The PAE Conference, held in Baltimore, MD this year, afforded Ebony & Ivory agent/manager Robert Baird an opportunity to introduce the new Ebony & Ivory CD/DVD to presenters and other interested parties. The new CD/DVD was a popular giveaway at the Ebony & Ivory booth, as was information on the Ebony & Ivory 2007-2008 Christmas Tour. Among the booth visitors and contacts at the conference were:

Ursel Behnken (Emerald Coast Concert Association), Brian Bethune (Cuyahoga Community College), Sharon Bevis (Polk Community College), Libby Blatt (Quintango), Larry Coleman (Wingate University), Dwaine Coley (Alexander Central Auditorium), Ernie Hawkins, Susan Kneller (Emerald Coast Concert Association), Abby Koffler (Century Village Theaters), Catherine Little (PA Presenters), Connie McGinnis (Westminster College), William Menezes (Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond), Judith Nail (Muscogee County School District), Mary Lynn Norton (Culture & Heritage Museums), Dr. Donald A. Parks (Schwartz Center for the Arts), Richard Ryan (Mount Dora Community Concerts), Tommy Usrey (Louisiana Presenters), Tony Walsh (Thrasher-Horne), Malcolm White (Mississippi Arts Council), and others.

It all started with an email from Arts Northwest. One of the members had an artist cancel for January and needed a replacement. Ebony & Ivory stepped in and arranged to extend their California Tour north into the state of Washington, so that they could help out this presenter in Raymond, Washington. Virginia Carlson and the Sunday Afternoon Live Concert Series will have the pleasure of hearing Ebony & Ivory in concert on Sunday, January 7th at 2 p.m.

Sunday Afternoon Live is a relatively new concert series which presents artists in the historic Raymond Theatre, a venue listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places. Ebony & Ivory are looking forward to their trip to the Pacific Coast to play for Virginia and her audience.

The Ebony & Ivory California Tour has added an additional date. On Sunday, January 14th at 7:30 p.m., the Duo will perform a benefit concert for the Davis Musical Theatre at the company's Hoblit Performing Arts Center, 607 Pena Drive in Davis, CA. California's longest-running, year-round, amateur musical theater company, DMTC produces 10 musicals each year. Tickets for this performance will be available at the Davis Musical Theatre website http://www.dmtc.org. Thanks to Ben Wormeli and Steve Isaacson (co-founder of DMTC) for making these arrangements.

October 27, 2006 - Sarnia, ON

SHOWCASE

Ontario CONTACT

December 8, 2006 - Pinawa, MB

PERFORMANCE (Christmas Show)

Eastern Manitoba Concert Association

January 7, 2007 - Raymond, WA

PERFORMANCE

Raymond Theatre

January 10, 2007 - San Diego, CA

PERFORMANCE

Poway Center

January 13, 2007 - Ukiah, CA

PERFORMANCE

Ukiah High School

January 14, 2007 - Davis, CA

PERFORMANCE

Hoblit Performing Arts Center

January 16, 2007 - Yreka, CA

PERFORMANCE

Yreka Community Theater

January 18, 2007 - Green Valley, AZ

PERFORMANCE

West Social Center

PERFORMANCES

Celebrity Concert Series