Hello all you fine folks! Hope everyone is enjoying the first few days of Spring. It has been a long time since our last post. Much has happened over the past many months with Fire in the Kitchen. As many of you know we had the privilege of playing at Dollywood in 2007. That was a great experience… even after 30 performances. As the months continued to pass we were blessed to continue to share our music in new places and to meet new people. The Breaks Interstate Park, Cumberland Gap National Park, Plum Alley Days were some venues that were new. And then we were fortunate to play again in Winston-Salem at the Wake Forest Celtic Festival, at Bristol’s wonderful Rhythm ‘N Roots Festival, The Appalachian Heritage Days in Blountville as well as in Rogersville, TN at their heritage days festival to mention a few.

Also, doing that last few months of 2007, the internet company that served as the host for our website sold out to someone who, let’s just say, doesn’t make nice websites. This wouldn’t have been any problem except for the fact that I also had our domain name registered with this company. Now mind you that 6 years ago this was a very reputable company….they just sold out to someone in the latter part of ‘07 “not so nice.” This meant that they had control of the domain name of our website. In the meantime, I was finishing up my Master’s degree with VA Tech (GO HOKIES) and didn’t have much time to dedicate toward solving this problem. Once I graduated in December, I then was hot on the trail to solve our domain problem. Luckily for me, I had saved all of my email correspondence with our host company. Once I contacted a company that fought to get our domain name back and provided them with the evidence that I indeed was the owner of the domain, we were able to get the www.fire-in-the-kitchen.com domain name back in our ownership. So, if you had tried to access our site and found it was down that is why. In the meantime Debbie had created a MySpace account, which we still have and is wonderful as well, that kept us in contact with the cyberspace world. So….a good rule of thumb, which I learned the hard way, is to register your domain name with a separate company than the host company for your site. Also save the emails that pertain to any important item you have…even the ones that aren’t sentimental to you. Whew! Glad that problem was worked out.
With all of this in mind…our main website is now back up and running. Yeah! You can check it out at: www.fire-in-the-kitchen.com. There are some minor changes to the site. I am currently working on converting our scrapbook of FITK pictures to slideshows. I have posted only one slideshow on the site at this time. You can actually view it from this newsletter by clicking on the slideshow below. That is if you want to see what we looked like between the years of 2000 and 2002. Are you brave enough???

Before we close, I want to invite you to come out to the Harvest Table Restaurant in beautiful downtown Meadowview, VA this Wednesday night, April 2 at 8:00. We will be providing some music for folks to dine by so come on down and support this wonderful new establishment that we have in our community. We are proud that they have asked us to play. It will only be 3 out of the 4 of us as Linda has taken off to Williamsburg for a brief vacation. Hey, that gets me to thinking….she didn’t ask us to go!

We’ll close for now. Click here to see our schedule for 2008 thus far!

Hope to see you out and about sometime!

Your friends from Fire in the Kitchen