Thanks for all your support through the christmas season, and I hope you’ve had a great one – I’ll be taking a couple weeks off of the website, but I’ll be back right after the new year
Looking forward to getting some quality time in with Nikki and the kids!
Rock on, and happy holidays, everybody!
YOTI
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Reserve Your Holiday CD
Join Dale Tippett Jr for a special evening featuring Dale’s original rock and blues music as well as some old holiday favorites!
This holiday concert will feature Dale’s backup band Tin Lolita, special guest Anna Fermin, and more!
Your ticket reserves your copy of Dale’s holiday CD at a special *pre-sale discount. Only a limited number of physical copies are being made, so make sure to reserve yours today!
Great tunes, great food and great company – see you there!
*Sale price $15
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So I’ve always been real good for singing some Christmas or holiday songs at parties, churches, TV, or the food pantry, but one thing that gets me in trouble every few months is the look of Christmas. I’ve never been one for holiday sweaters – though I’ll wear the occasional hideous sweater for kicks: 
But by and large, I don’t do the ‘festive’ look… Enter Nikki!
Nikki can pretty much do anything, and is super brilliant at design. I watch her do work for people all the time – restaurants, art committees, fitness professionals. She obviously does all the Dale Tippett Jr visual stuff (if something looks bad, it’s probably something I did) – but whatever she does, she makes sure the atmosphere of the project is right, and her eye for detail is the stuff of legend.
Promo for the Seafarer
Recipe for kick-ass cranberry relish – GREAT on a turkey sammich
Facebook timeline pic for the Northwest Arts Connection
and of course, she is a great photographer, too.
Nikki’s photography – for me, at least – is a place in her skill set where she really shines. I look at some of the best pictures she’s taken of me, for example, and they look super-slick and professional, but what she’s able to do is capture a relaxed moment that has motion and gets you right in the feels. The thing that the regular viewer might not know though, is that I was sick as a dog, in a terrible mood, but needed a photo for this or that promo – she’s able to get blood from a stone. It’s freaky, but in a good way.
The design stuff she’s doing for the Christmas season show and CD is crazy good – I love the promo she did (see feature image) and honestly, I think it all ties in to the aesthetic that she uses for this project rather seamlessly.
If you don’t, go like her on Facebook, follow her on twitter, and check out her blog:
https://www.facebook.com/nerdygirldesignschicago
https://twitter.com/nerdygirldesign
http://nikkispencer.com
PS – 8 days til Xmas show – reserve your CD today!
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been recording the Christmas/Holiday CD that I’ve been talking about on Facebook and Youtube. Making a record is a fun process, and I’ll probably talk a bit about technique and setup sometime, but for now, how about some track names?
About half of the disc is acoustic guitar solo performances of songs like What Child is This, Silent night, God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, O Holy Night and others. Of course, I wanted to play as many of my own standard favorites as well as stretch myself a little – I spent quite a bit of time trying to put together an arrangement of Jingle Bells that I could allow myself to call “cool”!
If you don’t know how to get your copy – heres a video:
It’s been a real pleasure doing all this work, and I’m going to do my best to keep you all posted as to progress and before I sign off today, I’d like to send a special thanks to the Portage Park Chamber of Commerce, NAC, Six Corners Shopping District and my dad, Dale Tippett Sr for showing their support of this holiday project by helping to lighten the load of my production costs!
And here’s the full ad copy that we’re using on the web – loads of details down there:
Join Dale Tippett Jr for a special evening featuring Dale’s original rock and blues music as well as some old holiday favorites!
This free holiday concert will feature Dale’s backup band Tin Lolita, special guest Anna Fermin, and more! Great tunes, great food and great company – see you there!
-HOLIDAY CD-
The $10 “ticket” reserves your copy of Dale’s holiday CD at a special pre-sale discount ($15 at the show). Only a limited number of physical copies are being made, so make sure to reserve yours today!
Reserve your copy of Dale Tippett’s holiday CD via Eventbrite:
http://www.eventbrite.com/
