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JetBlue Tour in full effect! Emma and Bryan leave today for the JetBlue tour, coming to a city near you! We are flying all over the US with flat-rate airfare to play all the cities on our wishlist - check the Tour page for specifics. See you soon! Emma and Bryan in Alaska! Get ready, Alaskans - we are heading your way this week. Check out the Tour page for all the details. We're hitting a lot of spots over a two week period, so hopefully we'll be in your town! Emma Hill has an iPhone app! Oh man! Did you hear that there's an Emma Hill iphone app? (hehe I don't own an iphone, but i've infiltrated) You can get it here! We plan on providing super awesome stuff that you can't get anywhere else on this application. Think pre-releases and contests! Tell your friends! Welcome the new Gentlemen Callers! Please join Emma and me in welcoming our two new band members! New drummer Andy Nelson was my compadre in Scotland Barr & the Slow Drags. He's a solid guy and a prolific Facebook poster. New bassist John Blunk has played bass for more bands than I've ever heard of, and he's rocking the upright for us now. Welcome to the band, guys! - Bryan (pedal steel)
Orion Independent Music Festival We are honored to be playing the first annual Orion Independent Music Festival in Park City, Utah. We will be playing two dates: Friday, January 15th at 7 PM at The Spur and Saturday, January 16th at 11 PM at Flanagan's. This is our first trip to Park City, and we're excited! We'll also be checking in with the great Mountain Views program on Park City TV on Thursday the 14th at 6 PM. You can watch it live online here. Bundle up!
Help US OUT!!!! Other cool things- Please sign up for our email list! We are headed out on a 7 week national tour this summer WITH THE FULL BAND and we want to be able to give you the heads up when we are getting near YOU! There may be some special perks to being on our email list coming soon as well such as free downloads to unreleased songs and live albums!!!! WOOT WOOT!! Another REALLY REALLY helpful thing everyone could do is call your favorite local radio stations and request some Emma Hill. It's very likely that they'll have the album because boy have we sent out a ton!! If they don't have it, demand that they get their hands on it for the next time you call in!! :) This will help us a gazillion times over. Spreading the word is crucial. These people have our material they just need to realize that they should be playing it and that people want to hear it!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!! xoxoxoemma hill and the gang PS-PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD New Email List, Sign Up Now Hi all, Thanks, New album on Cdbaby xoxoEmma Hill and Kuskokwim Records New single on Cdbaby and
Itunes!!!! Hi all. Just wanted to let people know that Emma has a new single up on CDbaby and Itunes. The single is “One Glass Too Many” and is off of her new album “Clumsy Seduction” which will be released next month. The digital single can be picked up for only $1. We think this song is pretty sweet and we hope you think so too. Thanks, P.S. Recording! xoxoemma hill Escape the Rain Tour:
Week 2! We woke up early the next day to head to Yosemite. I cannot put in words how beautiful Yosemite National Park is. I've never experienced beauty like it and I'm from freakin Alaska!!! We spend two amazing days there and sweet Mama Yo took such good care of us! We got our own room in resident housing and ate and drank for free. I ended up playing two shows at the loft and both went really well. We were fortunate enough to meet and play with 3 wonderful singer/songwriters named Jake Hill, Jim Hanft and Tim Mcglow. We had so much fun trading off songs and learning each others music. I know that those two days in Yosemite are really gonna stick with me. Thanks so much Yolanda!! On the 24th we woke up and grabbed some grub from the lodge and then started to trek up the mountain to get to Reno. We made it up just fine and then made the stupid decision of taking small roads and ended up 7000 feet up the Sierras on highway 88 before we were turned around my a cop telling us it was closed ahead. We had to backtrack our way back to the 49 and take it up to the 50 and crossed the mountains again! 5000 feet twice and 7000 once all in one day. We ended up driving for a total of 9 hours that day because people down here don't know how to handle a little snow. BUT we made it and I was so happy to see Ciara that I forgot all about it. Last night I played a show here at the Holland Project which is a wonderful little art collective based out of a house in downtown Reno. It was a great turnout and I played with two awesome musicians, Yudai and Will. They both really impressed me. Now it's the 26th and I get to spend the day with Ciara and then Garrett and I will entertain ourselves this evening while she's at work. We plan on leaving for Salt lake early tomorrow morning. I have a show there tomorrow night at Red Light Books. I'm very excited because I continue to hear more and more cool things about the place! Well that is all I have for you today. I love and miss everyone back home. I've been daydreaming about my new apartment and I can't wait to get back and set it up. Talk to you again soon! xoxoemma hill Escape the Rain Tour
Days 1 2 and 3 The next day was hot and sunny and perfect for driving. After about 4 and 1/2 hours we got into Crescent City and from the git-go Garrett and I were wondering about the place. We drove around and called The Pizza King and they had no idea what was going on and said call back later. We went down to the beach and drove around town finding free internet. There were no cool people out and about except this very nice older lady making a fire on the beach. She was awesome and I wanted to talk to her more but I also wanted to run away from Crescent City which had no good vibes. We called The Pizza King back and all the guy could say was "I don't know darlin'" so we decided to head south to Arcata. After another hour and half of driving I decided I wanted to sleep in a bed so we splurged for a Super Motel 8 room. I was glad for a shower and some sleep. This morning we came into town and started exploring. As soon as we hit Arcata, I remembered why I loved this place. It is FULL of good vibes. Everyone you meet is so nice and helpful. I love the Redwood park full of all the beautiful trees and views. I got to climb up and sit on the stump of a tree that was about 10 feet high and like 6 feet wide! How fun! We checked out the local record shop and played in the Plaza for awhile. We then rode about 5 miles out of town out to the Cape and got to run around in some dunes and see the ocean from both sides. Then we went even further down on Jetty Rd and got to walk along the sea wall with waves splashing up at us. It was very relaxing. I really really love this town and I don't think I would have one problem living here. I think I might make that a goal for my life-spend at least one year living in Arcata. Now we are sitting in the CO-OP parking lot stealing their internet and waiting for an awesome open mic to start. It's called Menstrual Mondays! I'm super stoked to play it and here all the music Arcata women have to share. We found a girl on Couchsurfers to stay with and she spins fire and is in a circus so her and Garrett will have all kinds of things to talk about! I'll probably drink a beer and go to sleep...all this driving makes me tired. Tomorrow we head for Fairfax. I found out today that Aaron is going to be in Berkeley this weekend so I'm very excited to see him while we're both in California. I'm also super excited to meet and play at my Aunt Becky's house. It sounds like we're going to have a really great turnout that night. Garrett plans on catching the Ferry over the city a day early to meet up with friends. I'll be meeting up with him on the 21st to play my show at Socha Cafe on Mission St. So if you have any friends in San Fran, tell them to come see me play!!! Alright everyone, that's enough for now. I miss you all and hope to see a lot of you for the first time on this trip. I'm excited! Love you all |