- Ed Littlefield's solo album, Going to the West, made the KBCS Best Recordings of 2003. "Folksounds" host Eric Hardee lists Going to the West as #6. His show airs on Tuesdays, 8-10 pm on 91.3 KBCS FM from Bellevue, Washington.

- Going to the West was also rated 69th in the National DJ Database top played recordings. These ratings were based on 13,779 airplays from 156 different DJs in January 2004.

- Dan Wheetman got extra airplay as Artist of the Week on New Zealand radio the week of April 12. Radio host Eddie O'Strange is playing a lot of Marley's Ghost music on his Town & Country Radio Show, 783 KHz AM.

- Marley's Ghost will make its Transylvanian Premier at 8 p.m. April 26 on radio station 92.2 in the Cluj-Napoca area of Northern Romania. Radio host "The Raven", John Slevin says, "I am grateful to people like you for helping me introduce a kind of American music that isn't making it here yet."

Marley's Ghost started recording its eighth CD in Studio City, CA at Entourage Studios with Van Dyke Parks, Hutch Hutchinson, David Jackson, Larry Taylor and Don Heffington. Said MG's Mike Phelan, "It is going very well... those guys are creative...darn good too!"

Marley's Ghost will continue recording this album in the Sage Arts studio when it's up and running again.

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Marley's Ghost made its second appearance at Wintergrass 2004 in the Sheraton Hotel in Tacoma. This big bluegrass event takes over the hotel complex for a weekend of fabulous music with bands like Hot Rize, Seldom Scene, Robin and Linda Williams and Marley's Ghost. Wintergrass is a festival for musicians and jamming goes on in hotel rooms on every floor, in the halls and stairwells. Heck, they're even jamming in the elevators! (And if you've never been jammed in an elevator full of musicians, you don't know what you're missing.)

"It was a fun time to be back at Wintergrass and see all our pals from the Great Northwest," Mike Phelan said. "We also got to and do some jamming and swap stories with our pals from Back East."

The Ghosts played hard at this festival. Not only did they perform on every stage, they hosted the Sunday Gospel show all afternoon.

The Winners!!

Sage Arts held a Marley's Ghost poster coloring contest, and the kids in the Wintergrass children's activity room really got into it. Kids could either color the poster or flip the paper over and make their own original art. We received so many wild and wonderful entries that it was really hard to judge.

Nick Lewis of Warm Beach won the grand prize: a beginner guitar, complete with gig bag, picks, strap, extra set of strings and an instruction video. His sister, Michelle Lewis, won a Hohner harmonica. Mary and Kristianna Anderson from Anderson Island also won harmonicas. Lena Beth Schneider was gung ho for the Ghosts; she entered seven times and won a t-shirt. T-shirts and cassettes went to Adrienne Wallace, Simon Courtney, Kiah Comb, Saul Schneider and Rachel A.

Thanks to all you budding artists that entered our contest!

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Coming soon to Sage Arts - Sage Radio! Quality streaming of music from the Sage Arts' catalog. Listen to some of your favorites and maybe just discover some extraordinary artists you've never heard. We will feature interviews, stories and concert performances. We'll keep you posted.

Not far from Sage Arts is the new home of the American Musical Heritage Foundation. This non-profit organization is setting up its massive archival collection of more than 550,000 LPs, 78s and 45s. It's a facility where musicians, media personalities or aficionados can research every aspect of music.

"I supply inspiration to musicians," says AMHF founder Glenn Howard whose musical clients have included Bonnie Raitt, Branford Marsalis, Los Lobos, Maria Muldaur, The Grateful Dead, and countless others.

AMHF looks forward to working with Sage Arts musicians and chose its new location for its proximity to the studio. "No studio on earth has this kind of resource," says Glenn, who views this unique combination of a top notch recording studio and unparalleled musical resource as Shangri-La for recording artists.

Once the collection is completely set up, AMHF will be open for consultation by appointment. AMHF welcomes tax-deductible donations of all kinds (including records) to keep the organization growing and keep the facility open.

AMHF is a non-profit charitable organization. Contact Glenn Howard or Laura Miltenberger at 360-691-2105 or Lauramaree@yahoo.com.

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