*For the latter half of June, the Booty Band will be down in Florida recording their new album with DJ Le Spam in his studio located in Miami, FL.

Everyone is really excited. This will be the first studio album since 2007’s “Now You Know” was released. It will include newest Booty Band members Lee Allen on drums and Mary Frances on vocals and keys from the band Eymarel.

Much of the album will be recorded right to tape (reel to reel) to utilize some of the ol’ school recording techniques. The band expects a late Fall/early Winter release.

*Surrounding the band’s dates in the studio will be a string of Florida shows. Come check them out at one or all of the following shows:

June
18 New Smyrna Beach, FL Beachside Tavern
19 Jupiter, FL Guanabana’s
25-26 Key West, FL Green Parrot

June Highlights (so far):

*WAKARUSA!!! We’d like to thank everyone who came out to our show at Waka to help us rage it Booty Band style. Great energy from the crowd and we had a blast hanging out at the fest all weekend, meeting other bands and hanging out with our fans from all over the country.

*Carolina Rib King from Spartanburg, SC was overall, the bands favorite rib stand at the Twin City Rib Fest in Winston Salem. Although there was the factor that they didn’t get a chance to try all of the different stands. So many ribs, so little time…

*Even though it’s been almost a year since our last Wilmington show, folks came out to the infamous Soapbox and represented,…and they represented well. An awesome night of high energy!

*The boathouse in Myrtle Beach was fun and interesting. Boaters pulled their rides up to the docks behind the club and pulled out their coolers and BBQ’s. People swam around in the water, drinking and listening to music while the hill behind the bar where the stage was located quickly filled up with hundreds of listeners, dancers and hoola hoopers. What a great Sunday afternoon!

…and don’t forget that “Wakarusa” is right around the corner June 3rd-6th

Booty Band just got back from a three week tour of the Midwest. We met lots of cool folks, traveled to and through many cool and unusual towns, and had a blast! Now we are back on the East coast and getting ready to play a club in your city.

Check out our April Dates:

April
1 Boone, NC The Reel House
2 Charleston, SC Pourhouse
3 Savannah, GA Live Wire Music Hall
7 Sellersville, PA Sellersville Theatre
8 Falls Church, VA State Theatre
9 Ithaca, NY Castaways
22 Raleigh, NC Pourhouse
23 Greensboro, NC Blind Tiger
24 Asheville, NC All Go West Festival
30 New Orleans, LA Fantastic Hullabaloo @ The Twelve

*With one last date on the April run on May 1st at Pirate’s Cove in Josephine, AL

Check out some of the great festivals we will be playing this summer:

April
24 Asheville, NC All Go West Festival

May
21 Live Oak, FL Purple Hatter’s Ball

June
4 Ozark, AR Wakarusa Music Festival
11 Winston-Salem, NC Texas Pete Twin City Rib Festival

July
17 Silver Spring, MD Downtown Silver Spring Concert Series

August
15 Ukiah, CA Sunday In The Park
21 Alma, CO THC Music Festival
27 Boone, NC Music On The Mountain Top

A day off at the hot springs in Idaho

See ya at the shows!

Sat Feb 20th: Beech Mountain Resort in Beech Mountain, NC “BOARDING FOR BREAST CANCER” w/ local Boone openers “Native Sway”
For more information on this event, please call 828-387-2011 ext. 204,

Sunday Feb 28th: Haitipalooza at “The Orange Peel” in Asheville, NC. All proceeds go DIRECTLY to Haiti in the form of medical supplies, food and water through the “Planting Peace” organization. Other acts include GFE, Vertigo Jazz Project, and The Asheville Horns.

***This show will be the night after Booty Band plays with “George Clinton and The P-Funk Allstars” @ “The Neighborhood Theatre” in Charlotte, NC. So if you feel like supporting the cause of amazing ol’ school funk that basically influenced the world as we know it today,….please join us for a fun filled night of delightful funk, new and ol’.