Alfred James Band: News

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Meadow Stage, 11:30 am
Join us as Comcast presents the 20th Annual Appel Farm Arts and Music
Festival on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 in rural Southern New Jersey for
a perfect day filled with great music. The event also features Marc
Cohn, They Might Be Giants, Suzanne Vega, The Smithereens, Vienna
Teng, Enter The Haggis, Lucy Kaplansky, Red Molly, Christina Courtin,
Matt Duke, and Nicole Reynolds. MCs: Michaela Majoun and Gene Shay of
WXPN88.5. Children's Village, juried Crafts Fair and food vendors
available. Bring blankets and lawnchairs. Coolers welcome. Assistive
Listening Devices available.

Tickets: $35.00-$45.00. Children 12 and under admitted free with an
adult. Senior/Student/Military Discounts Available.
For tickets/directions/information visit
http://www.appelfarm.org/festival/index.html or call 800-298-4200.

Located at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, 457 Shirley Rd., Elmer,
NJ 08318
40 min. from Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE areas, 80 min. from
Trenton, NJ and Baltimore, MD areas and 2.5 hours from the NYC and DC
areas.

On Friday, May 9th, we have the honor of performing 4 of our songs, arranged for full orchestra, with the Main Line Symphony Orchestra for their Spring concert. Please visit www.mlso.org for ticket information and show details. This is not one to be missed!

Our show opening for Over the Rhine at Sellersville Theatre this coming Thursday, 3/27 has been postponed until June. More details to come, but OTR's management just announced the need to reschedule the show... More soon on the new date & details!

We just found out that we were selected by XM Satellite Radio as one of the Elite 27 of 2007 - the top 27 unsigned artists of the year!!!
Out of over 550 unsigned artists that received airplay on XMU this year, AJB is in the top 27! We're over the moon!!!

Settle back with a warm cup of cheer, have XMU on while you're putting the finishing touches on the tree or baking cookies (can you tell AJB is in the spirit of the season?) and join us tonight for our National listening party for the Best of 2007 show on XMU 43 on XM Satellite Radio at 10:00 pm. Details below...

XM RADiO will be featuring your music on the R>A>D>A>R REPORT BEST OF 2007 show at 10pm ET.

The Radar Report re-airs every Friday at 2pm ET and Saturday at 6am ET. The show airs on: XMU, XM RADIO Channel 43, XM RADIO Online, Direct TV Channel 831 and on AOL
XMU, XM 43, is located on XM SATELLiTE RADiO in the United States and Canada:

http://www.xmradio.com
or
http://xmu.xmradio.com
Listen tonight! We'll make it a Nationwide listening party!!!

We'll be performing at Appel Farm's Emerging Artist Series at their 1st Fridays at the Gallery Concerts tonight, Friday, December 7th at 8:00 pm in Elmer, NJ! Visit http://www.appelfarm.org/concerts/index.html#fridays for more show details, concert information, and directions.
We've been told that the room fills up quickly, so come on over a bit early, say hello and settle in for a wonderful evening!

It's up! Better Days is now up on YouTube from our performance on Backstage with Barry Nolan. Check it out here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLAVWlzNCMM

AJB is finally on YouTube! You can watch our National TV debut on Comcast CN8's Backstage with Barry Nolan here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYY5KHalnCg
We'll be posting our performance of Better Days soon... stay tuned!

We're making our National TV debut tonight, Monday, September 17th at 8:00 pm on Comcast, CN8 (it's channel 8 at our house!) on Backstage with Barry Nolan. 20 boys from the Philadelphia Boys Choir traveled up to Boston with us last week to do some background vocals and a song of their own... This is something you don't want to miss - AMAZING!

If you miss the show tonight, you can check out the rebroadcast Tuesday morning (9/18) at 8:00 am and on On Demand - click Get Local - all week!

Thanks for tuning in!

We're XPN 88.5's Philly Local pick of the day today, 8/30/07!!

Helen contacted us earlier this week to come in and record a couple of songs to be featured on her Philly Local show on WXPN next week! Alfred and Reed will be heading into the XPN studio on Friday, 8/31 before their performance at the Philly Song Shuffle that evening at World Cafe Live Downstairs!

Main Line Today Magazine (on newstands now!) did a article entitled "Turn up the Volume (Yes, the 'burbs really do have a music scene)" and featured Alfred James as one of their Artists to Watch! Check it out!

Talk about excited!! We just heard from the producers at CN8's Backstage with Barry Nolan (a nightly national entertainment program) and they asked us to come up to Boston to tape a performance and interview for the show!! We'll be taping September 14th up in Boston and we'll be in touch with details on when the show will air!!! Awesome!!!

After AJB's showcase at The Recording Academy's Independent's Day Music Conference in Philadelphia this past Saturday, Hilary & Alfred were asked to speak on the Management panel at the conference!! What an honor! We're officially Grammy panelists now! What a cool opportunity!!! It's opened up a few new doors for us too... more on that later...

Check out this awesome review/ write-up about our concert in Istanbul, Turkey! We played immediately following the Philadelphia Boys Choir concert for the Mayor of Istanbul (that's him on the right in the photo!). Super cool stuff!!
http://nyks.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/alfred-james-band/

We just got back from our 2 week tour of Greece & Turkey (much more on that amazing journey later!) and found out that we were selected as the Artist of the Week on XM Satellite Radio's Radar Report!!! Take a look here... http://www.xmuradarreport.com/
The show is aired nationally Thursday's at 10:00 pm!

We're officially off on our tour of Greece and Turkey! We'll be making stops in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Delphi, Athens... See you in July!! Bon Voyage!!

Thanks to all who are helping us out with our tour of Greece and Turkey this June alongside the world renowned Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale!!
Checks should be made payable to the Philadelphia Boys Choir and can be mailed to:
Alfred James Band
28 Simpson Rd.
Ardmore, PA 19003.
Thanks so much for your help in making this tour possible!!!

We just found out that we've won a contest put on by the Grammy Association! We've been selected to showcase at the opening night of a 4 part series featuring winners from the Grammy Association's singer/ songwriter contest! We'll be playing May 30th at Triumph Brewing Co. Old City Philadelphia. What an honor! Thanks Grammy's!!!

Due to circumstances out of our control, our La Salle show for Friday, April 27th has been postponed and moved to the Fall. But! We talked to our friends at Haverford College and we'll be playing there this Friday instead! Right after the Loony Tunes concert in Lundt Basement (around 10 pm). See you there!