Adonia String Trio - News

Our growing families...

shawkins — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:04:58 +0000

We've got some fun news - we're all three expecting! This has never happened before in Adonia String Trio history. Three pregnant musicians at the same time... We're all doing great and having a blast, and don't worry, we're spaced far enough apart that we shouldn't have to take any significant time off from performing. We can always hire substitute players when one of us is out with a new baby. As soon as we're all showing, we'll try to post some pregnant-trio pics!

Recordings

shawkins — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:47:25 +0000

We are sorry to announce that at this time we are no longer able to provide recordings of wedding ceremonies for our clients. We apologize for any inconvenience!

A Night of Romance

shawkins — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:40:44 +0000

We recently provided romantic background music for Southern Adventist University's Spring Banquet, and it was such a blast! It was a beautiful evening, and the students were so much fun--we even had a couple of girls sing a song with us! It was a wonderful opportunity for us to use much of our EXTENSIVE pop repertoire. We learned that because we've been adding so much new music to our repertoire, we have no problem playing for three straight hours of just love songs! We even had quite a few we didn't get to because we ran out of time. Check out our new additions on the repertoire page! We are adding new songs all the time--if you have a song you'd like at your event, don't hesitate to request it! Check out our FAQs for more info on special requests...

Upcoming Event: Trio Concert

shawkins — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:22:13 +0000

Mark your calendars and join us at 7 pm on November 20th at Tennessee Temple University for an hour of Adonia! That's right, we're performing a concert of many of our favorite pieces from a variety of genres for students and guests, and we'd like to invite all those Adonia fans out there to come along. If you're a client who would like to see us in action, you are very welcome to come out for this event. Please note, though, that most of what we will perform is not your typical wedding repertoire. We will play a sampling of our repertoire in classical music, folk, and some pop/movie music. We hope to see you there!

Hackenberger Gets Hitched!

sjames — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:47:02 +0000

That's right, all of the trio members are now hitched! Our cellist Rachel was married at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church last weekend. Rebecca and Susan provided the music along with guest cellist Suzanne Sims since Rachel was...otherwise occupied. Suzanne is an excellent musician as you will hear shortly. Many of the clips on our sample page were recorded live, but we thought you might like to hear one of our weddings all the way through! The trio always records the weddings to make a CD for the couple, since often the bride and groom are too distracted to hear the music. Sometimes it takes a while for us to get the raw recording through the editing process, but the acoustics are particularly good at LMPC and these clips only needed to be boosted to the proper sound levels. We loved Rachel's choice of wedding music and hope that you will enjoy listening to the music below.

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Susan is on Fire!

rjames — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:30:15 +0000

Susan has been hard at work these last few days writing new custom arrangements for us! She's been doing this just for fun too- not because we have any recent new requests or because anyone asked her to. She just does it for fun sometimes. Pretty impressive if you ask me!

She has done many arrangements lately in a wide range of genres-- everything from the very classical and very intense Palladio to Scott Joplin to Stevie Wonder! Thanks Susan!

We'll be working on learning and rehearsing this exciting new music this weekend! Perhaps sound clips will follow soon!

Continuing Website Progress

rjames — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:38:03 +0000

We have added pictures to our Wedding Music Guide. Aren't they fun!? I sure had fun adding them!

We have also edited and added to our "Why Adonia" list. This list is basically a compilation of all the reasons we believe you are getting the best when you book us. We sincerely believe that we have a lot to offer and that we are the best at what we do and that we are the most experienced and qualified at this job. We have a blast doing it and we just want you to know exactly what you are getting when you hire the Adonia Trio. We believe that the benifits of hiring us are abundant and extremely valuable!

Please contact us if you have any further questions or comments. We love feedback and would love to hear from you!

Yet More New Stuff!

rjames — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:34:38 +0000

We have new clips , we have new repertoire ! We have been slowly and continually trying to improve the Wedding Guide . I hope everyone is finding it helpful!

Last week I spent days upon days and hours on end arranging new music and I'm proud of how they turned out! A few new clips of the new music can be found on our audio clips and on our repertoire list. We are trying to find a neat way to highlight the new items since they are mixed in with such a long list and hard to find.

New Website Content!

rjames — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:42:31 +0000

Susan has written an extremely helpful guide for our brides that is designed to help with selecting wedding music! I love that she has done this and I don't think many other places or groups have such a tremendously helpful resource to selecting your wedding music! It covers a variety of ceremony styles and musical options. I hope it comes in handy for many of you and please let us know if you found it useful or if there is some way in which we can improve it!

Many thanks to Susan for putting that together for us!

In addition we are currently working on uploading yet even more audio clips for your listening pleasure! We are hoping to integrate many of our clips both new and old into the new wedding music selection guide . Keep in mind this is a work in progress and is not complete just yet, but is up and coming and will hopefully be finished soon. By the time it is done we are hoping it will be the best, most complete, and most helpful wedding music selection guide out there!

So far this year we have played nearly 20 weddings and we have many still to go this fall. It has been busy and exciting and it almost never slows down! Along with continually working on arranging new music, recording new clips for the website, and preparing for and playing in many weddings and other events, we are also excited that the recording work we did with Glass Hammer on their upcoming album is done and the album will be released in October! Things are always exciting and fun when new albums come out. Album release party, here we come!

We may also have another little surprise up our sleeves to be revealed a bit later so stay tuned!!

Return of the Prodigal Trio!

rjames — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:05:07 +0000

I'm so sorry we I have not posted in so long! The summer has been non-stop weddings almost every single weekend and so we have been very busy! We have played weddings near and far- Fort Payne, AL, Dalonega, GA, and Dayton, TN to name a few! We also just booked a wedding for this fall in Murphreesboro, TN. We've started travelling more and more recently. It has been an adventure!

We have just added a new sound clip and are in the process of adding more. We've been recording almost all of our weddings and have many new clips to use! We have also added some fantastic pieces to our repertoire.

Definitely check out the new clip. It is called Meditation from Thais and is one of my personal favorites. The melody is beautiful, sentimental, and romantic.

It has been a great summer so far (and isn't over yet!) and we've already started booking for next spring and summer!