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May 16, 2013
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JOIN US FOR A FULL BAND SHOW THIS SUNDAY AT THE U DISTRICT
STREET FAIR, DETAILS ON OUR SHOWS PAGE |
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May 15, 2013
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Yesterday, we woke up to the sound of trees
falling. Massive firs, a hundred feet tall, raining down in
chunks as big around as my kick drum and making nearly the same
thud when they hit the startled grass. Imagine being an
earthworm under that grass!
Read more at our
BLOG
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March 31, 2013
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Rising out of our hibernation like hounds on the heels of the
great fox of sun, we have just booked a few summer shows. The
dust on the drums is dancing now. The violin is tuned to the
apple blooms. |
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February 4, 2013 |
When an
artist is playing wonderfully, the self no longer exists. There
is only love and beauty, and that is art. ~Krishnamurti |
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December 12, 2012
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New Blog:
In Pursuit of Shaggy Parasols |
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December 9, 2012
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We are locked in a home repair vortex, circling towards a
livable space to work on art and music. Help us if you can by
purchasing some artwork from our
Winter Gallery. |
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December 4, 2012
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The Great Chemist who inspired our song "Belize" appears in this
video. A must see for all Winterlings fans and friends of "THE
ANIMAL GROOM" ALBUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRZCpashDs&feature=plcp |
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December 1, 2012 |
“We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the
ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or
burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.” ~Pablo
Neruda |
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November 7, 2012
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JOIN US NOVEMBER 16-18 AT THE BEST OF THE
NORTHWEST ART SHOW IN SEATTLE! |
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November 3, 2012
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In a sudden Northwest "Rain Fever" we have suspended our gigs in
order to go mushroom hunting. We just can't resist the call of the
Shaggy Parasol. |
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September 16, 2012 |
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption." Kurt Cobain |
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September 12, 2012
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“ Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline
yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with
affection, love and kindness. ” Yogi Bhajan |
August 18, 2012 |
Yesterday, serendipity sang for us and we sang back: we stopped in
for lunch at
The
Grill on Broadway in Capitol Hill and while eating a red bean
burger, pine nut quesadillas and sweet potato fries, saw a sound
engineer setting up. We asked him when the show started and he told
us a talent show was scheduled that night. "You should come play,"
he said. We did, and it was an amazing night, hosted by the
legendary Drag Queen, Mama Tits. Our competition, brilliant and
brave, included a Drag Queen who stapled money to her flesh using a
huge staple gun and an impressive indie songwriter. We sang a
stripped down version of four songs (no foot drums, just gitjo and
guitar and tambourine) and won the first round! Join us Sept. 21 for
the finals, and hopefully our band will join us. And if you haven't
yet been to
The
Grill on Broadway, you owe it to yourself. Sit in the back,
under the live trees... |
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August 2, 2012
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We want to wish our drummer a wonderful birthday! Here he is holding
one of his "drum brushes" with which he has wooed this young lady. |
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July 24, 2012
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We have a wonderful weekend planned on your
behalf and would love for you to come hear and stare at some of our
creations! FIRST, a full band show in BURIEN on Thursday Night.
SECOND, an ALL WEEKEND (Fri, Sat & Sun) ART SHOW at 6th
Street Fair in Bellevue where you can gaze upon some massive and
vibrant artwork, some of which has been years in the making. THIRD,
we will be playing music at the 6th Street Fair, too,
from 3:30-5:30 on Friday. Details on our SHOWS
PAGE |
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July 22, 2012
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Last weekend we played a show at Cape Disappointment State Park,
though the rain and sea-spray might have ended it. Just as we were
about to fold our wet instruments back in their cases, a man in the
audience yelled, "I have a tent! I will get you a tent!" And here it
is. Bless the hundred or so souls who sat in the rain and listened
through an hour and a half show. We slept in the lighthouse keepers
house. |
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July 12, 2012
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In the wake of several full band shows, we took to the streets of
Pioneer Square for Nord Alley's First Thursday Art Walk and played
in an amazing cobblestone and brick corridor. Then we rolled over
the mountains to the blazing, high desert of Yakima where we played
our hottest show ever, at 103 degrees in the shade. At one point, in
a new song, Wolff sang "Wildfires" instead of "Wildflowers" but no
one seemed to notice. It was so hot that the civil war actors who
frequent the festival refused to march when we played "Jennie
Hodgers." We played it anyway. |
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June 19, 2012
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Somehow, we have made it to mid-June, and our drummer and bass
player have added mysterious new thunder to our sound, like the
echoes from a hollowed redwood log being thumped by a tribe of
ghosts.
We've made so many old friends new again by spending time sharing
our voices, our stories, even our sleep. From the leaky raft of a
blow-up mattress to the overlooked fiddle left out near the
mountains, we have been adding new stars to the constellation of
Seattle and you, reading this, are also shining in our unified sky.
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May 29, 2012 |
This Saturday, we're excited to be playing at
Bastyr Food & Herb Fair
, an amazing event featuring "The Mushroom King" mycologist Paul
Stamets and workshops on such staggering science as The
Phytochemistry of Entheogens! |
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May 22, 2012
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New Blog:
http://thewinterlings.blogspot.com/ |
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May 3, 2012
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We've been thundering into a cold, wet spring with a 3rd Winterling,
Drummer P. Race, who took us walking to a huge rock in the front
yard of a home in Seattle. This photo documents the visit. We're
playing lots of spring shows, including Northwest Folklife and the U
District Street Fair. |
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March 23, 2012
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“The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those
moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not
excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little
bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it,
no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following
your bliss.” -Joseph Campbell |
March 14, 2012 |
From the stark shores of winter, we've got great news: We're playing
the INDIE ROOTS STAGE at NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE this Summer. |
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March 4, 2012
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"We grow more from loving what is right; than
criticizing what is wrong." - Cintra |
February 22, 2012 |
" When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to
the rest of the world." - John Muir |
February 10, 2012 |
Blizzard on Hurricane Ridge...
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December 21, 2011
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We have entered a winter cocoon and expect to emerge with new wings
in the spring... |
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December 6, 2011
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After a long haul from Seattle to Florida, Wolff missed the
Northwest so much that he turned around a hauled a 16 foot trailer
4,000 miles home to Seattle... This shot was taken in Northern California a few hours before the
mountains became impassable due to snow. |
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November 9, 2011
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The Animal Groom just received a "Featured" Review at NO DEPRESSION!
This is a Great Honor. |
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October 25, 2011
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We just drove 3,000 miles in 3 days! From a stunning, sweet show
with couples slow-dancing to "All The Good Things" in Ellensburg, WA
to Pittsburgh, PA, we drove the wild mystical highways of Montana
and into the rainswept green of Pennsylvania.
Join us Nov. 4th for a very special show hosted by legendary folk
DJ Gene Shay at PSALM SALON. Details are on our
SHOWS PAGE |
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September 23, 2011 |
Just found out that
KQAL FM
in Winona, Minnesota is airing a show with us this Friday, Sept. 23
at 6:30 PM, Minnesota Time. That's Central Time, so work the math. |
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September 20, 2011 |
"To be
nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody
else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and
never stop fighting."
--e. e. cummings |
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August 24th, 2011 |
At the
center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and
you know what you want.
--Lao Tzu |
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August 20th, 2011 |
We just found out that KBCS in Bellevue, WA (Seattle) named our
album The Animal Groom as one of the 10 BEST OF 2010. Thank you,
Bellevue. |
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August 3rd, 2011
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From our basecamp in the shadows of Hurricane
Ridge on the Olympic Peninsula in the spectacular state of
Washington, we’ve been sleeping in a motorcoach, singing beside a
woodstove in a steel cave and roaring off to play shows in a 1983
Dodge Ram truck known as “old blue.” Last week we took Old Blue
across Puget Sound on two ferries and played at a magical resort
called Doe Bay on Orcas Island.
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July 13th, 2011
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As we travelled the wilds of the Washington coast, we wandered upon
a very bright bloom which absolutely resembled one of the members of
our band. We snapped a quick picture so you would believe it. |
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July 3rd, 2011 |
“Myth is the
hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is
still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to
get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.” ~Italo
Calvino |
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June 29th, 2011
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We've been soaking up the misty grandeur of Washington and tuning up
beside a woodstove. Amanda took this snap of the coast at Salt
Creek. |
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June 10th, 2011 |
"Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible,
and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we
can comprehend is my religion." -- Albert Einstein |
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June 7th, 2011 |
We've just added shows in Portland, OR and Bainbridge Island, WA. |
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June 1st, 2011
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We made it to Washington just in time to take a big drink of fresh
rain and play at the NorthWest Folklife Festival in Seattle, on a
dry and cool Sunday afternoon. We wandered a sculpture garden and
spent our evenings walking a Swiss Mountain Dog named Moose. |
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May 16, 2011
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We just received a few snaps of our show at The Livingroom! Thanks
to WFUV DJ John Platt and Gordon Nash and all who came out to the
show. CLICK HERE FOR OUR PHOTO PAGE
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May 10, 2011 |
Winterlings - The Animal Groom
This is a lovely blend of lush
contemporary atmosphere and
traditional sensibility from the duo
of Amanda Birdsall and Wolff Bowden.
While the reverb creates big spaces,
fiddles, banjos and bagpipes take us
back in time. The lyrical content
gives us a lot to chew on. In “The
Postman,” full of stark beauty,
Wolff sings: Yes I’m just a postman
/ I’ve been working all my life /
Come wind, come snow, come rain,
come heartbreak hurricane / I’m on
my way. The burr in Amanda’s voice
is accented by a deliberate
stutter-step in her delivery. Akin
to Buffy Sainte Marie’s vibrato, it
might be distracting from another
singer, but here it works
beautifully. We look forward to
hearing more from them. ~Acoustic
Live NYC
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May 9, 2011 |
In spite of discovering 500 giant black ants (the size of a house
key) on our tour bus and a seized and smoking brake caliper a few
hours before our show, we made it to Appel Farm and played a SOLD
OUT SHOW to a very appreciative and spiritual audience. Thank you to
all who made the show so magical. |
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May 3, 2011 |
Our Appel Farm ART & MUSIC show this Friday, May 6 is NEARLY SOLD
OUT!!!! If you'd like to come, please reserve your ticket now at
APPEL FARM. |
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April 19, 2011
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We had a magical Earth Day at The Blue Plate Special in Knoxville.
We played with Mandolin Orange, an amazing Carolina Duo, and The
Travelin' McCourys. |
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April 19, 2011 |
We're excited to hear that our song, "Take Give" was the 3rd most
played song on Sirius XM's The Village. Thank you to our fans and
supporters. |
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April 18, 2011 |
We were finalists at Eddie's Attic Songwriter's Showdown on Monday
Night, but were outside being interviewed for a documentary when we
were called up for our final song, so it was "All of The Good
Things" with a breathless edge from running up stairs with our
instruments. |
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April 14, 2011
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The view from our tour bus window on our third night out on The
Dogwood Tour. This is a shot of a muddy little creek in Atlanta. |
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April 10, 2011 |
"The big question is whether you are going
to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure." Joseph Campbell
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March 23, 2011 |
"Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is the dimension of
here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if
you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere." Joseph Campbell |
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March 13, 2011 |
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him
most about humanity, answered "Man.... Because he sacrifices his
health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to
recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future
that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does
not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never
going to die, and then dies having never really lived." |
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March 3, 2011 |
“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask,
don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you
relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.” Osho |
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February 22, 2011 |
We're booking dates from Miami to Seattle so check our
SHOWS page and join us on the journey this
springsummerfall... Also, let us know if you have a venue you'd like
us to play or would like to host a house concert.
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The Winterlings with our Friends Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin |
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true
friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first...
when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” ~Paramahansa
Yogananda
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| February 3, 2011
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We've just created a
Valentine's
Gallery with new paintings of ice masks, guitar goddesses and
glowing orchids.
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| January 28, 2011 |
We're excited to announce that we'll be opening for Folk Legends
Danny
Schmidt &
Carrie
Elkin on February 10th in Sarasota, then on the 12th,
we'll join a dozen New College Alum bands to celebrate New College's
50th Anniversary. |
| January 19, 2011 |
"Possessing by letting go of
things was a secret of ownership
unknown to youth."
—
Yukio Mishima
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| December 16, 2010 |
Our new album THE ANIMAL GROOM, is back on the Roots Music Report's
Folk Music Chart at #6. |
| December 2, 2010 |
Five hour snow drive to Donegal, PA, nearly running out of gas while
lost in the mountains. Played a show with Amanda on violin again
after 3 months break and she played gorgeously while her nephew was
being born in Florida. Sang On The Night You Were Born in the little
guy's honor. Ate pan roasted Salmon with artichoke risotto. Drove to
Downtown Pittsburgh and sold six paintings (4 Amanda's, 2 Wolff's)
at midnight to a collector who is getting married tomorrow night.
Nested at the home of beloved friends. All in a day's work for The
Winterlings.
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| November 30, 2010 |
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| November 19, 2010 |
We've released our FIRST MUSIC VIDEO from THE ANIMAL GROOM! It has a theme of Gratitude and
Thanksgiving, so we thought it would be a perfect way to say thank
you to everyone who has supported our journey... We have
POSTED THE
VIDEO on our website and on our Facebook Page. |
| November 7, 2010 |
"My actions are my only true belongings." — Thich Nhat Hanh |
| November 6, 2010 |
We just found out that our new album THE ANIMAL GROOM, landed on the
Roots Music Report's Folk Music Chart at #12. Bob Dylan's new
album is #15. |
| October 26, 2010
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We were chosen as one of the 28 Best Bands of CMJ! |
| October 20, 2010 |
We've been chosen as the "W" in PASTE'S A-Z CMJ MUSIC GUIDE! |
| October 17, 2010 |
An amazing fan shot video and photos from
our Tin Angel CD Release Show! |
| October 8, 2010 |
I say unto you, there is no evil and there are no evil forces in the
world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who
are fast asleep and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the
hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the
whole world. -- OSHO |
| October 3, 2010 |
Word has it that as we were playing
our show tonight, WFUV's Vin Scelsa was spinning tracks from our
about to be released album, The Animal Groom. |
| October 2, 2010 |
We've been selected for a Tricentric Showcase at The North East
Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Conference! The name alone is so
impressive that we're thinking of ordering an internet certificate
if they don't give us one or if theirs isn't gilded with real 24K
gold. And we're going to have to learn to say it for our upcoming
radio interview on WDIY in Bethlehem on Wednesday. |
| September 30, 2010 |
This just in from a great Vermont
Radio Station: "I listened to your CD over the weekend and loved it!
I've picked 3 songs for airplay. This is what will be spinning on
WMUD/WCLX in a couple of days...Take Give, All of the Good Things
and Jennie
Hodgers. |
| September 22, 2010 |
The Winterlings have been selected to SHOWCASE at CMJ's MUSIC
MARATHON IN NEW YORK CITY. We'll be playing upstairs at The
Livingroom October 22! |
| September 16, 2010
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Gandhi said, "I am a lover of my own liberty and so would do nothing
to restrict yours." |
| September 5, 2010
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We had a stunning time playing live on WXPN PHILADELPHIA last night.
Gene Shay is not only a grandmaster DJ, but also hilarious. We
talked a bit about our banjitar, a camel and an oasis where folks
sat around drinking coconut milk. After performing four songs, Gene
played the studio version of his favorite, "Take Give." We then
signed the legendary WXPN WALL just under a duo we adore, The
Weepies. Expect video and audio in the future... |
| September 2, 2010 |
Tomorrow night we'll be opening for Blues Master Joe Louis Walker at
the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY! |
| August 29, 2010 |
Rolled out of Charlotte after playing at a hummingbird festival and
a twilight show at Pura Vida Art, Ten hours through the sweet cool
dark. Home to Pennsylvania with the dawn. |
| August 25, 2010 |
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams
because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing
dreams. ~
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| August 23, 2010 |
“To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.” ~ e.e. cummings |
| August 19, 2010 |
We've got new lo-fi video of Belize up on our Video
page. It might be best to listen with earphones since the camera's
audio teams up with most computer speakers to put the low in lo-fi. |
| August 16, 2010 |
Yesterday with a guitar in my arms I watched a tiny hummingbird sip
pollen from the cup of a jasmine blossom. Around her swarmed a
symphony of bees. |
| August 13, 2010 |
In 1862, the Swift-Tuttle comet crossed the skies above the head of
a female civil war soldier named Jennie Hodgers who lived as a man
named Albert Cashiers. She/he may have seen the comet pass. Last
night, while listening to our song "Jennie Hodgers" we watched a
meteor shower made up of the fragments from that 1862 comet and the
ghost of Jennie Hodgers sat beside us in the dark. |
| August 11, 2010 |
This just in from one of our fans: "I am loving the album (THE
ANIMAL GROOM) as I am listening to it atleast once a day....i think
three times today...I keep on saying the smiling dalai lama long may
you live...and almost know all of the good things by heart!! what a
blessing you two are!! "~ Jessica |
| August 9, 2010 |
"Your living is determined not so much by what
life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much
by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what
happens."
~ Kahlil Gibran |
| August 7, 2010
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This morning we found out that our song “Take
Give” was played during a live on-the-air Radio Wedding at WMNF in
Tampa. The vows may have followed the lyrics of the song:“If I
walked across the sea, would you walk along with me?” Sounds like a
fine romantic question to ask, steeped with philosophical and
metaphorical possibilities. Much better than “for richer or for
poorer” because if you walk across the sea, you won’t be able to
carry anything but love or you’ll sink. And to Winterlings, richness
is the enjoyment of a long walk with the one you love across a sea
or a forest or the wide, bright island of life. |
| August 3, 2010 |
Listen To The Winterlings' song
"Take Give" Played on Philadelphia's
Powerhouse of Independent Radio: WXPN. Legendary DJ Gene Shay also
discusses the merits of Wolff's harmonica.
Take Give on WXPN
You can also request "Take Give" or any other
song by The Winterlings here:
Request The Winterlings on WXPN
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July 18, 2010
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Just received news of some upcoming shows in Pennsylvania in
September. We'll update our shows page when the details become
finalized. |
| June 30, 2010 |
Last Sunday Night WXPN Philadelphia
played the pre-release single "Take
Give" from The Winterlings’ new album, The Animal
Groom. The Folk Show's host Gene Shay just might play it again next
week. You can help by making a
request. Ask him to play "Take Give" again or more music
from The Winterlings.
Request The Winterlings on WXPN
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| June 3, 2010
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We spent two days Mastering THE ANIMAL GROOM at Masterworks with
Master Peter Humphreys... |
| May 28, 2010
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Our Maestro, Composer and peerless Producer stares down the
mixing board on a final pass at "Long May You Live." |
| May 19, 2010 |
"Back of every creation, supporting it like
an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if
one believes, then miracles occur."~
Henry
Miller |
| March 11, 2010 |
My true religion, my simple faith
is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated
philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the
temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for
their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are - these are
ultimately all we need. ~ Dalai Lama |
