Hey Everybody! (Get Ready To Be Thanked!!)
It appears that fall is among us, at least in Northern British Columbia (feels more like the beginning of winter though!) and that means the amazing summer of 2009 is now behind us. I want to thank everyone so much who has supported me over the past few months on my first summer out on the road. Thanks to everyone who came to a show; it was so wonderful seeing familiar faces out in the crowd, and just as awesome meeting a whole bunch of new people!
Although I was sad to say goodbye to a fun-filled summer here in Western Canada, I got to start the fall off right by attending the CCMA Awards in Vancouver. I just wanted to take this opportunity to give a huge THANK YOU to Emerson Drive – Brad, Danick, David, Mike, Dale, Arlo, Joey, and Chad for allowing me to attend the Awards with them. It was definitely an exciting night for me, and was so honoured to sit in the crowd with such talented and accomplished artists surrounding me.
Another big ‘thank you’ to Canadian Country Radio who have been absolutely terrific this summer by playing my second single off the album, “Never The Bride”. There are so many people in the radio industry, you know who you are and there are too many of you to begin naming, who have helped make this single bigger for me than I could have hoped for. Likewise, thank you to everyone who has requested the single and turn it up real loud when it comes on!
In August, I was featured on the homepage of www.cmt.ca as the featured artist of the week. This was an amazing opportunity for me – thank you everyone at CMT for your help! Since August, fans and CMT.ca viewers have been checking out my page, and have helped not only place me as one of the top cmt.ca artists, but keep me there for the past 8 weeks as well! Thank you, thank you, thank you 
And lastly, my self-titled debut album “Heidi Raye” was released in April 2009 to all online music stores world wide. Since the release, sales have continued to climb and I need to thank everyone who’s gone to stores like iTunes and bought a single or two or even the whole album; it means so much to me!
October and November are sure to hold some busy months for me as I prepare for another big trip to Nashville in December. A few weeks over the Christmas break in Nashville will be dedicated to writing, networking, having a little bit, or a lot of fun, and most of all, more recording. I can’t wait for you to hear the new songs, and am so excited to get back into the studio!
If you happen to be driving down the road and turn your radio on and you remember this…please call your local station and request “Never The Bride”! Also, if you were planning on hitting the gym tonight and wanted a new song on your iPod to work out to, I know of some songs you can download from iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon, Aimee Street, Bid Torrent, and more (wink-wink).
I’ve also ‘caved’ and got on the Twitter Train…and love it! If you want to get updates on my life and music, you can follow me on www.twitter.com/heidiraye
Hope this finds you all well, warm, and adjusting to the changing weather. You all mean so much to me and I would not, could not, be doing what I’m doing if it weren’t for you… … so Thank you!
God Bless,
*Heidi