Hello!! Andre’ here of Project/Object

Hoping you are well and the holiday season isn’t too stressful… As many of you know I am struggling through a difficult year — and again I want to thank people for the outpouring of sympathy when I suddenly lost my Mom in July. It’s been a day by day process and this tour will be hard because it will be the first tour with which I’m involved in….. ages….. that she will not attend in this realm. Every time P/O was near her (MD/DC area)…or every time I was on tour working for Al DiMeola or Adrian Belew….she would be there. So — moving ahead has been tough, but I know she loved what I did and was so fully supportive of my musical career that – the show must go on, of course. Life is for the living, right? So– make sure you tell those you love that they mean everything to you — life is short and can change suddenly!

I also want to thank you for the very kind support many have provided towards my partner Cheri’s fight against breast cancer. She is doing well, still a ways to go until completely clear of this, and we are real-life statistics of the health-care debacle in this country. It comes down to PROFIT… all the debates rage on, and I don’t hear enough about THAT part of it — let me tell you — being in the trenches trying to pay medical bills– your head would spin if you saw the percent profit the pharma-giants are allowed to get. It makes no sense. But she is on a new protocol and doing well, I just wish Mr. Obama would send us a check….!

Thanks for the support when we did the PROJECT/OBJECT ACOUSTIC benefit show for Cheri in September — many of you have asked and YES we will plan another one for the late winter/early spring so stay tuned on that as well. Right now if you’d like to donate to the cause -THANK YOU – and we have two methods — direct to a paypal account –or send to a PO box. here’s more info:

You can go to paypal.com and make payments to projectobject (at) earthlink.net
You can send a check or money order written to CHERYL JIOSNE to:

Cheri Jiosne Cancer Fund
PO BOX 16672
Asheville NC
28801

- Andre