March ON: New 2012 dates + kickstarter ends today! 8MAR12

WAY COOL!!!! MARCH FOURTH MADE THEIR KICKSTARTER FUNDRAISING GOAL!!!!! AND THEY WILL BE AT FLOYDFEST IN FLOYD, VA ON 26JUL12!!!!! I'll be there, it is on a Thursday and I am off! This will be so cool! Here is the band's latest e mail newsletter.....

Bandleader Blog: Razzle Dazzle 2.0 Hello, this is John, bass player and bandleader for MarchFourth. I am on every tour, so I feel intimately connected to our bus. Every time we go on the road I pray that we make it home safely and don’t miss any shows. It’s a small miracle that even though the bus broke down a few times last year, we managed to make every date (we were a couple hours late for the Strawberry Music Festival, but they found room for us to play anyway and we arrived to streets lined with cheering festival-goers). Our 9th Anniversary shows this past weekend marked the end of our busiest year to date, and the band is finally taking a much-deserved break to develop new material before we hit the road again in late April (see all the new dates below). We will also use this break to buy a new bus and start the process of customizing it to our needs. Thus, the Kickstarter campaign. Last night I wrote a little piece to send out this morning as a last-minute promotional push. I awoke today to discover that we’d already reached our goal! And, as icing on the cake, a big fan has stepped up to double the next $1000 in donations before it all wraps up at 6:57 PM PST today. Such good news! Since it still holds true the morning after, here is what I wrote last night. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for supporting this crazy thing. -John Magnificent Beast Tour 2012 *New Dates Added* 4/19/12 Portland, OR Star Theater *NEW: Kickstarter backers only! Get on the list by donating. 4/27/12 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Theater 4/28 Los Angeles, CA Edison 5/1/12 Felton, CA Don Quixote's    5/2/12 Sacramento, CA Harlow's 5/3/12 Reno, NV Knitting Factory Concert House 5/4/12 San Francisco, CA The Independent 5/5/12 San Francisco, CA The Independent 5/31 Arlington, TX Levitt Pavilion      *NEW* 6/1-2 Ozark, AR Wakarusa         *NEW* 6/3 Memphis, TN Levitt Shell       *NEW* 6/15 Columbia, MD Columbia Fest. of Arts *NEW* 6/30 San Rafael, CA Marin County Fair       *NEW* 7/2 Crested Butte, CO Center for the arts  *NEW* 7/4 Glenwood, CO Summer of Music *NEW*     7/7 Quincy, CA High Sierra Music Festival *NEW* 7/19 Victor, ID Music on Main Concerts *NEW* 7/22 Park City, UT Park Silly Sunday Mkt   *NEW* 7/26 Floyd, VA FloydFest    *NEW* 8/7 Bethlehem, PA Musikfest    *NEW* 9/13 Telluride, CO Brews and Blues Fest  *NEW* 11/3 Miami, FL Sleepless Night    *NEW* 11/8-9 Live Oak, FL Bear Creek Festival  *NEW*

BUS US Check out our Kickstarter fundraising page. Fun Pics Explore the MarchFourth Marching Band 9th anniversary show at the Crystal Ballroom on 3/4/12. This gigapixel image captured by photographer Bruce Ely was made from stitching more than 100 images from the show and is not intended to represent one moment in time. There are numerous stitching “errors” which are usually caused by a person that is partially in a picture moving to a different location by the time the camera made another pass. See if you can spot any familiar faces!

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