June 2008 - East Village musician Avi Pavlovich records
a wonderful Brazilian guitar part on When I Think of You - a
new song that features Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens and Andriette singing
a duet. The Sun Palace team is very pleased!
May 2008 - Andriette and John film a Beach Cleanup for the Surfriders
Foundation at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk, NY, with musical artist,
G Love
for a national news story.
April 2008 - Andriette records French horn parts on several new songs.
John & Ron look on in amazement.
March 2008, Andriette sings the backing vocal on Pierce Turner's exciting new song, Julie London.
Feb. 2008, Pat Dinizio, lead singer of the Smithereens, sang a duet with Andriette on the song, When I Think Of You, for the upcoming Sun Palace CD. A good time was had by all at Kurt Reil's studio, House of Vibes in Highland Park, NJ.
Sun Palace is in the recording studio, working on their 3rd CD. They've been recording at Jersville Studios in Woodstock, NY, with Jerry Marotta on drums and Tony Levin on bass, with engineer Roman Klun. And more recording at Atlantic West Studios in Brooklyn, with engineer Ron Shaffer.
Jan./Feb. 2008, Andriette played a scientist/Lady Aurora
and sang ethereal melodies in a new play, “In Bocca Alla Lupa”
by Pennylynn White, a cosmos-filled dramedy about scientists living in
a parallel world with medieval castle people - spooky, ancient Scottish
myth with a touch of Star Trek - Was a fun, full house every night at
the Access Theater, 380 Broadway, NYC.
Dec. 2007, Andriette sang and played keyboards on several songs with Pierce
Turner, at Joe's Pub, NYC.
A video is in production for the song Would You from the upcoming
Sun Palace CD. It features Andriette and Irish singer Pierce Turner singing
a duet. Hint: there’s a royal theme!
2007, Andriette sang with and arranged a choir for Pierce Turner at his
soldout shows at Joe's Pub in NYC. (Andriette is on songs Omagh
& Drumsna, on the new Pierce Turner record, The Boy To
Be With. Pierce's album, Three Minute World, was voted into
Ireland's top 100 albums of all time.)
Best seller: 2006, The Give Me a Perfect World CD by Sun Palace has been the best selling record on Magnatunes.com.
Highest rated: 2006, The Sun
Palace CD Into Heaven has been the highest rated CD on
Magnatunes.com.
Added: 2006, Sun Palace’s
song Round and Round was added to XM Satellite Radio Ch. 43.
Added: 2006, Radio Manager Tasha Jakush has confirmed
various radio stations around the country adding Sun
Palace’s version of Going to California.
Documentary music: Sun Palace’s
music is featured in InsideOut: A Documentary About Women Who Are
Imprisoned.
Documentary music: Sun Palace songs Under the Moon
and Give Me a Perfect World are being used in a documentary called
AmmA, about an orphanage in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami. For
more info visit: simbashare.org.
Feature Film music: Sun Palace’s
song Into Heaven was used in Indian Fish, a light-hearted film
about an immigrant from India coming to America and finding love.
Documentary music: Andriette, and Danny Kelly of Seattle
band, Heliotroupe, sang Nancy Griffith’s Trouble in
the Fields for a doc about the plight of Midwestern farms, As
We Sow.
Sun Palace’s Tony Geballe has been contributing his talents to the
new recording of the freewheeling prog-ish band The Hellboys,
captained by Tom Redmond, with contributions by Robert Fripp.
2006-2007, Sun Palace’s John and
Andriette won two Telly Awards and an Insight
Award through their co.: New York Music and Video Productions
(NewYorkMVP.com), for their video productions for the Children's Health
Fund, headed by singer Paul Simon and Dr. Irwin Redlener.
(One of the videos was handpicked by director George Lucas
to be shown at the Star Wars III premiere in NYC, 2005.
Another was screened at the Madison Square Garden Benefit Concert:
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy, 2005, attended by Simon and
Garfunkel, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett, Neville Brothers, Bette Midler,
John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Cindy Lauper, Lenny Kravitz, Paul Newman,
Scarlett Johanssen, Jessica Lange, Ed Bradley and President Clinton.)
In 2006, NewYorkMVP produced a fun documentary on “baseball meets
music”: 7th Inning Stretch, shown on ESPN,
featuring Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens as host and several baseball
and musical guest stars, including Bruce Springsteen,
Todd Rundgren, Joan Jett and George Thorogood.