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We are taking part in a project helping abandoned orphans in Africa. By purchasing our new poster you will contribute to orphans' food, water, clothing, medical aid and education. All proceeds of the poster sales will get to the orphans. Posters priced 10 EUR can be purchased in our E-SHOP. Exclusive photos from the poster photo shoot and additional information on the project can be found on the Whisper website.

Our new CD is finally here! We were already hopeless about it and almost gave up, but our producer eventually woke up and the album, which had been recorded for more than a year, was released after all. We feel very positive about the product - the packing is really beautiful and we hope that the content will be rated by the fans. We are sure that if our fans like the new album, they will let us know about it at our website. The release party of the HOT RIDE album was held at the Albisguetli festival in Zurich on 19th February. The CD can be purchased at all our concerts and it’s also possible to order it online – contact us at countrysisters@volny.cz and the CD will be shipped to you.

 

We invite all fans to join us for a special release party of our new CD "Hot Ride", which will take place at the Vysoka Farm in Chrastava on 17th April, 2010. Besides the Country Sisters show you can look forward to line dance lectures and lots of fun!

 

We are also looking forward to Easter in Bazina and the Casino in Ceska Kubice. At the country saloon Bazina in Frantiskovy Lazne we annually get together with our Czech fan club. We have a few drinks, celebrate Easter, have some chit-chat and play a show. We’re glad to have you, our Czech fan club! Many thanks to Jitka Wernerova! And at the Casino in Ceska Kubice nobody seems to care about not winning all the time and after these desperate folks listen to the Country Sisters show, they stop thinking about suicide… :-))

We’re getting ready for the Country Night in Denmark, which has been annualy held in March and our band has never missed it. Our Danish fans are amazing and we are looking forward to seeing them again. There‘s always great atmosphere and the getting-together starts our tour season.

We were surprised by several happy events – shortly before 2009 ended, our former member Susan had twins – boys, who were born in Canada. We congratulate her on such a wonderful delivery and wish the boys to be healthy and beautiful as their Mom. It’s true, however, that she could have pleased us with at least one girl, who would sing as greatly as her Mom and our band would have had bright future. Next time, Susan! Another great news arrived in January, when Wendy pleased us with her delivery – just one for now – a boy named Jakub, but she promised to get us a girl in our band next time. Wendy, congratulations and please try harder next time! We really need new girls in our band, so that Sonia can finally retire :-)))

 

We managed to visit some of our fans in their homes, of course upon their invitation. We already know some homes of our Danish friends pretty well. Every year we get invited to a garden birthday party at Doris‘, we have an annual grill party at Klaus‘, in Switzerland we visited homes of our friends Gusti, Francizsca and Martin, and this time even our French fanclub surprised us with an invitation. Isabela prepared a wonderful getting together at her place, and Patrick and Ghislaine invited us to stay overnight in their beautiful house in incredibly beautiful mountains. Both unforgettable. Many thanks!

A couple of months ago we promised to add some new musical instruments and he it goes – Andrea got new portable keyboards, so she can jump around while playing, Klara got a sax, which she is going show off soon, Lucka is practising banjo, which she already performed with and surely she is going to play it more often in the future. We also learned a few new songs and we are working on some more, which you will see and hear live very soon. We look forward to it!

This past summer after long discussions we finally decided to take some time off and go on holiday in the middle of the touring season, which is normally almost impossible. We usually go on holiday in January and November. For those who don’t ski it’s a real nightmare to find a few free days to spend with their family in summer. This year we managed to find a few days between two gigs in July and spend some time by the sea in France. It was amazing and we didn’t even get too much sunburn – just our sound engineer Pepa got even a little darker and the rest of us enjoyed the sea and the sun(we added some photos in the no comment gallery) and got fresh energy for the next year. How about inviting some fans to our holiday next year? Or maybe some fans can invite us to go with them?? Maybe on a cruise in the Carribean... two, three will do... :o))

A couple of months ago we agreed on an idea to add getting togethers with friends and fans as an annual event in our calendar. The latest event at the Vysoa Farm in September was extremely successful and we welcomed many fans from all parts of the Czech Republic as well as our dear fans from other European countries. We had fun, a lot of great music, food and drinks, and we even had to work when moving the statue of the Country Sisters to Sonia’s garden for everybody to look at. I think, Wendy, you can count with lots of fun with the Country Sisters and country music at he farm in future years.

We invite all fans to our pre-New Year's party in Lisny (close to Jablonec nad Nisou) on 29th December. If you come up in costumes, you can win our DVD. Don't worry, we promise you won't look like fools alone as we will prepare special costumes as well ;)

 

We invite all our fans to a special meeting at the Vysoka Farm in Chrastava on 26th September, 2009. Come on in and have a great time with country music and the fanclub members from all around Europe. Of course, you can look forward to the members of the Country Sisters and their friends. We can't wait to meet you again, this time not on the stage, but around a table... Your Country Sisters.

 

Summer time is here again and we owe our fans a lot of information from the background of the band. Somebody calls it gossip, somebody calls it hot news, it’s up to you to choose - everything is true :-) We started the beginning of the year with a new band member, as it happened several times in the few past years already. Our new member, Andrea, is no beginner after all. She played in a couple of bands before, she won a few talent shows and in the last TV show, the X-Factor, she made it to a semifinal, where we spotted her and got her to the Country Sisters. She has been singing and playing keyboards with us for the first year and she already fit in the band very well. Not only with her personality, but also with her singing. Our band got an exceptionally beautiful vocal.

Simultaneously with the arrival of a new member another one left. But leaving from our band is usually a happy event and that was the case of Wendy, who told us some exciting news and we all look forward to a brand new singer that she is going to raise for us. To make things even better, we got the very same happy news from faraway Canada from our former member Susan, who is also expecting and she’s going to have twins! Now we should pray not to the same thing happen to some of us in the middle of the tour season!

In March everything was in the running with Andrea – a beautiful tour in Denmark – the Country Night, which already became an annual tradition. Since we would like to prepare something new in our show for the fans more often, we decided to add a few more musical instruments. This year we’re going to play with three more instruments, but we’re not going to reveal which ones and who’s going to play them so far. We can only say that some of the member are practising very hard (wait a minute, just some of them?!). We have prepared new promo materials, photos and posters, but we are still unsuccessful with releasing of our new CD. Too many problems occured at the same time and unfortunately blocked the release. The album is already finished, it’s just about to be put out. We hope to be able to release it soon. On this occasion we would like to thank to the Harley Davidson club in Jablonec nad Nisou, which provided us with bikes for the photo shoot. It was gorgeous, especially the final ride!

In June we played at the Trucker Festival in Interlaken again. It’s hard to describe to those who don’t know this festival. Beautiful surroundings, the right atmosphere, overcrowded main tent, thousands of bikes, people, trucks and the weather – just beautiful!!! We played four unforgettable shows there.

On 18th October, right after the concert in Spreitenbach we were invited by our French fanclub to spend an evening with them in a fine club near Basel. Our amazing fans pleased us a lot that beautiful night, we had a great time and we thank them so much. We wouldn’t mind if these get-togethers became a tradition at all! We can’t wait to invite them in Jablonec next time.

Our new DVD, which was taped live at the 35th anniversary show in Jablonec nad Nisou, is finally out! We tried to capture the atmosphere as much as we could, but the show was so icredibly long that hardly a half of it fit on the disc. Anyway we hope the new DVD will please many fans in a great way. A live show is just a live show and when you play for 4 hours under a lot of pressure, not everything works just fine. Therefore we added a special music video as a bonus for you to see how vocals recorded in a studio sound. So, dear fans, please buy our latest DVD and stay tuned for the upcoming CD, which has been completed and wil be released soon.

 

The September shows were also marvelous, especially those two in the Czech Republic: Most and As. We got surprised by the fans at both shows and some of them even arrived from France to see us in As. We want to thank them and in particular Isabelle, who is so great!!! Additionally we thank Jitka, who maintains the Czech fanclub website, she resides in As and she is also so great!!! Just about everybody from As makes up an incredible audience even though they we were all freezing (just as we were), they stayed and were awesome. In September we were in Scotland, which surprised us with terrible cold. We were freezing in our apartments, on stage, backstage, on the roud, on the ferry… just about everywhere and this afwul weather also proved to have an effect on our singers who got pretty cold. Next tour in Scotland in summer only! And we also must‘t forget to exchange Scottish pounds for British pounds!

We have got to brag about something: in Randers our band celebrated another expected milestone – the 2000th show!!! We celebrated this special concert quite an unusual way – we dressed in somewhat peculiar costumes, which seemed to be very amusing for the fans, because when they showed up the other day again, they were apparently looking forward to our special costumes.

Another surprise came in August – our tour in Denmark failed a little. We had been used to performing some 10 shows over there but this time the tour was shortened to just 3 concerts. We were really sorry and we hope our new agency will do better next time. However, our fans in Randers recompensed our disappointment when they provided us with a totally packed audience and amazing atmosphere for both shows.

There were two surprises ahead of us in July. A beautiful show in Slovakia – thank you for wonderful letters. We received a gorgious present to our 35th anniversary. A Jablonec-based painter and sculptor, Jiri Massa Bim, sculpted a lifesize statue of the Country Sisters. Two band members have been immortalized this way and we want to thank for this precious gift. In July our Swiss fanclub invited us all to a special grill party in the mountains, where we wouldn’t dare get by ourselves. We spent a great evening with our fans and it was an unforgettable moment for us, thank you for inviting us!

As we already indicated in April, we celebrated two weddings in the band. It was quite an interesting experience for us. It was the first wedding for the involved brides and bridegrooms and they hope it was the last one, too. A few photos will portray the wedding atmosphere for you.

Our new website is almost ready even though it has taken a lot more time than we had thought, but we hope the delay was worthy. We have been trying as hard as we could to show our listeners more about our belowed work and would love them to enjoy the website. We added a special counter that enables us to see where our visitors come from and we found that some of them are from quite exotic countries. The latest check showed that most visitors come from Denmark (thanks fans, you rock!!!), the Czech Republic, Switzerland and another 22 countries such as Mexico, Trinidad, South Korea and Argentina. It would be cool if all the visitors posted a message. We would be more than happy to respond.

It's all over! We all breathed a sigh of relief, we all made it, the show was carried out, even though the day before nothing was sure at all. More than 4-hour marathon was successfully closed with cancan and the procession of all performers ended before midnight. Plenty of helping fans finally breathed a sigh of relief, too. The organisers could get a shot to celebrate the fact, that there was no fire, just one power cut, nobody got hurt and no car was stolen. That's it. We all believe that the concert came off well. We've got a lot of responses, a lot of approvals, we are very pleased and want to say we had a very good feeling during the whole show. Stage fright (which is so typical in a home town) disappeared right after the first applause. And when we were wished another successful 35 years, we didn't feel any exhaustion any longer. We are very grateful and looking forward to the next 35 years (especially some of us). In conclusion we want to thank all the people who wished us good luck and held out to the end of the concert that long, our guests who didn't hesitate to come over here from abroad, all the performers who livened up our long programme and last but not least all the people from the Eurocentrum who were wonderful and helpful. We are going to praise your names everywhere we go. We admit that if there was a chance, we would love to hold another beautiful concert in Jablonec sometime in the future. Now feel free to view some beautiful pics from the Eurocentrum that we received from our fans.

This year we are going to celebrate a wedding in our band. We aren't going to reveal who the lucky one is at this time, but you will find out soon. We are going to attend another wedding of our former member and play in another significant one. That takes three weddings a year, quite common thing in female bands' (it's different with guys, they usually brag about their divorces). We all believe that weddings will bring us good luck in the next season.

Two new fan clubs were founded in April 2008 - the Czech Fan Club and the French Fan Club. We are looking forward to seeing them informing our fans in their native language. We are sure they will have plenty of exciting information and some funny information, too.

Dear fans, we have prepared a brand new website and we hope you to enjoy it. Please let us know!

Another year passed very fast and there is 2008 ahead, which is very special to us. This year we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of our band. The original band "Jizerska protez" was formed in Jablonec nad Nisou 35 years ago and after adopting the new name "Country Sisters" in 1986 has been active until now. To celebrate this anniversary, a very special concert will be held in the Eurocentrum in Jablonec nad Nisou on 26th April, 2008. To learn more about this event see the enclosed invitation. See invitation

Another news is recording a new CD, which began in February 2008 and we believe we will be able to complete it in May. It will be the very first album for our two new members Klara and Alena and we can't wait to hear the final results of our work. We are still looking for a catchy title and we welcome all ideas from our fans.

Unfortunately, there is a bad news from the end of the last year. Our manager for Denmark and Scandinavia, Calle, passed away. We worked with him almost 15 years and it was a very successful co-operation. Calle was a beautiful person and we already miss him very bad. Of course, we continue working with his agency.

And what are our travel plans for this year? There is a couple of big tours again: Scottland, Norway, Denmark, Greenland, Japan (wish us good luck!) and some other tours, which you will learn about later. Our current priority is completing the new album and organizing the anniversary show in Jablonec.

Two new ladies came to the band this year. It was very smooth. Both girls, Clare and Alena have quikly acclimated and learnt all our repertoire. Our fanclub members took them in very well. I guess they are GOOD :)!!!

Our two former members, Lenka and Suzan, who retired at the end of the year 2006 had to face the family obligations. They are now both happy, Lenka engaged and living somewhere between Czech and Denmark and Suzan married in Canada.

Once again, unforgettable experience ? Interlaken. Wonderful crowds, beautiful nature of the Swiss Alps and one of our most favorite places.

Soon after Canada tour, we were invited to a beautiful mansion called Kneznice in Petrovice, in Czech Republic, from our Danish friend and Czech consul. Both fanclubs, Danish and Swiss arrived as well. We truly enjoyed such a lovely company in such a lovely place. We played for the nearest town Petrovice the following day and hope to come back some day.

Our Danish August Tour was very pleasant. We had many beautiful concerts, wonderful people as always, and our fanclub? Extraordinary as always!!! We thank all of you.

Our Danish fanclub invited us in August 2007 to a garden party to Doris a Henning Nielsen house. Entire fanclub was there and we truly enjoyed. Once again, we would like to give you our truest THANK YOU VERY MUCH, IT WAS WONDERFUL!

BIG THANKS to Mogens who takes such a good care of us whenever we come to Denmark.

WENDY successfully passed her horse jump show riding license. She took 2nd place in her category right on her first competition!!!!! LINDA passed her driving license and now she drives. LOOK-OUT!!! ALENA has finally enriched her wardrobe with some specific items from many different places. LUCIE is now again fully engaged in her fitness training and looks GREAT! CLARE had to leave her small guitar students during the summer but she is excited to start a new season at the Music School in Ceske Budejovice once again as the Country Sisters season eases down. SONIA had practically no time to water her house and front-yard flowers and the sun killed all it could. Fortunately, her lovely pet Agata (Pitbul dog) stood the sun up and is fine. PEPA finally bought a house and can use all his experience he gained with the CS :)

The celebration took several days, also in the Swiss Alps and Sonia´s house. Our fanclubs came to join as well. Some of our dearest friends were invited to see our recording studio and also visited Wendy´s horse ranch Vysoka and rode her horses which entertained us for the rest of the day.