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Mighty Crows
at a venue near you!
- Wednesday, July 22nd
- Sam's BBQ, SJ
- Saturday, August 22nd - Palo Alto Lawn Bowling Club BBQ
- Wednesday, August 26th - Sam's BBQ, SJ
- Wednesday, September 23rd - Freight and Salvage, Berkeley
- Wednesday, September 30th - Sam's BBQ
- More info,
more shows...
photo by Mike
Melnyk
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News and Stuff
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The Crows had a mighty fine time at the CBA Father's Day bluegrass festival. We spent the whole week. The highlight was whooping it up on Vern's stage on Friday evening. It was our 100th gig and we celebrated by sharing some black crows candy with the audience. What else? Well we did finally finish the 1.75L bottle of Old Crow that we use to celebrate birthdays. Cheap bourbon, cool name. You can find some pictures by Doctor Dave and Mike Melnyk
http://doctordave.smugmug.com/gallery/8669813_CiqWp/12
and on
http://mikemelnyk.com/cba_fdf_09/
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 "Bluegrass
band the Mighty Crows perform on Wednesday, April
22, 2009, at Palo Alto's Community Farmshop farmers
market in front of Palo Alto City Hall. In addition
to shopping and music, there was a cooking demonstration
at the market. (Joshua Melvin/Daily News)"
Where's Dave? I guess Joshua figured Dave wasn't
photo worthy. We think he really captured Ken's bluegrass
essence.
 We'd
like to thank the academy...
The Mighty Crows won Band Of The
Year during the Northern California Bluegrass
Society's 2009 award show.
Awwwww shucks . |
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for pictures (hint: we're 75 - 90)
 We
had a fine time at the
Starry Plough during SFBOT. It's always nice to
play in Berkeley, Jeff's home town. The show was part
of the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old Time Festival
(SFBOT)
which continues through February 14th. The other acts
on the show included our friends in High
Country and the Alhambra
Valley Band who all did a might fine job.The show
started late and we didn't get on the stage until
almost midnight. Fortunately, there were plenty of
hearty souls left to cheer us on for the late set.
So what about the pictures? Mike
Melnyk was there snapping photos. He takes some
of the best photos in the biz. We count on him to
unintentionally update our home page photo every now
and then. He also has a nice quote about us on his
web site: "They’ve got the talent and the
look to go with it, but if they take off their hats
they look just like you and me. I can hardly recognize
them." Thanks MIke, we don't recognize you when
you don't have that camera in front of your face,
so we know what you mean!
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New
Tag Line for the Crows
After looking around at other bands descriptions
and reviews and I think there may be a more accurate
way to describe ourselves. "Mighty Crows, bluegrass
with no contemporary sensibilities."
Facebook
Is it one more electronic thing to spend time updating
or is it a good way to inform and find new fans? We
don't know, but there's now a Fans
of The Mighty Crows group.
Highway 52 at GOF
Here's a moving
picture for you. Nancy Zuniga taped this rendering
of Dave Evans' Highway 52 and posted it on YouTube a
while ago. I just neglected to post a link here. We
should be up to a couple million views in no time at
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Mighty Crows Take to the Air
- KPFA
KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech
Radio (and Free Bluegrass) We played on Ray Edlund's
Pig in a Pen. Did you miss it? You
can listen to it here.
eMail list
We're switching to a mailing list service! We want to
make sure that you want to hear from us. Sorry for the
extra work but this means you need to sign up to get
on our list even if you were already getting email from
us. We promise to send you just enough email so that
you know where we are playing and you can opt out at
any time! Go to the Contact page
to sign up or opt out.
Quotes and Links to Venues:
We've added a page of quotes just in case you were
wondering what folks are saying
about the Crows. Besides, it might help you decide
to come out and see us some time.
Archive of News Items and Other
Such Stuff:
Did you miss something? Do you have another
half hour to go before work ends for the week? We'll
start putting that in either the Pictures
Page or The Lost Archives. |
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 The Mighty
Crows is a Bay Area bluegrass band with a style and
repertoire that borrows heavily from the traditional sounds
of The Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs,
Vern Williams, Red Allen and Jimmy Martin. If you like the
old time bluegrass we'll get along just fine. Butch Waller
from High
Country says "It doesn't get any more straight
ahead than that; you all are 'bluegrass boys' for sure."
Want to decide for yourself? Are you ready for a band with no "contemporary sensibilities?" We would love
to have you come join us some time or you can just listen
to some tunes from our demo or
some video clips from a taping
we did for a local cable show.
The Mighty Crows are available for BBQs, corporate
events, weddings, or just about any other event that needs
some music. Get yourself to the contact
us page and let us know what we can do for you.
The Band includes
Chris Smith on guitar, Jeff Zieba on banjo, Ken Torke on
mandolin and Mark Wardenburg on fiddle and Dave Walker on
bass. Most of the singing is built around the trio sound
of Chris, Jeff, and Mark but everybody sings and everybody
has fun. We've played at the Freight and Salvage, RBA, Plymouth,
GOF, SFBOT, Wolf Mountain, Sam's BBQ, the Riptide, on local
cable, radio and more.
More about the band... |
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