Hi Zappa fans! I hope this e-mail finds you well. This one has a lot of stuff in it including our CD release party on 6/30 in NYC and links to get your tics for our 2 shows next weekend with Proto-Kaw!
FROGG CAFÉ JUNE NEWSLETTER 1. Exit Stage Frogg 2. Prog Rock Civil War 3. ProgDay Festival – Support the Cause 4. FOT, You and Me 5. The Canadian Duty Free Shop 6. Start giving me FLAC 7. Be Like Mike EXIT STAGE FROGG Lots of exciting shows coming up, details at: http://www.froggcafe.com/live.html Saturday June 11 – FORUM THEATRE Metuchen, NJ – 7:30pm Opening for Proto-Kaw w/ Kerry Livgren of Kansas! TICKETS ON SALE AT: http://www.njproghouse.com Sunday June 12 – THE BREWERY EXCHANGE - Lowell, MA w/ Proto-Kaw and Fluttr Effect http://www.fluttreffect.com/ NewEARS (New England Art Rock Society) http://newears.org/ Address: 201 Cabot Street. Lowell, MA For Tickets Call between 12-5pm: (978) 937-2690 Tickets are $30 each Tuesday June 28 – O'BRIEN'S PUB - Allston, MA Wednesday June 29 – NECTAR'S – Burlington, VT **CD RELEASE PARTY** Thursday June 30 – KENNY'S CASTAWAYS – NYC, NY - 9pm You're invited to help us celebrate the release of our new CD "Fortunate Observer of Time". We have some special surprises planned for this night! Saturday July 9 – NEARFEST (North East Art Rock Festival) Saturday Sept 10 – PROG IN THE PARK FESTIVAL 2005 – Rochester, NY PROG ROCK CIVIL WAR All was quiet on the western front until our old friend Pete Pardo of Sea of Tranquility http://www.seaoftranquility.org launched a grenade into the back of Shawn Gordon's minivan while he was taking his ProgRock children out for ice cream. Pete has started a website poll entitled "Who is your favorite ProgRock Records artist?"! As of now, the Froggs are thoroughly getting their asses kicked by our good pals in Man on Fire! We are in second place trailing by over 25 votes. And Cryptic Vision is close behind; their scouts have spotted the back of Bill's head in their telescope! Now people, I understand that the MOF guys are much better looking then us. And you might like their music better. But keep this in mind…a vote for the Frogg is a vote for the chubby kid on the playground getting his ass beat for his lunch money…don't let this tragedy go on for one more day! http://www.seaoftranquility.org/ (poll on right) Man of Fire website: http://www.manonfireband.com/ Cryptic Vision website: http://www.crypticvision.net/ ProgRock Records: http://www.progrockrecords.com (lots of great bands) PROGDAY Festival – Support the Cause Most of you know that anyone willing to sponsor and organize a prog rock festival does it for the love of the music and not the money. Most of these wonderful events end up breaking even or losing money and the ones who come out ahead use that dough to book next year's festival! ProgDay is a great example of a grass roots operation that puts on a wonderful festival every year! Lew Fisher of The Progressive Music Society has single-handedly enlisted a number of bands for their help in keeping ProgDay alive. Nine great bands have donated tracks, six which are previously unreleased, for a compilation disc to raise money for the festival. Tracks from The Strawbs, Djam Karet, Nathan Mahl, Trettioariga Kriget, Wobbler, Sonus Umbra, Gert Emmens, The Muffins, and Guy Manning. Many of these bands are friends with the Froggs, it's important for us to support each other and the organizations that present us to the fans. Order the CD a Lew's web page: http://home.mchsi.com/%7Eprogprinter2/ Progressive Music Society: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/progressivemusicsociety/ ProgDay Festival: http://www.progday.com FOT, You and ME Thank you so much for kind words and the overwhelming support for our third studio CD, "Fortunate Observer of Time"! If you haven't got yours yet it's available many places including: http://www.progrockrecords.com/shop/view.php?id=60 (free sound samples) The CD will also be available at our upcoming, NJ Proghouse and NewEARS shows. More info and tics at: http://www.froggcafe.com/live.html Also, thanks to our friend Bill Freeman we have another new Frogg t- shirt to offer you. This one is white with a frog playing the keyboard on the front and the summer tour dates on the back. Available in M, L, XL, XXL. Reply to this e-mail if you would like to purchase one. The Canadian Duty Free Shop How long does it take Steve Uh to buy maple syrup and smoked salmon at the border? If you guessed 40 minutes, you're right! We had a great time performing in Montreal! Thanks to Robert, Jerry and Denis of Proglands for putting together a great live experience for us. Also, a huge thanks to our new crazy friends in Karcius! Man, these guys jam hard. My prediction is you'll be seeing them soon in the USA; they are a very talented bunch of guys. Proglands: http://www.proglands.com/ Prog Montreal: http://www.progmontreal.com/ Karcius website: http://www.karcius.com/ Montreal Set List 5/29 – Lion D'or Reluctant Observer, Fortunate Observer of Time, Eternal Optimist, Space Dust, Questions w/o Answers, Creatures à Jam à You're Still Sleeping *, Abyss of Dissension. E: Candy Korn, Peaches en Regalia * Steve and Bill dueling fiddles at the end…first time on stage. START GIVING ME FLAC If you are a "download person" and are sick of CD jewel cases piling up in your house you can get some free Frogg Café downloads (as FLAC files) from: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=frogg%20cafe You can also get downloadable versions of our studio CDs (not free… cough it up) at: http://www.mindawn.com But if you like your free bootlegs to be physically in your hands join the Lillypadd! http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/lillypadd/ BE LIKE MIKE I feel the need to tell you about Mike Keneally's upcoming tour. Most of you know that Mike is an amazing person and musician. He has gone out of his way on several occasions to publicly say nice things about the Froggs. He just announced a NYC show! Friday, June 17, 2005 The Knitting Factory Main Performance Space 74 Leonard Street New York City , NY 10013 Also featured: The Alex Skolnick Trio Note early showtime: 7:00 p.m. Tickets $15 advance, $17 day of show Info: 212-219-3132 The Froggs will be in the audience, so we hope to see you there. Mike's website: http://www.keneally.com (check out his diary where he talks about auditioning for Frank Zappa's 88 band, it's awesome!) Whew, that's a lot of typing for a big bald guy. I'm going to see Star Wars now. Keep in touch, hope to see out at a show. Best Wishes, Andy for Frogg Cafe http://www.froggcafe.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? 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