We have a few items to discuss:

1. The Old Sisters’ Home, our 3rd album, is now available for download or order on iTunes, CDBaby, and, as before, on our Bandcamp and Facebook pages. Give it a listen if you haven’t had the chance yet; We’re very proud of the finished product.

2. Last week we shot a concept music video for Poor Laetitia. It was good times, and we are excited to show you the final product. Look for it sometime in the next few months.

3. This Friday, 8pm March 9, 2012 we will be playing a show with our close friends Lac La Belle at Trinity House Theatre in Livonia, MI (directions). Small venue. Come early, stay late.

4. On Friday, March 16, 2012 7-9pm, we’re back up in northern Michigan to play a benefit show for the Camp Daggett fundraiser (directions) to support scholarships for children to attend Camp Daggett. Hors d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic drinks will be served as refreshments between musical sets. We are looking forward to having the time up there and are planning our outfits already. Here is a local news segment advertising the event and featuring some rare footage of our fancy new album.

Call 231-347-9742 ext. 100 to make a reservation and receive a discount. Reserved ticket prices are $15 for adults and $7 for students (high school-aged or younger). Admission prices at the door will be $20 for adults and $10 for students.

Thank you Michigan.

See you soon,

Orpheum Bell

We have just 1 day before the big event of our 2011 calendar. Final preparations are being undertaken and we are on the telephones to make sure things go just right.

We’ve spared no callousness in marketing our Concert and hope you’ll do the same. So take the skid-chains off your tongue and let wag about the Orpheum Bell Album Release Show on Saturday, December 10th at the grand Mendelssohn Theatre at the Michigan League. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tickets can be purchased online here or on-site.

Red Tail Ring from Kalamazoo join us on Saturday, along with musical friends Jennie Knaggs and Rob Avsharian, who’ve helped us along with the music this year.

It’s going to be a great show.

Promise,

Orpheum Bell

We’re getting close, and we’re getting excited. We hope you are, too (got your tickets yet?).

Here’s a little treat from one of our little fans:

“Country & Eastern”

Stay warm.

your band,
Orpheum Bell

Thank you for your kind support of our Kickstarter fundraising effort. We raised $5,326. This is a big help. Makes us feel proud and optimistic about the new album. The tracking is done. Mixing and mastering – done. We are finalizing artwork, paperwork and the routine clerical and record-keeping incidental to the more important task: releasing the completed 3rd album

This we will do on Saturday, December 10th, 2011 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan (tickets). The theater is lovely, dark and deep and thus we hope for many of you to come and listen and have a good time.

We will play the show with Red Tail Ring and will be joined by friends who helped us record the album. For the first time ever we’re making a few moving pictures to go along with the live music.

Tickets for the December 10th release are on sale now from the Michigan Union Ticket Office and can be purchased by following this link.

In the meantime, below are 3-tracks we’d like to share with you from our new album.

Thank you,

Orpheum Bell

Chain Stitched Heart by OrpheumBell

Skinny Bird by OrpheumBell

Poor Laetitia by OrpheumBell

We are thrilled and tremendously thankful to have reached our Kickstarter goal so early! We are also excited to announce that recording for the album is complete, and we will be focusing our efforts on mixing, mastering, and design for the next few months.

Since we still have two weeks to go in our Kickstarter campaign and could most definitely make use of additional pledges for our production expenses, we have racked our brains to come up with additional rewards to offer our backers if we reach further plateaus…including hand-stamped and signed thank you notes, t-shirts, coupons/download codes to our Bandcamp site, and an e-scrapbook of Orpheum Bell keepsakes.

Check out our Kickstarter page to find out more, and remember to save the date for our album release show on December 10 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.

Your band,
Orpheum Bell

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We are excited this morning to announce the launch of our Kickstarter project to raise money for the completion of our third album, ‘The Old Sisters’ Home’. We have 30 days to raise $4000, and we are asking our community to help out. Donations will rewarded with a tiered suite of prizes that includes advanced tracks, free copies of the completed album, t-shirts, tubular bells, tickets to shows, and MORE. Learn more, see a video we made, and make your donations by visiting our project site.

Thanks as always for your support,
Orpheum Bell

We are on the road this August and September playing new songs and some new venues.

TUESDAY, August 23rd (7:00pm) – GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A show with our friends Lac La Belle at the Frederik Meijer Gardens Ampitheatre Tuesday Night Concert Series. Sunset is 8:34pm so things are lining up just right.
1000 East Beltline NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525

THURSDAY, September 1st (9:30pm) – KALAMAZOO, MI – At the Strutt With Eastern Blok from Chicago. Moaning low with some Eastern brothers.
773 West Michigan
Kalamazoo, MI

FRIDAY, September 2nd (8:00pm) – ANN ARBOR, MI – Return engagement at the Ark with The Red Sea Pedestrians. Mike Shimmin will double book himself and play drums and percussion with both bands.
Tickets available in advance.

Don’t let’s miss you,

Orpheum Bell

The first day of summer and we are at making our affairs in order for 2 shows this weekend. New songs, new instruments and a new air mass meter in the Volvo. We are road worthy and ready to make it.

Friday, June 24th we play Grand Rapids, Mich., with a show at Mexicains Sans Frontieres. 9 pm; w/ Fiona Dickinson. 120 S. Division #226, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Saturday we return to Bellaire, Mich. for an encore performance at Johnny’s Schoolhouse, 9pm. Wire us for coordinates if you’re dropping by.

Till then.
Orpheum Bell