Its been two weeks on the road and we’re still alive! ha. Only one encounter with the police since we last spoke (no biggie ;P). Lessons learned:
Getting people out to shows is NOT easy. Just making a facebook event and inviting people to it IS NOT ENOUGH. With all the junk that goes on the internet these days its rare for people to really filter through all the invites. You have to make invitations PERSONAL. That’s the gift of the internet! To bridge the gap between people sitting in front of their computers and whoever is providing the entertainment.

Also, do what you can to remind the people without being annoying. For example, I update my status letting people know that I have a show that day, maybe the day before, but instead of shoving it down peoples throats repeating the same information, I hide it in new information. I’ll post a new video showing us on tour, then mention that I have these dates still going on. Or I’ll post pictures as I’m on tour, to promote the show… Give more content to promote whats already been said. Be creative!! Use your creativity that you already have in your art, and apply it to your marketing campaign!

Well there’s two more Amanda cents. Here’s another video blog!!!
Show in San Francisco TONIGHT (details here),
Davis June 1st, then back down to San Fran and Petaluma. Details here.

Follow our minute by minute progress on our respective twitters:
http://www.twitter.com/AmandaHolmes
http://www.twitter.com/JuliaJara

Read Julia’s blog here

Life is best when I’m on the road There’s nothing better than meeting new people, playing music, and traveling up the PCH. I may have lost my car keys yesterday in the gazillions of sand grains that make up Pismo Beach’s coast line…. BUT. Every tour I’ve done, there’s been some kind of car trouble. Tour #1, locked keys in car. Tour #2, car window broken and ipod stolen. Now, tour #3, lost car keys had to have it towed to get new ones (see picture here). Only this time, it happened right at the beginning of the tour (day 3) instead of at the end. I’d like to think that we just had to get it out of the way earlier than later

Shani is getting her Masters this summer so I couldn’t tour with her again BUT, we are having a reunion show at Genghis Cohen June 9th (details here). Instead, I got my roommate of the last four years, Julia, to come on the road with me! We made our first video blog, pretty entertaining if I must say so myself Check it out:

We will be on tour until June 9th in Los Angeles so come out to see us live!! Tour dates/locations/times here. Or you can go to my myspace.

To follow our random adventures on a daily basis, you can follow us on twitter at:
@AmandaHolmes or
@JuliaJara

2009 West Coast Tour with Amanda Holmes and Shani Shousterman. Catch performances in San Francisco at the Rock-it Room.

2009 West coast tour! Performing at Barefoot Coffeeroasters! + check out our rendition of cribs:)

2009 West Coast Tour with Shani Shousterman and Amanda Holmes. Performing in Mountain View and Campbell (South bay in California). Catch a glimpse of performances, interactions with the crowd, stories about our trip, and more!

We love East Village Coffee in Monterey Always very music focused venue! Street performing, more perfomring, reflections on performing Artist’s life on tour check it out:

Another stop on the tour Loved Java Jones! Hangin with fun people!

First show of the 2009 West Coast Tour!! Shani and I are officially on the road! We played at a GREAT place in Long Beach on Saturday, Viento Y Agua. Omar Perez-Then also performed, you can hear his music at: www.myspace.com/omarperezthen 

If you look a little lower you can see the rest of the dates for the tour!! Come out to a live show!!