Mimi Burns Band

New Website Design

Steve — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:07:30 +0000

Please stop by and see our photos.

The band have been BUSY! Bryan returned home from China last month with the Gold Medal for the U.S. is the Youth Choir Olympics. Welcome to our new backup vocalist Mason Dillion, recently signed to a Nashville label. Mason has his own album coming out soon. This is the first time in a long time we’ve had that magical blend of vocals that I grew up loving in all my favorite 70′s bands.

Thank you to Kristy Owens as well as Kristi Gay of Bella Vista Studios for some of the show photos. http://www.bellavitastudios.com

We are in the studio working of the songs for the upcoming album, ‘Where The Journey Begins’.

Blessings to each of you~ Mimi

FW Philharmonic’s Celtic Christmas

Steve — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:13:16 +0000

We’re proud to announce that we’ll be performing with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra this Christmas as part of the Celtic Christmas.

The band is busy working on some special material for the occasion. Although the final material is not complete, its looking like the performance will involve lots of energy from the whole band. You would expect nothing less right?

We’d love to see you there, please check out the Phil’s website for more details closer to the event.

Be on our new CD!

Steve — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:10:11 +0000

We are preparing for our new CD. It’s all very exciting as we’ve been writing some new material and brushing off some old tunes in order to produce a live recording.

We’ll start recording the tracks during part of the day, then an evening concert will performed to a live audience. You can join us for the live recording during the evening of October 8th. Be at Sweetwater Sound at 6:00pm and be prepared to be loud so that your voice turns out nice and clear on the new recording.

Highland Games

Mimi — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:14:39 +0000

We had SUCH a great time headlining at the Indiana Highland Games this year. We were invited by Tessa from the Wallace Clan to play next July at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, which we are more than delighted about. http://www.gmhg.org/

The band and this line-up are like nothing I’ve come across before musically, they are outstanding.

We will have new recordings up very soon.

We met the folks from Hogeve Navvy

http://www.hogeyenavvy.com/fr_hogeyenavvy.cfm

REALLY lovely group of people, their harmonies are spot-on and they have a fantastic amount of cheer to them.

Saturday the 19th we play Broadripple as a gift in benefit for two of our band mates who will be working with the Children’s Choir of Fort Wayne as they tour in China during the month of July.

June 26th we headline the Pretty Lake Acoustic Music Festival in Kendalville.

Updates, Music, Life and Grief

Mimi — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:02:52 +0000

Hello, it’s Mimi!
The band are all excited to be headlining next week’s Highland Games at IPFW. http://www.scottishsocietyftw.org/highlandgames.htm
We will be back in the studio within the next few months recording the new band. They are amazing and have elevated the sound far beyond anything you’ve heard yet.
Thank you to all of those who participated in last weekends event for the filming of the music video for Gypsy Dance, it was great fun. My special thanks for Stephanie Long, Jesse Christopherson and Nathan Reitz for filming. Photos from Al Mozena and Kim Wilkinson.
We have a new song coming out on a commercial for a hear aid company named HearCare. The song is named Sweet Sounds and it is sung by our friend Craig Lyons http://craiglyons.com. It will be available for download in about a month.
I’ve met with a director for our upcoming Rock Opera and I have also met with Dar Williams who is a grief counselor here in the area. My research on death and dying should offer some fantastic ideas and hopefully be helpful for our audience in allowing further healing during the grief process.
A few people I feel you should know about this week. First is my great friend from long ago and a professor at Wesleyan, Mister Jacob Bricca. He has a new short film out called PURE. It reminds me of all the best scenes from the Blues Brothers, in a time space of 3 minutes.
Second is a band named Derek Trucks whom many of you, I am certain, have heard of…for those of you who’ve not heard of him, check out this song http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=51447833
Mike Mattison has a such a sexy voice. So very raspy and intimate.
Finally, our good friends from the band BROTHER are back out with possibly the hottest album I have heard in a very long time. http://brothermusic.com/ come over and listen to the clips. Muy Caliente!!!!!
Goodbye to our young friend Anjali, may your dancing be abundant from now on beautiful!
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/anjali
Please pick a charity in your life to give to!
Blessings to each of you.

ATTENTION! We desire dancers and wild women for our music video!!!!

Mimi — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:26:01 +0000

We are filming our music video for our song Gypsy Dance on the 29th of May, Saturday. 7 am until 11 am (please be prompt), at the Franke Park Woods in Fort Wayne. Meeting place is the parking lot by the BMX track up the hill from the duck pond. We need women of ALL ages in dresses, skirts, gowns, ball gowns, fairy outfits, scarves, costumes, traditional outfits or a whole lot of scarves, all of which will help to promote our upcoming Rock Opera set to open Nov 2, 2010

The crew will arrive about 6 am if anyone wants to come early. Great attitudes prevail! We are also looking for a drum circle, if you have a drum, please bring it! Lastly, we need extra footage, please bring your digital video camera if you have one that you would like to help take a few shots! Desire more info? contact Mimi Burns directly mimi@mimiburns.com If it is POURING rain, the date will be postponed, but we are expecting lovely weather, (perhaps a bit of fog for extra feel)~ also, please be okay if your outfit gets a bit dirty! We look forward to seeing you!

Highland Games, Rock Opera, Train and more!

Mimi — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:35:45 +0000

Hello! Spring has almost SPRUNG, though it seems to be on the fence at the moment here in Indiana. Our buddies from Train will be in Europe next week, check their listing and come out for a great show http://www.trainline.com/us/home

Thank you to Highlander Celtic Radio for the radio play! http://www.myspace.com/celticradio

We are headlining the Indiana Highland Games at the IPFW campus near their new bridge!!!!

http://www.scottishsocietyftw.org/highlandgames.htm

We’ve been playing for more than 12 years and this year we have the most amazing line-up EVER of musicians. Mister Derek Reeves is joining us (lead chair for the philharmonic), both Sir William Brown as well as Sir Bryan Nellems of the Afro-Disiacs Show are our ‘in the pocket’ players holding down the rhythm section. Though Andy Kramer is not able to make the show, expect to see him for the Rock Opera opening in November.

Welcome aboard to Stephanie Long. She has been doing a lot of research for the Rock Opera. Our current scene we’ve been looking for information on is the Boat of Charon. Anyone who has photos, please forward! We found a great site here, http://www.lenntech.com/water-mythology.htm

We are headlining the Indiana Highland Games June 12th located on the IPFW campus in Fort Wayne.

Springtime and inspiration

Mimi — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:05:56 +0000

Just getting started on phase two of the rock opera~ this is my distraction!!!

Mimi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:10:17 +0000

Meeting a lot of new people on http://chatroulette.com/ Welcome aboard folks! We are working on our fourth album with a host of new musicians. Getting excited to headline the Highland Games this year for Indiana. March 17th we are playing a benefit in Fort Wayne. I was asked to write a song for a local hearing impairment clinic, people have told me it is my best work to date. I look forward to your being able to listen! Shine on friends!

working on new material

Mimi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:36:10 +0000

As we embark on the new album and the next workings of the rock opera, our manager June McCullugh brought us out to witness Trans Siberian Orchestra last night. There was A LOT of hair and rocking out on the stage~ reminded me of a KISS show meets Vegas, great to see how many musicians one band can influence!

Our buddy Jerry Becker is the keys player for Train and they were on the Today Show this morning~ great to see the band back together ! Train, “Hey Soul Sister”: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5566571n

Craig Lyons has begun his paperbird project~ great to be on his team! http://www.craiglyons.net/

http://www.onemillionactsofkindness.com/ I am grateful to be promoting this man as well~ really beautiful and something we can all get behind. Rock on Bob and Bogart!

A great big thank you for all of you who continue to pray for these two little girls in their recovery process from Cancer~

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/anjali Anjali

http://www.specialelsagirl.blogspot.com/ Elsa

Many Thanks for this Thanksgiving! Blessings to each of you~ MBB