There's a lot happening! Where to start?!
Mir has been busy taking part in Occupy Portland, joining in mass rallies and protests as well as bringing MW songs to the people. We will post videos on our FB page for you at https://www.facebook.com/miriamswellmusic
We just finished a new Occupy tune called Union Song, co-written with our friends from Philadelphia, The Turnips. While we've been playing the song live, the session isn't yet available, but the coast to coast recording is coming out soon. The video idea for the song is to have our friends at Occupy sites everywhere sing and tape Union Song and all of the videos will be edited together. Will post when we have it. Unite.
We just got back from Yakima,WA for a show at Bill's Place. Not only were they blown away by the band, but they've asked us back for full weekend shows once a month. Dates TBA.
Boise's been going really well at Tom Grainey's. We're heading back for another full weekend of shows there on 12/2 an 12/3. These will be ongoing as well.
Looks like we're also receiving heavy interest from festivals for the Spring/Summer 2012. Fests TBA
And SXSW plans are in the making. We're waiting to see how many showcases we'll be doing in Austin and the tour is coming together for that as we write. Looks like we might just have sponsorship to provide a bus/gas/rooms for us this year. It's not a done deal yet, but please keep your fingers crossed for us!
There's a special show coming up on Nov 26th in Portland called The Next Waltz. It's a re-make of the The Band's, The Last Waltz. We will be one of 3 house bands for the night playing 8 songs with 8 different singers. The same goes for the rest of the night with the other bands. This is a concert not to miss if you're in Portland. https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220500291346009&ref=ts
That's it for now. More news coming soon!
Peace and love.
Mir and Mark
Diamonds, from our album Indians And Clowns, is the Single of the Week on John Shelton Ivany's Top 21. We are the 5th review down, just beneath the Cars and Death Cab For Cutie! Please check it out! I was a bit blown away at his ability to pull the meaning out of our music. Read the review here.
A huge thank you to the beautiful state of Idaho for embracing us in a very major hug! We played Tom Grainey's in Boise, they invited us back, and they dug the shows so much that they're gonna have us back monthly for full weekend shows. Pocatello got the bug and will be having us back. I believe McCall's is comin down the pike along with Ketchum.
Hey T.G's thanks for the other night! Your bartenders rock! See you soon.
Leaving bright and early Thursday morning for a few shows in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Go to the show page for details.
See you all out there.
Peace and love...
Peace and Love from the Waterfront Blues Fest, Portland, OR July 3rd, 2011
Thanks to Hippie Dave for the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v7ZK18UqDsk#!
We're working on putting out videos from our set at the Waterfront Blues Fest on July 3,2011. This is the first one for you. It's called Heavy. We'll be going into the studio to record this tune and a few others in September. Will post videos as they come in.
We'll be on Laney Goodman's radio show tomorrow night, July 12th. Turn on and tune in.
http://womenonair.com/wim/2011/07/10/women-in-music-for-july-12-2011/
You can check out the show if you live in the following cities:
http://womenonair.com/wim/when-and-where-can-you-hear-the-show/
Let us know if you hear it and what city you're in!
Thank you to Oregonmusicnews.com for reviewing our set at the Waterfront Blues Festival July 3, 2011
Oh Portland, we love you so. Thank you for a most incredible experience at the Waterfront Blues Fest today. You are the most wonderful fans and we can't wait to connect again in Portland. We are working with Sasa Music Presents to figure out some in town Portland dates. Will you come? We want to know you better! We've been to a lot of cities across the US and ours, I must say, is where my heart will always remain. Thank you again for the dance.
From all of us at Miriams Well,
Peace and love.
Miriam
The June Tour is only days away...we've been working out things at shows in St. John's and out in Walla Walla at Sapolil Cellars when this email came our way. I guess we're doing alright! See you on the road...
Hey this is Keith,
I caught your show last night @ St. Johns Pub, once again you guys ROCKED MY WORLD! I brought in a couple of friends who were 1st timers and they absolutely LOVED it! Right after you jammed “The River” Lee came up on stage and sang w/you on a couple tunes, I told my wife, “honey we don’t need to go to church on Sunday because we have been BLESSED here tonight!” The only thing better than seeing Lee jam live was getting to chat w/The Man after the gig. Always nice to reminisce the Motown Mojo! It was a KICKASS time last night, and I appreciate all the hard work you guys put into the show, BELIEVE me it comes through! I also wanted to thank each of you for signing my CD, I can’t believe I got all 10 autographs! I told a buddy of mine who lives in MO. About your upcoming gig in Columbia, hopefully he can make it the show. Anyway, have fun out on the road, play hard, sleep fast & drive safe!
P.S. If that horn section from last night doesn’t have a nickname I suggest the “Kamikaze Sax Attack” because that was that’s a Divine Wind they were blowin’!
Peace,
Keith -out-
Wanted everyone to know that we will be collecting donations at shows on our tour for the Joplin Animal Rescue in MO. There are currently 23 people working on the team in Joplin around the clock for the animal rescue. If anyone would like to donate to the Humane Society of MO, you can specify online where you would like the donation to go. So far, the Joplin Animal Rescue has recovered and rescued over 300 animals and there are many more to go.
If you would like us to deliver a check from you, please email us at info@miriamswellmusic.com and we will deliver it personally or go the website at http://www.hsmo.org/
Our two shows in MO will be benefits for the Joplin Animal Rescue. We hope you can help.
Thanks so much.
Mir
Lots of shows coming up starting this Friday the 13th at Plews Brews, our most high and esteemed venue in the village of St. Johns, our house of houses, where the people only know how to be oh so good.
You can follow our shows on the website show page. There are too many to list at the moment and more on the way.
If you haven't "liked" us yet at FB, you might want to in order to grab all the stories from the road once again in June. That's where they'll be posted. We're heading out for a 2+ week tour starting in WA and heading out to MO and everywhere in between. Hopin' cops aren't a part of the stories this time around! I seem to find them wherever I go, from AZ to ID.
https://www.facebook.com/miriamswellmusic
We'll have horns from now on at every show and a good friend of ours is bringin percussion to most shows unless he's touring with Low Rider. Check out Chuk Barber. Bad ass!
Cool. Think that's it for the moment. More info comin atcha soon, I'm sure!
Peace and Love--
Mir
What an incredible night on Saturday at Slims. Had to sleep 2 days before I could write about it!
We had quite a few musical guests...Chuk Barber joined us on percussion and will be with us for all upcoming shows including the June Tour. Michael Bard, killer sax player came in with Paul Mazzio on trumpet. Courtney Carroll came up to sing background vocals with us and we were all joined by lee Garrett. Lee will be on tour with us in June as well. Some other local players in St. Johns joined us at the end of the evening. A big thank you to Hawkins Wright and Jimi Hardin!
Next weekend we're out of town in Pullman and Moscow, then back on the 13th at Plews. See you there.
The Oregonian has written a story on our Benefit Concert for our beautiful friend and creator of SASA Music Presents, Robby Holmes. Robby needs 2 surgeries for his corneal transplanted eye in order to save it. The donate link is within the story. When you read his story, you will understand why we're having a benefit for him.
Read the whole story here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/north-portland/
The article will hit the paper on Saturday. The Benefit is this Friday, April 8 at 8pm.
Not sure if this will create a link or not, but here goes. Gene Greenwood of Farting Puppy Productions sent this over from Vancouver,B.C. He stumbled upon us at SXSW Chuggin Monkey show. He'll be sending more soon.
The sound person gave us extra time at the end of the set. This is Could This Be Love.
If this doesn't link, just copy and paste the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ3g55b38hc
Wow, last show is here tonight in Salt Lake City at Carol's Cove. What an incredible tour! People have been asking me what my favorite show was and the truth is that all the shows and all the people we've met on the road, the bands, club owners, fans,etc. have been amazing. SXSW definitely blew my mind. I've never experienced anything like it and I can't wait to do it again next year. Our showcases at Touche and Chuggin Monkey were off the hook. Met Gene from Vancouver,BC who videotaped the Chuggin Monkey show and we're gonna work together in the future. Red Gorilla, the folks who put together our showcases, were outrageously cool. The clubs we played in Phoenix,Lafayette,OK City, Denver and Boulder were bleeding with generosity. Mark and I looking forward to playing each one again and then some.
Lee Garrett showed up to surprise us in Boulder at the Rock N Soul Cafe. We did a set of songs we'd written together and then went into his tune, Signed,Sealed,Delivered and a medly of tunes from his Motown days. The club went wild. A major photo session ensued after that show w/ the band and Lee for fans at the show and for the workers at the club. Thanks to Cheryl and Sam, owners of the venue. You two are awesome!
Videos are coming as are photos from the tour. I promise!
We go on tonight at 11 and then the long ride home.
Peace and love to you and thanks for following us on the road!
Tune in if you haven't already to us at facebook.com/miriamswell or www.miriamswellmusic.com.
See you in a few hours Portland!!
Mir.
March 12th Phoenix,AZ Compound Grill
March 13th Scottsdale,AZ Scottsdale Arts Festival
March 15th Lafayette,LA Blue Moon Saloon
March 16th Austin,TX SXSW Red Gorilla Showcase at Touche
March 17th Austin,TX SXSW Red Gorilla Showcase at Chuggin Monkey
March 18th Austin,TX, SXSW El Mercado S
March 20th Dallas,TX SXSW after-party Handpicked Fest La Grange
March 21st Oklahoma City, Blue Note Lounge
March 22 Denver,CO Rockaway Tavern
March 23 Boulder,CO Rock N Soul Cafe
March 25 Salt Lake City, UT Carol's Cove
Video here is Don't Bring Me Down. More videos are on the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCMlVfp7A2A
The UK's Maverick Magazine got wind of Indians And Clowns by Miriams Well and wrote an incredible review. You have to purchase the magazine to read the entire review by Russel Hill, but it ends like this:
"A superb album by an act I recommend to all; you would be a crazy fool not to check it out"...
The review is on page 76 for those of you who download decide to download Maverick.
http://www.maverick-country.com/
If you don't know Maverick Magazine, you're really missing out. It's one of the classiest music magazines around. Honestly.
Miriams Well played at Plews on Feb. 18th to celebrate Mark's birthday. The house was packed. Lee Garrett joined the band for a storming rendition of his song, Signed,Sealed, Delivered to an off the hook crowd. It was wild. Lee joined the band for a few more tunes he co-wrote with Miriam and Mark and, needless to say, Miriams Well will be back at Plews on April 8th as they play their first show in PDX post-SXSW Tour. Check the calendar online at www.miriamswellmusic.com.
Incredible night at Plew's! Thanks to all of you for being there! If you have photos/videos, put them up. We'd love to see them. Will let you know when we'll play Plew's again. Thank you St. John's!!
Thank you for helping us raise our base of $500 through Kickstarter. The great news is that donations can continue to come in through Feb 12th, so if you haven't had a chance to help out our tour, there's still time left! Maybe we can reach $1000!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1052928490/miriams-well-on-the-road
For those of you in Portland, we'll be at Plew's Brews in St. John's tomorrow night, Jan 29th to celebrate their 1 year birthday bash. Show stars at 9. See you there...
We just created a Kickstarter project to help get funds for the new tour. Check it out at:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1052928490/miriams-well-on-the-road
Just finished 2 days of vocal sessions at Big Red Studio in Corbett for our 2nd album. Billy Oskay is a great engineer as well as being totally insightful and awesome! He called Klaus Heyne, genius microphone builder, to send over what he thought I should sing into for the sessions.Klaus heard our album and nailed it!!!! It was amazing. It was like singing thru a mic built just for me. I found out during the first session that this was the same mic he sent down to Sheryl Crow to use for a tune or 2. I must thank her for the magic she sang into it! Excited to get out album #2 to share with everyone...coming sometime in 2011. Thanks Billy, Klaus and Sheryl! For info on the mic, email Mark thru the website! Stay tuned for touring dates...
Last day of 2010...plans for 3 tours are in the works. We'll be on the road in mid-Feb heading from Portland to Colorado playing shows along the way and then once again in March heading out to SXSW. We'll also grab shows in New Orleans after SXSW and we're really looking forward to those. Plans for an East Coast tour are in the works for mid-May in time for cherry blossoms in NY! If you want us to get to your town, write us and let us know...we'll work it in eventually!
We've got our new European Press and radio on our website now for you to check out and we'll keep adding more as they come in.
Wishing everyone a beautiful new year and we'll see you soon!
Peace.
Miriams Well
I've heard from a lot of people that it's risky for us to spend money on going down to LA to play. My most recent experience couldn't be any further from the truth. I got to play with such incredible players--a drummer I'd never met before, and a bassist and keyboard player I'd only had the chance to play 4 songs with at a previous gig. Let me name drop for a moment. Feel free to go their websites. Loren Gold was the keyboardist.Check out his videos from his tour w/ Roger Daltry on his website! David Sutton, the bassist, will be back out on the road w/ Lucinda Williams very soon.I've never heard our song The River played as if it was owned by the bassist. David now OWNS it! Craig Macintyre on drums, whom I had never met until a 1/2 hour before the first show, came in fresh off the Colbie Callait tour and is also Josh Groban's drummer. Did I say we hadn't rehearsed? KILLER!! Steve Postell, as many of you know, mixed our Indians And Clowns album and plays guitar w/ us when we're in LA. And of course, Mark was stellar as usual.
I know I'm going on excessively about this group of players, but for me, to have these guys backing me and supporting me while I sing, was just far more than hip. It was an experience that I'd like plenty more of. So L.A., we'll be back. That's what i'm sayin.
Peace.
This one made me laugh. Here it is to share with you.
http://www.dangerdog.com/2010-music-reviews/miriams-well-indians-and-clowns-review.php
Mark did an interview with Gearwire.com. Check it out here.
http://www.gearwire.com/stringsandthings-bluescaster-miriamswell.html
D'Addario Strings has officially endorsed us! Thanks D'Addario!
Indians And Clowns is getting airplay on over 150 college stations at the moment and more stations are jumping on. We'll have the stations up in a bit on the website so you can check in and request us whenever you want.
Mark and I played at Blues By The Sea last night in Astoria and got to hear Lydia Pense and Cold Blood do their thing. It was real. Need I say more? Well, yes...we got to meet the band and will hopefully do some work with them in the future. My dancin bones are ready for more...thanks for the good time!
Trista has joined our Miriams Well circle as the "everything" woman. She's currently helping us with booking and wil be leading our street team as well. She's amazing and we're so glad to have her. Trista was born into the San Fran music scene as her mother worked for Bill Graham Presents. She grew up going to Grateful Dead shows, getting to know the Allman Brothers and everyone inbetween. She's currently the Merch Queen for McMenamins Edgefield and also works the Wonder Ballroom. If you see her, say hello.
We've added two new sites to the mix: Last.fm and ILike.com Run a search on Miriams Well to access our pages. If any of you have seen the new Myspace profiles, give us your feedback at friends(at)miriamswellmusic(dot)com. We're thinking of making the switch to the new format and would like to know what you think about it.
Hi all,
The Miriams Well YouTube channel is now up and running! Stylized and everything! This will hold selected live stuff and special interviews and other content. We've linked it all cross platform so you can see the content from any of our sites but the main link is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/miriamswellmusic
enjoy!
After posting that Indie Music Digest nominated our album, Indians And Clowns as Best CD of the Year, we were asked to do an interview with them. Click on the link for the interview.
http://www.indiemusicdigest.com/Miriams%20Well%20Interview.html
Indians And Clowns will be getting reviewed this week...will let you know how it goes. Check out #17 on this link.
http://www.womensradio.com/articles/MusicMonday-2010-%5BWeek-30%5D/5695.html
Miriams Well will be playing every Tuesday night at LV's 1222 at 3530 N. Vancouver in Portland,OR Start time is 7pm til the moon goes down. Come join the music and have the best soul food in town. The shows start this Tuesday, July 20th.
Man, guess I'll start with the Waterfront Blues Fest. Steve Kerin, our keyboardist, invited us to join him over at Hotel 50 on Friday, the second nite of the Blues Fest. We joined his band to do a bunch of Miriams Well songs.
Then on Sunday, we played The Waterfront Blues Fest! THis was the third time Miriams Well played the WBF. Hopin with fingers crossed for next year on the only the Miller Stage, the only stage we haven't played yet.
This weekend was the Remember Jerry Fest in Sagle,ID. Really fun, tripped out, beautiful people kinda fest with hospitality to live for!! John and Mesha, thanks for the house! And Steve for having us. Next year, right?
Now to this week. Tomorrow(Tuesday, July 13th)we play Noon Tunes in Pioneer Square, a show sponsored by KINK radio. I'm thinking it's gonna be on the radio at 101.9 and I heard it will be on TV on KGW Channel 8, tho I"m not sure.
Thursday nite we'll be headlining the GulfSongs show at The White Eagle. The show starts at 8ish and we're on around 10:45 or 11. These concerts are to raise money for fisherfolks out of work along the coast due to BP's disaster.
Saturday is the Farmers Market @ 1N Freemont in NE PDX. On at noon for a few hours. It's gonna be a party with a lot of vendors so come on out.
And Saturday nite is on the mountain in Zig Zag at The Skyway Bar and Grill. It's gonna be a trio from Miriams Well instead of the full band...Mark, Steve and myself. They've got great food there and the people are Oregon cool. And I'm thinking you know what I mean.
So, that's the week. Welcome in. Hope to see you soon.
NeuFutur Magazine compares Miriams Well to Zeppelin and Skynyrd!
There's nothing like finding the most amazing bassist, jamming with him for 2 hours and finding out how excited he is to work with us. Wow. Killer bassist, killer day, another review came in, and I really couldn't be much happier. And wait!!!!... he loves rock & roll!!! Now, that's my kind of player.
http://indie-rock-music.suite101.com/article.cfm/cd-review-indians-and-clowns-nicely-packaged
Just got a great review from Skope Mag on Indians And Clowns. Check it out at www.skopemag.com. We should have the merch page w/ new posters, shirts, albums, etc soon and will also be putting up a press page to let you check out new reviews. Stay tuned and in the pocket. More coming soon.
You've seen our posters on the website...yes, they're very cool. We agree. I asked Dan Kuhlken, our graphics designer, to create a larger signed silk-screen poster version for us to sell to all of you who dig rock and roll art as much as we do. The series is numbered from 1/50. The size is 18x24. We'll have these up on our merch page as soon as we finish the merch page!! If you want to order early, let us know by sending in an email thru the website.
The cost is $40.00 + shipping.
