{"id":6325,"date":"2016-03-22T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2016-04-13T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:54:31","slug":"songs-and-stories-155-dan-frechette-and-laurel-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-155-dan-frechette-and-laurel-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #155: Dan Frechette and Laurel Thomsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7347\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6325-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories155.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories155.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories155.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories155.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=6325-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories155.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories155.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories155.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to listen to the interview with Dan and Laurel<\/a> (time = 1:04:07)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dan-Frechette-Laurel-Thomsen-lr2_1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dan-Frechette-Laurel-Thomsen-lr2_1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Frechette &amp; Laurel Thomsen lr2_1024\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6332\" target=\"_blank\" \/><\/a><\/a>Lots of people meet on the Internet. In the case of Canadian-born Dan Frechette and Monterey Bay native Laurel Thomsen, magic happened. Dan&#8217;s a monster songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Laurel&#8217;s a songwriter, composer, and classically trained violinist. A chance encounter with Laurel&#8217;s playing on a YouTube clip led to a query from Dan about a possible music collaboration. Cut to a few years later. They&#8217;re now married, living here locally &#8211; lucky for us &#8211; and are finishing their third record as a duo.<\/p>\n<p>This new release, as you&#8217;ll discover in this episode, is their most-balanced collaboration, weighted equally by co-writes from <a href=\"http:\/\/danandlaurel.ca\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dan and Laurel<\/a> and fan favorites. It&#8217;s in the final stages of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/dan-frechette-and-laurel-thomsen-s-new-album\" target=\"_blank\">IndieGoGo campaign<\/a> to help finance it. And you can help celebrate it at Dan and Laurel&#8217;s CD-release party at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donquixotesmusic.info\/#Dan Frechette &#038; Laurel Thomsen\" target=\"_blank\">Don Quixote&#8217;s Music Hall<\/a> on Wednesday, April 27th. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e07V5CF-F9k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Dan, Laurel, and I have tons of friends in common, and we&#8217;ve crossed paths a few times, but this podcast was a great excuse to just sit, talk shop, and really explore our common ground. You&#8217;ll learn the details of how they met, the way-impressive catalog of Dan&#8217;s songwriting, and you&#8217;ll get a good sense of why this duo is so special. And of course, you&#8217;ll also get a sample of their playing, as they perform a number from the upcoming CD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have comments on this episode?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019d love to hear from you. Call and leave a message at <strong>(831) 288-2226<\/strong>, and I\u2019ll play your comments on-air during the next show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs-and-stories-155-dan-frechette-and-laurel-thompson%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to the interview with Dan and Laurel (time = 1:04:07) Lots of people meet on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-podcast","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}