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I don't understand why our blog keeps translating the titles into another language! We just got back from touring with sleeping dog from belgium. The tour was a short 5 days through washington along the puget sound. Now I'm home again working at Bicycle Records and teaching guitar lessons. Danielle is in school, studying to become a midwife, and Sean is finishing his quarter at Evergreen. After the quarter ends, we will be working on some new songs.

We played a show at a toy store in olympia. I have a bunch of children's songs I wrote when I used to work at the children's center at evergreen. It was more adults there then kids, but all the same it was fun to play them. The owner of the store bought tea and coco for us.

I went to the Hollow Earth Radio Indie Record sale at the Healthy Times Fun Club in seattle, to table for Bicycle Records. There were a ton of labels there. Mostly from Seattle and Olympia. There was even someone from Sub Pop tabling there. Which felt kind of weird to me because the owners of Sub Pop are millionaires.
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We're planning two tours right now. One down the west coast this march. the other through europe june-september. It is soooo much work to plan a tour. I am looking forward to seeing all the friends we made on our last trip. So many nice folks.

we've been doing it all wrong!

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-a-Crowd-Going

seattle folklife festival / new members

Some exciting news came today, June Madrona has been invited to play the seattle folklife festival this year. I grew up in kirkland so playing the folk life has a strong element of childhood fantasy fufillment for me. Today danielle and I will be meeting up with this fellow named simon who plays the flute. Dani is looking into buying an alto flute, which plays a couple of octaves lower then a normal flue, if simon works out we might start having two flutes in the band. I am really excited about the possibilies of that. Also bob schwenkler who records all of our albums is thinking abot joining. He already knows all of the songs and usualy sings with us at shows. We practiced together with him doing harmonies and percussion and it sounds really good. Micah is living in seattle now and working as the music director for a musical. It sounds like a really challanging job. We realized that for the band to work everyone really needed to be living in olympia, so he is not playing with us right now. It is really exciting and challanging having to recreate the band again. It has happened after every album. I'm not scared of it like I used to be.
I'm at bob's house right now working on bicycle records stuff. Bicycle records (www.bicyclerecords.com) is a label that we run together. Today onyx and colleen of polka dot dot dot are coming over to talk about touring europe and new zealand. I am really excited for them. They will be playing the folk life festivle as well.ok back to work.
xo ross

ग्रेट आईडिया

I don't know why but all of my headings keep turning into some strange language. I'm at bob's house in olympia washington right now, aka Bicycle HQ. Fun times, bob is mixing the new Yes Please album and I just ordered 1000 5" polyvinal sleaves. I really want to start an all scat band and call it "scat attack!". I realized the other day that there are certin syllables that you really should never use in a scat solo. these syllables include...
-"mup"
-"rub!"
and worst of all
-"poo!"

try it. It dosen't work. You can email home recordings of scat solos to danielle.chiero@gmail.com
xo ross

देअर्बोर्ण हौस

Bob, Danielle, and I drove through a rainstorm that streatched all up and down the highway from olympia to seattle. The Dearborn house is a diy venue run by our friend tiffany in wallingford. The show was a little bittersweet for us since we wern't sure when we could get to play with micah again. After we returned to olympia micah moved to seattle so we havn't been able to function as a band the way we used to.
When we arrived at the house, Clyde was there with his friend Roy making pie. Tiff and Forrest, Josepha and Sibsi from Berlin were there as well. This was the last day of their us tour. We had played with thim the night before in olympia.
The show happened in a gallery nextdoor to the house, the place was totaly packed and full of good vibes. Lots of folks sang along to the show. Amber and Garrette, the founders of Hollow Earth Radio were there as well and they recorded the whole show. (hollowearthradio.com).