Ernie Halter + Andrew Hoover + Melissa Polinar  

October 27, 2009

Tuesday 7:30pm

Detail: Despite an emotionally-grueling year, Halter finds himself happy to be starting over. "Happiness doesn't come from the outside. It has to come from your own acceptance of the present moment. I feel, in a strange way, more at peace for having gone through everything because it has helped me learn some things and understand some things that I needed to learn." And he's equally pleased to be sharing this with his ever-growing fanbase. "Music is a conversation between the writer/singer and the listener. I write music for myself, and also for others, so that someone might come up to me in a club after a show and tell me that I'm singing about their life. Call it a distraction or a remedy or catharsis, but there is something very healing about music. Whether you're making or listening to it, it has a way of washing over you, making things alright."