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Hi all, an update is overdue.

The Lammas Bash was great fun, playing with Alfred Lund on drums for the first time.

This week, we have gigs on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Thursday will be an “acoustic set” (without drums) at Hempstock from 6:30-7:30pm.

Friday will be a full band set, with Michael Heat on drums, at Hempstock from 2:45-3:45pm.

Note that times at Maine Vocals events are subject to change, depending on how things go. Hempstock is at Harry Brown’s farm in Starks, Maine. If you’ve been to the hill before you know where it is. It’s always a great time, a good scene with a bunch of vendors and great music all weekend.

Then, on Saturday, we are playing at Maine Pagan Pride Day in Portland. This is a fun event, also with good vendors and a bunch of great workshops. If you are pagan or pagan-friendly I encourage you to come check it out, bond with the southern Maine pagan community, and listen to great music. There will also be dancers while we are playing, as well as on their own.

We will be doing 2 sets this year, again with Alfred Lund on drums, from 1-2pm and 3-4pm.

Consider yourself summoned!

With Interconnected out (thanks to all for listening), we are now gearing up for our summer gigs. We have several lined up so far. I’ll list them all here for a preliminary reference, and as we get closer to them we’ll post more individual detail about each one.

Fri June 20
5:15 - 6:15
Maine Vocals Freedom Fest
Starks, ME (exact location to be determined)

Sat Aug 2
afternoon - evening
Lammas Bash
Hollis, ME (our private bash, contact us if you want to come)

Thurs Aug 14
5:15 - 6:15
Fri Aug 15
11am - noon
Maine Vocals Hempstock
Starks, ME (exact location to be determined)

Sat Aug 16
1 pm - 2 pm
Maine Pagan Pride Day
Portland, ME

Fri Sept 5
evening
Awen Camp
Harrison, ME

Solar Sun Festival
(time and location to be determined)

Sat Sept 20
Lizzyoos Bog Bash
Belgrade, ME (another private party, contact us if interested)

Thurs Oct 2
5:30 - 6:30
Sat Oct 4
noon - 1 pm
Maine Vocals Harvest Fest
Starks, ME (exact location to be determined)

It’s a slow time for Freakwitch by all outward appearances. We do have some gigs scheduled for later in the year, we will be playing several shows for Maine Vocals in 2008:

• Freedom Fest June 20-22
• Hempstock August 14-17
• Harvest Fest October 3-5

The fests are undergoing some changes, apparently they will no longer be held at Harry Brown’s farm in Starks. They are working on the locations, but we’ll let you know more as things clarify.

In the meantime, recording continues. I have been continually upgrading the recording setup, and indeed I’ve started Crafted Recordings as a commercial recording/consulting business. Plus I’ve taken a job in the acoustics industry. So there are a lot of changes happening around Freakwitch that can distract us a bit, but in the end these changes will support what Freakwitch is doing.

We are also thinking about taking the RPM Challenge and record an entire album, start-to-finish, in February. The idea was inspired by the National Novel Writing Month, in that it imposes a completely arbitrary deadline as a way to spur creative production. It’d be a good exercise for us if nothing else. We’ll make the decision one way or the other on this and keep you posted. Watch this space.

We’re gearing up to play a couple of sets at HarvestFest in Starks this weekend.

These things are often in flux — bottom line, there will be great music happening all weekend — but at the moment we are scheduled to play on Thursday afternoon from 12:00 noon to 1:45, and again on Saturday morning from 10:30am-11:30am.

See you there!

We’re gearing up to play the Bog Bash in Mercer this Saturday. For those who don’t know, this is a private-but-welcoming party hosted by the fabulous lizzyoos.

We’ve been informed that we are welcome to bring as many as we like, so if you aren’t doing anything Saturday night, and want to head up near Norridgewock to meet some cool people and hear some good music (Smoked Salmon is also playing, probably others as well), then contact us for directions.

See you there!

We’ll be at the last Maine Vocals event of the year, the Maine HarvestFest. We will be the house band, which at this point means we get 2 slots (Thursday, Oct 4 from 12 noon -1:30pm and Sat, Oct 6 from 10:00am - 10:45am), and if there are any last-minute cancellations we will fill in.

Should be a wild weekend with camping and all kinds of amazing music, including DOORBELL, DIFFERENT NATURE, SOAK, THE NEARLY NORMAL, BLUE SKY MISSION CLUB, ROOST, SIMPLE, STRATOSPHEERIUS, THE RHYTHM SHIP, JIM WEIDER’S ProJECT PERCoLAToR, GREEN LEMON, and many others.

Come on out for an amazing weekend.

We will be playing the 5th Annual Bog Bash in Mercer, ME on Sat, Sept 22.  Rumor has it that we go on @ 7pm. We’ve never played there before, but it is hosted by the wondrous Lizzyoos who we met at Maine Garden Fest. If you’re up that way (Skowhegan, Waterville, etc) come check it out. Contact us for details on this good bash with good people.

We’re playing at Maine Pagan Pride Day, Saturday afternoon, August 18th. According to the schedule, we’ll play from 1pm-2:30pm, with a break in between for a performance by Aepril Schaile in between.

If you are reading this, then consider yourself hereby summoned. Come have a good time, for a great cause.

We have 2 gigs coming up that are private parties, one in Greene, ME and one in Hollis, ME. If you are reading this, and you don’t know about the parties and perhaps want to come, then contact us. We can probably get you invited. ;-)

Our next public gig is Maine Pagan Pride Day in Portland on Saturday, August 18th at the Allen Ave Unitarian Universalist Church in Portland.

Hope to see you there, come support the Freaky, Witchy pagans of Maine….

Thanks to Lizzyoos for the photo, and for giving us a spin on her radio show…. tune in Friday from 11am-2pm, http://www.wmhb.org/…….

We’re playing Geno’s this Wed, June 27 with The Chickadees, Julz A and Andrew Scandal (NY). We’ll play at around 9 or 9:30 for 45 minutes or so. This will be Brent’s last show with Freakwitch, so come out and give him a joyful sendoff. :-)