Alfred James Band: News

2010 will hopefully bring a more organized year overall, but especially with the posting of AJB photos! All 2009 photos are now on our photo page -- check em out!

Thanks Will for writing this awesome review of our show at Swarthmore College on 11/12/09. The band had an amazing time and we were honored to share the stage with the fabulous Chaverim!! Can't wait to do it all again! In the meantime, check out this review!!

http://www.creativeanomalies.com/blog/2009/11/12/alfred-james-band-plays-swarthmore/

This past Sunday night (11/8), Alfred, Avery, and Chris headed over to the 93.7 WSTW studios for an on air performance and interview on Hometown Heroes - hosted by the excellent Mark Rogers. Check out the podcast of the show at http://www.wstw.com/heroes/ Scroll down for the 11/8 show and listen! The guys played Dream Alone, Light of My Life, Up Up Down Down and Chris Despo's Don't Be Fooled...

After band mutiny due to our beloved Phillies and the World Series Game 2 occurring on the same night as an AJB show... our show tonight (Thursday, 10/29/09) at Milkboy Acoustic Cafe in Bryn Mawr has been postponed (to December probably)... Stay tuned for the reschedule date and GO PHILLIES!!!!!

Despite the rain and thunderstorms, our show tonight at Grounds for Sculpture - www.groundsforsculpture.org - is still ON! We'll be moving the performance indoors! See you there!

This coming Sunday, 8/16, we'll be performing Downstairs at World Cafe Live for the Earbuzz 10th Anniversary Show! Check out their site - www.earbuzz.com and discover some fantastic new artists!
Tickets are $10 at the door, but if you e-mail us (hilary@alfredjamesband.com), we'll send you a voucher for $3 off your ticket!

For the latest tour, album, and insider AJB info, join our Facebook Group! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=63f85b6142793f92236052bf9543799b&gid=35611969493&ref=search

Alfred will be playing solo cello at Carnegie Hall on March 30, 2009 accompanying The Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale (and singing too!) Ticket and event info can be found at: http://www.carnegiehall.org/SiteCode/Intro.aspx

Next up for AJB is an opening spot for the amazing GrooveLily at the historic Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA. Proceeds benefit the Phoenix Village Art Center and Adesha Village. Ticket and event info can be found at http://steelcitycoffee.stores.yahoo.net/3gratcoth8pm.html

A very special thanks to everyone who came out for our show at The Kimmel Center opening for Rufus Wainwright on Valentine's Day! You made it one heck of a spectacular evening, you helped us to sell out of CD's 3/4 of the way through our show, and we loved seeing our friends and fans old and new! Looking forward to seeing all of you very soon!!!

We wanted to send a special thank you to XPN and Sleepy Hollow for playing our new instrumental, Sleep, on the show! If you like what you hear, please request Alfred James at www.xpn.org!! Thanks!! :)

We are beyond excited about this one!!! We'll be an opener for Rufus Wainwright at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, February 14th! We'll be playing before and after the show in the Commonwealth Plaza... Details/ ticket info can be found at www.kimmelcenter.org/free

On October 22nd Alfred and Reed did an acoustic show at The Kimmel Center following the Chris Thile (Nickel Creek) and Edgar Meyer concert for the Kimmel Center's new young professional's networking group - Forte. Check out some video here! http://streettalkin.com/entertainment/philly-performing-arts/ also... Forte is a fantastic organization for music lovers! Check them out at http://www.kimmelcenter.org/forte

We wanted to thank all of our family and friends who came out to see us at Dogfish Head in Gaithersburg last night... and unfortunately never got to see us play since we weren't able to get there! We were really bummed about missing everyone... Sadly here's what happened... We got stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the show that shut down I-95 for about 2.5 hours Sat. night. 2 motorcycles collided about 1/4 of a mile ahead of us, killing one motorcyclist and critically injuring another. It was a scary experience being that close to such a serious wreck - maybe Julie getting held up at the Wawa or the bathroom stop at the Maryland House was a blessing in disguise. Really puts things into perspective when you're that close to tragedy. So... thanks to everyone who came out and we'll be rescheduling the show, so stay tuned... Thanks also to the management and folks at Dogfish Head who were so understanding...

Thanks for that great F# to G...

Alfred

More press! :) Our thanks to Will Bancroft for his article on AJB in Princeton's US1 newspaper. Check out the article here!...
http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&Itemid=6&key=07-02-2008+Alfred+James&more=1

Our thanks to Megan Sullivan at The Princeton Packet who did a cover story on AJB for the June 25th edition of the newspaper! Check out the full article here!... http://packetonline.com/articles/2008/06/26/time_off/entertainment_news/doc48625aaf76528131421740.txt

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Check out this awesome Shout Out from our friend, Russ Starke, at UsedWigs.com in a review for the fantastic Ben Sollee's new album... Thanks Russ!!

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!