The Sept/Oct issue of Relix Magazine has a full page article written by Tracy Bonham on yogic training leading to musical enlightenment. Look for it on newstands very soon.
Over the summer we held a contest where the first 50 people to buy Masts of Manhatta on presale had their names entered into a drawing to have Tracy write a song about them. Congratulations to winner Monica Gonzalez! Listen to her song here.
"Reciprocal Feelings" - in Loving Honor and Memory of Dan Cho.
We have added the song "Reciprocal Feelings" to Tracy's MySpace page. This song is a Tribute to Dan Cho - My friend and cellist who passed away on Tues July 6. He played cello on my new record and I am forever grateful for his friendship and his music. His beautiful soul is in his playing.
Release Day! It's very exciting to announce that "Masts of Manhatta" officially comes out today!! We're very pleased with how this album turned out and extremely happy to now share it with the world!
And we've had some great press recently too, in the New York Times, the current Rolling Stone (yes, the one with Lady Gaga wearing a machine gun), and on the latest edition of NBC's "Talk Stoop With Cat Greenleaf"
Have a great week everyone and hope to see you at the release party tonight at Joe's Pub!
Pre-order "Masts Of Manhatta" from Newbury Comics
The great folks at Newbury Comics have organized a pre-order for "Masts Of Manhatta." Purchases will also come with an autographed postcard. To place an order through them please click here.
MASTS OF MANHATTA RECORD RELEASE PARTY:
July 13 9.30 pm @ Joe's Pub, NYC - $17
Tracy Bonaham "Masts of Manhatta" Record Relase Party
with special guests The Hymns
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003-7021
July 5-9: Tracy will be teaching at Gowanus Music Club summer camp this week with a performance on Sunday July 11 at The Bellhouse in Brooklyn. Check it out here.
Tracy gets a great review in Rollingstone (Lady Gaga cover.) Read great reviews posted on press page!
Congratulations to Monica Gonzalez from Texas for winning our pre-order contest! In addition to an autographed copy of "Masts of Manhatta" that all the first 50 people who have purchased the album will receive, Monica also gets her very own song about her life written and recorded by Tracy! Congratulations Monica, and a big thanks goes out to everyone who has bought the new album so far!
New interviews & Reviews available now
With the forthcoming release of "Masts of Manhatta", the reviews and new interviews are starting to come in, catch up on the latest by visiting the press page.
Tracy Bonham live interview / performance on KLCC
Listen here for my live interview / performance with Liz Wise on KLCC radio.
New album update!
"Masts of Manhatta" will be released July 13th by Engine Room Recordings.
Tracy Bonaham in The Seattle Music Insider - Video Interview.
The Seattle Music Insider writes: "Recording artist Tracy Bonham who has enjoyed "triple A" radio airplay throughout the years and who has recently worked and toured with Blue Man Group took to the stage and performed "When You Laugh The World Laughs with You" with the full orchestra.
Her next number was her 1996 hit "Mother Mother". The former Eugene Oregon and current Brooklyn New York resident dedicated the song to her mother who was in attendance. Geoffrey Castle accompanied Bonham on violin. The singer and multi instrumentalist displayed her great chops, microphone technique and range during her performances throughout the evening."
Click here to watch a video & brief interview from that show.
Tracy's new song "Big Red Heart" is available on The Right Track: Tunes to Target Cancer.
In February, TargetCancer introduced The Right Track: Tunes to TargetCancer, a music download series offering rare and unreleased songs donated by major artists. Since then, people from all over the world have downloaded these songs, raising thousands of dollars used directly for rare cancer research. Today we release the second installment of songs, which include the solo premiere of The Donnas’ Brett Anderson, Tracy Bonham, State Radio, Joe Pernice and more! Please visit them at righttracktunes.org
Tracy interviewed in the Rock & Roll Report
A new interview with Tracy is at The Rock and Roll Report: "Tracy Bonham talks new album, Steven Tyler’s love of slides, crying on Stevie Wonder’s suit, and, of course, the song that started it all ..." Click here to read it.
Tracy plays Radio8Ball in Seattle with Weird Al, here are some photos:
One year ago I wrote this song about what happened in Brooklyn and in our household one year ago, when Obama was elected! It was a party. Here is the song, listen here, and then go to this link.
Latest news for newest record: A title has been chosen! "Masts Of Manhatta"!
(taken from Walt Whitman poem called Crossing Broolyn Ferry)
It is mixed by Tchad Blake, featuring Smokey Hormel's "Roundup"
Finishing touches / to do list for the new record:
1. Mastering (soon!)
2. Artwork (by Donnie Molls, a fabulous west coast artist)
+ Check the shows page for upcoming shows in NYC / Brooklyn in 2009 to hear the new songs in various forms - solo, band, and something in between, as Tracy prepares for 2010 release.
Please check out this music website I am involved with: IndiEclectic.com
It's really great! Artists big and small, supporting each other.
Hi all. I have decided to give you all a sneak peak of the record!
This happens to be timely, as this song is about election night. Well, it's intentional – I am letting you hear this because next week is the inauguration!! What an exciting time. The song is about my neighborhood in Brooklyn on Nov 4th, 2008. People were in the streets, hugging, singing, playing tambourines, honking horns. It was a party. What a wonderful thing. It broke down boundaries, although temporary. The next morning people were congratulating each other on the sidewalks on their way to work. But now we are all back to normal, our guards up. That night, I am sure, many neighborhoods around the country felt like we had achieved something together. We were united. OK, here is the song. I hope you like it. Smokey Hormel on guitar. Andrew Sherman on piano. Tim Luntzel on upright bass. Andy Borger on drums. I am the one singing. January 20th is next week. I hope we can all remember this feeling that I tried to capture in this song. Love, Tracy
Tracy comes home from tour in Holland.
Photos are taken in Deventer, NL.
Click here to see photos of Tracy and NO Blues from Holland (Read review too. Improve your Dutch).
Hey guys. I played violin on Juliana Hatfield's new record!
Be sure to check it out:
JULIANA HATFIELD'S HOW TO WALK AWAY
SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 19th RELEASE BY YE OLDE RECORDS VIA REDEYE
Produced by Andy Chase (of revered alt-rock/pop band Ivy) and recorded at Stratosphere Sound, the NYC studio co-owned by Chase, Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne) and James Iha (formerly of Smashing Pumpkins), How To Walk Away features guests Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs) and Matthew Caws (Nada Surf) on vocals, Jody Porter (Fountains of Wayne) on guitar, Tracy Bonham (violin) and more.
February 14; Hey lovers and friends. Please read below. I am on a new compilation cd that is out today! For those of you who do not know, my brother Matt Bonham recently recieved a heart transplant. In honor of him and to help raise money for a related charity - with a side fund helping Matt out with his medical bills (that will remain for the rest of his life - yikes) Circelback Music and myself have released a beautiful compilation with your favorite broken heart songs from your
favorite artists.
PRESS RELEASE:
February 14, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) - Just in time for Valentine's Day, Songs for a Broken Heart includes tunes from Ani DiFranco, Gary Jules, David Mead, and more, plus unreleased works from Tracy Bonham and David Poe. Bonham also serves as the creative director for the first release in Circle Back Music's monthly Music to Live By series which is sponsored by Utne Reader.
Songs for a Broken Heart is available now at iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, and more, as well as the Circle Back Music website. Fifty percent of the proceeds will go to the National Transplant Assistance Fund.
Track Listing:
Jumping In – The Grey Race
Grey – Ani DiFranco
Papercuts – Korby Lenker
The Indelible Man – Tracy Bonham
Diamond Ring – Katie Herzig
Virgins – David Poe
The Girl That Killed September – Garrison Starr
Fire Sign – David Berkeley
A Way to Say Goodbye – Mike Viola
The Size of My Fist – Tracy Bonham
You're No Train – Kris Delmhorst
No Poetry – Gary Jules
The Last Goodbye – k.s. Rhoads
Hunting Season – David Mead
Wednesday New Music Series concludes: Thanks all for coming to see me play at the Living Room in NYC. Some of you came 4 weeks in a row. For that I say THANK YOU VERY MUCH. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to Jason, Seth, Ethan, Bones, Jon and Dan Cho for playing with me and enduring last minute new songs to learn. And here is another mp3 A "Thank You Song/Ditty" written for those who came and for those who missed it (trying to make y'all a little bit jealous. You missed a good time).
-tracy
Happy Holidays to everyone out there. Here is another NEW SONG of mine performed at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY. It's called "We Moved Our City To The Country". Hope You like it. Starting January 16, I will be playing a series of Wednesdays (4 total) at the Living Room on the Lower East Side in NYC. I will play my new songs with various special guests. Stay tuned for more info.
Tracy plays and sings Tom Waits in Brooklyn, NY
"Masts of Manhatta" reviews:
"Full of attractive instrumentation and unfalteringly charming lyricism, Bonham's collection brings a sophisticated quirkiness to the femme alt-pop table unseen for quite some time."
- Billboard
"...a gorgeous celebration of adult love
... Bonham has definitely hit her groove."
- Rolling Stone
"support her now so that we can all keep digging the work of one of the culture’s most intriguing voices."
- PopMatters
The Seattle Music Insider writes: "Recording artist Tracy Bonham who has enjoyed "triple A" radio airplay throughout the years and who has recently worked and toured with Blue Man Group took to the stage and performed "When You Laugh The World Laughs with You" with the full orchestra.
