Miriams Well News and Announcements

The Return to SXSW

We are heading down to Austin on Tuesday to get ready to play the Disney Land of music. We have 5 showcases this year at SXSW. The list of shows is on the website so you can check them out. When we get back, we'll head over to Idaho for a few shows and then finish March off with a show in town to support labor solidarity. That show will be at the Musicians Union Hall. Working on shows for May right… (read more)

Lots and lots of news news news

November 13, 2011

There's a lot happening! Where to start?! Mir has been busy taking part in Occupy Portland, joining in mass rallies and protests as well as bringing MW songs to the people. We will post videos on our FB page for you at https://www.facebook.com/miriamswellmusic We just finished a new Occupy tune called Union Song, co-written with our friends from Philadelphia, The Turnips. While we've been playing… (read more)

NEW REVIEW SINGLE OF THE WEEK!

October 11, 2011

Diamonds, from our album Indians And Clowns, is the Single of the Week on John Shelton Ivany's Top 21. We are the 5th review down, just beneath the Cars and Death Cab For Cutie! Please check it out! I was a bit blown away at his ability to pull the meaning out of our music. Read the review here. http://www.jsitop21.com/current (read more)

October 11, 2011

A huge thank you to the beautiful state of Idaho for embracing us in a very major hug! We played Tom Grainey's in Boise, they invited us back, and they dug the shows so much that they're gonna have us back monthly for full weekend shows. Pocatello got the bug and will be having us back. I believe McCall's is comin down the pike along with Ketchum. Hey T.G's thanks for the other night! Your bartenders… (read more)

On The Road Again

September 6, 2011

Leaving bright and early Thursday morning for a few shows in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Go to the show page for details. See you all out there. Peace and love... (read more)

Peace and Love Video

August 25, 2011

Peace and Love from the Waterfront Blues Fest, Portland, OR July 3rd, 2011 Thanks to Hippie Dave for the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v7ZK18UqDsk#! (read more)

Miriams Well "Heavy" Video

August 16, 2011

We're working on putting out videos from our set at the Waterfront Blues Fest on July 3,2011. This is the first one for you. It's called Heavy. We'll be going into the studio to record this tune and a few others in September. Will post videos as they come in. http://www.youtube.com/user/miriamswellmusic?feature=creators_cornier-http%3A//s.ytimg.com/yt/img/creators_corner/YouTube/40x40_yt_white.png (read more)

Turn on and tune in...

We'll be on Laney Goodman's radio show tomorrow night, July 12th. Turn on and tune in. http://womenonair.com/wim/2011/07/10/women-in-music-for-july-12-2011/ You can check out the show if you live in the following cities: http://womenonair.com/wim/when-and-where-can-you-hear-the-show/ Let us know if you hear it and what city you're in! (read more)

Review of MW set Waterfront Blues Fest July 3/11

Thank you to Oregonmusicnews.com for reviewing our set at the Waterfront Blues Festival July 3, 2011 http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2011/07/03/waterfront-blues-festival-2011-sunday-1245pm-miriams-well-with-the-quadrophonnes-steve-kerin-and-lee-garrett/ (read more)

Waterfront Blues Fest

Oh Portland, we love you so. Thank you for a most incredible experience at the Waterfront Blues Fest today. You are the most wonderful fans and we can't wait to connect again in Portland. We are working with Sasa Music Presents to figure out some in town Portland dates. Will you come? We want to know you better! We've been to a lot of cities across the US and ours, I must say, is where my heart will… (read more)

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Getting Ready...

The June Tour is only days away...we've been working out things at shows in St. John's and out in Walla Walla at Sapolil Cellars when this email came our way. I guess we're doing alright! See you on the road... Hey this is Keith, I caught your show last night @ St. Johns Pub, once again you guys ROCKED MY WORLD! I brought in a couple of friends who were 1st timers and they absolutely LOVED it! … (read more)

Donations for Joplin Animal Rescue/Humane Society of MO

Wanted everyone to know that we will be collecting donations at shows on our tour for the Joplin Animal Rescue in MO. There are currently 23 people working on the team in Joplin around the clock for the animal rescue. If anyone would like to donate to the Humane Society of MO, you can specify online where you would like the donation to go. So far, the Joplin Animal Rescue has recovered and rescued… (read more)

Shows and horns, horns and shows

Lots of shows coming up starting this Friday the 13th at Plews Brews, our most high and esteemed venue in the village of St. Johns, our house of houses, where the people only know how to be oh so good. You can follow our shows on the website show page. There are too many to list at the moment and more on the way. If you haven't "liked" us yet at FB, you might want to in order to grab all the stories… (read more)

What an incredible night on Saturday at Slims. Had to sleep 2 days before I could write about it! We had quite a few musical guests...Chuk Barber joined us on percussion and will be with us for all upcoming shows including the June Tour. Michael Bard, killer sax player came in with Paul Mazzio on trumpet. Courtney Carroll came up to sing background vocals with us and we were all joined by lee Garrett.… (read more)

The Oregonian covers the MW/Robby Holmes Benefit

The Oregonian has written a story on our Benefit Concert for our beautiful friend and creator of SASA Music Presents, Robby Holmes. Robby needs 2 surgeries for his corneal transplanted eye in order to save it. The donate link is within the story. When you read his story, you will understand why we're having a benefit for him. Read the whole story here: http://www.oregonlive.com/north-portland/ The… (read more)

Not sure if this will create a link or not, but here goes. Gene Greenwood of Farting Puppy Productions sent this over from Vancouver,B.C. He stumbled upon us at SXSW Chuggin Monkey show. He'll be sending more soon. The sound person gave us extra time at the end of the set. This is Could This Be Love. If this doesn't link, just copy and paste the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ3g55b38hc (read more)

Miriams Well SXSW Tour

March 12th Phoenix,AZ Compound Grill March 13th Scottsdale,AZ Scottsdale Arts Festival March 15th Lafayette,LA Blue Moon Saloon March 16th Austin,TX SXSW Red Gorilla Showcase at Touche March 17th Austin,TX SXSW Red Gorilla Showcase at Chuggin Monkey March 18th Austin,TX, SXSW El Mercado S March 20th Dallas,TX SXSW after-party Handpicked Fest La Grange March 21st Oklahoma City, Blue Note Lounge… (read more)

New Video -- Diamonds

Diamonds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtj7iH97V0A (read more)

Big House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmaR5Jjj3II (read more)

Video here is Don't Bring Me Down. More videos are on the way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCMlVfp7A2A (read more)

Miriams Well Maverick Magazine

February 21, 2011

The UK's Maverick Magazine got wind of Indians And Clowns by Miriams Well and wrote an incredible review. You have to purchase the magazine to read the entire review by Russel Hill, but it ends like this: "A superb album by an act I recommend to all; you would be a crazy fool not to check it out"... The review is on page 76 for those of you who download decide to download Maverick. http://www.maverick-country.com… (read more)

Once More at Plews!

February 21, 2011

Miriams Well played at Plews on Feb. 18th to celebrate Mark's birthday. The house was packed. Lee Garrett joined the band for a storming rendition of his song, Signed,Sealed, Delivered to an off the hook crowd. It was wild. Lee joined the band for a few more tunes he co-wrote with Miriam and Mark and, needless to say, Miriams Well will be back at Plews on April 8th as they play their first show in… (read more)

Plew's Brews

January 30, 2011

Incredible night at Plew's! Thanks to all of you for being there! If you have photos/videos, put them up. We'd love to see them. Will let you know when we'll play Plew's again. Thank you St. John's!! (read more)

Kickstarter Update

January 28, 2011

Thank you for helping us raise our base of $500 through Kickstarter. The great news is that donations can continue to come in through Feb 12th, so if you haven't had a chance to help out our tour, there's still time left! Maybe we can reach $1000! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1052928490/miriams-well-on-the-road For those of you in Portland, we'll be at Plew's Brews in St. John's tomorrow night,… (read more)

Kickstarter Project

January 13, 2011

We just created a Kickstarter project to help get funds for the new tour. Check it out at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1052928490/miriams-well-on-the-road (read more)

Happy New Year News

December 31, 2010

Last day of 2010...plans for 3 tours are in the works. We'll be on the road in mid-Feb heading from Portland to Colorado playing shows along the way and then once again in March heading out to SXSW. We'll also grab shows in New Orleans after SXSW and we're really looking forward to those. Plans for an East Coast tour are in the works for mid-May in time for cherry blossoms in NY! If you want us to… (read more)

New Review of Indians And Clowns

November 13, 2010

This one made me laugh. Here it is to share with you. http://www.dangerdog.com/2010-music-reviews/miriams-well-indians-and-clowns-review.php (read more)

Gearwire interviews Mark Bowden!

October 21, 2010

Mark did an interview with Gearwire.com. Check it out here. http://www.gearwire.com/stringsandthings-bluescaster-miriamswell.html (read more)

D'Addario Endorsement

October 14, 2010

D'Addario Strings has officially endorsed us! Thanks D'Addario! (read more)

National Radio Play

October 14, 2010

Indians And Clowns is getting airplay on over 150 college stations at the moment and more stations are jumping on. We'll have the stations up in a bit on the website so you can check in and request us whenever you want. (read more)

New site updates

August 31, 2010

We've added two new sites to the mix: Last.fm and ILike.com Run a search on Miriams Well to access our pages. If any of you have seen the new Myspace profiles, give us your feedback at friends(at)miriamswellmusic(dot)com. We're thinking of making the switch to the new format and would like to know what you think about it. (read more)

Miriams Well YouTube channel up and running!

August 21, 2010

Hi all, The Miriams Well YouTube channel is now up and running! Stylized and everything! This will hold selected live stuff and special interviews and other content. We've linked it all cross platform so you can see the content from any of our sites but the main link is: http://www.youtube.com/user/miriamswellmusic enjoy! (read more)

New Interview from Indie Music Digest

August 14, 2010

After posting that Indie Music Digest nominated our album, Indians And Clowns as Best CD of the Year, we were asked to do an interview with them. Click on the link for the interview. http://www.indiemusicdigest.com/Miriams%20Well%20Interview.html (read more)

Nominated BEST CD OF THE YEAR

August 11, 2010

Our album, Indians And Clowns, has been nominated for Best CD of the Year by Indie Music Digest. Read the full review here. http://www.indiemusicdigest.com/ (read more)

New Review of Indians And Clowns July 26

Check out the new review. This is a fun one. http://www.bringonmixedreviews.com/?p=7245 (read more)

Womensradio.com finds Miriams Well

Indians And Clowns will be getting reviewed this week...will let you know how it goes. Check out #17 on this link. http://www.womensradio.com/articles/MusicMonday-2010-%5BWeek-30%5D/5695.html (read more)

Miriams Well Gets New Home in Portland

Miriams Well will be playing every Tuesday night at LV's 1222 at 3530 N. Vancouver in Portland,OR Start time is 7pm til the moon goes down. Come join the music and have the best soul food in town. The shows start this Tuesday, July 20th. (read more)

Listen to Interview RockWired Radio

http://www.rockwired.com/rockwiredprofiles5.html (read more)

NeuFutur Magazine Digs Miriams Well

NeuFutur Magazine compares Miriams Well to Zeppelin and Skynyrd! http://neufutur.com/?p=16318 (read more)

New Review in Music Emissions

http://www.musicemissions.com/artists/albums/index.php?album_id=11617 (read more)

New Review---Check it out!

http://indie-rock-music.suite101.com/article.cfm/cd-review-indians-and-clowns-nicely-packaged (read more)

New Review of Indians And Clowns

Just got a great review from Skope Mag on Indians And Clowns. Check it out at www.skopemag.com. We should have the merch page w/ new posters, shirts, albums, etc soon and will also be putting up a press page to let you check out new reviews. Stay tuned and in the pocket. More coming soon. (read more)

Signed Silk Screened Art Has Arrived

You've seen our posters on the website...yes, they're very cool. We agree. I asked Dan Kuhlken, our graphics designer, to create a larger signed silk-screen poster version for us to sell to all of you who dig rock and roll art as much as we do. The series is numbered from 1/50. The size is 18x24. We'll have these up on our merch page as soon as we finish the merch page!! If you want to order early,… (read more)

Early Sat. Show

We've been invited to play tomorrow at a St John's block party put on in part by City Repair. Date:Sat June 5th at 4PM. It's at the intersection of St.Louis and Edison in St John's 97203. (read more)

Featured Tonight on KINK FM 101.9FM in Portland

The new album, Indians And Clowns, from Miriams Well featured tonight on Portland's KINK 101.9FM Local Music Spotlight. Tune in at 9:20pm. (read more)

Mir learns how to tweet...

Mir wants you to join the Miriams Well Twitter account via the website www.miriamswellmusic.com so she can practice learning twittering skills! (read more)

Plans for CD Release Party

We're working on figuring out a date for the CD Release party this summer. Will keep you posted. The new album is doing well!! Selling well at shows and also at local stores in PDX. It's at Music Millenium and Everyday Music on Burnside. You can also purchase it on the website at www.miriamswellmusic com or download tunes at iTunes. Go get'm! (read more)

New Album Indians and Clowns Available Here

We've got the new CD, Indians and Clowns available here on the website for everyone. Let your friends know about it as well. It's selling thru CDBaby, iTunes, etc. Working on putting up merch in the web store...coming soon. (read more)

New Record Arrives

Indians and Clowns just showed up at the door. 1030 CD's. Our festival is tomorrow at Untapped in Kennewick and we're grateful to have the new CD's available for everyone. (read more)

Miriams Well new album out next week

Our new album, Indians and Clowns will be available next week online, in stores and at shows. Will keep you posted! (read more)