April 2006

This weekend takes us down river for two shows on Friday in the Gateway to the West, St. Louis, Mo. We first play an intimate in-store performance at the legendary music store Vintage Vinyl on Delmar at 5 p.m. (a short set where we will be selling discounted CDs).

That evening, we then return to Off Broadway in Soulard for a full performance with local world music band Dub Kitchen. Dub Kitchen will open the evening around 9 or 10, with CAbP to follow. Based on our elbo-to-elbo peformance last time at Off Broadway, we’re expecting a big turnout, so get there early claim your dancin’ room.

Saturday evening we return back to Hangar 9 in Carbondale, Ill. It will be good to see ya’ll college folk once again!

The band had a great time during our 10 show run to the Rockies and back. Great spring weather, skiing (or in Marshall’s case snowboarding), hiking, and of course, playing lots of shows for mostly new audiences. Opening for Buckethead at the Park West kicked off the tour which ran through Des Moines, Lawrence, Boulder, Winter Park, Steamboat, Dillon, Laramie, and Denver. On an anti-climactic note, the Pizzeria show in Omaha was cancelled. Not before we ate our 8th pizza dinner of the tour together! (Every club assumes we’d like nothing better than a nice cheese pie when we settle in. After 10 shows of it you’ll want to quit pizza for months). Still, you can look for us in Omaha most likely by the end of the summer, back to the kind wait staff and warm cheese piles, and of course, the miles and miles of endless brown plains of grass off the highway. Next up is a few days in the Carolinas. We’ll see you ‘rado folks in a couple months. Lookin’ forward to more Fig 8’s and some fresh Pow-Pow (and some ra-a-a-d Afrobeat jammies)!!

The Rocky Mountain Tour ’06 has taken us to four new towns over the last week as well as a return visit to one of our favorite towns, Lawrence, Kansas. Just four more shows to go on the tour, though we’re having such a good time that we wish we had 30!

So far we’ve recruited some new fans in the organically friendly town of Boulder, Colorado (a big change of pace for us urban Chi-town boys). At stops in Winter Park, Des Moines and Steamboat Springs, we’ve been digging the new crowds and showcasing some new CAbP material.

The Rocky Mountain Tour ’06 has taken us to four new towns over the last week as well as a return visit to one of our favorite towns, Lawrence, Kansas. Just four more shows to go on the tour, though we’re having such a good time that we wish we had 30!

So far we’ve recruited some new fans in the organically friendly town of Boulder, Colorado (a big change of pace for us urban Chi-town boys). At stops in Winter Park, Des Moines and Steamboat Springs, we’ve been digging the new crowds and showcasing some new CAbP material.

 

Tonight takes us to Dillon, Colorado for a gig at Dillon Dam Brewery near Keystone and A-Basin ski resorts. Some of us will catch a few runs at keystone on Friday, so look for us if you’re on the mountain if you’re in the area.

Friday evening takes us to our first Wyoming gig at a local bar called Buckhorn in Laramie known more for its fast-picking bluegrass than its heavy-hitting afrobeat. We’re thinking our funky change of pace will heat things up for a crowd that loves to dance.

Saturday night takes us down out of the mountains back into Denver for a gig at Dulcinea’s Hundreth Monkey. We expect to see some of our new friends from last Monday’s Boulder show.

We round out the tour with an inaugural stop Sunday evening in Omaha, Nebraska at Benson’s Pizzeria & Pub. We’ll see all you Cornhuskers fans at the show!