Well folks, I swear it was up there for a couple days, but our nomination for a CFMA turned out to be a mix-up, as we didn't quite meet the requirements for the category. Consider this as foreshadowing for next year...
Congrats to everybody anyway!
Taylor Ashton,
of the formerly CFMA nominated band "Fish & Bird"
10/10/09
10/7/09
CFMA nomination!
Hey Folks! Fish & Bird has been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in the category of young performer of the year! Cool! The awards occur on November 21st in Gatineau. We're the only dudes and the only band in our category. To see the full list of nominees, check out http://canadianfolkmusicawards.ca/awards-night/nominees-2009/
Thanks CFMAs!!
Thanks CFMAs!!
9/11/09
September Tour - Coleman, Alberta
Well, my dearest friends, it is with great pleasure that I announce that we are having a great time on tour! Currently we are in Coleman, Alberta at the Blackbird Coffee house. We had a great show here last night. Such an amazing building! It is a church that has been converted into a coffeeshop/house.
We have had a pretty beautiful time playing music together this past few days - we have Zoe Guigeno on the upright bass this time. Zoe and Adam played in their first 2 bands together and have known eachother for ever. We flew Zoe out to the west coast from Toronto where she has been going to music school. She has picked up our material amazingly quickly and the four of us, Zoe, Ryan, Adam, and I are locking in very splendidly as a four-piece. Today we are off to Calgary for a couple days off, then Monday in Lethbridge and an all-night powerdrive across the prairies the next day to Winnipeg.
Also, I just found out that we will be reporting on the WCMAs in Brandon, MB for BC Musician Magazine. That is bound to be a lot of fun!
We have had a pretty beautiful time playing music together this past few days - we have Zoe Guigeno on the upright bass this time. Zoe and Adam played in their first 2 bands together and have known eachother for ever. We flew Zoe out to the west coast from Toronto where she has been going to music school. She has picked up our material amazingly quickly and the four of us, Zoe, Ryan, Adam, and I are locking in very splendidly as a four-piece. Today we are off to Calgary for a couple days off, then Monday in Lethbridge and an all-night powerdrive across the prairies the next day to Winnipeg.
Also, I just found out that we will be reporting on the WCMAs in Brandon, MB for BC Musician Magazine. That is bound to be a lot of fun!
8/31/09
Autumn Tour 2009 Upcoming!
Hello freaky people of the night,
Fish & Bird took BC by storm this summer with our full-on plugged-in rock band explosion. Armed with Dan McCormack playing the electric bass, Ben Kelly percussing the bejeezes out of a drumkit made partially of a suitcase, Ryan Boeur playing Electric and Acoustic Guitars, and Adam & Taylor being the usual insane fiddle/banjo duo we've all come to know and love, we had a great time at Littlefest in the Slocan Valley, Keep the Beat festival in Nelson BC, Artswells festival in Wells, BC and the Caravan Farm & Theatre's summer concert series in Armstrong, among other splendid stops along the way. Those curious to know what Fish & Bird sounds like in that format are invited to check out this sweet video, taken by Cody Young at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre's reopening.
This fall we are traveling as a four piece across the prairies and back. This time we will be playing with Ryan playing guitar and Zoe Guigeno playing upright bass. Adam and Zoe grew up together and have played in bands together since they were kids, so it will be very exciting to have their musical chemistry added to the Fish & Bird mix. To find out where we'll be this september, check out the gigs page.
I've been starting to wear sweaters again, and I like it! A fond farewell to summer.
I love you, my minions!
Taylor
Fish & Bird took BC by storm this summer with our full-on plugged-in rock band explosion. Armed with Dan McCormack playing the electric bass, Ben Kelly percussing the bejeezes out of a drumkit made partially of a suitcase, Ryan Boeur playing Electric and Acoustic Guitars, and Adam & Taylor being the usual insane fiddle/banjo duo we've all come to know and love, we had a great time at Littlefest in the Slocan Valley, Keep the Beat festival in Nelson BC, Artswells festival in Wells, BC and the Caravan Farm & Theatre's summer concert series in Armstrong, among other splendid stops along the way. Those curious to know what Fish & Bird sounds like in that format are invited to check out this sweet video, taken by Cody Young at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre's reopening.
This fall we are traveling as a four piece across the prairies and back. This time we will be playing with Ryan playing guitar and Zoe Guigeno playing upright bass. Adam and Zoe grew up together and have played in bands together since they were kids, so it will be very exciting to have their musical chemistry added to the Fish & Bird mix. To find out where we'll be this september, check out the gigs page.
I've been starting to wear sweaters again, and I like it! A fond farewell to summer.
I love you, my minions!
Taylor
7/13/09
Oh, jeez.
Hey Folks - so again I pretty much suck really bad at updating the blog. What can I say - tour was awesome. Right now we're taking a bit of a break from playing. Right after our homecoming show in Victoria I flew to Winnipeg to visit family and friends and to go to the folk fest. Adam is... well I don't know exactly where Adam is, but he's probably having a good time. He and I will reunite this weekend coming up to go to the Vancouver Folk Fest. We played at a fundraiser for them this year and thus get to go for free. Hooray! Very exciting.
Anyways, I mostly wanted to update so you all know we didn't get stuck in Nipissing or anything... We were on the road 50 days and definitely had our share of intense and awesome times, including visiting old friends, making new friends, looking shifty behind restaurants, and running the van into the ditch (which we survived!).
We tour again this summer, hitting Littlefest and Artswells Festival. It's gonna be a good time, we're taking our drummer and guitar player.
I hope you are all doing extremely well!
Taylor
Anyways, I mostly wanted to update so you all know we didn't get stuck in Nipissing or anything... We were on the road 50 days and definitely had our share of intense and awesome times, including visiting old friends, making new friends, looking shifty behind restaurants, and running the van into the ditch (which we survived!).
We tour again this summer, hitting Littlefest and Artswells Festival. It's gonna be a good time, we're taking our drummer and guitar player.
I hope you are all doing extremely well!
Taylor
5/16/09
Greetings from Nipissing!
Howdy from Nipissing Village, Ontario. We're here at the Piebird Bed & Breakfast. Last night we had not only a really great house concert in a really beautiful house, but also some incredibly delicious vegan rhubarb cake.
Over the last little while we've been scowling at Ontario under grey skies, and as soon as the sun came out I thought that maybe I only thought the places we were in were unfriendly because of the weather. After all, in the sunshine, the places we drove through yesterday didn't seem so bad. However this morning it's raining on Yan & Sherry's beautiful bed & breakfast and I'm feeling rather pleased. If you're ever through Nipissing this is the place to be!
Today it's off to Ottawa where we will meet up with our pal Mr. Oliver Rueben Swain and rock out at the Avant Garde Bar.
Over the last little while we've been scowling at Ontario under grey skies, and as soon as the sun came out I thought that maybe I only thought the places we were in were unfriendly because of the weather. After all, in the sunshine, the places we drove through yesterday didn't seem so bad. However this morning it's raining on Yan & Sherry's beautiful bed & breakfast and I'm feeling rather pleased. If you're ever through Nipissing this is the place to be!
Today it's off to Ottawa where we will meet up with our pal Mr. Oliver Rueben Swain and rock out at the Avant Garde Bar.
5/14/09
Greetings from the soo!
Alrighty folks, here's some tour bloggin', aren't you lucky.
Our CD is now out in the wild! Left Brain Blues is upon you my friends. Soon we'll have it up on CDBaby.com soon hopefully, and then all around the world may order it and sample its glories. We had a couple great CD release and tour kickoff shows at Cafe Deux Soleils in Vancouver and at the Orange Hall in Victoria. Our friend graham took a couple videos in Victoria (thanks graham!):
That's Ollie Swain on the Bass, who you'll be hearing more about once we meet up with him in Montreal.
Our first week on tour we spent with Raghu Lokanathan, who is a great singer songwriter from Victoria. We had some really great shows, in Penticton BC, Silverton BC, Nelson BC, Forget (For-jhay) SK, and Winnipeg MB. We and Raghu had some great fun playing on eachother's material and digging around behind sushi restaurants for fuel to run good ol' Morty, Adam's veggie-oil van.
RIght now we're in Sault Ste Marie for our second date with Sara Ciantar and her band (tentatively named Sara Ciantar's Wet Toast, or perhaps Night Danger). Ontario is biiiiiiig. We just started driving along Lake Superior which I'm pretty happy about. It's very beautiful. Life is very beautiful, and touring is really beautiful. One of the things Adam and I have been talking about in the van is how lucky we are to get to travel the country gathering meager earnings from shows, and experiencing crazy things we could never experience otherwise. We are happy as bugs in rugs galloping down the road on veggie power and singing for people, and seeing the mountains and the prairies and the rocks and trees and lakes, and all the people who live near them. Eating pizzas made by pastors and moonshine made by the wild turkeys. And it seems that there is a stag party in Loplop's all of a sudden. Our set is soon. Maybe we'll end up with dollar bills stuffed into our trousers.
Til next time Fishybirdies! (pictures soon!)
Taylor
Our CD is now out in the wild! Left Brain Blues is upon you my friends. Soon we'll have it up on CDBaby.com soon hopefully, and then all around the world may order it and sample its glories. We had a couple great CD release and tour kickoff shows at Cafe Deux Soleils in Vancouver and at the Orange Hall in Victoria. Our friend graham took a couple videos in Victoria (thanks graham!):
That's Ollie Swain on the Bass, who you'll be hearing more about once we meet up with him in Montreal.
Our first week on tour we spent with Raghu Lokanathan, who is a great singer songwriter from Victoria. We had some really great shows, in Penticton BC, Silverton BC, Nelson BC, Forget (For-jhay) SK, and Winnipeg MB. We and Raghu had some great fun playing on eachother's material and digging around behind sushi restaurants for fuel to run good ol' Morty, Adam's veggie-oil van.
RIght now we're in Sault Ste Marie for our second date with Sara Ciantar and her band (tentatively named Sara Ciantar's Wet Toast, or perhaps Night Danger). Ontario is biiiiiiig. We just started driving along Lake Superior which I'm pretty happy about. It's very beautiful. Life is very beautiful, and touring is really beautiful. One of the things Adam and I have been talking about in the van is how lucky we are to get to travel the country gathering meager earnings from shows, and experiencing crazy things we could never experience otherwise. We are happy as bugs in rugs galloping down the road on veggie power and singing for people, and seeing the mountains and the prairies and the rocks and trees and lakes, and all the people who live near them. Eating pizzas made by pastors and moonshine made by the wild turkeys. And it seems that there is a stag party in Loplop's all of a sudden. Our set is soon. Maybe we'll end up with dollar bills stuffed into our trousers.
Til next time Fishybirdies! (pictures soon!)
Taylor
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