Check out my first blog for the series today. I interview my good friend, Amy Owen, a talented NYC actor and my close friend since high school in Houston, Texas. I focus the interview on Amy's artistic process and how she came to be an actor. Happy Women's History Month!

When I entered Milkboy Coffee's Ardmore location I was greeted with this lovely sign you see above announcing my show. I immediately photographed it and posted it to my twitter feed, so you may have already seen it. 

I could not believe that Milkboy had a large backstage area for their bands to enjoy. Above you can see me luxuriating in the comfort. In New York City my band is used to stacking our instruments in a corner and jumping on stage at a moments notice. We all loved the space, but I might have loved it the most!

You can see in this photo what a great coffee shop this was. We had a big stage and a GREAT crowd. Everyone in the crowd was so focused on the music and that really brought out my best performance. It turns out Ardmore is a very nice suburb of Philadelphia, and I was glad to visit. I can't wait to perform again at this unique venue.

Today I had the first voice lesson I've had in a couple of years and it was fabulous! Voice lessons have always been special to me. It is one hour with a teacher/mentor who totally understands the voice. What could be more exciting?

My teacher I work with now has worked with me since 2004 and has defititely changed my life and helped me uncover my high notes.

A few years ago when I started exclusively singing my own material, she started to realize that I no longer needed lessons. I was writing material suited to my vocal strengths, I wasn't trying to tackle arias any longer. I was doing extremely well.

Since then my voice has been great, more than great. I started to notice it expanding at the tail end of 2009. I thought it must be my age. 27 must be the magical year the voice finally matures. But today Kate told me that was not it, I was relaxing.

I recognized in that moment that in these past few years I have finally let go of wanting to be a certain type of singer, of trying to produce a certain type of sound. I've stopped wanting to be someone else. It has taken me quite a journey, but I'm free of the wanting and now my voice is completely surprising me! My range is so big and strong. My high notes have never sounded like this before. The freedom in my heart is showing in my voice.

Kate said that my rich mezzo tone reminds her of British mezzos because they have the roundness in their vocal tone that Americans do not. Being a mezzo is my favorite thing about my voice. To be a mezzo is rare, almost all women are sopranos. I love having the more rich deep lower tones. There is actually a home movie of one of my first Christmas' where my Grandmother comments on what a deep speaking voice I have. I am a mezzo. It is me.

Many mezzos have dificulty with their high notes, as I did for all of my young singing life because our voices are big and heavy and we try to bring the heaviness into the high notes and the high notes can't handle that and end up not sounding at all or sounding small and forced and not as pretty as they should. But with work and time and journey and all the things I did, they can be magical, truly magical. My teacher helped me uncover them the first time and this second time came from my new acceptance of me.

I'm in this new wonderful place and I'm going to figure out how to use these new tools in my songwriting. So, you might be wondering why I was going to Kate now? There are some interesting projects I have in the works. Some cover songs to be exact. You'll have to come see my show to find out! In the mean time, I'm on top of the world and so thankful.

This photo was taken today as I walked through Times Square after my lesson, elated.

Here's my favorite photo at Pete's Candy Store. Kenji's hand it totally blurry, he must have been playing fast!

Little Love Affair at Pete's Candy Story NYC from Sarah Elizabeth Foster on Vimeo.

It is a small intimate venue, so if you come, I hope you will introduce yourself to me after the show! My favorite thing about this venue is that they have a bar in the front and then the music is in the back. This way the music area is nice and quiet. People who want to talk know to go out into the bar.

See you tonight!

It really tells an accurate story of how I got to this point and what I'm all about in my music. I've had so many interesting musical experiences, it was hard not to include them all, but I hope over time I can tell you about them here on this blog.

So read it over, and let me know what you think about it here in the comments!

If that's where you live then please look out for it and tell friends!

Other iTunes stores where you can buy the music now...iTunes US, iTunes Canada, iTunes UK/European Union, iTunes Australia/NZ, iTunes Japan.

You can now find it at www.Facebook.com/SarahElizabethFoster. I've been putting a lot of time and effort into it, so take a look. Also, I've been getting some great feedback from new and old fans on the facebook page. You can join in to the conversation too.

To check it out for yourself, go to Listen.GrooveShark.com, then search Sarah Elizabeth Foster. 

I like the clean look of the site and if I understand it correctly, it is similar to Last.fm.

Leave me a comment if you have any thoughts.

Also, today is my Grandpa's 85th Birthday. Happy Birthday Grandpa!!! He is down in Houston, where I assume it will not be as cold as Canada.

And, my first music video has now had over 200 views when you combine the views from Vimeo and YouTube! I don't know how many people have watched in on Facebook because they don't give you a count, but if you add that in, I think it's much more. 

Thanks for spreading the video to friends. A lot of people from the mailing list emailed me saying they would forward the music video to friends, so THANK YOU! And if this is your first time reading my blog, then I'd like to say welcome!