April showers, May flowers (and gigs)

~ Adam Johnston

We had a really good April and we’re looking forward to a fun May. Here’s what’s on tap in the next few weeks:

  • Local Artisan Collective, Friday 5/1, 7-9p during Ogden Arts Stroll
  • Children’s Justice Center Gala, Saturday 5/2, 6-9p (ticketed benefit event — you should go!)
  • Grand America Lobby Lounge, Saturday 5/9, 7-10p
  • Two Bit Bistro, Saturday 5/16, 6-8p
  • Grand America Lobby Lounge, Saturday 5/23, 7-10p

All events are free and open to the public except for the Children’s Justice Center event, which you should support in any and all ways. We keep a running list of these and future events on our gig calendar in case you want to look into the future or get addresses and such.

In April we almost got rained out, but we persevered. Here we are at a really wonderful celebration, wedding, and dance party in the desert.

Happy in the dry, sunny desert in between sets and thunderstorms.

This was a good chance to demonstrate that we could roll with whatever, playing under cover to protect ourselves from thunderstorms and wind gusts. Lovely people gathered together to roll with whatever the desert landscape dished out. It was a real joy to celebrate K & D, their families and friends. We got to watch them all gather together on the dance patio, arm in arm in a giant circle, singing and swaying along with our music.

Then just this last week, the Trio was ready to play a private gig at Weber State under the sunshine of the post-semester spring weather … which was basically sleet and cold. So we took that inside, too, but Adam got to play an old grand piano reminiscent of the on in a college dorm he used to play in. And people hung out by a fireplace and enjoyed ice cream alongside the music.

This is all to say that we’re always ready for anything. And also it will be great to have some sunny summer gigs. Let us know if we can join you for a party in your backyard.

3 for 3

~ Adam Johnston

We have a trio of trio gigs on tap:

  • Apres Pendry in Park City, Friday 3/13, 5-8p (free, all ages)
  • Grand America Lobby Lounge in Salt Lake City, Saturday 3/14, 7-10p (free, all ages)
  • Two Bit Bistro in Ogden, Saturday, 3/21, 6-8p (free, all ages)

Come to more than one of these and you can see if we play the same things. Oh, and we’ll tote around CDs of the newly released album!

post office sessions delivered!

~ Adam Johnston

It’s here! Our new album! All the tracks! On all the platforms and on our music page, along with the liner notes.

You can buy your very own downloadable copy on Bandcamp, too. And come to our album release party at the Funk N Dive this Saturday, March 7 (9-Midnight, 21+, $5) and you can cheer us on as we play it down live — and also go home with your own CD.

We are so excited. Thanks for listening and sharing in the celebration!

ramping up: album release party

~ Adam Johnston

Our album is coming out.

Sure, there’s lots of other stuff to update you on, like Caryn and Adam playing duo sets at Apres Pendry in Park City tonight (Friday 2/27) and Two Bit Bistro tomorrow night (Saturday 2/28) to close out February. And we’ve had great gigs over the last few weeks like our ticketed event for Mardi Gras at Rooster’s B Street — so much fun and we got to debut our original, Mardi Gras Beads on the Virgin Mary for the occasion.

Debut? Originals, you ask? And say more about this album, you say? Well, yes, it’s happening. Post Office Sessions drops in its entirety next Friday, March 6. And, you can come celebrate with us (and get your own CD to mark your true fandom) at Funk N Dive on Saturday, 3/7 (21+, $5) from 9-Midnight. We’ll play the album and all the other stuff to make it festive.

Want to buy your own downloadable version and support the band directly? Go to Bandcamp and preview and pre-order so you can get all the tracks for yourself. We love Bandcamp because the proceeds go immediately to us, unlike streaming platforms where we see fractions of a cent.

But streaming helps us too! It’s fun to see the numbers add up and one of these days maybe Spotify will actually show more than 1000 streams for some of our tracks. You can help make this happen. Just leave this on repeat for your cats when you leave the house? And of course play it in your earbuds. Here’s a preview, including the freshly released single of Message in a Bottle.

Come on out and see us wherever. We’re especially excited for you and all your friends at Funk. The CDs are sitting here in a box, ready to share and get played. Sure, we’ll sign them!

broken

~ Adam Johnston

I’m not sure how else to introduce this except to just put it right here:

It’s our first ever single, our first ever original song, and a diversion from jazz-ish into something else. There’s a longer backstory, but basically Adam wrote this song, who brought it to the band, who encouraged Caryn to sing it (she’ll still insist that Adam sing the demo version in some live shows), which led to recording it with Scott, who encouraged us to put it out. And now here it is. It’s about real, literal occurrences (even the heart-on-plane reference), but it all distills down to this message that we can all break without being broken. We’re all in a continual process of healing. Sometimes you write something for a specific someone and then realize it’s for everyone, maybe especially yourself.

We’re out in the world this weekend: duo show at Pendry in Park City this evening and a trio show at Two Bit in Ogden on Saturday evening. Check out the gig calendar. We’ll give this its post-release live debut.

Oh, right, almost forgot: Broken is the first in a string of singles for the upcoming album.