New York, Circus and Eurovision

Hi there,

I just realized I never published this text I wrote in the beginning of the month. Here it is!

It's been a while since I updated my blog, but now I finally got a good moment to sit down and do so. Yesterday I went to a press release for the Eurovision competition.
 My song happened to be one of the 40 out of 500 that got picked out. I was quite surprised when I heard the news.
10 days before the deadline I didn't have a song to send in and no time to make a new one, so I was looking for someone with a song but no artist.
Two days later Niklas Rosström invited me to do the vocals for a song he was about to write together with Paul Oxley and Janne Hyöty. The guys were still in the middle of the song writing session as I was sitting on the train.
 I had no idea what to expect when I went straight from the train station to the studio. The style of the song was quite different than of my own music but it was a great and challenging experience to just throw myself into the feeling and doing something completely different.
 Now they're picking out 12 songs out of the 40 depending on which songs gets the most votes. If you feel like supporting me in the competition, you're more than welcome to check out the song and "like" it ("tykkään"),  through this link.

http://satumaa.yle.fi/umk/kilpailijat-2012/jessica-wolff-better

Other than that I just came home from an absolutely amazing week in New York. As I mentioned earlier in my blog I got invited to a show organized by Fm World Charity.
Normally I wouldn't buy a ticket for just one show but my intuition kicked in and said I needed to be there. It was totally worth it.

Biting the charity guy might not be the best way to get started

The guy who invited me to the show was super nice and drove me around to different places on this awesome bike

The organization is not just a normal charity. It was created by a great producer called Eric Gast who has worked with many different artists. They focus on connecting music with their work which has been one of my main goals since I started with music.
After the show I had some meetings with the guys and now we're setting up plans for how we can work together in the future. Hopefully we see them in Finland soon. Here's a link, check it out!

Window view from Brooklyn

www.fmworldcharities.org/

My original plan was to go to Sweden straight from New York to write some songs but my plans took a different direction.
A week before I left I got invited to do some acrobatics, stunts, singing and Kung Fu in a show called Cirkus Ankdamm.

A night in the city

Today we had the first show. It went surprisingly well after traveling for 24 hours, waking up in a heavy jet lag and do rehearsals for the first time one day before the opening night.
The only thing that didn't work out too well, was when I forgot a couple of punches and improvised by throwing the circus director on the floor. Ups.... I should buy him a beer or something to make up for the bruises.

All the best,

Jessica