The band is working on the beginning phases of a new CD this month and taking a relative break from touring. We still have a small number of dates on the books for May however, playing in Madison, Milwaukee, our monthly Note series, and a show at the Cubby Bear the end of this month. We have a confirmed spot at Wakarusa this summer and are playing a number of festivals around the U.S. With any luck our 2nd studio album will be out before the end of ’06. Stay tuned….
Meet us in St. Louie, Louie
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!
Back from a Successful Colorado Tour
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)!!