Friday night, APR27, we helped our pals the Raygun Cowboys launch their new album in Calgary at the Distillery.

Scott and I (Ryan) got locked inside of a garage that night and had to kick down the door to escape in time to make a show at the Ship & Anchor Saturday morning. We hosted the Calgary Folk Music Festival’s Songwriter’s Contest – Sonic Youth Category.

Later that day we took off for Edmonton and did another show with the Raygun Cowboys to help launch their CD in Edmonton at The Pawnshop Live. It was our first time at that bar and it was most excellent! Cool joint Edmonton! We drove back to Calgary after and got home at 5 in the morning exhausted. But there’s no rest for the wicked…

We’ve updated our shows page and I have also included that information below. There are some big ones coming up including a spot opening for the Weber Brothers, performing in SLED ISLAND 2012 and working the streets at Lilac Fest.

Furthermore, we have a lot of Stampede dates booked and will be getting those online ASAP for anyone still looking for a honky tonk rock and roll show.

See you at Beerfest this Saturday!

The dirty details:
Featuring “Spiraling into Now Here”
Written by James Davidge – http://www.jamesdavidge.blogspot.ca/
Art by Fiona Staples http://fstaples.blogspot.ca/
Originally published in Tales from the Harbor Volume One, Happy Harbor Comics (2006) http://www.happyharborcomics.com/
To be published in October 2012 by Bayeux Arts as part of My Modern Panic: Short Stories by James Davidge.

We went to Toronto for the first time, the furthest east we’ve ever travelled. We saw a lot of old friends, rented three bicycles and played three shows. We laughed, we cried. We can’t wait to go back again!

Matt took a photo of us on former Calgary, now Torontonian musician Greg Cockerill‘s front porch to capture the trip.

When we came home we had a chance to play the Epcor Centre’s Engineered Air Theatre as part of the TransCanada Alberta Music Series. Today they uploaded a video of us playing Renters (from our debut Brown Album).

We’ve had a bit of a spring break to recuperate. Next show:

This coming Saturday we are in a Calgary-based showcase…

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Transforming community through the power of art. Occupying a full #yyc city block, EPCOR CENTRE is Western Canada’s largest performing arts centre. http://www.epcorcentre.org/ @yycARTS

They asked us to record a video explaining why we love Alberta. Enjoy:

Cowpuncher performs at the EPCOR CENTRE’s TransCanada Alberta Music Series, March 31, 2012.

You can buy tickets here!

After playing New Year’s Eve at the Commonwealth we went to our drummer Jeffery’s house for a get-together. Lesson #1 for 2012: The pomegranate fruit may look delicious, but it is not an apple and don’t eat it like one.

We played Mikey’s Juke Joint over the weekend and it was a blast. Before our second set the place sold out. By the third set there was some serious dancing going on. Nice dancing dancers!

After winning some studio time at last year’s Calgary Beercore Awards (Best New Band) we’re preparing to cash in and record a few new songs later this month.

At the end off March we’ll be in Toronto for Canada Music Fest. We’ve begun planning (and saving) for a short ONT/QUE tour that will happen around the same time.

We’re excited to see Twin Butte, the best place on Earth, Feb 4.

That is all for now!

We have two more shows before the new year and both are in Calgary.

December 28 we’re playing an all star show with Samantha Savage Smith, Young Ones and our old pals No River at Republik Nightclub. You can purchase advance tickets here for $13.25.

December 28 - The Republik

December 31, also known as New Year’s Eve, we’re excited to play our first show at Calgary’s newest club, The Commonwealth Bar & Stage. It’s going to be a crazy night!

Commonwealth Bar and Stage and Modern Vintage Saturdays Present: Prohibition Party, New Years 2011.

Join us for our first New Years Eve where we celebrate a time when gin was made in bathtubs, medicinal bourbon fell off the back of trucks, beer was smuggled across borders and speakeasies were a way of life. We’ll turn back the clocks and turn them to 2012 all in the same night. It’ll be a time for rocking, drinking, eating, dancing and celebrating.

Doors at 7:00
8:00-10:00 Food served from Cafeteria (included in ticket price)
9:00-10:00 Cowpuncher plays their first show at Commonwealth
10:15-2:30 Modern Vintage Saturdays Presents: Ivan/Heebz Upstairs, GSD/Sideshow Sid Downstairs
Champagne at midnight.

Tickets are $40 – you can purchase them here.

Commonwealth Prohibition Party, New Years Eve 2011

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