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Hello, everyone-

Hugh Moffatt and Thin Air will return to Douglas Corner Cafe on South 8th Avenue in Nashville on Monday, June 4. This will be an early show, 7P-9P. We'll play some music, tell some stories, and just visit a little.

I'll do part of the show solo (I'll have a couple of new songs for you!).

See the details on the Calendar page.

Bring your friends and join us!

See you there,

-Hugh

Hi everyone-

I'm way overdue for an update on the progress of Hugh Moffatt and Thin Air. I'm amending that today!

Partly this is on realization that I haven't properly announced the addition to the band of the wonderful violinist/mandolinist and old friend, Bruce Sweetman. But first, some context...

We have now been a band for about 8 months. We have played almost every month somewhere in the Nashville area. (Kimbros in Franklin, where we will be on April 26th, is our travel gig (takes us 30 minutes to get there, I get tired just thinking about it!(that's a joke...)).

The History:

We started just about a year ago with Don and me meeting at his house just to play songs. Then we asked Wade to join us and broke into the light of day (actually at night) last August with a short set at Brown's diner. At that time there were just three of us.

Doug came to hear us.

We immediately enlisted him to be the photographer for our first photo shoot, took him for nachos afterward, bought him a beer, and he woke up the next morning as our drummer. (Just shows what can happen when you come to one of our gigs.)

A couple of months, a couple of shows, and we began to feel like a band. Really fun and the music was clearly holding our audiences' attention. The only thing was, the four piece sound was solid and clean, but didn't give us quite enough range of emotion.

What to do, what to do... then ---- LO! and BEHOLD--- Bruce came to hear us, jumped up to sing some harmony with Wade (the three of us had toured in Europe together several years ago)... and we snared another one!

After a couple of sessions with Don, figuring out how Bruce's sound would best complement Don's guitar sounds and vice versa, we put the band all together again, and it works!

NOTE - Bruce also started out by being our photographer, another strange pattern...

So now Thin Air is slightly less "thin" and all to the better with the addition of Bruce. So you'll know more about him and to remind you of everyone, below are some very short bios. For more info, I urge you to consult Mr. Google.

Please come hear us at Kimbro's on April 26 (if you don't mind the small inherent risk of waking up the next morning as a member of the band.)

If you REALLY can't be there...just send someone in your place. They will be glad you did.

See you down the road!

--- Hugh

Thin Air bios:

A while back DON WIRTH suggested to Hugh Moffatt, “You need to start a band!” Now he’s playing 6- and 12-string electric guitar in Thin Air. Don has extensive Music Row production experience and enjoys “messing with Hugh’s mind by rearranging his songs.” Wirth also plays bass with the popular Nashville classic rock band Boomerang.

As a former member of the platinum-selling band Quarterflash and the Grammy-winning Nashville Symphony, BRUCE SWEETMAN has navigated the classical, country, and pop/rock genres as both violinist and mandolinist. He helped found the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, won a Nammy as a member of the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, and toured and recorded as concertmaster with Kenny Rogers. Supporting and embellishing the song remain his guiding musical principals.

Growing up in East Tennessee, WADE McCURDY loved to sing and play music with his family and friends. Mountain harmonies were always in the air, and Wade eventually turned his natural ear for tenor harmonies into a specialty craft in Nashville recording studios. Wade has played bass in many folk, country and singer-songwriter bands over the years, and toured with the great Vern Gosdin in the mid-1980s.

DOUG FRAME moved to Nashville in 1999 after a recording deal produced by Alabama’s Teddy Gentry hit a brick wall. Despite the CD’s short-lived success, Doug admits it was the best thing that ever happened to his musical career as it brought him to Music City. Since then, he has played drums with the best pickers Nashville has to offer and currently splits his time between Thin Air and Boomerang.

We're back at Kimbros, this time on a Thursday night.

Come see us!

(See details on Calendar page)

-Hugh