Dear Aneesa

You and your band were indeed terrific, and thank you so much for singing our party out on such a high note.  Many, many compliments on your performance were received!

Jeremy Raphaely, Co-Director at FOCUS K&C Foundation, 27th Sept 2011

• Greek Taverna, Skala Erresos venue TBC
  Fri Sep 02 @ 18:00 PM
• Sappho Garden of the Arts, Lesvos, Greece
  Sun Sep 04 @ 21:00 PM
• Sappho Garden of the Arts – Singing Workshop & Cabaret night
  Tue Sep 06 @12:00 PM and then cabaret night performance of participants @ 21:00
• PARASOL- Sunset gig by the beach
  Wed Sep 07 @ 21:00 PM

Really looking forward to entertaining the lovely European ladies of our planet! Will be taking along my Big Band CD, ‘4 Inch Heels, Lipstick & A Frock’ with favourite tunes such as Whatever Lola Wants Lola Gets. Also my Eastern Flavours band CD, DUENDE with the beautiful song, ‘Tera Chera’ and of course the limited edition of our BLISS ART CD, ‘On The Edge’.

Looking forward to meeting some good friends from my first time singing there last September and meeting new fans too!

Sisters are doing it for themselves!

Well, I’m finally back in the Sunny South and have to say, whilst there were challenges, I loved singing in Edinburgh. Having liaised with the festival prior to our gigs I realise you can never be too prepared. The challenges we faced included the following: Gig 1:  Being given a 5 octave keyboard having booked an 8 octave digital piano! Gig 2: Had our set cut short from 40 mins to 12 mins after the compere got a serious bout of verbal diarrhoea and started doing her own skit instead of simply introducing us! We finished on a high of the audience wanting MORE! MORE! Just sad we weren’t permitted to give them more that day. Gig 3: Arrived to a football game so had to wait 90mins for the game to end. To play or not to play! Grrrr! We played a great gig after some initial moments of feeling totally under valued. Lessons learned all around! Again, finished on a big high and loud cheers from the audience but I’m a diva and it took me a little time to pick myself back up. I seriously thought about using my heels to cause some damage that night….but I wouldn’t want to ruin them! Thank Goodness we love what we do! Aneesa

Slovenian Guest at BLISS ART gig

Fri 12^th BLOG

BLISS ART meet Slovenian Consul General

After our gig at the Blind Poet, we packed ourselves off to the Consulate of Slovenia in Edinburgh. The afternoon was extremely relaxing with cake and tea. I was really happy to learn that the Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Slovenia in Scotland, Ana Wersun also loves Alpsko Mleko (milk) whilst Monti was treated to some tasty Slovenian wine!

Ana and her husband took the time to support us at our gig and we are very grateful to them for making us feel so at home.  There was a lot of laughter and stories that day. Thank you Ana & Alec for such a warm reception. Aneesa

2-14 Aug
- Fri 12, 2-4pm @The Blind Poet, West Nicolson Street
- Sat 13, 21.15-21.45 @ Out of the Blue
- Sun 14, 11.45-12.45 Singing Workshop & Gig 4.30-6pm @The Blind Poet
Gigs: http://www.leithonthefringe.co​m/the-shows/live-in-leith/

Workshop: http://www.leithonthefringe.co​m/workshops/aneesas-vocal-work​shop/

Been writing furiously to reviewers and even got in touch with an old pal who reviewed me about 10 yrs ago when i sang at the Fringe for the first time thanks to my good friend @Ali Adolph of the @short&Girlies!

More from me soon!

Aneesa x

After a chilled out afternoon on the allotment with my friends Lev Pedro & Sofia Roupakia, I eventually made it home to a hot bath and a chance to start thinking forward to my musical life. Today I’m working on a total revamp of my website with Anthony and boy is it good to Spring clean! Alongside my main webman Warren Jacques, I feel like I’m in very capable hands. It’s good to know people who can understand the diva way my brain works.  During the week I’m going to be working on designing the online booking forms for my Kensington Community Choir and Community Voices project and working hard to make booking up as easy as possible.

So, before long you’re going to be able to leave comments about my gigs and CD’s on my snazzy new look website. Watch this space!

Love Aneesa X

Munich Christmas Markets

Helloo peeps!

Things are sooo ridiculously busy at the moment that I have decided to write a quick blog and not worry about it being all nice and perfect!

So here goes, I am in Munich with my twin sister, daddy, and younger brother. My twin Aisha has made such a lovely effort to create a true family Christmas vibe. I am very lucky she loves to cook delicious food!

Prior to coming here I have spent several speedy weeks with the most amazing friends & musicians putting together gigs and concerts, the most exciting of which is my first ever tour to Slovenia with the amazingly talented Jana Cadez Amali & Mojca Monte. Together with the rockin talented Nadine Baker (and lots of other contributions from friends that are still on the go), we have written, performed and just recorded (all in the space of about 2 months), 4 original songs!

We are taking the album which we are calling ‘On The Edge’ to Slovenia on Wednesday and have a plan A, plan B and plan C in case any of our airports, bus terminals and train stops are closed to make sure we make the gig in the capital on 30th Dec!

Tickets are selling fast with the help of Jana & Mojca’s amazing people in Slovenia and our fingers are crossed that we will sell lots of tickets and CD’s. If you fancy a great gig, come along! Details are in the gigs and shows section! And, if you would like to buy a CD, please let me know asap. All support appreciated and of course we think the tunes are great. There are also a few secret surprises on the CD, not mentioned on the artwork for those of you who buy one! You can buy them from £10 from us at: www.aneesachaudhry.com/payments (just click on gig tickets as I haven’t had a chance to set up a payment option on the CD page yet!).

Well, we need to get ready for the day now!

More from me hopefully again before too long. I’ve been a little snowed under with tooooo much to do lately so haven’t got Hootsuite back on my mobile yet. When it’s back, you’ll know about it because i’ll be bombarding you all with my progress!

Big Festive snowy, -11 degree hug from Munich!
Love
Aneesa xx

I’ve spent the afternoon with my best friend from school, Em Miles, talking through why I’m feeling really nervous. Bottom line is, I want to do some new, original material. I think singing some originals as well as the covers I love, is the way to start getting some attention from the music industry. But will any be ready by then?

I’ve got half a song running round my head at the moment (‘Talk/ don’t you know that I’m right beside you baby/ dum, de dum de dum….Because it’s alright”… with some funky rhythm happening) but shouldn’t I be starting to perform my original material right now. It’s only 6 weeks away!!

And I’ve got to sell at least 30 tickets. Is it too early to ask if you’d like to come?! If you’re interested – go to the payments section on my website, www.aneesachaudhry.com. )http://www.aneesachaudhry.com/payments/)

We talked about how to write songs. On the bus? At a piano? Do you need a whole day to do it or 15 minutes… I’m going to experiment in the next few weeks. And I’ve already had some offers from some really talented songwriters of lyrics, and melodies, which I want to try and make something of. Collaboration and creativity. My two new favourite words.

Hence, it’s taking me a little while to come back down to earth. I think this is the life I’m really meant to be leading!

Maybe there’s a manager out there for me ‘Somewhere’
Aneesa x