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Last Updated: 12/9/2009

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City: Kalamazoo
State: Michigan
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/5/2007

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Thursday, August 13, 2009 

Current mood:Swamped
Category: Music
Blue Dahlia will soon announce their upcoming fall tour schedule. The first appearance will begin in September with a special performance of revised scores for Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy shorts at the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, MI.  In October, the band will tour throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio performing their original score to NOSFERATU.

Derek is still hard at work reviewing tracks for the upcoming collection of released and unreleased re-mastered recordings featuring past and present line-ups. The new collection will also feature a new studio recording of FATE and an, as of yet, untitled song. It should be out by year's end.

Check here for more details and dates!
Currently listening:
Unseen Music Unheard Words
By Steve Kilbey
Release date: 2009-06-16
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 

Current mood:  busy
Category: Music



2009 will be another busy year for Blue Dahlia. Following a break since November 1st, the band will release a retrospective CD featuring songs from early in their history. The CD will feature unreleased material, remastered songs from the CDs, Estival and Live at the Vickers Theatre among others. It will also feature new recordings from the current line-up. Check in here for further updates, track listings and selections from the upcoming CD.

Wondering what happened to www.bluedahlia.com? The group will soon launch a new site which will feature the latest videos, recordings, silent movie clips, merchandise and more. Blue Dahlia is also hard at work on two new records and a brand new silent film. Keep checking back for further details.


Welcome to 2009 and we wish you well!







Currently listening:
Here Is What Is
By Daniel Lanois
Release date: 2008-03-18
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 

Category: Life
bLuE daHLia would like to express our sadness for the loss of our friend, Nathan Ndjharine, who passed away last weekend accidently.

Nathan grew up under Apartheid rule during Namibia's occupation by South Africa. During this time, he was influenced very heavily by Bob Marley's music and the positive message of liberating Africa from the colonial powers and saw reggae as the music for the liberation struggle.  Nathan began playing guitar at the early age of 12 and played in several bands in Namibia with home-town friends as well as other musicians from South Africa. In New York during the 80s and early 90s, Ndjiharine joined the Yelling Beat and Global Warming world beat bands and played the local club circuit. He was also a founding member of Yoroka and Zion Lion, two of West Michigan's best world beat music groups. Levi had the profound privelege of performing with Nathan in Yoroka, and Derek had the honor of recording Yoroka's full length CD, The Road is Long in 2000.

Reminding us just how thin the thread of life is, we hope you'll discover how deep a life he lived through his music. Please check out the links below. Information regarding upcoming tributes will be forthcoming.    

He will be missed, but not forgotten.

Safe passage.


http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=48298379

http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/08/saturdays_diversity_festival_f.htmlmore

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 

Category: Music
It was with great sadness that we discovered that Kevin Brown passed away this week. He will be missed by all who new him. Kalamazoo has lost a talented engineer, musician, and friend. Kevin was the co-owner and operator of Brown and Brown Recording studios.I had the pleasure of working with him over the years. He had such a polite, caring and  thoughtful way about him-a quality rarely possessed. Please keep his Son Colin, daughter Shelagh and wife Debbie in your thoughts.

Kevin will be missed.

D

www.caringbridge.org/visit/kevinbrown


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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 

Category: Music
Modern music ensemble bLuE daHLia performs their original soundtrack live with the vintage Buster Keaton silent film Seven Chances. Don't expect melodramatic musical cliches-- bLuE daHLia brings this film classic into the hearts of today's audiences by using modern, multi-stylistic music that helps connect the past with the present. The result is full of both history and hilarity that is great fun for audiences of all ages.

Seven Chances (1926) features Keaton as young James Shannon—a stockbroker down on his luck who suddenly learns that he will inherit the seven million dollars that will save his future-- but only if he can marry by seven o'clock that same evening. When Shannon's steady girl turns him down, his business partner places an ad in the newspaper. The mayhem that ensues includes bridal procession of epic proportions!

bLuE daHLia is a "world fusion" quintet hailing from Kalamazoo.
Their unique sound is marked by multi-ethnic rhythms and languages against a shifting tapestry of guitars, mandolin, flute, and saxophone. bLuE daHLia's collaboration with silent film began at The Sound of Silents Film Festival in 1996, and brought inspiration for a dozen silent film scores, plus work with modern film and advertising in addition to their regular recording and performing. Please visit www.bluedahlia.com to learn more.
Currently listening:
In Rainbows
By Radiohead
Release date: 01 January, 2008
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 

Category: Music

Blue Dahlia had a great Valentine's performance at the State Theatre in Kalamazoo. Thanks to all who came out to see us and support WMUK in the process. Due to new licensing developments, it may be the last time the band will be aable to perform it live with their original score. Sad news, we know, for those who loved the score and the movie.

New dates have been added to usher in the new month. So say goodbye to those February BLAHS and come check us out in Plainwell at the Ransom District Library, in Ann Arbor for 46th Ann Arbor International Film Festival , and at Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo. Check out the dates and information listed on our upcoming shows section.

The Dahlia's head back into the studio at the end of march to start work on some upcoming releases. Stay tuned!

That's all for now and just think Spring!


 

 

 

Currently listening:
Felt Mountain
By Goldfrapp
Release date: 19 September, 2000
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ............

May 2008 be the best year of your life!!!

Currently listening:
Raising Sand
By Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Release date: 23 October, 2007
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 

Category: Music
Half empty or half ffffull!

Happy Holidays!

& Howdy,

BD
Currently listening:
Victorialand
By Cocteau Twins
Release date: 03 June, 2003
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Monday, December 03, 2007 
Hello everyone! Just chiming in to say that this will be the new homefor blue dahlia's website. If you select our old link, then you will now automatically arrive here-at our my space page. We've had some terrible issues with the old site and have taken it offline until we create a new one. So, feel free to check here for updates and information on the latest dahlia happenings. Will be updating often and please sign up as a friend-we'll be happy to add you in.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 

Category: Music

"I have never heard anything quite like your music. it is to me what art should be. it makes me feel like looking inside.

anyway, thank you for sharing your music with the world"

Feeling extremely grateful, we reply
and replied,
 as we usually do,
to everyone
who finds a little bit of the worth
 and fun
in bLuE daHLia;

"We look inside our group everyday and don't often find reassurance that we are staying true to ourselves, each other, or even finding a reason for the madness of being an artist.
You've found the authentic bLuE daHlia!

Over a decade and a day later, we're glad you liked our stuff.

happy Thanksgiving."

gobble, Gobble

L & D from the bD
 

Currently listening:
One Step Beyond...
By Madness
Release date: 05 June, 2000
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