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Welcome to the twelth BloodThirsty Vegans newsletter. June 2010 Edition.
The BloodThirsty Vegans (BTVs) is a musical family that makes music (sweet, sweet music)
about peace, love and understanding to unite the human family, foster respect for
the interconnected web of life, and remind the tribes how liberating it was to
dance the dances of freedom.
Currently the BloodThirsty Vegans are My Rap Name is Alex,
Janna "MC Vendetta" Willoughby, Dave Harter, Ben Sachs,
Bryan "Brrrn" Lohr & Kaitlyn Marie Gardner
and sometimes Michael Delaney or Liz Bailey.
Contacting BloodThirsty Vegans directly is pretty simple.
We are all regular visitors to our facebook page.
We design and operate our own website at bloodthirstyvegans.com
that has message forums where you can
leave messages for us or other BTV friends and fans. We also have
myspace and twitter.
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Good Start for Do You Even Know?
Our first music video, Do You Even Know, made it's debut in last month's
newsletter. In just one month it has already gotten more than 500 views.
500 views is not a ton of views in the world of YouTube, but it is quite an
accomplishment for us given that our only other video to have 500 views
took 10 months to get there and the DYEK music video did it in
under 4 weeks. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel, we are looking into posting more stuff there.
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Our first CD, Let the Feast Begin, is FINALLY available online.
For just $6 you or someone you love can have all 12 songs from Let the
Feast Begin along with digital art created just for the download CD and
full lyrics embeded in the songs.
The online download version doesn't include the bonus tracks or all of
the goodies that come with the physical CD, but for $6 you can get 12
awesome songs that we really worked hard on.
Check it out on BandCamp:
http://bloodthirstyvegans.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-feast-begin
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The BloodThirsty Vegans swing back into action with a full line up of
local shows here in Western New York.
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June.04.2010
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[6:00pm]
Dance Alive!
695 Elmwood Ave
[$5 recommended donation]
The Intergenerational Dance Party turns 3. Come celebrate 3 years
of the new Dance Alive Friday June 4th. Potluck begins at 6. Bring some
food to share. Live music by BloodThirsty Vegans from 7ish to 9ish with
an intermission for our Kid Friendly Open Mic in between sets.
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June.05.2010
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[noon - 5:00pm]
Gloria J. Parks Community Center Block Party
at the Gloria J. Parks Community Center
3242 Main Street
Buffalo, New York 14214
[free][all ages]
Dance performances by:
Euphraxia & Red Moon, DFC Breakdancers
Live music by:
Gruvology, BloodThirsty Vegans, Miraculous Rhythms of Sankofa,
DJ Cutler, Erie Lackawanna Railroad
The BTVs head to the University Heights neighborhood in Northeast Buffalo
to contribute to this absolutely amazing line-up of entertainment.
facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119211991444807
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June.12.2010
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[4:30pm]
Lew Port Central School Track
4061 Creek Rd
Lewiston, NY 14174
[all ages]
On June 12th, more than 3.5 million people across the USA are signed up
to participate in local fund raisers for Cancer
Research. The BloodThirsty Vegans will be heading all the way up to
Lake Ontario to rock on out for the local event in Lewiston, NY.
facebook event link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117164381647568
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June.19.2010
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Buffalo Infringement Fest fund raiser [10:00pm]
Nietzsche's - 248 Allen st.
Buffalo, NY [14201]
[21 and over][$??]
It's almost that time of year again. Buffalo's infringement Fastival
= the most wonderful time of the year for many Buffalonians. As the
weather gets warmer you can start to feel infringement in the air around
here. People are hard at work making plans and preparations and we're
going to get together on June 19th to help those people make some
Money so that this year's infringement can have its best possible
head start.
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We are now booking shows for July 2010,
please send any ideas or inquiries to booking at bloodthirstyvegans dot com.
For more info on our upcoming show schedule check out this
link where we post upcoming shows.
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For the month of May we decided to take a month off and just concentrate on
practicing and writing new songs. The only show we were intending to
play was our monthly show, Dance Alive. But we got invited to do a mid-month
show for bicycles. We have a hard time saying no to bicycles so we ended
up doing that show also.
Dance Alive: May -
there were not a lot of people at Dance Alive in May. We suspect it was
because we put so much energy into promoting our CD release party the week
before and didn't put much into reminding people about Dance Alive.
But, there was a group of new people that had never been to Dance Alive
so we put on an intence show for them. Or, actually, with them. After
open mic we started jamming around a bit and created some awesome
music on the spot with our new friends and a few familiar family members.
Merge into the Bike Lane -
Then in the middle of the month we headed on to the stage at Merge
Restaurant to play a show for Bike to Work Week and Green Options
Buffalo. There were many new people there that were seeing a BTV show
for the first time. And as luck would have it we had a TON of technical
difficulties: a faulty keyboard, mic & monitor problems, a mixed up
set list... you name it we had problems with it. But we powered through it
and had a really fun show anyway and sold lots of copies of our Let the
Feast Begin CD afterwards which always helps our mood when we're playing
a benefit show for a good cause.
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(photo credits: Kim Worpek)
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Gratitude to all of the people who've been helping this BloodThirsty Vegans
Adventure go. All the people passing around links to our video and showing
up to shows and buying CDs and then actually listening to them and all of
the folks who offer us an encouraging word when we need it...
supreme gratitude.
Gratitude to Euphraxia for being patient with us and forgiving when
things get overlooked. <3 <3 <3 to y'all.
Gratitude to all the activists, movers and shakers who are moving the
things that need to be moved and shaking the things that need shaking.
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Go love someone. Peace.
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