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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!

a big night

~ Adam Johnston

We have a big night coming up. Monday isn’t usually an eventful evening out on the town for us, but this is an especially notable exception.

Thanks to the good folks at Gandy Dancer Mercantile and Excellence in the Community, we get to play on the stage of Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden on Monday, October 7, at 7:30. We get a full stage, big sound, bright lights, and a grand piano; and you get theater seats under the stars of the historic architecture.

Doors and pre-show at 6:30, featuring Stampede playing in the lobby. We’re co-headlining with bluegrass band Basin & Grange, a different musical style but clearly a group with the same sense of playfulness in band names.

This is free and all ages. There are 800 seats; make sure you’re there to claim your favorite. A big crowd would warm our hearts, inspire the music, and demonstrate to the generous sponsors just how much benefit this brings. Bring yourself, your family, a couple of friends. And please share widely!

party band

~ Adam Johnston

Maybe you missed it, but according to the Standard Examiner’s “Best of Northern Utah 2024” guide, yours truly is clearly making its way into the hearts of residents from Bountiful to Brigham.

Third place! Either a bronze medal or the worst of the three bands people could think of …

You could have this bronze medal band playing for you at your own event or party, too! We imagine some of our friends are headed to the Ogden Nature Center Wildwoods Bash tonight, where a show of ours will be up for live auction. Bid often and bid high — all the proceeds go to ONS! Take a look at not only our contribution, but others, many of which you can bid on online! (To bid on us, you need to be there in person.)

Looking forward to seeing you in your backyard, on a stage, or within a favorite lounge. We’ll be back out on the town in a couple weeks.

So. Much. Fun.

~ Adam Johnston

Remember that time we played at the Kenley Amphitheater and had such a good time with a couple hundred friends, new and old? It was last weekend, the final show of the Sunday concert series hosted by Davis Arts Council, and we already miss it and are looking forward to a chance to play there again. .

Thanks to all who came out, and especially thanks to the Davis Arts Council for supporting the entire series and our performance.

Here’s a few photos from our scrapbook of the evening. (Maybe some videos will follow so we can keep living in the moment until our fall gigs start ramping up.)

Pre show photo in the green room.
In the groove on stage.
Caryn steps aside to listen.
Post-show selfie.