Thursday, August 30, 2012

Hi friends!

News time-

1.  Thanks to everyone who came out to the fair last week in the rain!  Somehow we've managed to make it through 3 years (7 shows) at the fair without even the thought of rain, so it was bound to happen.  Everyone in the crowd was lookin' fly in their ponchos and umbrellas :)

2.  Our CD is here!  I'm planning some big announcements via email, etc but we've just been so darn busy!  You can grab your very own copy on our web store here.  It will be up on iTunes and other download sites soon...that seems to be taking a while but the process is rolling.

3. Quick rundown of upcoming events:  our last gig of the season at the fair is on Sunday from 2-3 @ the MPR Stage on the corner of Judson and Nelson.  We'll also be performing for the first time at the Concrete and Grass Festival in Lowertown, St. Paul on Sept 8th.  More details here.

4.  We're spending a lot of time this month getting our tour show ready for October concerts and ramping up for the two CD release events in October.  I'll be rolling out some marketing stuff for those shows soon.  You can grab your tickets to the MacPhail show at a discount from our ticket store here, and tix for the Oct 4th show at Bryant Lake Bowl are available from them here.

That's it for now!  Cheers! AH

Thursday, August 23, 2012

What a busy summer!

Hey everyone!

If you've been wondering where we've been lately you have good reason...we've been away from the blog and Facebook for quite a while.  We have some really cool stuff coming up, so I wanted to give you an update on what we've been up to.

All of our work for our new classical CD is nearly finished!  We began tracking (recording) in February, did all the editing and mastering this summer, created the packaging a few weeks ago, and finally tomorrow afternoon we will pick up the CDs from Noiseland, our manufacturer.  This was a really big project for us, but a fun one as well.  We will be rolling our our new discs for the first time at our MN state fair performances on 8/25 and 9/2 and have two CD release events happening in October to celebrate in style!

Save the date for October 2nd and 4th - our two CD release events.  The first is a more formal concert at MacPhail in downtown Minneapolis, and the gig on the 4th is a concert/party at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis.  Both shows start at 7:00 p.m., check our calendar for more info and to buy tickets.  See you there!

We just got back yesterday from our annual retreat in Wisconsin - more on that later - and we're really excited about several new tunes for our tour show this year!  After some much needed vacation time this summer we're happy to be back at it and ready to kick off our season at the fair on Saturday!

There will be more info to come, so stay tuned and thanks for reading!
-AH