any given night:

Well, this is my first little taste of being quoted oh so wrong in print and I tell you, it is indeed bitter. An article came out in one of the local papers yesterday. I was excited about it. The CD release party was last Friday (more about that later) and the article was timed to be a nice little follow up.

Unfortunately, the write-up focused very little on the new CD and turned out to be a lifestyle sort of piece. I guess that's fine, but half way through the article it was stated that my father-in-law had died.

Not true. I cannnot express how terrible I feel about this.

I wrote a letter to the editor doing my best to be gracious and light about it, but wanting to make it known that my father-in-law is indeed alive. As we share the same surname I didn't want an old friend or aquaintence to read the article and get the wrong idea.

The Editor,

Re. “Any Given Night songs come from experience” (Tri-City Arts by Diane Strandberg, The Tri-City News, June 15th).

I want to thank Diane Strandberg for covering my story but there is one detail I feel I must correct. It was not my father-in-law who passed away. In fact, he is alive and well in the Tri-Cities and is a loyal reader of your publication. A false report of his demise isn’t what I wanted to give him this Father’s Day, so instead please give me the opportunity to wish a Happy Father’s Day to Americo Di Gregorio. We so glad you are still with us.

Kristia Di Gregorio, Port Moody

Well, they said they couldn't find my letter and would not publish it even if they did. I did manage to get them to agree to a retraction, but who even reads those? At least I have a blog where I can set things straight.

On to other things...

The CD release party at the Montmartre last Friday went beautifully. Tom Landa from the Paperboys was revealed to be my mystery guest. Not often I get a Juno Award winner opening for me! He was just amazing... he had us all singing along with him by the end of his set.

The place was just absolutely packed, so it was very exciting to play to a full house. The paper fans we handed out turned out to be a practial item as it was HOT in there! I just had so much fun, so many great musicians, friends in the audience.... a great night.

I kind of crashed the day after. As a little kid I always got that 'after the birthday party' thing... so much excitement the day before would leave me tired and a bit sad the day after. Well, this time around it turned out to just be a cold that showed up post CD release party. Ah well... I still have time to beat it before our show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre next week...

Just talked to my Grandma. I told her I have a cold. She said, "you have a bear?"

No.