Category: gigs

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.

come out for the funk

~ Adam Johnston

Funk N Dive, downtown Ogden, this Saturday night (1/10/26), 9:00 – Midnight (21+, $5)! Come join us, dance along or sit in the corner and nod your head to the groove. And we’ll play all the things we’ll be releasing to the world in the next few weeks, as well as stuff we haven’t played in months. Help us make the best of this start to the new year.

And while you’re there, tell us what you think the album cover should look like. Maybe this?

(Thanks to Deann @ The Ogdenite for the photos.)

finishing up the year

~ Adam Johnston

Sometimes we play in quiet basements with fancy equipment and a few close friends.

Photo courtesy of Deann @ The Ogdenite

And later the same week we wear Santa hats and play for a theater full of enthusiastic audience members.

And this Saturday we close out our year of gigs with a trio set at the Two Bit Bistro, 6-8p on December 20. We’ll pull out some seasonal flavors and some of our own perennial favorites, and we’ll tell you more about what we’ve been up to. Enjoy the lights, good food and drink, and the lights of downtown.

We’re up to something.

~ Adam Johnston

We’ve been in the planning stages for a long time, but just yesterday when we started texting each other about what snacks we were going to bring and which microphone we chose, that’s when it felt very real.

Not to give away surprises, but to show just how big of a deal this is, take a look at Diva carrying gear.

Rare sighting of Caryn carrying a drummer’s gear.

What would instigate such a thing? We’ll just leave this here for you to wonder and anticipate. You can come pester us at gigs coming up, too.