Hey Everyone,

We are looking for volunteers for each show on the tour to help out Garaj Mahal with the merch booth. You will be in charge of selling shirts and other merchandise throughout the night.  We would be able to give you a free ticket to the show, 10% of whatever you sell that night, and a free t-shirt for your work.

If you are interested, please reply to: JEFF@FANMANAGER.NET with your Full Name, Phone Number, and What Show You Want To Help With (Dates Listed Below). Also please indicate that this is for the Garaj Mahal Merch Booth.  This will be on a first come first serve basis, so if you don't hear back from us in a few days it means we have already found someone for that show.

09.19.09 | Orpheum Theater - Stage Door | Madison, WI
09.20.09 | Parlor City | Cedar Rapids, IA
09.22.09 | Vogue Nightclub | Indianapolis, IN
09.24.09 | Papa Pete’s | Kalamazoo, MI
09.25.09 | Nelson Ledges Quarry Park | Garrettsville, OH
10.05.09 | Blues Alley | Washington, D.C.
10.07.09 | Johnny D's | Somerville, MA
10.08.09 | Port City Music Hall | Portland, ME
10.09.09 | The Blue Note | NYC, NY
10.10.09 | Rex Theatre | Pittsburgh, PA
10.23.09 | Quixote's True Blue | Denver, CO
10.24.09 | Quixote's True Blue | Denver, CO


Thanks!

Garaj Mahal Street Team

Hey Everyone,

We are looking for volunteers for each show on the tour to help out Garaj Mahal with the merch booth. You will be in charge of selling shirts and other merchandise throughout the night.  We would be able to give you a free ticket to the show, 10% of whatever you sell that night, and a free t-shirt for your work.

If you are interested, please reply to: JEFF@FANMANAGER.NET with your Full Name, Phone Number, and What Show You Want To Help With (Dates Listed Below). Also please indicate that this is for the Garaj Mahal Merch Booth.  This will be on a first come first serve basis, so if you don't hear back from us in a few days it means we have already found someone for that show.

09.19.09 | Orpheum Theater - Stage Door | Madison, WI
09.20.09 | Parlor City | Cedar Rapids, IA
09.22.09 | Vogue Nightclub | Indianapolis, IN
09.24.09 | Papa Pete’s | Kalamazoo, MI
09.25.09 | Nelson Ledges Quarry Park | Garrettsville, OH
10.05.09 | Blues Alley | Washington, D.C.
10.07.09 | Johnny D's | Somerville, MA
10.08.09 | Port City Music Hall | Portland, ME
10.09.09 | The Blue Note | NYC, NY
10.10.09 | Rex Theatre | Pittsburgh, PA
10.23.09 | Quixote's True Blue | Denver, CO
10.24.09 | Quixote's True Blue | Denver, CO


Thanks!

Garaj Mahal Street Team

Owl Studios Artist Fareed Haque Navigating the Airwaves

INDIANAPOLIS, July 26th, 2009 – Each week jazz record label Owl Studios, along with each and every other jazz record label in the country, gets a report that ranks the top 50 jazz albums played on the radio the previous week. For a smaller label like Owl Studios, just getting on the charts can be a reward in itself. But Owl Studios prides itself in signing only the best jazz artists and it is paying off. Owl Studios, which only releases about 7 albums a year, currently has 3 albums in the top 50 Jazz Week Jazz Album charts being played on radio stations around the country and one of those albums is #1 on the Jazz Week World Music Albums Chart. That album is Flat Planet by Fareed Haque and the Flat Earth Ensemble.

Flat Planet has been in the top 50 World Music Albums for the past 18 weeks and has been played on 99 different stations around the country. Music from this album has been used for NPR’s Morning Edition, various locally produced jazz shows in Chicago, IL, Cleveland OH, Detroit MI, Fresno CA and Victoria BC and an interview with Fareed on PRI’s The World with anchor Marco Werman. Fareed has been featured on the ASCAP Artist Audio Portraits, which can be found on the ASCAP website.

No less than 8 different tracks have been played from this album all over North America. From Toronto, Canada to Corpus Cristi, Texas and New York, NY to San Fransico CA, people have enjoyed the music created by Fareed Haque and released by Owl Studios in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Fareed Haque spent years on the road as a sideman with many of the finest artists, playing with the likes of Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Paquito D'Rivera, Zakir Hussain and Sting to name just a few. He has written numerous concerti, plays classical guitar and jazz guitar with equal facility, and is professor of Jazz and Classical Guitar at Northern Illinois University. In addition to his Flat Earth Ensemble, Fareed is the co-founder of the super-jam Group Garaj Mahal and is currently touring with both groups throughout the year.

About Owl Studios - Indianapolis-based Owl Studios is an independent record label dedicated to a financial and artistic partnership with highly creative, talented musicians. In the short time since its inception, Owl Studios has become a well-respected, artist- friendly, independent record label in the genres of Jazz, R&B/Soul, and Fusion/Jam Band. The label includes established artists that have made names for themselves performing throughout the world. In addition to their reputations as composers, performers and arrangers, many of our artists are also educators at top music institutions. Owl Studios artists also boast award winners, including a Grammy nomination; jazz historian/ arranger/ conductor for the Smithsonian Institute; winner of the Independent Music Awards; winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Performer Award; winner of the Grand Prize for the American Pianists’ Association Jazz Piano competition; and the music director for the award- winning, nationally syndicated Bob & Tom morning radio program.

Hey everyone,

We are looking to boost our membership of the Garaj Mahal street team and we will be hooking any new members up with a FREE brand new Garaj Mahal track nobody has heard yet for joining. Please sign up at the link below and we will send you your track next week.

Sign up here...

http://www.fanmanager.net/..teams/garajmahal

Here is more info about the track...

"What My Friends Say"
written by Sean Rickman
(Owl Records)
Sean Rickman - lead vocals, background vocals, drums, rhythm guitar
Fareed Haque - moog guitar
Kai Eckhardt - bass
Eric Levy - moog synthesizer, keyboards

Thanks!

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Hey everyone,

Don't miss Garaj Mahal's swing through CA this week with 4 big shows!

Also we are looking for MERCH HELP at a few shows, so if you can help please get back to us at: info@fanmanager.net with MERCH HELP in the header and your name and phone number in the body of the email. Thanks!

05.27.09 | Winston’s | San Diego, CA
05.28.09 | The Mint | Los Angeles, CA (MERCH HELP NEEDED!)
05.29.09 | Cafe du Norde | San Francisco, CA (MERCH HELP NEEDED!)
05.30.09 | Bobolink Music Festival | Belden, CA