Spring Tour 2011 - Week 1

In 7 Weeks, we will play 38 shows in 13 US states!

For a full list of upcoming shows, visit our calendar at GwynethAndMonko.com

Here are the sketches from week #1:

4/19/11 - Los Angeles, CA - Villains Tavern

With a great staff and growing music scene, Villains Tavern is quickly becoming one of our favorite place to play in LA.

4/21/11 - Santa Fe, NM - The Cowgirl BBQ

Now a regular stop on our tours in the Southwest, The Cowgirl Bar is always a blast. This time, we made one of our youngest fans yet, Lucy! Thanks for all the dancing and for convincing your parents to support our cause!

4/22/11 - Taos, NM - Eske's Brew Pub

The combination of refreshing Green Chile Beer along with tasty Green Chile Stew always makes us break a sweat right before show time... This being our fourth time at Eske's, we always enjoy this cozy spot where we do a special all-acoustic 3 hour show(which also makes us sweat).

4/23/11 - Durango, CO - Mangrum House Concert at Mockingbird Valley

It is hard to describe how good it makes us feel to have old friends offer to host us and open their home for an intimate concert... thank you to Bill and Valerie Mangrum as well as all of their wonderful friends who came to listen! This night was truly magical and we look forward to doing it again. We are still talking about the midnight waffles that Valerie made for us after the show!

4/24/11 - Denver, CO - The Walnut Room Pizzeria

This pizza joint is an offshoot of the notorious Denver music venue The Walnut Room...You can't go wrong with good pizza, beer and folk musicians crooning down at you from stage that resembles a go-go cage high above!

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Check back in often to keep up with our travels... I will be uploading as often as I can while on the road! Thanks for listening!!

~ Gwyneth & Monko

Southwestern March

Southwest Tour March 2011

Gwyneth & Monko

*3/3/11 - The Pour House, Paso Robles, CA

*3/4/11 - The Beatrice Wood Center For The Arts , Ojai, CA

* 3/6/11 - The Bisbee Grand Hotel Saloon, Bisbee, AZ

Nowhere Man And A Whiskey Girl, Bisbee AZ

*3/7/11 - Plush Lounge, Tucson, AZ

* 3/10/11 - High Desert Brewing Co., Las Cruces, NM

* 3/11/11 - Riverbend Hotsprings, Truth Or Consequences, NM

* 3/12/11 - Eske's Brew Pub, Taos, NM

* 3/13/11 - The Cowgirl BBQ, Santa Fe, NM

w/ Aloud

* 3/15/11 - Villains Tavern, Los Angeles, CA

*3/17/11 - Songwriters At Play at The Porch, Santa Margarita, CA

Laura Meyer Joins us in California

2/09/11 - The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz CA

The first of 3 shows with Laura Meyer this week...and what a fun night to start off the mini-tour with! The Crepe Place was packed full of eager college students ready to have their minds blown...

Thanks to Dan for the wonderful revitalizing raw diet while we stayed in the Santa Cruz Mountains

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2/10/11 - Smiley's Schooner Saloon, Bolinas CA (if you can find it)

A rowdy rural pub in the beautiful coastal village of Bolinas

So beautiful, that the locals take down all signs that might direct tourists there...the best kept secret of Marin County (and we plan to help keep it that way).

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2/11/11 - The Ukiah Brewing Company, Ukiah CA

Our last night with Laura (until the next time)... it was great to see so many familiar faces!

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A Poem From The Road:

Never knew I'd be a traveler girl

wandering down the road with no diamonds or pearls

But I am happy as a clam

working on a grain of sand

There may be a home beyond the stars and sun

but even then there's no less days than when we first begun

I want to speakeasy brother and sip on Ale

I am a carpenters daughter and I am a traveler girl

When I am done and it's my time to go

I may be poor with no riches to show

But those who knew me will surely understand

I was a traveler girl working on a grain of sand

Happy as a saltwater clam

And as the seasons change, so do we

and we end up where we were meant to be

A clam with it's sand in the saltwater sea

A girl with a plan that was meant to be

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Ode To The North West

Oh you soggy North West

you dampened our hair

with the breath of the ocean

lying heavy in the air

Heavy in the air

from the sea to the peaks

of the Olympic Peninsula

and the sky scraper streets

To your kind hearted people,

we brought our music to share...

And we sold lots of albums

as you dampened our hair...

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2/02/11 - Six Rivers Brewery, Mckinleyville CA

"A talkative fan"

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2/03/11 - Sam Bond's Garage, Eugene OR

Thanks to Stagger And Sway for a fun night at our favorite spot in Eugene

And thanks to Jerry for introducing us to his lovely Longhaired Whippets

and for the place to park our rig...

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2/04/11 - Sirens Public House, Port Townsend WA

We camped in the "gravel pit" after the show... what a view...

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2/05/11 - The Mandolin Cafe, Tacoma WA

This beautiful cafe just keeps getting better and better...

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2/06/11 - The Laurelthirst Public House, Portland OR

The coziest pub in Portland with the friendliest regulars...

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NorthWest Album Release Tour and Journal Paintings Begin....

To try something new, we are going to be keeping a tour journal of paintings from the road. Special thanks to Kirsten Liske for not only giving us the idea, but putting together a care-package of supplies for the road!

We hope you enjoy this new way of following our travels....

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Last weekend, we had the pleasure of sharing two shows with our friends Misner & Smith. Friday night, we played to a super fun crowd at Aqus Cafe in Petaluma. On Saturday, we played in the awesome Rominger West Winery in Davis, among thousands of wine barrels and many rosy cheeked fans. We are looking forward to many more co-billed shows with this dynamic duo... and we hope to see Tommy their big cuddly cat again soon....

Album Release Tour Here We COME!!! We spent the day packing the van tight of instruments and copies of the NEW ALBUM! We are headed up and down the soggy West Coast for a string of exciting shows:

Weds. Feb. 2nd - Six Rivers Brewery - McKinleyville, CA

Thurs. Feb. 3rd - Sam Bond's Garage - Eugene, OR

Friday Feb. 4th - Sirens Pub - Port Townsend, WA

Sat. Feb. 5th - The Mandolin Cafe - Tacoma, WA

Sun. Feb. 6th - LaurelThirst Public House - Portland, OR

Weds. Feb. 9th - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA

Thurs. Feb. 10th - Smiley's Schooner Saloon - Bolinas, CA

Friday Feb. 11th - The Ukiah Brewing Co. - Ukiah, CA

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37,000 Miles Together In the Van? No Problem. Gwyneth + Monko Rock On!

2010 = 37,000 miles in the van and over 160 awesome shows around this amazing country. And we're ready for more.

2011 = New self-titled Gwyneth + Monko album release on Feb, 15^th with many tour dates to follow!

We even have shows lined up to celebrate the new album before it is “officially” released! For you eager west coasters reading this, you’re in luck! We have tons of Cds right in front of us, right now, and we’re ready to sell them at shows! This is our first full-length album together as Gwyneth & Monko, and it’s all-new material!

Exciting show dates coming up:

January 22^nd The Arcata Playhouse with The Crooked Jades

8:00pm $15

January 23^rd The Caspar Inn with The Crooked Jades

8:00pm $10adv./$12door

There are many, many more dates listed on our website, so check them out… chances are, we’re coming to a town near you!

Thanks to everyone for a great year, and we look forward to many more to come!

News From The Road

Our new self-titled album mastering is complete! We had a great week in Boulder, CO mastering with David Glasser at Airshow Studios, hanging with friends and shooting photos for the new album (see sample above).

From the Great Rocky Mountains, we headed east. We had a great time in Missouri and Kansas and were blown by tornado strength winds up into Omaha where, as expected, we had a blast playing music with our buddies at Barley Street Tavern. We were kindly put up by Omaha’s emerging Indie Folk Rock band Midwest Dilemma and headed into Iowa from there. We hit up Des Moines, Dubuque and Davenport and are now making our way to Chicago for a show with our friends Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray at The Elbo Room.

We are extremely excited to head south to meet up with our friend Laura Meyer with whom we’ll be sharing a handful of shows with all around those Smokey Mountains, including an appearance on WDVX Blue Plate Special on Monday Nov. 8^th! You can TUNE IN ONLINE for this special appearance…

For a FULL and UP-TO-DATE list of upcoming SHOWS, visit our WEBSITE!

We are continuing to work on album art and are VERY excited to share our new recordings with all of you early 2011! We will be having a series of “Pre-release” shows where we will be selling physical copies of the album HOT off the press before it's available online! Stay tuned for these dates!!

PEACE!

Gwyneth & Monko