This summer has been lovely to Canasta, giving us the opportunity to play great outdoor festivals such as Roscoe Village’s Burger Fest, Uptown’s Rib Fest, Highwood’s Farmer’s Market, all with a refreshing Canasta beer to wash it down with. But Fall is right around the corner, and Canasta’s ready to get this show on the road!! Starting tonight, we’re buckling in our seat belts and fighting over which Hall & Oates CD to play as we take a tour of the beautiful Midwest. We’ll be hitting several venues over the next few weeks, and we’d just love it if you were there! Check out the show listings to your left or our shows page for more details.
Also, please don’t fret if you haven’t been able to buy any hard copies of our first CD, We Were Set Up, at shows. We have recently sold out of our second pressing, and are hitting the end of our supplies of The Fakeout, our latest CD release. But new batches of CDs and T-shirts (ooh!) are headed our way. In the mean time, why not purchase a digital copy from our many vendors online (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Insound or CD Baby) or hit up our local vendors in Chicago (Reckless Records, Hard Boiled Records & Video, Laurie’s Planet of Sound, Logan Hardware, Transistor, etc)? Our retailers page has more info as well. So check in real soon with us, especially to say hi at the merch table, and to pick up a free Canasta pin!
Last but not least, we’d like to send our sincerest gratitude and dank ju wel to the Netherlands, for their incredibly gracious review of The Fakeout in Heaven, their alternative music magazine. We wish more than anything to be able to extend our tour to you! For those who prefer to read accolades in Dutch or English, check out the review and its translation here.
A lot more great Canasta news is on the rise, but for now, Jack, it’s time to hit the road. If you can’t follow us dotingly outside of Illinois, no worries, friend -- we’ll be back on October 3rd with the deliriously talented Field Music at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago! And we’ll be sure to bring souvenirs.
