Outta Sight
Wed July 16th - 9pm
@ The Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary St)
featuring:
Coloring
Ruthann Friedman
Helene Renaut

Coloring will be playing at this coming Outta Sight show and sharing the stage with two lovely songstresses. We are pleased to present Ruthann Friedman, a wonderful songwriter who has been involved with the folk scene since the start in the 60s. Most notably, she wrote the song “Windy”, as popularized by The Association, but all of her songs stand to teach what folk music really is. Helene Renaut, who has graced the Outta Sight stage before, will also be playing her lovely and unique style of French-tinged folk pop that will draw sunsets on the inside of your eyelids. And Coloring will be bringing our usual blend of country and psych, playing some new tunes as well.

Gazebo Music now features a brand new podcast from Homesick Elephant. The lovely duo came through San Francisco during tour and I was able to play the wonderful July 4th Fort Gallery Folk Fest with them. The next morning we got brunch together and then came back to my apartment to record the first in a series of Gazebo Sessions. These sessions will feature local and touring bands of influence in the like-minded music community. Just as Homesick Elephant did, the bands will come over to my house and casually chat and play music into a single recording source. I am quite happy with how well this first episode came out and I highly encourage everyone to take a chance to check it out:

Gazebo Sessions - Homesick Elephant

4th of July Folk Festival!
Fort Gallery (34th and Hollis, Oakland)
BBQ (BYO BBQ)
POOL PARTY!
Music Starts at 1pm
featuring:
Homesick Elephant (LA)
The Tea Set (Oakland)
Tall Grass (SF)
Moomaw (SF)
The Hobbyists (SF)
Anteatereatsant (Oakland)
Bo Bear (Santa Cruz)
Lonesome Architects (LA)
Shelby Sifers (Portland)
The Sarcastic Dharma Society (Portland)
Jordaan Mason (Ontario)
At Night (Bay Area)
Toby Foster (Chicago)
A Drum and an Open Window (Boston)

Please come and have a great time. It’s a pool party! What’s groovier than that?

Other upcoming fun:
Wed July 16 - COLORING @ Outta Sight (Edinburgh Castle) w/ Ruthann Friedman and Helene Renaut
Sat July 19 - Moomaw @ The Upstairs Art Gallery (Placerville, CA) w/ Ruthann Friedman

In other news, you can finally buy my album from InSound. It’s great, so you should go there and buy it now!

And a heads up to those people in Sweden. I’m coming over there to share your sunny summer solstice nights this week and I’m playing a show at the end of next week. Here’s the details:

9pm
Breathless @ Bonden Bar (Bondeg. 1 C, Stockholm, SE)

First of all, I would like to invite everyone I’ve ever met to the spectacular cd-release extravaganza that is happening this coming Wednesday, June 4. I’m am honored to be releasing it at Penny Arcade’s 3 Year Anniversary at the Makeout Room. I needn’t say much about Penny Arcade, hosted by Raul Sanchez, as it has become a staple for excellent music in the Bay Area. I’ve been lucky enough to somehow score a spot on every anniversary show(!) and I can only hope to continue in this tradition in the following years. This year I will be sharing the stage with local indie hero Bart Davenport and The Mumlers a wonderfully gypsy-styled group from San Jose. I actually shared last year’s bill with The Mumlers and The Dodos, and this year looks to be no less of a beautiful show:

Penny Arcade 3 Year Anniversary!
Wed June 4, 9pm @ The Makeout Room, San Francisco
The Mumlers
Bart Davenport
Moomaw
(Note: Alina Harding is no longer playing)
I go on first so be sure to GET THERE AT 9pm!

Aside from my own loops and toys, on stage with me at various intervals, playing various instruments will be Dusty DiMercurio and Raul Sanchez. And, to make things even more exciting, I will also be accompanied by an amazing tablas player named Dale Means for the entire show. It’s not to be missed!

Please come by and pick up a copy of my CD, “26″, directly from me. You can also find it on CD Baby or iTunes and it is now available to San Franciscans at Aquarius Records!

And while you wait with baited breath for that show, please check out the Bay Bridged. The Bay Bridged is a wonderful source of indie music in the Bay Area, providing amazing podcasts of local artists and really supporting our scene. I am happy to be featured in their May Monthly Mix episode alongside some other really great artists. You can listen to our songs on the podcast here:

Bay Bridged May 2008 Monthly Mix

Aside from that I’ve been warming up my collection of instruments and my beat-up condenser mics and started recording a new record. In a similar vein I also just finished a small long-distance collaboration on a wonderful song of my buddy Ryan Moya, or Autopilot. Please check out the song, entitled “To The Sea”, featured on his Myspace, here:

Autopilot (check out “To The Sea”)

Outta Sight
Wed May 21, 9pm @ The Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary St, SF)
The Aerosols
The Clouds
Joseph Childress

One song for every month that I was 26 all written and recorded by the end of their respective month, accompanied by journal entry lyrics and artwork. 12 songs, 12 months, 12 pieces of original artwork, 12 journal entries of lyrics, all tied neatly into a nice little package with a CD and 28 pages of full-color bookletage.

I’m still waiting for a few of the distributors to catchup with their cataloging (InSound, mostly), but for now, here’s how you can get your hands on this wonderful relic of my time:

Buy the CD from CDBaby
Or, if you’d rather just own a digital copy, you can purchase it from the iTunes Music Store (search for “Moomaw 26″).

It will make me so happy if you get one of these and listen to it.

CD Release?: Please plan on coming to my CD Release Show on Wed June 4 @ Penny Arcade (3 year anniversary) @ The Makeout Room, San Francisco. I will be sharing the stage with Alina Harding, Bart Davenport and The Mumlers! More info on that to come.

Also, be sure to checkout IndieSolo.com this Friday May 16. Moomaw is going to be the featured artist of that day.

And as always, the May Outta Sight is going to be another wonderful show. This time we have The Aerosols, Joseph Childress and The Clouds. More info on that soon, as well.

Thanks for your support!

“The radio-station’s main claim to fame is hosting the “Great Midwestern Trivia Contest” which is a 50 hour non-stop trivia contest that happens every January where people keep themselves up with caffeine or other aids and participate in this contest that has been around since the 60’s. Since the internet the questions have become a lot harder since people can easily use the internet to find the answer to traditional questions. At the end there are “super” questions that are really intense like: In Washington D.C. what is graffitied onto the dumpster next to the Starbucks on Grant and Berring. This kind of question could only be successfully answered if someone knew a person in Washington D.C. who could go to that intersection and see exactly what is graffitied onto the dumpster within the time-limit. So it’s a crazy trivia contest and people make teams all over the world. It is the longest running trivia contest anywhere!”

Pretty groovy stuff. In a similar radio vein, I had a blast guest DJing at KUSF this past Friday. Upon review of the tracks I played, I realized anyone tuning in would most likely have thought they were listening to a new classic rock radio station, but alas, I had fun.

In other radio related news, I am happy to say that “26″ is getting some decent airtime and is charting in the CMJ top 200 albums right now! It comes out in a mere week.

When I got home I got to be part of a wonderful show called Phoning It In. They basically call up artists around the country and have they play live over the phone, broadcasting the result live on the radio (BSR 88.1FM Providence [bsrlive.com] and 88.1FM Cambridge [wmbr.org]). It was a whole lot of fun, awkward talk from me and all! Please take a listen to the show here:

Moomaw on Phoning It In

Also, in a similar “radio show” vein, Miwa and I played on KPSU’s Irregular Frequencies show in Portland. Vincent Caldoni was kind enough to take video of our sets and posted them on Youtube. Below is one song embedded and there are links to the other songs as well. Check out the giant orange foamy mic!

Moomaw - July
Moomaw - Pirate of this Bottled Ship
Moomaw - January

And, as always, we have a great show in the works for you at next month’s Outta Sight:

Outta Sight
Wed May 21 - 9pm @ The Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary St, San Francisco)
The Aerosols
Joseph Childress
The Clouds

Please join us for the homecoming show tonight @ Outta Sight in San Francisco:

Outta Sight
9pm - Wed April 16 @ The Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary St, SF)
Chinatown Bakeries
Miwa Gemini
Moomaw

And be sure to catch my live performance tomorrow on BSF 88.1 FM bsrlive.com / wmbr.org (7:30pm EST, 4:30pm PT). I’ll be playing some tunes over the telephone as part of an event called Phoning it In!

Apr 5 2008 - Olympia, Washington @ ABC House w/ June Madrona, Sundance Kids, Miwa Gemini
Apr 6 2008 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ Little Mountain Studio w/ Leah Abramson, Old Days, Miwa Gemini
Apr 7 2008 - NATHAN’S BIRTHDAY!
Apr 8 2008 - Seattle, Washinton @ The Skylark w/ Miwa Gemini
Apr 9 2008 - Portland, Oregon - LIVE @ KPSU (6:00pm)
Apr 9 2008 - Portland, Oregon @ Mississippi Pizza w/ Barons in Trees, Shelby Sifers, Miwa Gemini
Apr 10 2008 - Bolinas, California @ Smiley Schooner Saloon w/ Miwa Gemini
Apr 11 2008 - Yucca Valley, California @ Water Canyon w/ Miwa Gemini
Apr 12 2008 - Lompoc, California @ The Southside w/ Clark, Le Petit Protest, Miwa Gemini
Apr 13 2008 - Culver City, California @ Cinema Bar w/ Adam Smith
Apr 14 2008 - Santa Barbara, California @ Gallery Ocho with Miwa Gemini
Apr 15 2008 - Sacramento, California @ Java Lounge w/ Miwa Gemini, The Stragglers
Apr 16 2008 - HOMECOMING SHOW! San Francisco, California - Outta Sight @ Edinburgh Castle w/ Miwa Gemini, Chinatown Bakeries
Apr 17 2008 - Phoning It in: 88.1 FM bsrlive.com / wmbr.org (7:30pm EST, 4:30pm PT)

Also, as I mentioned before, my “26″ CD is set to release on May 13. I will have copies with me on this trip so be sure to get one from me. And now that this new CD is nearly available, I made an old EP of mine, Tall Oaks from Tiny Acorns Grow, available for just $1 via digital download: http://cdbaby.com/cd/moomaw