If you dig the video don’t hesitate to post it to your Facebook profile.
Special thanks to our good friends Filipe Bessa and Nick Schwartz for pulling this together.
Full credits:
Directed by Filipe Bessa + Alessandro Soares + Nick Schwartz
Cinematography by Filipe Bessa
Edited by Alessandro Soares
Special thanks to Laughter Yoga in NYC (yogalaff.com/)
We’re excited to announce that WXRT will be recording our show at the Double Door this Friday, July 23rd for a future Sunday Night Concert. Join us for this special show that will live in the WXRT vaults forever. The show starts at 9pm with Brighton, MA playing first.
Buy tickets here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/11041
Sun Studio Sessions posted the first video from our set with them. The full program will air on PBS in 2011:
We’re excited to announce a number of new dates including:
We’re excited that the editors at Amazon picked Good to Be as one of their 100 albums for $5 promotion in May.
This means you can purchase Good to Be on mp3 for only $5 right now. Pick it up if you haven’t done so already and tell some friends.
Backyard Tire Fire was included in the nationally syndicated comic strip Gil Thorpe (which has been around since 1958) last week and will be featured occasionally in the future.
Check it out online or in a newspaper near you.
April 12th, 2010 we’re excited to play a set at Yakzie’s on Clark as part of WXRT’s Chicago Cubs Opening Day Broadcast along with the Waco Brothers. We will be playing a set from 10am – 10:40am, then another one that will be live on the air from 10:50 – 11:10am. If you can’t make it out Listen 93.1fm or ONLINE
May 26th, 2010 we’ll be playing at WFPK’s Waterfront Wednesday. The show is on the Harbor Lawn at Waterfront Park and FREE to all! Gates open at 5pm. We’ll be playing first before ALO and Josh Rouse so get there early.
We’re excited to be WTMD Baltimore’s CD of the week this week. We’ll be playing their 7th Anniversary concert at Recher Theatre in Towson, MD on April 17th. Tickets are available to WTMD members. You can stream wtmd.org online and a big thanks to WTMD for all their support.
Rhapsody is offering a 30 song free download sampler featuring tracks from our distributor Thirty Tigers. It includes Backyard Tire Fire, plus other great artists like Drivin’ n Cryin’, Jason Isbell, Joe Pug, Patterson Hood and Elizabeth Cook.
WHY Hunger Donations
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be donating proceeds during the month of August from all “Good to Be” single sales on iTunes and Amazon mp3 to WHY Hunger. So spread the word to purchase “Good to Be” and help fight hunger.
More about WHYHunger:
WhyHunger was founded in 1975 by the late musician and activist Harry Chapin and current Executive Director Bill Ayres to ask why. 35 years later, we address the root causes of hunger and poverty through our support of grassroots organizations who are creating self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.