July Update
7-20-2011: Calendar update. We have added a few dates, including a trip to Electric City in September and not one, not two, but three new local venues for the band. There is one thing that we really need when we perform someplace new: YOU! Please come join us,
Also: We have not yet added our Taste of Snohomish appearance and our time slot for the WBS IBC Finals, both in Snohomish. We will add those as soon as we get the information.
Summer 2011
6-25-2011: Big update to the page today. You can now purchase our Live CD online! Also, updates to our Bio and What People Say sections. We recently did an all acoustic show for the WBS, where we introduced both The Jazz Stick and vocalist Michelle Kliemann to a wider audience. We are also stoked to be moving on to the Finals for being the WBS representatives at the IBC in Memphis next year, on Sunday, Aug. 21st at the Taste of Snohomish. We are also a month away from our gig at the Mt. Baker Blues Festival.
Spring 2011
5-12-2011: Great things are happening, but we're still struggling to get ourselves out to more venues. If there's someplace that you like to go to see live music, and you haven't seen us there in a while, or at all, a little mention and a gentle point in our direction helps incredibly.
The Great things: Tomorrow starts the Festival Season at Untapped in Kennewick, and we're there at the Crows Nest Friday Night with Jim King's fabulous new band! It'll be a dancing party all around.
We're also looking forward to our very first appearance at Mt. Baker on July 30th. It's a great festival lineup of entertainment this year. The band will not be at Sunbanks, but give Chris a holler, he'll be playing again with Billy Ray Danger and the Rectifiers.
This year at the WBS BB Awards in the Triple Door, not only did I get to do a song on that stage with the Stacy Jones Band, Doug Skoog, and one killer horn section, but for the second year I was honored with the Blues Electric Guitar award. I don't know how to thank everyone who voted enough, I am am both overjoyed and humbled by this. But that also means I have to practice that much harder again this year to really "earn it". :)
Finally, we just got our first set of of copies of the Sunbanks Live! CD. We will make these available at Untapped, and a few performances as they last, then our "Unofficial CD Release Party" at the Oxford June 3rd and 4th. After that, as soon as I can figure out how to rig it up here, we will have the CD available here for Online purchase.
January - February Update!
2-24-2011: Things have been quiet for the band lately, but not without a lot of activity behind the scenes. As of today we have two summer blues festivals booked, and are hoping for consideration for a few more. We have great slots scheduled at UnTapped Blues and Brews and Mt. Baker Blues!
CD Spent about 6 months working in Portland, but returned to the Seattle area completely as of February 1st (and is hunting for gigs as hard as anyone).
We have finished the mixing the Live Album and hope and expect to have all the artwork, printing, etc. completed before the festival appeances! Dave Keefer captured our blistering set at Sunbanks last spring, and We took the raw audio to Richard Williams at Plum Tree Studios... and we did as little as possible to give a raw, dynamic, live experience with a minimum of studio trickery and absolutely no studio overdubs. We are also currently writing original material to prepare for our first studio recording.
More December News!
12-27-2010: We've been shouting it on Facebook, but we're late here. We have a great venue for our New Year's Eve celebration! Rooney's in Woodinville! Please check the calendar for more details.
CD and the rest of the band hope that everyone has a joyous new year. Please expect great things from us in 2011.
November - December Update!
11-18-2010: While the band is currently taking a bit of a break from our regular performances, no way are we taking it easy. Our first big news is that CD's trip to Portland has gotten some attention, and we are now starting a partnership with Tour Agent and Artist Manager Jan Bisconer and Showtyme Productions. We are excited by the possibilities of taking the band to a new level.
We are also attempting to assemble a Live Recording. We are gathering, evaluating, and pre-mixing anything we can get our hands on to put together the best possible CD we can. Stay tuned!
We also haven't locked in a New Years Eve date yet. We'll look for the right one, or we'll celebrate with y'all. Look forward to more great things in the coming year!
~CD & the band
September-October Update!
9-27-2010: We have been busy the past couple of months! We were top billed at a new Blues celebration in the Tri-Cities area. We did two outdoor festivals in one day back in August (just don't ask C.D. about the hike to load in at Hempfest. Oy...) Plus, our friend Wes Plate put together a little video spot that we think is going to convince a few more folks to book the band in a place near you. Click the Video Press Kit link. We are working to get more good stuff out there soon, stay tuned.
The down side is while we were doing all that stuff and taking care of our daily lives, we didn't have the time to hustle more gigs; so we're now looking to fill in spots in our calendar. We are encouraged by some opportunities, and really getting some good buzz out in the street (THANK YOU, FANS!) so once we catch our breath, we should be ready to play our butts off for you soon, and I got a LOT of butt that I can work off!
~C.D.
Welcome to the New Website
7-26-2010: We are still have some dusting up and construction to do, and much more stuff to add, but we're doing our best to get it together, and I'm getting more education on making a website. Keep checking back to see what the band is doing next.
Also: rumors of my abandonment of the Seattle area are greatly exaggerated. While it's true that I have a temp job in the Portland area, the band is still together, we have gigs booked and are looking for more, and I still have my Redmond apartment. I will be using my temporary relocation during the work week to try to expand the band into a regional entity, we'll see how this experiment works. The guys in the band, me, Fish, Chris, Don, and Mike are doubling down our efforts and commitment where others might put things on hold or call it a day. My guys are incredible, and I'm lucky to have them.
~C.D.
Artist Information
The C.D. Woodbury Band is:
- C.D. Woodbury - Guitar & Vocals
- Chris Kliemann - Keys & Vocals
- Don Montana - Drums & Vocals
- Mike Fish - Bass & Vocals
- Mike Marinig - Saxophone, Flute, Vocals, and Auxiliary Instruments