With Gratitude

Hello everyone!

Well, you probably heard, our album came out this week! We did our best to tell the world about it. Please help us by letting your friends know that it is available.

On our release day, we had the pleasure of being interviewed by pop music critic Aiden Vaziri for the San Francisco Chronicle. He brought up some really good questions that we would like to further explain here. The feature article will be in Wednesday's paper.

First, we want to thank everyone for their tremendous support for our tribute to Eva Cassidy "To Eva With Love". The full title of the CD is "To Eva, With Love: A Celebration of Eva Cassidy" because that is the intention behind this album. No one, NO ONE can sing like Eva Cassidy, so we didn't even try. We did not intend to mimic or copy Eva Cassidy, instead we wanted to celebrate her life and the inspiration and joy she left us. With this intention, we started with her arrangements and then we followed our hearts and expressed freely!

The biggest gift that Eva gave us was the idea that you can sing any kind of music as long as it is beautiful. She didn't get stuck in a box of just one genre of music. So we followed her down that path. We made an album that combined folk, jazz, rock and pop. We brought together amazing musicians of all genres. We thought the best way to honor Eva Cassidy was to follow her example, to sing her arrangements in our own way. That is the concept behind "To Eva With Love".

We have heard positive feedback from the most important people, Eva Cassidy's parents, Hugh and Barbara Cassidy and her biographer and estate lawyer, Elana Byrd. Knowing that they enjoyed the CD and understand our intentions is the most important part of this journey. Also important to us is that this CD helps the world remember Eva Cassidy and the incredible life lessons she has to offer along with her unparalleled voice.

For more information about Eva Cassidy, please visit www.evacassidy.org
For more information about our project, please visit www.songbirdtribute.com


Thank you,
Amikaeyla and Trelawny Rose