It seems to be developing into something we do when we're on tour (so expect some more when we head south in a couple of weeks!)

Who Ate…All The Pies? A Dark, Sunasy mystery short…

Make sure you watch until the very end…if you dare!

Happy New Year, Everyone!

All of us in Sunas hope you had a lovely start to 2013 (and if it involved a shocking hangover, I hope you sorted it out with a greasy breakfast, bucket of strong coffee and if all failed, hair of the dog!). We celebrated by performing at the Irish Club. Bar my family, the lads in Sunas are the next best people to bring in the new year with. Thank you so much for your support over the last 12 months. Here's what's happening for the coming year:

We recently held the Sunas Annual General Meeting at Mannie's place in December (yes, we really do have these every 12 months, they are essential for planning the Sunas year. That and I'm an obsessive organiser). The first half of this year is looking wonderfully busy for us - we're heading to the Cygnet and Tamar Valley Folk Festivals next week with a smattering of Hobart gigs in-between, the madness of St Patrick's Day, then we're officially appearing at the National Folk Festival in Canberra and Australian Celtic Festival in Glen Innes on the May Day weekend, and we've organised studio time in April to record a brand new shiny Sunas album to be released later in the year. This is all before June - whew!

There is lots of smaller tours planned for the latter half of the year as well, to Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide and New Zealand. Watch this space. Also, if you are in these cities and would be happy to host us performing a house concert, please get in touch, because we love house concerts!

I also plan on blogging a lot more regularly, too - a couple of you got in touch and said you wanted more updates here on the website rather than just on Facebook. Thank you for the feedback! I am happy to do this -  it felt odd not keeping you all in the loop on our antics. PLUS, I'm thrilled to let you know that the return of the tour blogs are back, beginning with our upcoming Tasmanian tour! We will also (FINALLY) be putting up a lyrics page so you know exactly what we're singing. Some of you have asked me to name the rivers I sing about in 'River'. The hardest part is spelling them!

One last thing - I want to tell you a lovely story that happened to us late last year while performing at the Irish Club. We played 'Caledonia' by Dougie MacLean, and at once I saw a man begin to dab ferociously at his eyes with his business shirt sleeve. He tried to maintain his composure throughout the song, but his eyes continued to well with tears - obviously this song meant a great deal to him. Afterwards I went up to him and asked him what Caledonia's relevance was to him. He replied by saying this: 'I've been away from Scotland for thirteen years and I'm going back home next Tuesday'.

WELL. That set me off with welling tears! What beautiful moment for him. I felt tremendously grateful that firstly, Dougie wrote such a stunning song of longing for home (thank you, Dougie), and that the fellow was willing to share with me how relevant the song was to him. THIS is why we make music. Moments like that are simply priceless.

So after a bit of a novel, thank you for reading. Thank you for the feedback - we hear you. Now let's get our music engines revving :)

Love Sarah (and the Súnas boys)

From now until Christmas Eve, if you buy a CD from our online store we'll include a very special gift. We might even get Sarah to gift wrap it for you. And no, it's *not* Mannie...

…to come to the Sunas and Sasta Christmas Show, Saturday 1st at the Irish Club, from 7pm

All the details are on our Gigs Page