Great Googlie Mooglie!

8.23.11

The summer of 2011 is rapidly drawing to a close. We've had the pleasure so far to headline the indie roots stage at Folklife, sell out the tractor with The Builders and the Butchers for Noise for the Needy, have a sweaty, packed and rowdy show at the Captiol Hill Block Party, and play our second consecutive year at Doe Bay Festival.

Doe Bay was A FUCKING BLAST! We played 2nd to last on the main stage Friday night; Joe Brotherton (owner of the resort and co-creator of the festival) himself got up on stage and introduced us to the crowd. Champagne Champagne closed out the main stage, and we ended up jumping back up with them to perform a collaboration for the closing number... Couldn't have been any more fun. I've known Mark Gajadhar (DJ/Drummer/Multi-instrumentalist) since we were both in junior high (a lot of people don't realize that he was the juggernaut drummer in the legendary post punk post hardcore super outfit - The Blood Brothers). So that main stage close out song ended up being me on guitar, Brantley on keyboard, Jacob on Viola, Matt on his drum set-up, Mark on a full kit, and Pearl & Thomas MCing. IF ANYONE KNOWS ABOUT THERE BEING VIDEOTAPE OF THIS PLEASE LET US KNOW!!!

In addition to our set and collaboration with Champagne, Ravenna ended up performing AGAIN before the sun rose on Saturday. Several young festival goers managed to round up our rag tag (and perhaps minorly inebriated) team of musicians and convince us to grab a few instruments for an impromptu beach show. There was an AWESOME margarita bar set up there called "The Two Bar." A crowd gathered, and we managed to tear through a cluster of familiar songs by moon and lantern light. SO. MUCH. FUN. Anyways... the rest of the weekend was spent running around, hanging out with old friends, making new ones, laughing too much, and PROPOSING TO GIRLFRIENDS. Yes, that's right ladies - our handsome and well mannered drummer, Matt Badger, is now officially off of the market for good. He popped the question on a sea cliff with an amazing view over the bay as Brantley and I serenaded them with the lucky lady's favorite Elliot Smith song... The weekend couldn't have gone better.

Moving right along, we've got several awesome dates closing in on us. This Friday (8/26) we are playing our second KEXP in-studio, this time with the world renowned Cheryl Waters! It'll be broadcast live at 12pm, so make sure you honor our agreement that we came to that one night (remember?!) by "dialing in," as they say in the "biz." "Biz" is short for business in the "biz." It's an honor and privilege to be playing live on air on KEXP again and we hope to share it with your hungry ears!

LATER THAT VERY SAME DAY we are performing at the Mural Ampitheater with Drew Grow and the Pastor's Wives, Pickwick and Shane Tutmarc. We are sooooooooooooooo excited to play this show. Come say hi if you make it out.

Last but not least, we are being featured on "The Song Show" presented by City Arts on Monday, August 29th at the Rendez-vous. We will be interviewed live by Mark Baumgarten and performing songs in between.

-Love,
Chris, Brantley and Matt.

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