PEAPOD RECORDINGS

Happy (almost) summer!

Things have been quiet on the South China front, though we’re finding ourselves quite busy with backing up some great projects and one night only performances around the area. Jeremy is continuing to build a local following with his solo project, Drab Pony. We have recording plans this summer, so keep yer eyes peeled and ears to the ground…

Tea First Compilation

Our dear friends at Tea First Records finished a sweet compilation and have just released it for your enjoyment! We wrote up a little instrumental ditty to contribute to the project, and you can check it out at the Tea First website. It’s a gorgeous compilation, featuring tracks from international and northeastern US artists.

Travel Plans

And…we have a small run of very exciting shows coming up next week. On Tuesday, June 21st, we’ll be in Richmond, VA (one of our favorite cities), at the Listening Room. We’ll be joining Small Sur (from Baltimore) for this free show, curated by Christina Gleixner, designer and half of one of our kindred spirit duos, The Low Branches.

Upcoming Shows

Tuesday, June 21st
The Listening Room
at The Firehouse Theatre
1609 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA
w/ Small Sur
7:30pm, Free

Thursday, June 23rd
Somerville, MA
w/ Audrey Ryan and Brown Bird
(email us for info)

Friday, June 24th
Elysium Arts Folk Club
3 Front Street
Lower Mill at Salmon Falls
Rollinsford, NH
w/ Audrey Ryan and Brown Bird
8pm, Adults $12 – Kids $5

Saturday, June 25th
Space Gallery
538 Congress Street
Portland, ME
w/ Audrey Ryan and Brown Bird
8:30pm, $8, 18+

Hello!

This winter has been way busier than we expected it to be. We’ve had
many opportunities to perform with our other musical projects and to
back up our friends. Also, Jerusha has started a blog called “Bow and
Bind“, mostly about music and knitting. She’s been working for a small yarn company based here in Portland, and recently began traveling the country to help with trade shows.

Though we’ve got a lot going on at the moment, we are winding down to
work on a new album.

Seasonal Disorder: Winter
This year, Portsmouth/Portland-based label Burst & Bloom is putting out four seasonal compilation CDs, featuring many songwriters and bands from New England and beyond. The first installment of the series, “Seasonal Disorder:
Winter”, will be released this February.

The compilation features new songs by South China, Dan Blakeslee,
Winter Sons, Jason Anderson, Emily Hope Price, and 11 more artists!
You can listen and download it at the Burst & Bloom Band Camp site. A physical CD will be released later this month, with gorgeous photography and design by Micheal Winters.

Here’s a link to our song “The Big Hill“.

Poetry Out Loud
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have
formed a partnership with state arts agencies to support the expansion
of Poetry Out Loud, which encourages the nation’s youth to learn
about great poetry through memorization and performance.

This Thursday, February 3rd, we are the musical guest at the Poetry
Out Loud event to be held in the City Theater in Biddeford, ME. We will be joined on stage by some of the drummers from Coastal Tech Percussion on our song “Sun Sets on Washington Ave”!

This FREE event runs from 4-7pm.

On Saturday, March 5th, we’ll be playing a few songs to open the
release show of Audrey Ryan’s new album, “Thick Skin”. Other openers will be Cuddle Magic and our favorite Rhode Islanders, Brown Bird, after which all of us will become the backing band for Audrey’s set! The songs are simply beautiful and we’re so excited to be a part of this performance.

The show will take place in the Nave Gallery , a gorgeous sanctuary in the
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in Somerville, MA. More details will be forthcoming in our next newsletter.

Future Recordings
February means it is time again for the RPM Challenge, where you are challenged to write and rercord an album in the shortest month of the year. Jeremy will be joining forces with Guy Capecelatro III on this. We will post a link to their finished project at the end of the month.

Upcoming Shows
Wednesday, February 3rd
Poetry Out Loud
City Theater, 205 Main Street
Biddeford, ME 04005-2414
(207) 282-0849
Free, 4pm-7pm

Friday, March 5th
Audrey Ryan’s CD Release Party
Nave Gallery, 155 Powerderhouse Blvd
Somerville MA (openers: Alice Austin,  South China, Brown Bird, Cuddle
Magic)
7pm

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