Django's Cadillac: News

This Friday, August 11, at noon 0’clock, we’re going to be playing for the Bite of Oregon. If you don’t know about it, this is a great event held over three days at the waterfront in Portland. It’s a benefit for the Special Olympics, so not only do you get to enjoy a great event with great music and food, it’s also all goes to a good cause. If you’re in the vicinity on Friday, come on by the Fountain Stage around noon and we’ll be wailing away. Later that evening, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men open for headliner Los Lobos. All in all, a great day of music and food.

If you haven’t done it yet, we’d be tickled pink if you’d check out our new CD at

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/djangoscadillac2
Also, check out the Tumbleweed Music Festival in the Tri-cities on Sept 2. We’ll be headlining this event. Check it out at:

http://www.3rfs.org/tmf.htm
If you’re not busy this Labor Day, join us there. Hope to see you soon.

If you haven’t done it yet, we’d be tickled pink if you’d check out our new CD at

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/djangoscadillac2
We worked hard on it and think it sounds pretty good. It doesn’t hurt at all that Joe Craven added tasty percussion to it.

If you’d like to hear it live or if you just want to shake that thang, this is a pretty good week for that. Thursday, August 3, we’ll be at the Trillium Café. Things start around 7:30. Then on Friday, August 4, we’ll be back with the good folks on the Sternwheeler. The boat starts loading at 5:30 and leaves the dock at 6:00 so don’t be late. We’ll be playing outside on the top deck, which is always special. Then on Saturday, August 5, we’ll be back for another round at the Trillium. 7:30 again.

Great news! We’ve been selected as the headliners for the Tumbleweed Music Festival in the Tri-cities on Sept 2. This is a great festival with a wide variety of styles and we’re thrilled to be playing there. Check it out at:

http://www.3rfs.org/tmf.htm
If you’re not busy this Labor Day, join us there. Hope to see you soon.

This Friday, May 19, we’ll be at the Trillium Café around 7:30 ish. Our buddy Tim Ortlieb will be on drums and Larry Wyatt will be on rhythm guitar. This will be our first chance to try out the new Trillium PA.

Then, mark your calendars for Thursday, June 22. This will be our official CD release party and we’re going to celebrate by doing a gig at the River City Saloon in Hood River. To make things even better, our good friend Joe Craven will be playing with us, wowing everyone with his amazing talent on percussion, violin, and who knows what else. And if that’s not enough, the next night, June 23, will find us in Portland at Mississippi Studios. Joe will be with us again for this show and it should be a complete blast.

So, get your dancing shoes on and come on out to the Trillium this Friday to get tuned up.

For those of you that were at the Gorgedance (www.gorgedance.net) swing dance on Feb 28th, check the pictures section of our web page. You might see yourself. If you weren't there, check anyway, you might see your friends.

We spent March 1 in the studio with Joe Craven putting down percussion tracks for our new CD. This week we started the mixing process. It won't be long.

This Friday, March 10, we'll be at the Trillium Cafe in Hood River. Come on by. We start around 7:30ish.

That's all for now and thanks for listening.

Springtime’s just around the corner here at the Cadillac Ranch and we’ve got lots of stuff brewing. First of all, for those of you in the Gorge and anyone else that wants to come, this Friday, February 24th, we’ll be playing a swing dance at the Hood River Elks Lodge. It’s open to the public. This is a semi-monthly event organized by the folks at www.gorgedance.net who are doing a great job organizing the swing dance community in the Gorge. Dance lessons start at 8:00 and we start playing at 9:00.

Then, we’d like to announce our new web page. It’s been totally redesigned with all new stuff, including a couple of videos for you to check out. We’ll be adding new stuff all the time, such as a tune off our new CD. Yep, that’s right the new CD is right around the corner. We’ll be doing the final mixdown and mastering the week of March 6. The artwork and final package design will be the following week. It takes a couple of weeks to manufacture the CDs, so they should be here, well, before you know it. In the meantime, keep checking the new web page and we’ll put a song up as soon as the first one is complete. Oh, and be sure to sign our guestbook while you’re there; a free CD goes to the first person to sign it.

Last summer we had the opportunity to play a gig with Joe Craven www.joecraven.com Joe will be coming back to town next week and doing a rhythm workshop and concert in Mosier at the Mosier Grange on Wednesday, March 1. Joe’s one of the best entertainers I’ve ever seen and I really don’t think you should miss this. You can get details from Sue Bloomster at susanbloomster@earthlink.net or via her web site at http://www.dovetailevents.com Rumor has it that Joe might also be around to put some percussion tracks on a certain soon to be released CD.

Well, that’s all for now and thanks for listening.