Me and Jools Holland

Me and Jools Holland after taping the "Jools Holland Radio Show"

PRISM IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK!!

You may pick up your copy at any of the following retailers:

HMV, Virgin, Border, Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, or any indie retailer listed
at Proper Partners.

We are working hard to have PRISM available from my website. Soon! Very soon!

Radio Scotland Interview

You can listen to Ricky's American Tunes (presented by Ricky Ross), featuring me and fellow singer/songwriter Benny Gallagher in the round on BBC Scotland Radio.

PRISM IS NOW AVAILABLE!!

You may pick up your copy at any of the following retailers:

HMV, Virgin, Border, Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, or any indie retailer listed
at Proper Partners.

We are working hard to have PRISM available from my website. Soon! Very soon!

Beautiful Wales

I spent a week in Wales doing pre-production for my PR Tour that's happening now all through September. I think Promo tours are much more challenging than regular tours. There's so much jumping around! But I've been having lots of fun too. I stayed at a sweet B&B around the corner from Maart's house (my bass player/tour manager) and we tried to get as much work done as possible...but with scenery like this we had to take lots of breaks! Here's one of many mind blowing sunsets around the corner from his house!




This is the reflection of the sky on the sand. If only life were this ordered....




Baaaaaah!



Here's another sunset...it was like something in a dream....

IRELAND TOUR DATES!

DEC 5 WED *BALLYBUFEY* Jackson's Hotel 0353 749131021

DEC 6 THU *BELFAST* The Black Box 028 90323744

DEC 7 FRI *DUBLIN* Whelan's 00353 147 80766


I hope to see you there!

Listen to the Ken Bruce Performance

Click HERE to listen to the whole show, individual live tracks and a special session performance of That Mystery exclusive to the Music Club website

We've also got the video for Beth's classic single All I Have.

WIN TICKETS to exclusive Prism launch show!

To celebrate the launch of Prism, Beth Nielsen Chapman is playing a very
special gig in London on Thursday 20th September. In order to be among the
100 guests, please click here to enter the competition on
amazon.co.uk. GOOD LUCK!

Ken Bruce Show * Tues. Sept. 11

I hope you will all tune in:

9.30am to 12 noon - BBC RADIO 2 KEN BRUCE SHOW
Live from Maida Vale Studios in London, 5 songs and some chat!

You can listen to the Ken Bruce Show live online here.

Victoria, British Columbia

Singing in Victoria…

Wow! What a great choir! All volunteer choir…but with the magic of Shivon Robinsong and Denis Donnally they come alive and sing to the rafters! Go to their website and check out the ""Getting Higher Choir"" and all the great work they do to raise money for a small village in Africa.

The name of the concert was "Shine All Your Light"....a new song (written by BNC & Kimmie Rhodes) that I recorded for the "Prism" CD...performed here live with 200 plus voices!

Me and My Dad!

Here's me and my Dad...he came up to sing "Anne Bolynn" ....a sweet little tune he used to tuck me in with! :)

The Mobile Symphony

Mobile Symphony

I had such a great time going back to my old stomping grounds, Mobile, Alabama, to do a concert with the Mobile Symphony. Scot Speck, the conductor, was outstanding and the orchestra was remarkably good!

Aside from that it was very nostalgic to return to the Sanger Theater, which is where I gave my first concert in my early twenties, opening up for Mac MacAnally. There I was in my same dressing room tuning my guitar!

Here I am having a laugh with Scott. My guitar broke so here I’m using Ernest’s guitar. He’s behind me on the drums. And his new wife Jessie is to my left playing bass.



This next picture I’m smiling ear to ear…there’s nothing like the sound of a live orchestra!

The Wisdom of The Song

Here are some highlights from my latest creativity workshop given in Victoria, British Columbia!

BREAKDOWN OF CLASSES:

1. Lifting Off:
Fasten your seatbelts as you embark on the spacious, limitless journey of writing a song! Learn how to allow the creative spirit to guide the process.
Discover and take a walk along the path of "not knowing", and the many ways
to elude your brain and open the channels of intuition.

2. The Care And Feeding Of The Muse:
We will address the importance of cultivating and nurturing that part of you that is your gift. There's a lot you can do to protect, defend and develop a healthy Muse.
You will find out about the "Four Food Groups", "Setting Out The Tea", "Weightlifting in the Gym of Creativity", "Planting Your Garden" and many more tools and tips.

3. There's Got To Be A Morning After:
Here you will get plenty of support while you gently enter the process of looking at what you've written in the 'light of day'. This is the part where you unlock the trunk and invite 'the critic' out to nip and tuck, oh yes, and sometimes it's major surgery - but remember - this is one of the most incredible ways to grow as a writer. Learn how to re-write.. and un-re-write!

4. Navigating The Jungle Of The Music Business:
"Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh My!" Dropping breadcrumbs, tapping your heels together and other methods of finding your way back to your creative center.

Art vs. Commerce: How and when to wear your armor. Talent has no compass: mustering determination.

5. The Three "R's": Recover, Rejuvinate, and Re-write again!
(nothing to lose but a sheet of paper and some pencil lead)
Sacred Waiting: Facing the 'great white' blank piece of paper (just think of what Paul Simon has to live up to!). And: Singing With Your Speaking Voice/Writing With Your Singing Voice.

Proudly presented by
Shivon Robinsong, Denis Donnelly and the Gettin’ Higher Choir

Getting a hug from one of my heroes...Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Festival of Homiletics

I had a blast performing Tuesday, May 21, with Allan Shamblin and
Marcus Hummon at the "Festival Of Homiletics" at the Tennesee
Performing Arts Center. I tried out a couple of new songs from the
upcoming "Prism" song extravaganza. "The Prayers Of An Atheist"
went over quite well with this crowd of many preachers!

Diana Legacy Fund Launch For Children Suffering The AIDS Crisis In Sub-Saharan Africa

On May 15th, I was honored to be asked by Naomi Tutu to present a short film I produced at the launch of the Diana Legacy Fund of the Foundation for Hospices In Sub-Saharan Africa. Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the Keynote speaker.



As you may know, I have spent the past several months wrapping up the final stages of completing “Prism,” a double CD that has had me traveling to the far reaches of the globe and back again while singing in several different languages and from many different cultural aspects and paths of faith. I am using my voice as a common thread through these languages and recording songs and hymns whose common theme is the sound of a human voice in spiritual devotion. This ongoing project actually

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It is my sincere hope and desire that everyone pass this piece along and let the song and the faces do the talking.


“Prism” will be released in the fall in the UK and at the end of January in the US.

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

These are all the same video...but wanted to make sure you could open it...it's a short video which will debut tomorrow!....I"m speaking tomorrow morning at a lunch with Bishop Tutu....this film will open the lunch...it's for the Diana Legacy Fund....I'm so thrilled it got finished in time! Please copy and paste and send out to anyone who may be moved to donate or get involved in supporting these sweet children.....at the bottom is the schedule for the event tomorrow.......XOXO BNC

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Flashback

Hey Kids! Check out some ancient history on Youtube.....click here!

I love this...remember well the copious amounts of hairspray I had to endure....I was trying not to look like I didn't know the chords on the piano...of course I'm playing along with the record....and lip synching...horrors! But I have to say it's nice to see it resurface. Even if you can't see any orchestra behind me!

BNC

Prism Tour - UK 2007! * UPDATE *

GIGANTIC has tickets available for all TOUR DATES with the exception of Canterbury. I look forward to seeing you at the shows!

Happy Birthday Leeza

Another recent fun event was my whirlwind trip to LA to sing at Leeza Gibbon's 50th Birthday Party. Leeza had quite a bash with a "Goddess" theme and it turns out she's been a fan of my music for some time. She was as lovely and warm as you would imagine. I sang "Sand & Water" and a few other songs in honor of her mother who is in late stages of Alzeimer's. All around the country Leeza has been creating support centers called "Leeza's Place" through The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation.

Jane Seymore, Debbie Gibson, and many other "Goddesses" were in attendance....as was Ariana Huffington. Here I am hanging out with Leeza and Ariana....fun night! Ok...I want to know what Leeza eats for breakfast...or her birth certificate must be wrong!