Homemade and Underpaid

2011-06-27T12:57:00.000-07:00

Wow! Why do I do this? Sorry for leaving everyone in the dark! I promise to never leave for this long ever again! Pinky Swear!

So we've been working on our new album :) fun fun! Almost have one rough track completely done! It's called Rather Wait awesome awesome song :) and I can say that because Karli wrote it lol so I'm not being vain, just a Karli fan!

We have some super wicked awesome gigs coming up this July! We're play at Alberta Beach on Canada Day! There will be bands and DJs and it'll be a fun fun time! It's a FREE all ages event so bring the whole family! :)

This is another event we are doing with the "Sun, Snow and Our Show" concert series by the ID VIP Team (our little music family) and bodsled :)

Check out the Facebook event!

Another thing we are super excited to be a part of in July is Edmonton: The Musical!

This is not your traditional musical. If you took live concert and mashed it up with theatre this is what you would get: a live concert concept, with bands and musical groups that happen to follow a story. There will be more than 20 featured musicians from Edmonton's music scene that tell a story with their song rhythms, lyrics and all out style. The story follows a guy named Jake, who by accident ends up dating five women at once. All with extremely different personalities who don't know about the each other...gulp! It highlights not only Edmonton musicians, but the community and key locations we all know and love about the city. Jake is looking for love, but he has forgot a very important step, he must love himself first. This production is based off music from local artists who drive the story with their unique lyrics. We have all heard the typical love song, yet we all have our different interpretations of love. This story takes more than 20 different looks on love through song and re-teaches us the important lesson that sometimes what we seek, is right there in front of us.

Showdates & Times:
July 21 - 7pm
July 22 - 7pm
July 23 - 1pm & 7pm
July 24 - 1pm & 7pm

The 27 confirmed musicians/acts are:

Zerbin; Cory D; Dear (your name here); Douglas Mitchell; Drowning Ophelia; Erica Viegas; Fendercase; Greater Than Giants; Gurl; Heaviside; Jackson MacDonald; Jacqueline Ohm; Jake Ian and the Haymakers; JDML; Light Travels; Cara Albo; Lisa Nicole Grace; Looking East; Owls By Nature; Paperplanes and Dragonboats; Red Shag Carpet; Se7enSided; Still Within; Tanner Gordon and the Unfortunates; The Flash Jam; The Greater Good; and Tiff Hall

“That’s about a buck a band,” said Albo. “There is everything from rock to pop to jazz to folk. Really, there is something for everyone."

Interest from many local performers was greater than expected.

"Unfortunately, we had to turn away some amazing talent wanting to perform.” Albo said.

Close to 400 tickets have already been sold for Edmonton the Musical and are available online at YEGLive.com or Blackbyrd Myoozik, 10442 82 (Whyte) Avenue, in Edmonton.

So get your tickets!! :)

Cheers,

Sun, Snow and Our Show!

2011-02-24T14:11:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone!

We are now part of the concert series called 'Sun, Snow and Our Show' created by the ID VIP team and bodsled! We'll be playing some super wicked awesome shows over the next year!

The launch party/concert is on March 5th at Rabbit Hill Snow Resort, Sking and concerts featuring 11 DJs and Bands!

For the crazy low price of $30 you get lift tickets and ski/snowboard rentals, and not to mention the great performances by Haley Bryan , Vox Human, Dire Omen, DJ Komrad, DJ Andru Joseph, Funkenstein, DJ Krete, Full on Femme/Missy Lectro, DJ Optimus Grime and of course yours truly Drowning Ophelia! :D

Your ticket also gets you VIP access with no line & no cover (18+) to our after party at the Treasury!!

Tickets are selling fast so don't hesitate!!

For tickets contact any of the artists, or call/text:
Brian @ 780 907 3682
or Komrad @ 780 966 9653

Retail locations: Available from Friday Feb 25

Pacesetter Ski Shop
10054 - 167 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T5P 3W4
Phone: (780) 483 - 2005

Sundance Ski & Board Shop
10423 - 79 Avenue
Edmonton AB
T6E 1R7 | See Map
Phone (780) 432-0711
Toll Free 1 888 571 SKIS (7547)

SERVICE FEES MAY APPLY FOR PURCHASES AT RETAIL OUTLETS!

Online tickets available now!
http://sunsnowandourshowrabbithillconcert2011.eventbrite.com/

Hope to see you all there!!! :D

Welcome 2011!!

2011-01-02T12:50:00.000-08:00

Welcome to 2011!! We have a lot of New Years resolutions to start and keep going this year!

Number 1: Blog more often.....lol 8 months between entries is a little too long don't ya think?

Number 2: Finish Drowning Ophelia's sophomore album! We have sooo many great songs to get recorded!!! My talented sister Karli has spent the last 3 years or so writing a plethora of great songs and I've written a couple too, don't know if they're great but we'll find out!

Number 3: Get more gigs with our dance/party/wedding band Jukebox Divas :) we started this project last year and had some super fun gigs last year! We want to play more!! If you're having a party, wedding or any other event check us out at www.JukeboxDivas.com give me a call or email and book us please :)

Hum....maybe those are all the new years resolutions? haha I have some other ones but those three are the most important!

Some more exciting news that has occurred with Jukebox Divas is that we've partnered with the Celtic Hall and Spikes at the Edmonton Sportsdome! The have just brought in new management and we're going to turn it into THE live music venue!

I had a tour of the Celtic Hall and it is really cool and unique! High cathedral ceilings, suits of armor, medieval type chairs! If you're planning an event or wedding this is an amazing venue!

News for Drowning Ophelia, we've got a brand new website up! It's beautiful if I do say so myself lol..... take a look www.Drowningophelia.com

We're working on booking some more gigs so keep checking back and join our mailing list to be notified of upcoming shows and other Drowning Ophelia happenings!

That's all for now folks!
Toodles

Pre Production Has Begun!!!

2010-05-05T11:11:00.000-07:00

Yay! We've begun the pre-prodcution of our new album!! We're starting with "Might As Well" :-) We're soooo excited to begin this new project! It feels like it's been too too long since we've recorded our songs! And we have oodles more great songs so it's going to feel amazing to finally record them :-)If all turns out well, we're hoping to make a music video this summer as well.

I think part of the reason we're so excited to record this new album is that we feel we've outgrown our old one. It's been almost 3 YEARS since we recorded that one! Our music has evolved, our sound has matured, and our skillz have definatly improved. It's about time we recorded something that can illustrate where we are now as musicians and people.

We're going to start recording in my little home studio and see where it goes from there. I'm a little afrad, scratch that, I'm TERRIFIED of recording drums! Lol I haven't a clue what I'm doing in that regard, so I'm sure once we've gotten down the rough tracks we'll move to a proffessional studio. Well we better get crackin'.

Till we meet again...

Hello Again....

2010-04-16T20:44:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been over a month since my last entry!! And I've only had TWO!!! I'm beginning to think I suck at this a little bit, eek! Sorry to those of you who have been waiting oh so patiently for me to resurface...I will try to do this more often!

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First off, our March 12th show at Fresh Start Bistro went great! The place was packed, the food was nummy and the music spectacular!

We were so great they wanted us to come back! So we're playing there again next Friday, April 23rd. Same time 7:00 - 10:00 in the PM, the address is 484 Riverbend Square in the lovely city of Edmonton. This time however, we have some treats for you....First off we'll have Nick Lovejoy joining us on the Djembe/Tambourine/Shaker and other percussion type thingys :-) and secondly our KEYTAR will be making its first appearance! Woohoo for the Keytar/Gorgan/Belly-synth. We're super excited to be bringing it this time it's wicked awesome and a TON lighter than our regular Keyboard....believe you me, this is going to be a show you don't wanna miss!

The show is $7.00 and you can make reservations by calling Fresh Start @ (780) 433-9623.

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At the end of March we played at a friend's PhD party (we'll call him "Dr. Drew")...We had a fantastic time! The group Transcends also played that night. They were playing as a trio that night with vocals, guitar, piano, and flute. Normally they play as a four-some but their guitar player was on tour with Carrie Hyrniw at the time. They performed a great set of some classic music :-) Check out their website at http://www.transcendsborders.com/

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Most recently we played at the Great Canadian Trade Show in Sherwood Park and were lucky to have my niece handy to video tape the performance for us! Here is one of our new songs "Might As Well" that we performed :-) I quite like it (Karli wrote it...)

We're also apart of a cover band called Jukebox Divas (http://www.jukeboxdivas.com/) and performed there as well here are vidoes of us performing "Love Shack" and "I Gotta Feeling" ...

Phew! Alrighty I think that's all for now! Toodles and thank you for reading!

Popcorny Goodness...

2010-03-10T12:19:00.000-08:00

A long long time ago, about Fall 2008, we came in contact with a man named Jik who in turn recommended us to a man named Barry, who was the founder and owner of HevyD's Oldfashioned Kettle Korn in Vernon, BC. Prior to our introduction, Barry had a vision to help independent artist get out there and started putting free downloads in his bags of popcorn. Since then HevyD's has teamed up with Music BC and The Province to create the Province Playlist which launched January 2010. Read the story at HevyD's Website!

Last week (week of March 1) Drowning Ophelia was one of the artists featured on the Province Playlist as one of Music BC's picks! So go download our song "History Repeating" as well as songs from the other artists and the artists from previous weeks :-)

Blog Take One

2010-02-23T13:10:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Drowning Ophelia’s first ever blogging attempt! I’m being lazy here and just posting my February news letter teehee…..subsequent blogs however will be unique lol

Some of you may have been wondering why we haven't played a show in over 6 months :-) Well, the reason for that is because in October Candace gave birth to a beautiful baby girl! Needless to say it has taken awhile to adjust to being a mom but now we're ready to get back out there and play some music!

Up Coming Shows

We've booked our first Post-Baby show for March 12 at Fresh Start Bistro (484 Riverbend Square, Edmonton, AB, Canada) and are super excited to be playing live again. If you're in the Edmonton area, or going to be at the time, stop in and see us play! The show starts at 7:00 pm and goes till 10:00 pm, with $7.00 charge to your tab. We have tons of new material and Fresh Start has AMAZING food...

New Music

We've also began working on our second album, woohoo for us! As I said before we have tons of new material and we’re anxious to get it recorded! So far we’re planning to have it finished mid 2011.

Old Music

Speaking of a new album we still have our first album available...where can you get your copy you ask? It's available on iTunes , CDBaby and at our website, www.drowningophelia.com. If you're in the Edmonton area we have some copies at Blackbyrd Myoozik and Megatunes on Whyte ave and at Presto Music Studio(92 Ash Street) in Sherwood Park.

Thank you for reading!