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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.

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.

Van Sessions releases this week

~ Adam Johnston

Tracks from our session in the van (or just outside of it) with The Banyan Collective‘s Van Sessions are dropping this week, one at a time, each at 7:00 PM on the Van’s YouTube Channel along with teaser reels on their Instagram channel. The full episode caps it off on Saturday (for Adam’s birthday or by complete coincidence, it’s hard to say).

Here’s the first, released last night: a Sunday kind of love on a Monday night, exactly the juxtaposition we embrace!

Coming up this week: two originals (yup! who knew?) and two more covers that we hope you’ll help us spread around the world, or at least put on repeat in your earbuds.

Special thanks to Brandon and Todd and all of the production team of Van Sessions, with an extra shout out to Scott Rogers at The Proper Way for mixing our sound in their studio. These are people who make the Ogden music community so great and genuinely welcoming. You can share the love by supporting them and live local music from all corners, most especially in the Monarch on the first Friday of every month.

See you online and in person again at the end of the month!

may days

~ Adam Johnston

May is a month of really diverse gigs, starting tonight (Friday, May 2) at our second home: the Grand America Lobby Lounge (all ages, no cover). Tonight it will be just our trio of vocal, keys, and bass. (Matt takes his drum kit out to the stage with Dearth of Earth playing in Ogden. That’s also worth your time.)

The month is super eclectic all the way to the end of the calendar page, including:

Just a few things to look forward to if we don’t see you tonight. Oh, and stay tuned for releases from last month’s Van Sessions, coming soon!