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FEBRUARY 13 2012
WOAH! ANOTHER AWESOME VID!
Hey friends, look what I just found on the internet! Here's another sweet video captured during our latest jaunt, in January in BC. Nat and I both woke up at 4AM Manitoba time the day that this video was shot around 1PM in Victoria on the backporch of the Solstice Cafe!
Effigy - Fish & Bird from Daniel Pender on Vimeo.
Thanks to Shaw TV for filming that! Looks great and sounds great too.
Can't wait to get the band back together again in Memphis in a couple weeks!
To freedom!
Taylor
FEBRUARY 11 2012
NATALIE BOHRN, FOLK ALLIANCE, ST. PATRICK'S DAY, KINGSGATE CHORUS!
Taylor here, in Toronto, with a long overdue news update! First of all, let me introduce to you our new recruit, Ms Natalie Bohrn on the upright bass! We met Natalie in PEI at the Funk the Dunk festival last summer, and then again later the same summer at her home town festival, the Brandon Folk Music & Art Festival. She blew us away, so when the position opened up we called and offered her a job! In January we all convened in BC for a handful of shows and to rehearse. The video above was taken in Victoria at the Solstice Cafe by Aaron Mercer. It was Natalie's first show with us and it grooved splendidly! Unfortunately we were too busy with rehearsals and shows to get around to a proper photoshoot while the 5 of us were all in one place, so hopefully you won't find it too confusing that there's still pictures of our old bassist, Zoe Guigueno, all over the website. (Zoe will be touring with our dear friends the Crooked Brothers this summer by the way, on their European tour!)
Anyway, here's an article from the Times Colonist about our Victoria show, which has a great picture of the new lineup. Natalie's a wonderful addition to the band and I think you're all going to love her.
Next time we're all going to be in the same place is later this month at the Folk Alliance conference in Memphis TN. We loved it there so much last year we decided to go back. These music conferences are a crazy convergence of insane musicians and it's sure to be a great time. Lots of our friends will be there, and maybe we'll go to Al Green's church on Sunday morning.
In other amazing news, we'll be playing at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on March 17th, opening for our friends Spirit of the West! We're excited to be playing at one of Canada's legendary clubs with one of Canada's finest alternative folk bands on one of the craziest party days of the year! Get your tickets now! This will sell out and you don't want to miss it!
Also, here's something sweet: Our dear friend Jenny Ritter is an artist and singer/songwriter living in Vancouver. Formerly of the Gruff, she is now working on a solo career and also leads a pretty sweet project called the Kingsgate Chorus. They just recorded a Fish & Bird song, how cool is that! Listen up! I feel extremely tickled.
You should also check out their sweet Bruce Springsteen cover!
Big love to all of y'all
Taylor
OCTOBER 12 2011
CONFERENCES, A HANDFUL OF SHOWS, AND A LINEUP CHANGE!
Hi folks, fun stuff coming up in the next couple of weeks! We'll be converging from our separate outposts across the continent to perform an official showcase at the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals conference in Niagara Falls, ON, followed by a show at C'est What in Toronto, and then we will all fly to Vancouver to play at Cafe Deux Soleils, and then up to Whitehorse to play at the BreakOut West festival/conference, and at the Western Canadian Music Awards ceremony. Read all the fine deets on the gigs page!
The neat thing is that this year, we are the only band who have been nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award, invited to perform at the BreakOut West conference, and invited to perform an official showcase at OCFF. Pretty fancy! A trifecta of potential success!
We are also sad to announce that this set of shows will be the last to feature the amazingly talented Zoe Guigueno on upright bass. Zoe is leaving the band to focus on other musical and non-musical pursuits. We wish her well and she wishes us well too! In November she will be touring with Anna Atkinson. She is also a creative force in the Toronto-based band Words Around the Waist, and they will certainly be seeing a lot more of her now!
Fish & Bird's next stint of live shows will be a cross-country tour starting mid-May 2012. Who will be playing bass? Watch this space for news!
Lots of love to everybody!
Taylor
JULY 5 2011
OUR DAMN VAN, WCMA NOMINATION, AND SUMMER FESTIVALS!
Well, about an hour into our summer tour we starting hearing an awful noise from our big white van and we had to leave it in a shop in Abbotsford. Determined not to miss gigs, we pulled out all the stops! We abducted our friend Josh and his little car, and our tour manager Rob borrowed his parents' minivan, and by golly, we got back on the road. We played on Canada Day in Grand Forks opening for the Sadies, and made it to a little festival called SoulFest in Twin Butte, AB, and played in Lethbridge. Now we have a couple days off before we resume our summer tour (in our repaired van), which takes us to many more fests (check the gigs page).
Also, good news! The new album has been nominated in the category of Best Roots Album for a Western Canadian Music Award! Check out their website!
Love
Taylor
APRIL 25 2011
THE NEW CD!!
We finally have it - hundreds upon hundreds of copies of the new album, Every Whisper is a Shout Across the Void! We had a great time releasing it on the west coast, and we also had our CBC Canada Live concert air nationwide on the radio. It can still be heard on-demand here. We had such a good time taping this! It will be airing on TV in the summer. Stay tuned for the exact date and time. Send us an email at info@fishandbird.ca with the subject "Mailing List" to be kept up-to-date about things like that.
Tonight we play at the Ironwood in Calgary, thus marking the start of many, many shows on our Cross-Canada CD release tour! Check out our gigs page for a full(ish) listing that will be updated whenever something new comes up.
Also - Exclaim! digs our album. The album will be available to purchase online soon. Watch this space for details.
Love you all! Pray for our tour van!
Taylor
APRIL 4 2011 - CD RELEASE / CROSS CANADA TOUR
Well folks, we are releasing our CD in Victoria, BC on April 20th at the Metro Theatre. The CD, called "Every Whisper Is A Shout Across The Void" is our best record yet, and it's all done! Adam worked like a maniac making sure everything about it sounds great - he engineered, produced, and mixed it, and brought in the help of a couple seasoned pros - Adrian Dolan to help with mixing, and Joby Baker to master it. The artwork is all finished, and the plant in Surrey is working on making boxes and boxes of these things for us. It's a good feeling! We're doing a huge number of shows across the country and bringing Every Whisper along. Can't wait to bring it to you, wherever you are! Check our gigs page to see where we're playing nearest you!
To hear the album's lead single, "Well Run Dry", go to our music page!
Also, Roots Music Canada got a sneak peak of the album, read their wonderful review here.
Spring is upon us friends, rejoice!
Taylor
FEB 8 2011 - CBC LIVE TAPING / WEST COAST SHOWS / FOLK ALLIANCE
Only 2 days til our big TV and radio taping at CBC studios in Vancouver with Spirit of the West frontman John Mann. Email rsvp.vancouver@cbc.ca to reserve a seat. My understanding is that the free tickets are almost out and it has now gone to waitlist, or something to that effect. Shoot them an email! The show takes place at 700 Hamilton St at 7pm on Thursday Feb 10th.
We have a couple more west coast shows: Feb 11th in Abbotsford, and Feb 12th in Victoria. More deets on our gigs page!
After that, the entire band is off to Memphis, Tenessee to showcase for a bunch of fancy industry people at the Folk Alliance Conference! This is where we hope to meet a wealthy business tycoon in a nudie suit and a 10-gallon-hat who loves our music and wants to sponsor us all to live as artists for the rest of our lives so we never have to worry about money again. That or some festival directors!
Hope everybody's winter isn't too depressing!
Taylor
JAN 19 2011 - NEW WEBSITE! NEW ALBUM! BIG NEWS!!
Wow! Brand spankin' new Fish & Bird website. Big thanks to our banjo player Taylor for putting in the hard work to get this online, and for creepily referring to himself in the third person!
The 3rd album is on the way. Adam worked his butt off recording this sucker, and he's in the process of working his butt off getting the whole thing ready for you to hear. You'll notice a music player at the top of this page, where you can listen to the song "Well Run Dry" which will be appearing on it! More details on that album - including art, name, exact release date, etc - to come. Stay tuned! Email info@fishandbird.ca with the subject "mailing list" if you want to keep informed. Or click the little facebook icon at the top of this page, most of our big news goes there!
Wahoo!