Taarka

We’re well into the first month of our stay on the east coast. We’ve been steadily working on our new album, which we began in December in Colorado. We’ve written a number of new songs and a new tune for this album, and we are getting excited about it. Next week, we’ll be bringing the rest of the band down to finish the bulk of the tracking. Expect to see pictures  as we get going with that.
We’re excited for the handful of shows we’ve added at the end of our recording time – we’ll be in New York and Virginia (check that calendar for dates).

Enion and her violin were featured in Strings Magazine recently – you can read the piece here: Enion and her fiddle.  Aesop has been attending Montessori School here in VA, and loves it. And as warm as it’s been, Tabla has been getting outside to fetch tennis balls and sticks quite a bit.  We  look forward to our return to Colorado in the first week of March. We’ve got a lot planned for the spring. Check our calendar for shows around Colorado with the Matt Flinner Trio in March and April, and shows in California, Oregon and Washington in April and May!

We’re headed west again for our official CD release tour for Adventures In Vagabondia.
Please check our concerts page. We’ll be in California, Oregon and Washington on this round. We’re excited to be playing with great guitarist Greg Ruby (from Pearl Django and Hot Club Sandwich) for the first half the tour and then Ross Martin (From Matt Flinner Trio) for the second half the tour.

Yes, it is. We had a terrific time on the east coast with our roving band – David, Enion, Troy, little Aesop, faithful professional ball dog Tabla, and our trusty brigade of guitarists – Ross (Martin), Grant (Gordy), and Jefferson (Hamer). Particular highlights were both shows in Brooklyn, our visit to Wrentham, Mass to play at Proctor Mansion Inn, the wonderous “Barns Of Rosehill” to a sold out house in North Virginia and the house concert we played in Charlottesville. We returned home to Colorado, where spring is already champing at the bit, and headed for the snowy mountains to play a bluegrass festival in Keystone. We played a Boulder CD Release show, which was so much fun!

This month we are gearing up for more Colorado shows. David and Enion will be performing as a duo up in Gold Hill, and in Berthoud, and then the whole band will reconvene for a trip to our favorite stomping grounds – Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Check our schedule for details. Of course, all of these shows are CD Release parties, so we will have our new album in hand. Please note that some of the shows include a CD with price of admission – pretty cool, eh?
So, as always, the best way to get our music in your home is to come to a show, but if you just can’t wait, here is what to do:

Click on the Merchandise link at the top of this page and you can buy a physical copy of our new album, which we will mail to you post haste. You can also download an MP3 album. If MP3′s aren’t your speed, visit Taarka’s Bandcamp page for higher quality downloads. You can also find them on Itunes by searching for “Adventures in Vagabondia.” The MP3 album is also available on CDBaby and Amazon.

We are proud and excited to release our new album, “Adventures in Vagabondia!” We are celebrating the release with a tour of the east coast, to be followed by CD release shows in Colorado in February and in the northwest in March and April. You can purchase the cd digitally from our store, or   from Itunes, Amazon.com, CDBaby,Bandcamp.

The physical cd is available at our shows and from our store.

We’re embarking on our East Coast CD Release tour today, starting with a show at the wonderful Club Passim in Boston. The show will be broadcast live on concert window – you can buy tickets for just $5 if you can’t come to the show.

We can’t wait to see you and share this great new record with you!

Adventures in Vagabondia

And it has been grand! It has been a long time since David and I have gotten to tour as a duo, and we have really gotten into the groove over the past week. A definite highlight was our stop in Seattle at Empty Sea Studios, when we played to a completely full house of very sweet wonderful folks, and a (presumably) enthusiastic web audience as well. The web-cast was a new experience – and a lot of fun; quite a different way to think about a show – and we hope to repeat that experience. If you’d like to repeat the webcast experience, by the way, the show will be archived at www.youtube.com/emptyseatelevision for your viewing and reviewing pleasure.

We are headed to Idaho Falls today for a show at a great little venue called Vino Rosso. Join us there Friday 10/19 at 9 pm. We are also headed to lovely Cedar City, UT, to play a really terrific concert series called the Artiste Sanctuary, which takes place at St Jude’s Episcopal Church and is put on by the folks who run Groovefest. You can check out their Facebook page and get ticket info here.

In other news, we are hard at work nailing down shows for our big Winter/Spring 2013 tours in support of the release of our new CD! The album is called Adventures in Vagabondia, and it officially releases nationally and internationally, thanks to the gooodle internet, in January 2013. Official release date will be published soon. Visit our “shows” page to see these dates magicalily  appear as we confirm them.

We’re excited to perform a NW duo tour this coming week!! Starting Oct. 10th in Portland, OR. We’ll be playing Port Townsend, WA, Seattle, WA, Cascadia Raindance Festival at Hornings Hideout, OR , and in Bend, OR.!!

We’ll be playing in Taos and Santa Fe Sept. 21st and 22nd!! We LOVE New Mexico!!!