Folklife Festival, Memorial Day Weekend Comcast Mural Amphitheater

Yes it is true. We will be sharing the stage with Skalami, and theDiablotones May 25th at the Folklife festival. Come one come all. This is going to be a great show. Skalami will take the stage at 3:00 and get everyone going. Natalie Wouldn’t will come on board at 3:45 and fire everyone up even more. Then at 4:30ish Diablotones will take it home. 

We will be on the Comcast Mural Amphitheater which is the big stage by the fountain. We will also be debuting our new CD “Nick the Beat” it will be available in hard copy at the Folklife music store the whole weekend so pick one up. We are very excited and look forward to seeing all of you there. Please come up after the show and say Hi. 

News Flash! you will notice some new faces on stage with us. Sean (Sax player) Rick (trumpet player) and Erik (keys) please welcome them into the Natalie Wouldn’t family. 

Cheers.

Our new CD Nick the Beat launched today!

Yes after all our hard work the new CD is out. Nick The Beat, the 12 song CD just released today on CD Baby. Very soon it will be in 37 different digital distributions and also available at all our shows and in hard copy directly from CD Baby.

This CD is a great mix of real smooth rock steady SKA wrapped up with some great old covers like Free Bird and King of the Road that have been Skaed out Natalie Wouldn’t style. Please check out the new stuff and let us know what you think we love your feedback.

Train Justice coming on the new CD “Nick The Beat!”

 

Recently at the SKA fest at Studio Seven we had some great video shot of lots of our songs (thank you Bob). This one song happens to be one of my favorites as well as one of the tracks on our up coming new CD Nick The Beat. I also love this video because some great fans from Oregon made it to the show and got up on stage druing this song and Skanked around a bit. We want to thank those kids and make sure they know we really apperciate thier enthuisam for our music. It keeps us doing what we are doing so thank you.

Natalie Wouldn’t Debut Video for 4 STop

Ok so Kevin out did himself. (Kevin Crosby) our Bass player IE….. video producer,  produced this great little Video for our New CD coming out in about 2 weeks called Nick The Beat. Hope you enjoy the song and the video. The song is called 4STop, you will figure it out.

Cheers.

Natalie Woulnd’t is back in the studio!

Yes it is true we are back in the Studio recording our next CD. Rick, Mike and Kevin spent the day at the imfamous Egg Studio in Seattle with the one and only Conrad Uno. Known for his role in the amazing Presidents of the United States CD, many of the Young Fresh Fellows albums, the Posies just to name a few.

We recorded 12 tracks of new material that we are very excited about. WE even have a couple of surprises as well. We now just need Shawn our amazing Sax player to get his butt in the studio and some special guest as well and then we will be releasing our new CD by Jan of 09. So keep an eye out and if your not on our list do so by going to www.nataliewouldnt.com and signing up.

Here are a few more photos form our day at the Studio.

Cheers as always.

Folklife Festival 08

So we did it again, we played at folklife this year. It was fun but for some reason we didn’t get the great grass fountain stage this year so it was a bit melodramatic. The fans however were great and were skanking about as they do. We love our fans and they really do keep us doing what we are doing.

We have to thank Chris, he shot some great video of us and was able to get a feed from the mix and put it all up on youtube for us. Even though the weather wasn’t so great people were there and it was alot of fun. If you didn’t get a chance to go here is a sample of what you missed.

Here is one of your new tunes Temper Temper

The Brits are coming.

We are very excited that this great band 2nd Time Lucky is coming to Seattle.

These guys are a poppy punky ska band from sunny Brighton. They formed in July 2003 as a collection of various musicians from other south coast ska bands when the local scene was at a real peak. Since then they had a million people come and go through the band (full story in the blog!). Right now they are saving hard to get a full album recorded.

We were lucky enough to go over to Brighton and do a mini tour with this band and it was a blast. Well this July we are retuning the favor and they are flying across the pond to come play their great British Ska here in the states. If your not familiar with this band you can check them out on their myspace site. We are currently setting up gigs where Natalie Wouldn’t and 2nd Time Lucky will share the stage. Hopefully if everything works out we will be playing together in British Columbia at the annual Ska Fest in Victoria. Stayed tuned for more to come on this fun British invasion.

The Q Cafe

So here is a bit about the Q Cafe. “Q Cafe also doubles as a great music venue [visit us on MySpace for all upcoming shows]. With our 238 persons occupancy, no alcohol, solid sound system, tons of free parking, and a classic Seattle urban cafe vibe, it’s one of the up and coming all-ages-venue in Seattle. We’ve hosted open mics, gospel, alternative, hip hop, one grammy winner, jazz, some classical music, and of course, many local musicians.”

We are very excited to be playing with Get down Moses. So on Friday April 18th if your not busy you should head out to the Q and have a great evening at the really cool new venue.

Buster and his amazing tongue.

Well the show was fun at El Corozon with Bad Manners. Even though it was an early show we still seem to have some people there and they all seemed into the music. Our set was short and sweet. We started off with Stop and were able to squeeze in Train for our last song.

We were all give only 25 min sets so Bad Manners could play the full hour and thirty mins. I have to thank all the fellas from the Diablotones for back lining gear, special thanks to Steve for being cool and letting me stick my kick in place of his with the New Natalie W. drum head logo.

Shawn and I were hanging out in the Bar before the show and had an opportunity to chat with Buster the title of this post is because of the image you see in these photos. Kevin even was able to hang with Buster out by the Winni pre show. All in all it was fun and we are looking forward to sharing the stage with Bad Manners the next time they come through Seattle. Cheers.

Come on Seattle!

Ok really, what gives? Between Craigslist, The Stranger and Myspace we are having no luck finding a good Keyboard/vocalist.

Yes it is true we would like to take our amazing foursome to the number 5. Aaron our great friend and amazing keyboard player has a job that just does not allow him the time to continue on with us. This saddens us but at the same time we have lots of ska to play and many of shows to play at. That said I decided to post this article up on our blog in hopes that some of our great fans will help get the word out that “Natalie Wouldn’t is Looking”

So if you know of a great keyboard player with amazing pipes male or female we want to hear from them and see if it might be a fit. We guarantee great times, quality musicianship, and more fun in a band then they could ever imagine.