We are happy to say we will be playing a concert at the Performing Arts Pavilion, Peace Week Friday (July 31st) from 9pm - 11pm.
We are pleased to have several guest dancers performing with us this year. Including our good friend Marquis from Chicago.

The concert will, of course, include plenty of Vocals, Greek Bouzouki, Accordion, Sitar, Harmonium, Guitar, and a bunch o Drum.


We hope to see you there!

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We have a new shirt design available from our online shoppe.
The "Bouzouki Babe" women's tank is now for sale for $15.
Visit our online Shoppe for more info at:
http://wineandalchemy.com/Shoppe.html

We are happy to announce that our new CD, Samsara, is on the verge of completion and we are now taking pre-orders.

All CD’s ordered before the official CD release will be shipped for free and arrived signed by the band.

Samsara includes several tracks featuring the sitar and harmonium in addition to our array of many old favorite instruments, such as bouzouki, accordion and violin. We’ve recorded some new and some old favorite songs including our gypsified version of Led Zepplin’s “Kashmir”.

You can see a full track listing and listen to music samples at www.wineandalchemy.com/Samsara.html

In other news, our unexpected run at the Bay Area Renaissnce Festival in Tampa, FL has been a fun kickoff to our year’s performance schedule.

We will be playing one more weekend at BARF, March 28th and 29th, before returning to Texas for the start of the Scarborough Fair in Waxahatchie on April 4th.

We hope to see many of you there.

well, as our only weekend at the bay area renaissance festival went so well, we have been asked to perform for the next 3 weeks as well.
so... it wasn't our only weekend after all; we will be at the bay area renaissance festival in tampa, fla for the next 3 weekends coming up.

thanks, everyone who turned out to see us last weekend. hope we see you sometime again in the next 3.

:-)

We'll be coming out to Florida this weekend to play in Sarasota Friday night as well as in Tampa Saturday and Sunday at the Renaissance Festival and at the Soul Mirror Saturday night for a Belly Dance Hafla.

Roxanne will also be giving a dance workshop Saturday before the Hafla.
By the by, "Hafla" just means "dance party" for our purposes. There will be open dance, and possibly some open jamming, so bring your jingles and drums.

Check out our schedule for more info.

Hope to see some of you there!

so we finally ordered a hurdy gurdy. and it should be in our hot little hands come the middle to end of january. yeah!

on a completely different note, we will be bringing our new pomeranian puppy home (ie, band mascot) on the 1st of january.

currently we're in the studio, as i type, laying down the foundation tracks for our new cd.
:-)

Thanks to everyone who turned out for out show in Austin last night. :-)

On the roster in the next couple of weeks we have several shows around Texas coming up on:

Dec 6 in Bryan
Dec 11 in Beaumont
Dec 12 in Corpus Christi
Dec 13-14 at the Ingleside Renaissance Festival
and Dec 20 in San Antonio

We hope to see you there!

We've been having a great time at the Texas Renaissance Festival thanks to all our wonderful friends there. The show has been developing by leaps and bounds and now we're laying serious plans for a new CD - writing, developing and arranging tunes.

We're also mulling over a DVD project as well as possibly an additional live CD in the near future.

Thanks again to all our friends. We will keep you posted on our new developments, and we hope to see many of you at the Texas Ren Fair before the end of the run. :-)

Texas Renaissance Festival is swiftly approaching and we are journeying to the site in Plantersville tomorrow to setup and make ready.

And once again, yes, we have expanded our lineup of performance instruments.
Mark has been tuning up his sitar - no small feat considering the way the strings are arranged - and will be frequently adding a bit more Indian flavor to our TRF sets.

And, of course, we have been adding more material. Always. Our repertoire now includes a gypsy-esque rendition of Kashmir, the Kiss (from the movie "Last of the Mohicans"), and the Loreena McKennit tune Marco Polo (still working on playing this one blindfolded), among others.

Hope we see you at the fair!


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