We're back in Ocean Beach, and feeling very grateful to all our Vermont friends, family and supporters for making the Black Door shows so much fun. We've never had to add a second show before, so it was quite the ego boost. The best part was sharing the night with all of you. You made us feel like we never left.
Click Calendar for more details on these upcoming gigs:
Next house concert: January 30 at CanyonFolk House Concerts in El Cajon, California.
Next concert: February 21st at the Acoustic Alliance Showcase at the Brick by Brick.
Next feeding time for Lilla the busking beagle: every 10 minutes.
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...if you don't know us, we'd like to meet you. Really. If there is a farmers' market in your town, or a house concert series, or you'd like us to play at your backyard barbeque, drop us an email HERE.
* Cafe Loco made the list of "Most Played Songs and CDs of 2009 on the Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart (Based on 166,046 airplays from 195 different DJs.)
* The video of Endless Fishes (scroll down to view it) took 10th place out of 482 entries on Ourstage for September IN THE POP CATAGORY!!! Ridiculous, but there you go.
Videos for markets and house concerts:
Video 1 is an interview and performance vid of us.
Video 2 is a free, 30 second PSA we created for Farmers' Markets to use to promote their market. Simply click on the YouTube link to get the code to embed on your site.
Video 3 is a performance video of our song "Endless Fishes", the number 2 most played song on 172 stations. (The number one song is "Cambridge Underground")
All three of these videos were produced and directed by Joanna J. Seetoo Schiele (joanna.seetoo@gmail.com) and shot by PM ProductionZ LLC of San Diego (www.pmpdv.com). Great job, and we recommend them both highly!
Note to Market Managers: you can insert your market information (day, place, time) in the last frame where it will replace the text that says: "Have you gotten fresh today?" Email us if you have a question. (click on the YouTube link to get code). When it comes to tech stuff like this, I try to find the nearest 10 year old. They laugh at me. -lafe
Email us for instructions, and for a link to a high qulity AVI version.
Photographer Matthew Muise is a new fan who took a few pictures of us, including the one below, and shot a video of Lafe performing "Superman" at Winthrop Park: it's on YouTube. . If you have a few minutes and/or a love of great photography, click on his name and view his 'about town' section, or 'still lives'. Lots of photographers get beauty, but few get emotion. He's one that does. Matthew Muise Photography.
The Blue Plate Special on WDVX was great fun; 300 plus enthusiastic listeners in the live audience, new friends, tons of emails from old friends and a very professional broadcast crew and host. We managed to not fall off stage.
Radio:Over 170 stations in 5 countries!
Rich Warren played Endless Fishes on "The Midnight Special", which airs on over 70 stations plus XM Satellite's "The Village". With 60 other stations playing songs from Cafe Loco Rich's addition took us over the 100 mark.
We are very happy, although Lilla (our beagle and manager) says she doesn't understand it: when she hears us on the radio she looks at us but our lips aren't moving.
"Best New Music of 2009", John Weingart, WPRB in Princeton, NJ www.bestnewmusic
The San Diego Troubadour ran a great review AND a feature article about us entitled "Farmer's Market Folk" in the March issue. Click here to read it: REVIEW or FEATURE ARTICLE.
Cambridge Underground, was rated at #14 out of 459 entries for the month of March on 'Ourstage', which is a music web site where listeners vote "blind" so musicians can't get friends to vote: the music actually has to be liked. We did NOTHING to promote it! We didn't even visit!!! A fun, small thrill for us. Thrills are good.
Radio Folk has been a huge supporter of Coco and Lafe and Cafe Loco. Radio Folk is a web site with about 1000 hours per week of acoustic music broadcast on the air AND simultaneously on the web. No matter where you are in the world, no matter what time it is, you just click on a show and you're listening to acoustic music somewhere in the world: www.radiofolk.org. Check it out: it's always fresh.
Our friend and telescope operator George (coincidentally founder of radiofolk.org) gave us an insiders' tour of Kitt Peak National Observatory. Did you realize our sun is smaller than a radish seed compared to Betelgeuse? (600 light years away in the Orion constellation: we won't be gigging there). Just thought you should know.
No, these aren't photoshopped. This was a very weird rock and fossil shop just outside of the Petrified Forest. Clicking on the picture will get you a larger view.
If you have a few minutes and/or a love of great photography, click on his name and view his 'about town' section, or 'still lives'. Lots of photographers get beauty, but few get emotion. He's one that does. 
