AMY OBENSKI

Sur­prise! I’m releas­ing a new sin­gle today! It’s a ver­sion of Angel’s Road that was pre­vi­ously unre­leased. This ver­sion has Daniel Brown on cello. It’s absolutely beau­ti­ful. Down­load yours here. (Note: If you helped fund my last kick­starter cam­paign then you prob­a­bly received a copy of it already.)

I just fin­ished three shows on the cen­tral coast of Cal­i­for­nia with acoustic bassist, Steve Uccello. All three shows were a hit! It was so great to be on the road again. And play­ing music with Steve has been amaz­ing. This Fri­day we will be per­form­ing at Open Voice Stu­dios in San Fran­cisco, which is where I cur­rently teach singing! I’m really excited about this show. Gen­try Bron­son will be shar­ing the other half of the night. He’s a tal­ented song­writer and per­former from Santa Rosa. This is an extra-special show because it’s the mid­dle of my com­mu­nity and so per­sonal to me. If you’re near San Fran­cisco please come!

Yes, you heard it right. I will be releas­ing a new sin­gle of an old tune. “Angel’s Road” was orig­i­nally recorded on my album, Kite, released in 2006. But in 2011 I made a new ver­sion, with Daniel Brown play­ing cello and with a bet­ter pro­duc­tion qual­ity all around. Some of you may have received it when you helped fund my last Kick­starter Cam­paign for my album, Grow to Catch the Wind. On May 21st the mp3 will be avail­able to all via CDBaby, and I will post the link here!

So I decided on a whim to start record­ing base­ment ses­sions for you! These videos will be recorded casu­ally in my base­ment or in other areas, per­haps on tour or in prac­tice with other artists. The first is a sneak peak into my par­tic­i­pa­tion in this Saturday’s Joni Mitchell Trib­ute in Santa Cruz. View it here. Enjoy!

2013 started to run away with­out me for the first cou­ple months. I woke up and it was March and real­ized I’d bet­ter get my butt in gear! Shows have started to firm up. Santa Cruz will be on April 19th, and San Fran­cisco is still being final­ized but it’s likely to be in May. There is also a Cen­tral Coast Tour in the mak­ing for May 9–12. And finally dates for France and Europe are being put together for the Sum­mer and Fall. Stay tuned and every­thing will be posted here and on Face­book.

It’s the final push to get me to Austin for this show­case dur­ing SXSW! Can you guys help me out just a lit­tle bit more? The next step is to visit my video page on Zazoo, click “Sup­port” and then fol­low the instruc­tions to share my video in every way you can. Thank you all so much! I can’t do this with­out you. You’re the best! I’m in the top 100 out of almost 2000 sub­mis­sions and now I just need to get into the top 10. I think we’re close!

Wow. I’m impressed! I went to my Reverb­na­tion page today and saw I am num­ber #1 in the charts for Singer-Songwriter in San Fran­cisco. I can’t help but won­der, “how in the world did that hap­pen?” But I guess I know how it hap­pened. It’s you guys! All of you sup­port­ing my music, you are so appre­ci­ated. Thank you all!

I’ve applied for this sweet show­case in Austin, Texas. Out of 1000+ bands to choose from, I’ve made it to the top 100! Over the next week they will be choos­ing their top 10, and even­tu­ally only two bands will get to go to Austin for the show­case. There is seri­ous sup­port for me on their site! If you’d like to increase my odds of get­ting to Austin, please post a lit­tle note about my music on The Out­law Road­show Face­book Page. It will lit­er­ally only take ten sec­onds. All you need to do is post some­thing like “Amy Oben­ski is awe­some!” or “You have to see Amy Oben­ski Live!”. Enthu­si­asm is great. And you’re allowed to post mul­ti­ple times if you want. Thank you all so much for get­ting me this far! Let’s see if I can get to Austin!

I’m very excited to have this con­cert in my future. I haven’t played in the “East Bay” in such a long time, and The Starry Plough is such a cool spot. If you’re in the San Fran­cisco Bay Area I would love to see you there! I’ll be open­ing the night at 9pm. Fol­low­ing me are two great acts: Yonat and Her Muse and Berel Alexan­der. If you’d like to RSVP or see more details you can do so via Face­book.

Yep. All of my albums are now 15% off on CD Baby until Jan­u­ary 1st. That puts them at ten bucks a piece. Enjoy! Have a great Thanks­giv­ing everyone!