Wahoo! Longfellow Street won Veer Magazine’s 2013 Best Americana Award!

Trey, Mallory, Donna and Andrew were on hand for the festivities at the Naro theater in Ghent.

The awards ceremony was a blast – Norfolk knows how to rock and roll! Shouts out to our friends Russell Scarborough and Logan Vath for their awards and to Crissy Babe & The Dastards for rockin’ the show along with guest guitarist Grant Austin Taylor.

Longfellow Street has been nominated for Best Americana Band of 2012 by Veer Magazine!

This is very exciting news for us – when I got to Norfolk last year, it was just in time to check out the winners of the previous year’s contest. Since then we’ve played shows and become friends with some of last year’s winners, and we’re pleased and proud to have a chance to be included in such a group of musicians.

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We’re in category 12, “Best Americana”.

Our Suggested Other Nominees Of Note For Which To Vote:

Logan Vath – he’s in three (three!) categories – Best  Emerging Artist, Best Acoustic/Folk and Best Busker.

Miles Hoyle – Best Busker. Miles gets my vote instead of Logan, ’cause I’ve stood there and enjoyed watching Miles play on Colley Ave, jammed a bit with him, put money in his accordian case… and while I agree that Logan is Best Acoustic/Folk and Best Emerging Artist, I ain’t nevah seen the boy busk.

The Russell Scarborough Trio – Best Jazz Band. RST! I should be at Cotton’s right now watching them and sipping mimosas…

Russell’s Music World – Best Music Store.

Seth Stainback – Best Blues, Best Live Performance, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year. Good Lord, Seth.

Crissy Babe & The Dastards – best rockabilly. I’m not sure I would call them rockabilly, exactly, but I guess it’s close enough!

The Victorian Tea Station – Best Open Mic. Vaughn Deel runs a fantastic open mic. Also, Mallory and I are getting married at the Tea Station. Mwaha.

I would include Nate Sacks and his band Reckless Passengers, ’cause they’re great – but they’re competing with us for Best Americana, soooo….

You can vote once a day from your web browser, and it looks like you can vote multiple times a day from your phone.

Huge thanks to any and all who click our name!

Be there!!!

Last night’s gig at Cafe Stella was great – relaxed, fun, a little exploratory. Great crowd and good vibes. Walt Taylor was in the audience, and sketched us… I’m pretty amazed, honestly. He got something about everybody dead-on.

We’re steadily making progress on the full-length record.

Big news!

Longfellow Street will be part of The Hampton Roads ‘MERICAN RADIO SHOW at The Hampton Taphouse on Friday, Jan 4. The Muckrakes have come out of hibernation to join us on stage, along with Scott Slay and the Rail Project and Dan Pellegrino’s solo acoustic effort, Like The Water. We’re very excited to be part of this show – we’ll be shooting a music video for Aim To Kill! Come join us and be in the video.

Mallory and I are gearing up and heading South, pointing the car towards Jacksonville and drivin’ till it’s real. We’ll be playing Saturday evening from 5:30-6:30 at the Jacksonville Landing with original members Arvid Smith and Cody Walker, Jr! To all our friends in Jacksonville, we hope to see you there.

Upcoming shows:

Sat Nov 10 – Longfellow Street with original members Cody and Arvid @ Jacksonville Landing, Jacksonville FL – 5:30 to 6:30
Wed Nov 14 – The Takers @ Mojo Bones OV – 8:00 to 10:00
Sat Nov 17 – Trey & Mallory @ Virginia Living Museum – 6:00 to 7:00
Sat Nov 17 – Trey, Mallory and Scott Slay @ The Belmont House Of Smoke opening for The Barstool Heroes – time TBA
Sat Nov 24 – Trey with the Rob Rankin Band @ The County Grill, Yorktown, VA – 9:00
Sat Dec 1 – Trey, Mallory & Ryan at Woody McGee’s, Virginia Beach VA – 9:00 – 12:30
Sat Dec 8 – Longfellow Street @ Mojo Bones OV – 9:30 – 12:30

Well alright! Last night’s show was a blast, thanks to everyone who showed up to check out The Taker’s first show. We had a great time crankin’ out the country tunes, and it was fun to get to play some of our originals that don’t often get the full band treatment. Thanks to Ben Lassiter, Russell Scarborough and Ryan Collins for rockin’ out with their socks out. Actually, that’s not quite true – they all wore their boots last night!

The Takers will be back at Mojo Bones next month, on Wed Nov 14.

Next up! Mallory and I will be playing out in the Shenandoah Valley this weekend. Saturday we’re playing the Homebrew & Squash Fest in Mount Sidney, VA and Sunday we’ll be at the Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, VA. Looking forward very much to seeing our friend Mike Chiarello play an acoustic set at Squashfest, and happy to see our other Valley friends as well.

Next next up! I’m very, very eager to get back to working on Longfellow Street’s upcoming CD. It’s Sax Time, baby! As soon as I can schedule Andrew, of course… also, my baritone guitar finally came in, so I can move forward on the songs that need that particular sound. Everybody’s been busy with day jobs, but we’ve got a gig at Mojo’s on Saturday Nov 10 and we’re lining up a gig at the Hampton Taphouse – that one’s going to be particularly exciting for reasons which I will reveal as the details get worked out. Lookin’ forward to gettin’ back into the Longfellow Street jazz groove – we’ve added another of Mallory’s originals and brought a Latin jazz feel to the mix.

We’re also getting started on a Praise and Worship demo CD for our guitarist, Donna Irwin – she’s one hardworkin’ lady, so I’m gonna try to do her right and get her a CD that makes her sound so good churches will be knockin’ down her door trying to hire her. Can you gimme hallelujah? Amen, brothers and sisters.

It’s been an intense few months, with more to come. We’ve got shows coming up all throughout October and November (and into December) around town, in the Outer Banks, out west in the Shenandoah and down south in Jacksonville. Some members of Longfellow Street will also be performing with some new friends in the outlaw country band The Takers, check out our schedule page for more info.

Most exciting of all to me (Trey) is that we are making steady progress on recording our upcoming album – the sessions have been going very well, we’re having lots of fun and getting great results – we are truly lucky to play with such talented musicians. We are working on a music video shoot for the first single to be released as a teaser for the record. Stay tuned for more information on release dates and how to get involved in the video shoot!

Mojo Bones last Saturday night – the Rock And Roll Marathon last Sunday morning – Thursday night at Buon Amici – Saturday = Hampton Bay Days, ETC Festival in Norfolk and opening for The Gloom! and Bear Crossing in Chesapeake. All these shows were great fun, even the surreal 9am performance at the Rock N Roll Marathon! Closed out the week with dinner at a local Lebanese joint while listening to a Celtic jam session. Charmingly schizophrenic!

More on the way, including another Mojo Bones gig, a bunch of duo stuff for Trey and Mallory (and maybe Ryan) and a show with original members Arvid Smith and Cody Walker Jr in Jacksonville, FL on November 10! We’ll be at the Jacksonville Landing with a bunch of other class acts, including Grandpa’s Cough Medicine and The Feral Swine Experiment. Lookin’ forward to jammin’ in Jax once more.

Stay tuned, more to come. Peace -Trey

Exciting news – Longfellow Street will be opening for The Hackensaw Boys at the Jewish Mother Hilltop in Virginia Beach, this Saturday night at 9pm!

We’ve seen many excellent shows at the JewMa Hilltop and we’re very happy to be playing that stage. Y’all come out and join us for what’s sure to be an awesome time.

The Jewish Mother Hillop – http://www.jewishmother.com/VB/index
The Hackensaw Boys – http://www.hackensawboys.com/

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