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July 2012

July 29th, 2012; 12:31 PM, New York:

A friend once told me that if you want drastic change in your life, you need to make drastic moves. Funny how applicable a simple statement came to be over time.

If you know my music even slightly at all, you’re well aware that I’ve been working towards completing my forthcoming record for quite some time now. A wonderful perk about being an artist is my lack of confines. My freedom to create anything that sparks my inspiration, right out of thin air, is entirely at my disposal. Being 150% in charge also requires me to make some executive decisions that I feel are vital to my progression as an artist. So, without dragging this out much further, I feel the only way to address this properly is to be straightforward and come right out with it.

After nearly 22 years of being a resident of the state of New York, I’ve decided to pack up (part of) my life and move the roots of Corey Balsamo music 350 miles south to the state of Virginia. Relocating myself has been an idea that I’ve toyed with for almost two years now. And while I know I’ll miss New York immensely, I am VERY excited to begin this new chapter in my life. I’ve kept this decision under wraps for a while now for a number of reasons that would be too much to delve into right here.

But to be fair to all of you, I feel this deserves more of an explanation than just “I’m leaving New York”. I’m giving this time to myself as an artist to reflect, ingest a change of scenery and, most importantly, finish my next release. I’m at a point where I feel very fertile as a songwriter and I want to seize that opportunity. I also feel that this is the right time in my life to make this move.

In the path to my own self-discovery, I’ve tried to fall in love with other places, other cities. I lived out of a suitcase at the Holiday Inn - LAX Airport for two weeks just to see what SoCal and the West Coast had to offer me. I eventually trekked down to San Diego and explored what kind of lifestyle I might have down there. I thought about my time spent in New Orleans when I was young and how I might mesh my own flavor with elements of traditional jazz, R&B and zydeco music that permeate the streets of southern Louisiana. My wanderlust brought me to Nashville, TN, a place so vibrant and bursting at the seams with life and culture, I thought I’d never have to leave. I know it seems sort of backwards to be fleeing a place that artists come from all over to make their stake in this competitive and fast-paced city, where success is proportionally determined, in part, by drive, a will to succeed and a LOT of resilience stored in your back pocket.

So, why a small town in Northern Virginia? Well, Virginia is just a place I’ve always felt comfortable and very “at home” in. When touring, I always look forward to the Virginia shows. It’ll be a good place to root myself, recharge my batteries, refocus on the tasks at hand and finish this long overdue release in the most organic way possible in a setting that is conducive to my artistry.

With all the above said, I would like to extend an invite to all of you, willing and able, to come see me off on a New York farewell show next week. I will be playing with musical friends Jesse Ruben and Teddy Geiger at the Vibe Lounge in Rockville Centre, NY next Saturday, August 4th. My goal is of none other than to see the many smiling faces that have supported me thus far in my musical career, singing along and bearing a collectiveness and togetherness that we’ve shared through the music I’ve played over the last several years. I can’t promise many (or possibly any) shows in the period between now and when this record drops. So, it seems only appropriate that we give a final hurrah to closing this chapter in my life in the place where I’ve called home for so long, with the crowd I love best.

I realize this is in short notice to some of you. I understand there will be some who might not be able to make it. New York fans, find solace in knowing that this move is only temporary until I can finish what I have started and I look forward to living in New York again when the time comes to release my record.

Until then, take care of yourselves and one another.

- Corey

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