New Year's Surprise
On New Year's Day, we offered up our entire twenty-one song catalog for free as a thank you to all of you, our devoted fans. During the 48 hour event, we gave away over 7500 hundred downloads! In addition, we released two new songs off our second full length album, "Worth Fighting For": an MP3 of electronic-rocker, "You Never Will" and a live video of "Time" recorded moments before our Christmas concert with the Alabama Symphony.
Greetings and Happy Holidays
We're very excited to be playing a Christmas show with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra at the historic Alabama Theatre on December 10, 2011. The show will feature our new Christmas arrangements, scored for orchestra by Grammy-nominated composer Don Hart and led by conductor Chris Confessore. Tickets are available at www.alabamasymphony.org.
Inspired by our Christmas performance with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Act of Congress is proud to release a four song EP titled Christmas, Vol. 1. This special Christmas project will be available on Thanksgiving Day on iTunes and our website, December 1st. In addition to the Alabama Symphony, we will be playing several Christmas shows in December so come on out. Also our second release is coming out in 2012, and we can't wait for you to hear it! Stay tuned for more information.
Happy Holidays!
Act of Congress
Hello Friends
Our little band has been hard at work over the last months. It's amazing to see the wide variety of endeavors the good Lord opens up! Since last July, we have performed with/for: Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Sewannee Symphony, Alabama Music Educators Association, Arova Contemporary Ballet, American Village (Fourth of July), Alabama Policy Institute for the Governor and Lt. Governor of Alabama, Do Dah Day Festival, Founders Day Festival, Texas A&M, North Central Texas College, Broward College, Polk State College, Hillsbourogh College, Birmingham Railroad Park's Grand Opening, Mt. Laurel, Leeds Folk Festival, Southern Nuclear, Georgia Highlands College, Winthrop College, NBC Christmas Taping, Blount Springs Art Council, Fox 6, Crestline Elementary Writing Workshop, Westminster School, and a whole host of weddings and other great opportunities that let us share our gifts.
Upcoming public performances include: Ignite Music Festival (8/13), Sam Bush Newgrass Festival (8/19), Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series (8/26), Hoover Public Library (11/18), Sidewalk Film Festival (8/27), and a special Christmas show in the works with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra at the Historic Alabama Theatre.
In addition to performing, AOC has been spending lots of time writing, recording, and putting the finishing touches on our second album titled "Worth Fighting For." We are rolling out new merchandise, a new website and lots of other goodies to celebrate. We hope to have even more public appearance opportunities in 2011 and would love to see you at a show! Check out our Facebook and Twitter pages for regular updates. We feel very fortunate, and thank you so much for being interested in the music of Act Of Congress.
Hey Folks
We are super excited to announce a performance with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra on June 3rd at the Alabama Theatre. Tickets can be purchased online at www.alabamasymphony.org.
The last couple of months we have had several great opportunities. In Feb we attended The Folk Alliance and were picked to tape a live broadcast for XM radio, we also performed at a college showcase in Atlanta (right after Mr. Belding from "Saved by the Bell" and Joey from "Full House"). Our Woodsongs Old Time Radio show is finally up and archived at http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp, we are show 563 and you can download the show and watch it live. In March we recorded 2 new tunes, and our show with the Huntsville Youth Symphony was a hugh success with over 800 in attendance. Lately we have been traveling around to colleges from Texas to Missouri and soon will be performing at Military Bases across the country.
Festival season is coming up and we are headlining Birmingham's Do Dah Day (May 15). Check out our schedule below and try to make it out to a show this summer!
We are having a blast making music, and are thankful for all the support you have given us!
Stay tuned for more to come!!
AOC
Happy New Year
February 1st, Act Of Congress is thrilled to be appearing on "The WoodSongs Old Time Radio Show" . WoodSongs is a multi-media event that tapes in Lexington, KY hosted by folksinger Michael Johnathon.The show is broadcast on almost 500 radio stations, XM's The Village, live webcast, on-line streaming, video/audio podcast, public TV stations across the country airing in 65 million households,and now being broadcast on American Forces RadioNetwork.
February 5th, AOC is at Workplay Theatre opening for Edwin McCain.
February 18th, AOC is selected to perform at the APCA National showcase in Atlanta. The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities is a national campus activities organization that was founded in 1994 and services the needs of Campus Activities Programming Departments throughout the United States.
February 19th, AOC is selected to perform an official showcase at the 2010 Folk Alliance convention in Memphis. The Folk Alliance community includes record companies, publishers, presenters, agents, managers, music support services, manufacturers and artists. It's one of the five largest music conferences in North America.
Finally on March 26, AOC is performing with the 65 piece Huntsville youth symphony led by conductor Joe Lee. The Huntsville Youth Orchestra (HYO) is in its' 49th year of providing North Alabama's finest ensemble experience for young musicians. AOC orchestrations are being arranged by Grammy Nominee Don Hart
