I am now officially booking house concerts. This is a very exciting opportunity for me to meet and visit with you in person, and for some of you to bring a diverting and illuminating night of music into your own neighborhood. If we work together, we can make it happen! If you’d like to see this idea become a reality (either as a host or as an attendee), you can take action in one of the following ways:

1. I need 42 more people to sign our petition at slowbizz.com so they’ll assist me with the logistics of scheduling house concert tours: http://bit.ly/yu6BTd …It takes only a few seconds of your time and doesn’t cost a cent. If you’ve already done this, thank you very much!

2. Email me directly (booking [at] thewallarecovery.com) if you’re interested in hosting a house concert. Wherever you live, I’d be grateful and honored to play for you in your home.

What’s a house concert, you ask? Why, it couldn’t be simpler! You have a living room, and we have songs. When combined, your friends and family are entertained and delighted over an intimate and peaceful evening of storytelling and music. We arrive with our instruments as a 1-3 piece band and play for about an hour, starting around 7 or 8pm. Sometimes we can provide an opening act as well. If you are enthusiastic about sharing our music, you have a space that can hold 10-50 people, and you can suggest a donation of $5-10 to attendees, please let me know by email: booking [at] thewallarecovery.com.

Thanks for reading this and for your support! I’d love to hear from you, so don’t be a stranger!

BTW, if by some horrible mischance you’ve not downloaded our latest album, “With Trembling…” for free yet, please do so now: http://rcvr.me/free

Much love,

Zack and The Walla Recovery

Merry Christmas!

I just finished recording 2 new Christmas songs for you. Number one is Carol of the Bells / The Holly and the Ivy, our first electronic instrumental ever. On the second one, Angels We Have Heard on High, I had some serendipitous help from founding Walla drummer Brandon (back in town for a few days), my wife Brittany, and our dog Wilson on percussion. These make up the 3rd volume of A Star, a Star, our Christmas collection. As a gift to you, all of it’s 6 songs are available for free right now. Well, don’t just sit there! At least take a listen and see if you like them…

Download A Star, a Star (Vols. 1-3) for free now at rcvr.me/xmas

Also, we are having a huge holiday sale. For a limited time you can get a With Trembling… CD (7 songs) for $3 and a high-quality Lion Shirt for $5, both 66%-off, shipped to your door in time for the big day! Definitely cheap enough for you to pick up one of each for yourself and a few for those special someones, too…

Buy $3 CDs and $5 shirts now at rcvr.me/xmas

Lastly, to all of you who’ve written kind words about our latest EP With Trembling… and/or shared it with your friends, THANK YOU! We’ve gotten a lot of timely encouragement, as I am currently writing on a brand new, mixed-media, full-length story-album and can’t wait for you to hear it.

I hope you enjoy the new songs and have a joyful and safe holiday season. I am grateful for your involvement in this little community of wonder. I hope you’ll reply to this email and let me know how you’re doing. If you’re on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or Instagram or Vimeo or Flickr, please find the links below and connect with me.

Joy and peace, friend…
Zack - The Walla Recovery

“Love came down at Christmas: love all lovely, love divine. Love was born at Christmas. Stars and angels gave the sign.” - Christina Rosetti