Happy Year of the Dragon!
January 26th, 2012
Happy Chinese New Year, Everyone! The Year of the Dragon! Tattoos and Tiny Buns!
C’est Magnifique!!! We’ve received our first European Review–en francais, no less! Please have a look HERE , and you can read it in French, or in English! We feel extremely lucky that our reviewer LOVES our music! Merci Beaucoup, Sabine!
We will be performing for residents of Stuytown and Peter Cooper Village tonight, in the Oval Lounge, January 26th, at 7pm! Then, we will be the musical guests in Adam Wade‘s “Tales of the Cosmos” at UCBeast on Saturday, February 4th at 7pm. To make a reservation, click here!
And finally, we are heading into the studio, folks! C’est vrai!
PS Please check out our latest version of “Sober” on Bandcamp, or watch THE VIDEO! and have a great day.
Good morning, 2012!!!
January 13th, 2012
Hello Everyone and Happy 2012!
We’re writing this afternoon to let you know that we are not sleeping…we are just (quietly) working away! Please hold tight…2012 has a lot in store for us, which means even more in store for YOU. In the meantime, can we hold you over with this? And, if you like that, perhaps you might like this, too?
Holiday Show Time!!!
December 2nd, 2011
‘Tis the time for Erin and her Cello to present A HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR!!!
Christmas comes but once a year– and so does our Spectacular, darling dears! I can’t imagine a better Holiday treat– than to come and singalong with us on Allen Street, We’ll start the night right with Christmas Kringles–and continue thru the hour with our own Jolly Jingles! Come one, Come all– come have a ball– it’s Spectacular Time!!! (at Rockwood Music Hall!)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 8pm… FREE!
Rockwood Music Hall on 196 Allen Street
Just south of Houston * F Train to 2nd Avenue
FEATURING!
Aya Kato on piano and sleigh bells!
Anna Marquardt, Amber Renae Gray, & Adam Enright on Falalalala Backup Vox!!
Gabe Shuford on toy piano, glockenspiel, and mistletoe maracas!
Lars Jacobsen on saxophone and Santa’s Slide Whistle!
Andrew Potenza on drums and TralalaTambourine!
and, Erin and her Cello in ice skates!
ALSO! We will be appearing in On the Square Productions “Unwrapped: Are you Naughty or Nice?” Holiday Cabaret on Wednesday, December 7th, 8:30 pm at the Time Out New York Lounge, Downstairs at New World Stages, 340 W 50th Street. The show will be hosted by Colleen Harris, (Weekly Host of Songs at the New World) and accompanied by Michael James Roy. Tickets are $10, $15, and $20 (see website for more info) Performers will include our friend, Ventriloquist Carla Rhodes, and our very own– Anna Marquardt!!!!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE!!! Fa la la la la!!! And THANK YOU for watching our New Music Video! Keep spreading the “Sober” news! ha.
Here it is! Our music video for “Sober!”
November 22nd, 2011
Watch it! Love it! Share it! Sing it!!!
Technical Difficulties!
November 22nd, 2011
ladies and gents! due to technical difficulties, we have to push our release back to 3pm- maybe even 4. Dangit! Please try and concentrate, if you’re working, and we promise you will see our video SOON!
(in the meantime, scroll down and see all of the lovely folks involved! )
With Sincere Gratitude…
November 22nd, 2011
Before our music video “drops” this afternoon, I’d like to take a moment to THANK everyone involved. It was such a lovely collaboration between so many people, and we couldn’t have done it without ALL of you.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Thank you to our Kickstarter Backers: The men and women that contributed financially to make EVERYTHING possible! (in no particular order)
Quinn, Misty, & Huck Milner * Jerry Eisner * Frank & Melanie Friedman * Amber Vickers * Jeanette Clonan * Tom Williams * Anna Rachel Lusby * Benjamin Mariage * Shannon Andrews * Andrea Lira * Nancy Irwin * Gavin Starr Kendall * Robin Sagon * Amy Granger * David Clement * Debbie Cleverly * Andrea Moro * Marilyn Butler * Kevin & Katie Scanlan * Butch Harper * Patrick McGreal * Frances Ellsworth * Heather LaBour * Will Brumley * Maranda Barskey * Kathleen B. Murphy * Jacki Moonves * Jeremy Reppy * Vanessa Woods * Emily Wilson * Katherine Patterson * Lisa Deupree * Kickstarter.com
From the Video Shoot:
Director: Chris Ungco
Director of Photography: Rommel Genciana
Producer: Kara Lee & Nick Mohammed, GFY Enterprises
Assistant Director: Drew Moore
Animations: Andrea Lira
Art Direction: Cara Rae Hyman
Stylist: Candice Cooper
Art Assistant: Seyda Sterns
Assistant Camera: Juan Carlos Mayorga
Gaffer: Patrick Egan
Best Boy: Mike Lighston
Key Grip: Matt Cooper
Grip: Shota Sasakura
Grip: Liam Billingham
2nd AD: Lisa Jacobs
PA: Emely Martinez
Stills Photographer: Moses Charles
Special Thanks:
Sonny and Nini Ungco (AMAZING food!!!)
Lynette Wiley and the Jalopy Theater
Nikki Ferry
The Dancers: Adam Mathias, Jordan Landers, Shannon Andrews, Jes Shuford, Stephanie Kiahtipes, Amit Rupani, David Clement, Ana Meyer, PJ Jestry, & Andrea Lira
Don Godwin: Engineered & Mixed New Version of “Sober”
My Family: Rich & Tonya Hall, Christine Hall & Patrick Harper, Tara Hall, Mishi & Brandon Stirling, and all my friends that have listened to and supported me.
And last, but certainly not least, I’d like to thank the beautiful musicians that I get to work with, that made this video so adorable. THANK YOU for being such an inspiration, and SO MUCH FUN. I love you guys!
Aya Kato: Piano
Gabe Shuford: Accordion
Adam Enright, Anna Marquardt, and Amber Renae Gray: Backup Singers of Sass & Style
Andrew Potenza: Percussion
Happy Thanksgiving, and see you all at 2pm!
love,
Erin and my Cello
Tune in Tuesday
November 21st, 2011
Ladies and Gentlemen. The Time has come. Tomorrow, 11/22/11 at 2pm EST, Go Folk Yourself and Erin and her Cello will release “Sober: A Music Video.” We can’t wait! But we will. Stay tuned.
Don’t Forget to Scroll Down
November 3rd, 2011
Artists We Adore
October 6th, 2011
Thank you, Steve Jobs, for the music.
September Showers bring October Running Powers!
September 27th, 2011
We have been nominated for a GO Magazine Reader’s Choice Nightlife Award for Best Lounge Act! And– great news– anyone can vote! Would you be so kind as to vote for us?
CLICK HERE to vote for ERIN AND HER CELLO for GO Magazine’s BEST LOUNGE ACT!
* * *
We’re pretty certain that our GO Mag nomination had something to do with our beautiful friend, Jeanienne Vanessa Palmer. Erin will be running with the IT HURTS 2 B FABULOUS Team in the Running for Answers 5K Run/Walk on October 23rd in Philadelphia. This year’s race is being held in honor of Jeanienne, and we would like to take a moment to ask you help support our team in this Race to help find a cure for Desmoid Tumors. Please click here to donate for our amazing Jeanienne. We love and miss her very much.
* * *
ALSO! We have music video news! Our first music video, “On My Stoop”, (Animated and Directed by Andrea Lira) was chosen as the Video of the Day for The Boise Weekly on September 25th, 2011.
And, it just so happens that on the same day (September 25th) –we wrapped shooting for our 2nd music video!! Ooh, it’s gonna be good! Special Thanks to Go Folk Yourself, and all of the amazing crew that we were so fortunate to work with.
© 2010 Erin and Her Cello. All Rights Reserved.