Rocking at Higher Ground

Greetings

In the words of Citizen Bare’s bass player Jesse Cowan, “Happy Last Year!” Seriously though, Happy 2012 from all of us at Citizen Bare. We had our first gig of the year on January 5th at the Monkey House. Milton Busker opened for us and really rocked the house. Make sure to get out to see him if you come across his name on a bill somewhere. Unfortunately for Citizen Bare, we were without Mr. John Gratton.  His contributions were missed sorely by everyone.  Thanks so much to Tyson Valyou for filing in on drums for us.  We look forward to playing one more show with him in February. That brings us to our upcoming shows.

Upcoming Shows

February 3rd @The Monkey House with This Way and Kingsley Flood.  This Way is a great band from Portand, Maine that happens to be Andrew James’ brother and sister-in-law’s band. There aren’t too many times you can come out to see four Pattersons share the stage.  We are also very excited to play with Kingsley Flood.  They won New Artist of the Year honors at the 2010 Boston Music Awards.  Its going to be a fun night with some fantastic music! Thanks to Billy Lynch for setting the show up.

February 24th @The Radiobean. This is a great local venue and should be a fantastic evening!

More shows in the works stay tuned!

Merchandise

We have merchandise!   T-shirts for both men and women, our new LP cd and stickers are available.  We’ll have new tracks and videos up on YouTube soon.  Contact citizenbare@gmail.com for all your merch needs or come see us at our next show.  The Carnival LP is also available now on ITunes, Amazon and CDBaby.

See you in February!

Citizen Bare

Live Free, Die Naked

Citizen Bare "Carnival" Album Cover

Its been a marathon this month finishing up the Citizen Bare Carnival LP and prepping for the sold-outHigher Ground show with The Aerolites!  We had a great time performing for all those that were able to attend!  For those that were unable to attend, stay tuned. We have a video on the way.

Citizen Bare would like to thank Kevin, Nick, Z, and Andy at Higher Ground, Oggy for doing a great job with the sound, and Chris Maille for doing a great job on the lighting.

Thank you to The Aerolites for putting on a great show and sharing the stage with us.

Many thanks to Brian Ling for his clown, MC and balloon skills.  He was fun and we all enjoyed him.

We also want to thank Hell’n Fury for her act, and The Burlington Bombers who were there in part to promote “The Great Derby Social” in Enfield, NH on January 28, 2012. This event will raise funds for breast cancer research.

Thanks to Vickie Gratton Photography, Brian McDonald, Jeff Cooper of cooperAV and his crew (special thanks to John Meli), and Darci Pepin-LaCroix for running the merch table.

Thank you to all of the sponsors that helped make the event a success:

Eric Hoffman Guitars

Mountain Ear Magazine

Farm Fresh Radio – 102.9

Beverage Warehouse of Winooski, VT

GTG Hydroponics

If you are on facebook don’t forget to “LIKE” the pages for our sponsors as well!

And last but not least… this event was put on for you, our fans.  The biggest thanks goes to YOU! Thank you for your support over the past 4+ years; from the humble beginnings of the acoustic duo to where Citizen Bare is now! A full band with a newly released LP.  Without your support we know that we would not continue to grow our fanbase or have the success we’ve experienced.  We sincerely thank you and look forward to more opportunities to perform for you in the coming year.

Salutations to all our friends, family and fans! Hopefully you had a terrific Turkey day. Thanks so much to everyone who came to the Monkey House last Sunday night and started off your Thanksgiving week with a bang. Halle Petro and the Jilt and Hillside Hooligans were absolutely fantastic and had us all up and on our feet!

Upcoming Gigs
Wow! So much to talk about right now and so many great things going on for us.  Our next show coming up is @ Higher Ground with The Aerolites (http://theaerolites.com/)  AUDIO CARNIVAL!! is a sold-out show!  This is going to be a very exciting event featuring two great local bands and a couple of surprises along the way. A custom Eric Hoffmann Guitar will be given away! If you did not get tickets do not fret. There will be some giveaways coming up soon. Please tune in to Farm Fresh Radio @ 102.9 on your FM dial. We want to give very special thanks to our sponsors for this show: Beverage Warehouse, The Mountain Ear, GTG Hydroponics, Eric Hoffmann Guitars and Farm Fresh Radio!

If you are out of town or just can’t make this show you can always catch us at the Monkey House on January 5th. Hope to see you out!

We are also excited to be playing The GREAT DERBY SOCIAL 2012 in Enfield, New Hampshire on January 28th! Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/210048

Upcoming LP

We are pleased to announce that we have finished our first LP (Thank you so much to John & Vickie for all your hard work) and it has gone off to the press! We will also have downloads available if you are one of those people who likes to upload songs directly to your mp3 player from the interwebs.

Merchandise
Oh man! Have we got some news for you! Citizen Bare finally has more T-shirts available including the mantis design. Stickers will also be available if you would like to be able to have a little CB on your laptop or other mobile devices (such as but not limited to your car).

The Past, Present and Future
Citizen Bare would love to thank everyone for making 2011 a very successful year for us where lots of fancy dancing occurred! We look forward to seeing you at our SOLD-OUT show @ Higher Ground on December 10th! 2012 is shaping up to be a very exciting year for us with many good things to come!

Sincerely,

Citizen bare
Live Free, Die Naked

Citizen Bare is proud to present…

Audio Carnival

A night of music, art, carnival sideshows, and shenannigans, featuring:

The Aerolites & Citizen Bare

Saturday, December 10, 2011 at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge

Show starts at 8:00pm, doors open at 7:30pm.  $10 adv/door

Attendees are sure to have a great experience that will include music from both The Aerolites & Citizen Bare including several sideshow type performances, and performance art that one would expect at a carnival.  Come and join them in the experience.

~CB

Please come down to the Burlington Waterfront in Burlington, VT on Saturday, September 24, 2011 starting @ 9:30am to register and/or walk for the 5k event starting @ 10:30am. Citizen Bare will play some music during the registration & kickoff…as well as when people return from the walk. Hopefully you can help NAMI meet their fundraising goals too. To join a walking team, donate, or sponsor, go to http://www.nami.org/namiwalks/vt

In other Citizen Bare news…

We are psyched to be putting on a big show @ Higher Ground with The Aerolites in December. We will nail down the details and add another post about that pretty soon.

Also…

We are finally working on creating an album! What do you think of that? I know that we are thrilled for the undertaking. Anybody that is interested in investing into this Citizen Bare project is welcome.   And of course we appreciate your support.

Finally…in an anticlimatic way…

Its that time of year again where CB’s website and overall graphical content will be getting an update and some revamping. So please, keep an eye on the website, facebook, and around the town for your Citizen Bare.

~ CB

No matter… Posters have been posted around various locations for this show…all pointing to the website. Which we are thrilled about because you can listen to an old demo we made. But we don’t actually have any posts about the gig.  Well here it goes…

Next Wednesday (July 20)…the moment you have all been waiting for.

Citizen Plays an EARLY outdoor gig (that’s free by the way)

@ Mills Riverside Park in Jericho, VT

Show starts @ 6pm
Cost – Free

Have a picnic, throw the frisbee, burp the baby, wag the dog….oh wait…  COME OUT & have a good time w/ us!  We may even play a few tunes that are new to Citizen Bare.

See you there!

Live Free, Die Naked!

~ CB

Dinner and Citizen Bare anybody?

Also…  We have a gig coming up Friday, February 25, 2011 at Radio Bean in Burlington, VT.  We take the stage at 8:00pm.   Being a coffeehouse, they have a variety of foods and beverages available.  So come out and have a good time with us!

~ CB

To catch everybody up who is reading our blog and not relying on Facebook or personal communication to notify them of Citizen Bare happenings.

Halloween, 2010 – We had a great time with the Halloween gig @ the Monkey House with Gneiss and Coba Stella.  The night was a lot of fun with costumes and the whole bit.  Plus there were some lucky winners of two MP3 players that contained Demo music from Citizen Bare, Gneiss, and Coba Stella.

New Years Eve, Citizen Bare had two gigs.

New Years Gig #1 – We played at First Night at the First Congregational Church.  We had a great time and got to see some fans who have not previously been able to come out to our shows.  What a great treat!  And we got to meet some great French folk musicians with some beautiful harmonies, flute playing, and other intriguing sounds.  Thanks to Jennifer Crowell for having us play!

New Years Gig #2 – We played at the Monkey House with Gneiss.  Another great time! and some good video footage to add to YouTube came out of that thanks to Jim Dion.  We will be working on splitting up the video and posting some of them.  That was our first night introducing some new songs and adding some more covers to the repertoire.  All seemed to be pretty well received.   At the end of the night CB and Gneiss joined forces to play a few songs.  I hope for more of that in the future.

February 10th, 2011 – We played at the Monkey House with Shady Alley.  Shady Alley started the night with some great harmonies and interesting acoustic arrangements.  They were great!  But what we were most excited about was introducing our new keyboard player, Elizabeth Patterson to our fans.  Elizabeth definitely adds a dynamic that was not present before.  We look forward to future gigs, and what shape our music will take with her addition.  Thanks so much to all of our fans for coming out for what was a very late night!  We definitely appreciate the support.

Alright…so we are caught up!  Now we can add some new gig info, new music info, videos, etc.  We will be sure to keep on top of it better than the past, so please come back frequently to check out what we are up to.

- John

~ CB

Other News:
Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - Monkey House - more details to follow
Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 – First Night – First Congregational Church @ 5pm