Greetings RAQ Family,

Thanks to all of you for your support and we hope that you are having as good a time so far this fall as we are! If you have not had a chance to join us yet this tour, we hope to see you in the next few weeks!

MAGIC HAT has joined RAQ for this tour as our sponsor, and we will be running around the country with their beer and some great merch. The shows in Asheville and Charlotte will be promoted by the company in the local market, and we are excited to start this partnership with them for this tour, and in the future. Stay tuned for more news on this as we have it!

ECHO PROJECT.....we are in! RAQ will be joining Phil Lesh & Friends, The Killers, The Roots and many many more at this incredible festival. We will be playing in Ft. Collins, Colorado on Saturday, and then Sunday outside of Atlanta at the Echo Project. We definitely hope to see many familiar faces at this great event! More info and times to be announced in the coming days!

We also have a few additions to our tour this fall. First, Bellingham, WA at the Nightlight Lounge on September 30th. Should be a rager.. doors are at 8PM, and the show is at 9PM. We have also added the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh on Nov. 2nd to our Halloween run. The Lincoln's recent renovations include a great balcony now, and we are really excited to add this legendary venue to this Southern run. It's going to be one heck of a week in RAQ world!

NEW MERCH online - we have just created a new online store with the help of Home Grown Music - Check out the new t-shirts and hats here, and keep an eye out for tons of new products, posters, and other items this fall! ! Thanks to Taboot for the great posters, Tripp and his crew are working hard to get us some new collector prints for the fall tour...keep an eye out on the merch table, because these are sure to go fast.

RAQ is also really excited to have some great openers this tour including DJ Logic in Asheville for Halloween, Kinetix in Boulder, Moon Boot Lover with Peter Prince in Baltimore, Kanvus in San Francisco, and more to be announced.

RAQ Tapers have taken it up a notch this tour and we couldn't be more honored and appreciative of their hard work and dedication to spreading the music. The turn-around time has been amazing and a "Recent Additions" list to the Live Music Archive is now on the Myspace page. Check out the RAQ Recordings section on our community site, Hyperfunk, if you would like to meet other RAQ tapers or to learn more about downloading from the Live Music Archive.

Thanks to the folks at Bands That Jam for coming to the show at Club Infinity and sharing photos, video, and kind words:

"Last night was awesome. Another great night for music in Buffalo, NY. We went and saw RAQ perform at Club Infinity and were treated to two killer sets. It's amazing how much better live music is as compared to just listening to over the radio or downloading a few songs. I was blown away at their ability to include heavy guitar riffs with improvisational jams."

Take care everyone!

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*Photos 9.7.07 Toad's Place by Jonathan Healey*