www.blastfromthepastshow.info
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Happy Springtime from
Blast From The Past!
Hello, its great to be able to give you updates on our group. We have a lot to share with you about us in general and about new shows that we have booked since the last time we sent an email newsletter.
First of all we hope that everyone is healthy and enjoying the warmer weather that we have been experiencing in the south. All 4 members of our group are doing great and having a wonderful time spreading the love of the oldies to anyone willing to stop long enough to hear us.
Daryl has opened a new business, Barry has purchased his first home, Tiffany is doing well in school and I have been wearing my fingers out on the computer looking for new places to perform. All in all it has been a wonderful few weeks for us.
I have been able to book several new shows for this month:
This Saturday, April 10th, in Ft. Deposit, AL for the Calico Fort Festival www.calicofort.com
we will perform from 12 noon - 1pm and again from 3pm - 4pm We are looking forward to performing for this community for the first time and hope to meet lots of new fans.
Monday night, April 12th, at The Wynfrey, in Hoover, AL (this is a private event)
Saturday, April 17th, in Wetumpka, AL for their Riverfest. We have lots of friends in the Wetumpka area and would love to see everyone at this wonderful event.
Saturday, May 1st, Smith Lake Park in Jasper, AL. (this is a private party)
I have also booked a show in Heflin, AL and in downtown Birmingham for the month of May but I'll give you more details about that when it get closer to time or you can go on our web site and view all of the information now. www.blastfromthepastshow.info
Speaking of our web site......(drum roll please) We have updated our web site with more information to include our newsletters online and a fan club area. Please check out our new look and send me feedback about what we can do to make it more user friendly.
We have doubled our "fan club" size over the past 6 months so hopefully that is an indication as to our growing popularity. We want to make sure that all of our fans feel the love we have for each of you so when you come to one of our shows please come to our CD table area so we can personally thank you for coming! We want to recognize anyone in our fan club that is having a birthday in the month of May and June, so please respond to this email and give me your birth date information. I'll get it on the web site as soon as I get it.
I wanted to give you guys an update about our trip to LA. Me, (Brenda), and David, won a trip to Los Angeles, CA to watch 2 tapings of American Idol on March 16th & 17th. It was the most wonderful trip EVER! We had Limo service while in LA and had time to visit the Pacific Coast up to Malibu Beach, and down to Venice Beach and Santa Monica Pier. It was a great several days and we have hundreds of pictures to show for it.
I'd like to give a special thank you to Kevin Adams "Review of the Stars" for making our trip to the Chattanooga and Birmingham World of Wheels shows two of the best weekends that we, as a group, have had. Not only is he a wonderful performer but is one of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. Thanks Kevin!!
Hope to see you soon, but until then....May God bless you and your family,
Brenda Mitchell for
Blast From The Past
Acappella Oldies Show
205-681-5911
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 We hope you are doing well. We are all doing great and are still having fun performing the oldies.
We are working on updating our website to include being able to purchase our CD's online and to also be able to view our monthly newsletters. We would like to make our web site more interactive and easier to use. You should be able to see the new web site in a couple of weeks.
There have been a few new shows booked lately, even a 2010 Holiday show! So as you can see we are as busy as ever and loving it.
Yesterdays Events Dinner Theatre, Athens, AL on Saturday March 20th Show price: $10, Dinner price: (6pm) $8.95, which includes drink and dessert. (7pm)Kevin Adams, "Review of the Stars" will open our show and then we'll be performing beginning at 8pm. That is a really great deal and you will love the entire night.
Wetumpka Riverfest, Wetumpka, AL on April 17th beginning at 3pm. We have lots of family and friends in and around this area so we are expecting a really big crowd on this day. We love being with our fans so please come and see us if you can. (we are working on several new oldies songs and hope to have them ready to perform at this show)
One of our members had a birthday this past week, Daryl Shackleford. Happy Birthday Daryl!
Another of our members won tickets of LA for 2 tapings of American Idol....that would be me, Brenda Mitchell. Of course I'll be taking David "Barney" Mitchell "The 1 Bullet Deputy" with me on this fun week in LA. We will leave on this Monday, March 15th and will return on Saturday, March 20th. We will have lots of pictures to share and I think you'll have fun looking at all the funny things we have planned. So make sure you watch American Idol on Tue. March 16th and March 17th...we'll be in the audience.
The other 2 members, Barry Wiginton & Tiffany Mitchell seem to be enjoying life and all it has to offer. They work hard, play hard and study endlessly trying to get through school.
It is so nice to have such wonderful people to work with and then to have wonderful family, friends and fans to perform for. YOU are our driving force.
Have a great day and until we see you again, God Bless you and your family. |
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