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the company house with crowdis bridge

Penelope Jackson — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:21:51 +0000

Well, winter sucked and I almost died * but we are playing an awesome show this Saturday at the Company House with Crowdis Bridge. See you there!

Saturday, April 6th, 2013
Show starts at 9:00pm
Tickets: $10.00 at the door

*only the slightest of exaggerations

updated tour dates!

Penelope Jackson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:47:12 +0000

Now with more Cape Breton details. Can't wait to play for you all!

November 24: The Company House You are for the Ocean CD release w/Dark for Dark and Matt Hornell
November 29: Fables in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
November 30: House concert in Sackville, New Brunswick
December 7: Lane's Privateer Inn, w/ Dana Beeler, Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
December 8: Broad Cove Hall w/ Dana Beeler and Dark for Dark, Broad Cove, Nova Scotia
December 13: Flavour 19 with The Modern Grass, Sydney, Nova Scotia
December 14: House concert (private event) with The Modern Grass, Sydney, Nova Scotia
December 15: Governor’s with The Modern Grass, Sydney, Nova Scotia
February 16: Mermaid Theatre with The Modern Grass, Windsor, Nova Scotia

thank you!

Penelope Jackson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:14:29 +0000

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who preordered You are for the Ocean. People who support independent creators are smart, attractive, and witty. Fact. We have met our goal—107% of it, in fact—and we have been eating nothing but caviar since we had word.

only one

Penelope Jackson — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:23:27 +0000

We are SO EXCITED to have another video with Analog Songs! This is probably our mushiest song to date, from You are for the Ocean:

And we are 78% funded on indigogo! Thank you so much to everyone who's contributed so far!

tour!

Penelope Jackson — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:46:46 +0000

We're so excited to take You are for the Ocean on the road!

The joyful release of You are for the Ocean: November 24 at the Company House, 8 p.m. w/ Matt Hornell and Dark for Dark

November 29: Fables in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia

November 30: House concert in Sackville, New Brunswick

December 7: Lane's Privateer Inn, w/ Dana Beeler, Liverpool, Nova Scotia,

December 8: Broad Cove Hall w/ Dana Beeler and Dark for Dark, Riverport, Nova Scotia

December 14: House concert with The Modern Grass, Sydney, Nova Scotia

December 15: TBA with The Modern Grass in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

February 16: Mermaid Theatre with The Modern Grass, Windsor, Nova Scotia

preorders!

Penelope Jackson — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:00:56 +0000

You are for the Ocean is available now for pre-orders at our indiegogo campaign! So glad to be this close to sharing these songs with you all.

you are for the ocean

Penelope Jackson — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:07:02 +0000

We have final artwork for You are for the Ocean. Here it is. Totally speechless. Sydney Smith.

why here?

Penelope Jackson — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:54:05 +0000

This is the Life providing the soundtrack for a video in the Why Here? series. This is making us want to move to the South Shore even more...

Nearly there

Penelope Jackson — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:19:00 +0000

After bedtimes (not ours), during naps (not ours), through multiple plagues (ours. sigh.), we’ve been sneaking downstairs to our home studio, track by track building an album I am so thrilled with. Right now Andrew Sneddon (Modern Grass, Moonshine Ramblers) is putting the finishing Dobro touches on a few songs. We’re SO CLOSE! If we could shake these colds, we’d be able to finish up the last couple of harmonies—but my range is maybe four tones right now. Whole tones! But only four of them.

We’re working towards an early autumn release. We thought we could do it sooner, but these pesky children are relentless with their unreasonable demands, like being fed and changed.

But you can tell that it’s coming, right? Because we finally had new band photos taken. See you later, pink bus. Hello there, you fine-looking trees.

(Thanks to Michael Tompkins for the photo, and Charlotte Gavaris for my face.)

~ Penelope

oops

Penelope Jackson — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:57:00 +0000

I know, I know. But you know that photo of us below, in Bridgewater? What I didn’t explain before was that I was in fact pregnant in that picture. And between the fetus, the hot sun, and the smell of the nearby port-o-potties, I nearly lost it on stage that day. So it has been a year, over a year! since I updated this blog. But that’s not because we haven’t been making music. Updating our website falls far, far below sleep, playing with our gorgeous baby and four-year-old, and recording our next album…

… in our new basement studio! That we built (or rather, helped my father-in-law build). It is blissful to be able to record without an hour of setup beforehand. We’ll be finished recording by the end of 2011, for a spring 2012 release.

So that’s what we’re up to, g-market wise. We’ll be playing as soon as evenings are our own again. In the meantime, Dave is as busy as ever, and Dan is playing banjo with Smokin’ Contra Band and Modern Grass Quartet. Dan and I are also both working on solo recordings… it is busy around here, but joyful.

I leave you with this promo for ViewFinders International Film Festival, featuring This is The Life:

~ Penelope