Fri, June 8th: Annie B. solo/acoustic 10pm-12am at Pridefest (at the Summerfest Grounds) on the new Womyn’s Lounge and Café!

Sat, June 9th: ABVC 12-12:45pm at Pridefest (at the Summerfest Grounds) on the Miller Stage

Sat, June 16th: ABVC at The Dam Jam in Racine: Johnson Park Pavillion, 6200 Northwestern Avenue (7pm, please check back for EXACT timeslot!)

Thu, June 21st: ABVC 6-8pm at Sounds of Sussex: Weyer Park Main St & Elmwood Ave, Sussex, WI 53089 – Bring your lawnchairs! Concessions will be available!

Sun, July 1st: ABVC 2-3:30pm at Summerfest! Briggs Stage!

Wed, July 4th: ABVC at The Village Inn: 411 Main St., Alpha, MI. 9pm performance, 9:30 Fireworks, and more ABVC afterwards!!

Sat, Aug 4th: ABVC 6-6:45pm at Artbeat in the Heat Music & Arts Festival: 2625 S. Greeley St., Milwaukee

Fri, Aug. 10th: ABVC 5-6:30pm at Festival in Kenosha, please check back for more info & the address!!!

In the meantime, feel free to continue requesting ABVC on all of your favorite radio stations all around the Midwest! If you haven’t already, hopefully you’ll hear us on YOUR favorite radio station soon!!

April 7th at the Bradley Center for a Bucks Pre-Game show! They have tickets as low as $5!!! ABVC performs from 6:30-7:30pm

April 14th at Goose Island in Wrigleyville with fellow Milwaukee band Ikarus Down! ABVC takes the stage at 10pm! 3535 North Clark Street, Chicago

April 15th at McBob’s (4919 W. North Ave., Milw) – Kicking off “The Good Deed”: A new charity whose mission is to help women with everyday life while recovering from breast cancer surgeries. Raffle for a large screen TV, $300.00 Mc Dermott Pool Cue, $100.00 cash, and other fun gifts to bid on. ABVC from 3-4:30pm, D.J. Andrae Dean to follow. $20.00 gets you all you can eat buffet, tap beer & soda. Entire event goes until 8pm.

April 21st at Lo-Cash Live! Annie will start the night out with a bunch of solo/acoustic originals at 9:30, then ABVC goes on at 10:45pm! FREE SHOW! 124 West National Avenue, Milwaukee

Thanks to all who were involved in the nomination process!

See the complete list of nominees at JSOnline.com!

The 2012 WAMI Awards Show will be hosted by the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center (400 W. College Ave.) in Appleton, WI on Sunday April 15, 2012 beginning at 7 PM. Come out for a great night of music, networking, and celebrating our AMAZING musical talents here in Wisconsin! In the meantime, enjoy footage from a few great music festivals ABVC played last summer!

ABVC is submitting for music festivals all over the Midwest & the U.S.! PLEASE “Like” ABVC on Facebook to help the band get into these festivals!

Help out also by visiting Wakarusa Festival’s Facebook page, “Like” this page, and post that you’d like to see Annie B & the Vagabond Company in the lineup this year!

Thanks again, David McGrath!!!!

Here’s a little commentary from Michael McGinley, WAMI President:
“Part of the wonderment of the Milwaukee Music Scene is how it continues to feature a robust talent pool that resists what seems to occur elsewhere — which is the rubbing off of resident styles on one another to a degree that the place is emblematic of a sound and vice-versa. Milwaukee has always been the kind of place where we see few reasons to be like anybody else including those closest to us. Today, amongst another generation of close-knit artists in our City is one, Annie B. who exemplifies the bandwidth of our artists and fans. She is doing it her way, and we are buying into her clever pop-hooks, deconstructed and made raw with what seems nearly a sense of disdain for the process of making music itself, and her lyrics that give us a delicious feeling of accidentally peeking into our best friend’s diary.”

WAMI is a volunteer organization whose purpose is to educate and recognize the achievements and accomplishments of individuals in the Wisconsin music industry. Since 1980, WAMI has worked to improve communication and interaction among members, present awards to honor and celebrate the accomplishments of the Wisconsin music industry, produce music industry/music business seminars and workshops, accumulate information for use within a comprehensive Wisconsin music industry directory, partner with other Wisconsin-based organizations with a shared mission, and encourage, promote and educate musicians.

ABVC is honored to be the January 2012 WAMI Featured Band! Thanks for having us, WAMI!!!

Bugsy [the videographer who taped & produced "You and Me (The Jennifer Song)" video] called me a few weeks ago telling me about this Christian network of over 3 million contacts. He said they gave him their list but there’s really no way to effectively utilize this huge list of contacts in any way that makes a lot of sense to me as this point. We don’t know how many of these e-mail addresses are outdated, and we have no contact manager to add to & e-mail everyone, without it costing lots of money. I wasn’t sure how to deal with this information, so I kind of decided that if he wanted to investigate further, he could, but I wouldn’t even know where to start, so I kind of dropped the idea of doing something with that contact list.

I called him a few days ago asking him about his contact in Florida who works to get U.S. bands over to Europe, and then he mentioned that The Jennifer Song has over 10,000 views. I have no idea how that happened, except it must be related to the fact that he does have over 5,000 subscribers on YouTube. I mentioned the 10,000 views to the girl in Florida, and she seemed impressed. According to the girl in FL, the thing to do now is try to get more views in Europe (vs. the U.S.) Not sure how to do that, but THIS is worth investigating.

Anyhow, any ideas anyone has about this, please contact me with your ideas (through the contact form on this website). I certainly have a few contacts in Europe, but not many.

Either way, your help is needed to make sure that number of views continues to increase, so please enjoy the video and SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

I found this interesting article about going viral. Granted it’s from 2 years ago, but I imagine things have not changed drastically since then… http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/webhead/2009/07/will_my_video_get_1_million_views_on_youtube.html

Thanks much and Happy Holidays!!!!!!!

Annie B.

Did you know that Annie B. often gets compared to Alanis Morisette? Listen for yourself: Get Alanis’ “Jagged Little Pill” from Amazon.com!