Thanks to Misha and Shannon we officially have an album for tour.  Misha finished the mixing in the middle of the night before he moved to Oxford, and Shannon designed the beautiful album cover you see above.  Now all we have to do is burn the cds, sew on buttons and rubber bands, print 100 t-shirts, make pins, pack, get snacks, and practice!

Rachel moved to Dallas on Thursday and we are already missing her in Mississippi.  Luckily, we will pick her up for the last four shows of tour and bring her back to Jackson for our homecoming show on August 2nd.  Delia (the dubb) gets in tomorrow night and she is so excited to tour with The Bachelorettes.  She has been practicing in costume in my parents house and she asked me to give her a haircut when she gets here so her hair will fit in a wig.  She is also our official tour blogger, so you will get to know her over the next few weeks.

Want to know a secret? You can click on the link below and download a song from our album!  It will teach you the secret to keeping secrets.

Secrets

Check out our updated tour schedule.  Leave a comment if you are coming to a show.  See you on tour!!

love, The Bachelorettes

Tuesday, July 7
Goodbye sendoff at the Gloveshack with open mic open act!
Jackson, MS

Thursday, July 9
Pilot Light with Senyru
Knoxville, TN

Friday, July 10
Broadway’s with Senyru, Pinche Gringo, and Badways
Asheville, NC

Saturday, July 11
House Party at Tay’s with Lizzie Wright Super Spaceship
Charleston, SC

Tuesday, July 14
My Favorite Things Records with Pinche Gringo
Greensboro, NC

Wednesday, July 15
Pinhook with The Alcazar Hotel and Justin Robinson
Durham, NC

Thursday, July 16
Nightlight with TBA
Chapel Hill, NC

Friday, July 17
House Party at Cole’s with TBA  1616 New Jersey Ave NW Washington, DC
Washington D.C.

Saturday, July 18
Van Goghs Radio Lounge (147 Franklin St, Brooklyn NY 11222)
Brooklyn, NY

Tuesday, July 21
TBA
Detroit, MI

Thursday, July 23
Mac’s Bar with The Plurals and The Satin Peaches
9 p.m., $5
Lansing, MI

Friday, July 24
TBA
Louisville, KY

Saturday, July 25
Stagger Inn with Japanese Bat Bomb
Edwardsville, IL

Sunday, July 26
BBQ at Amanda’s parents’ house with Dubb Nubb
St. Louis, MO

Monday, July 27
Cafe Berlin with Dubb Nubb
Columbia, MO

Thursday, July 30
TBA
Dallas, TX

Friday, July 31
Beerland with The Jungle Rockers
Austin, TX

Saturday, August 1
House Party at Jay’s 2240 Constance St New Orleans, LA 70130
New Orleans, LA

Sunday, August 2
The Commons with AJC
Jackson, MS

poster by Justin Schultz

The S.S.Passenger pulls into port in just two days! Don’t forget to dust off your cruise ship costumes and come to 121 on Thursday for the release of the Special Passenger Project CD. We are so excited to get these albums playing on your car stereos and yacht sound systems! $10 at the door gets you the CD, performances by some great local acts, and a chance to win a 121 membership (free shows for a year!). Here’s the line up. Don’t be late!

8:00 Chris Wheeler
8:30 Emily Baker
9:00 Woodpecker Street
9:30 Lizzie Wright Super Space Ship
10:00 Videos and single song performances — Josh&Nicole, Quills, Melody Moody
11:00 AJC
11:30 The Bachelorettes

Click on the music tab to your left to listen to The Ballad of Lou and Mona, our spesh pass song.  Thanks Misha and Shannon, and everyone else who has helped with this project.  We have amazing friends.  You are all our special passengers!

Check out the beautiful S.P. album art by Justin Schultz and the amazing photo mural by Ginger Williams.

Thank you everyone who came to the special passenger sweatshop Monday night. We sewed 130 cd cases and listened to all 17 S.P. songs!

The best thread snipper ever! © kristina - washwhendirty.com

Here is a little taste of special passenger glory:

Spesh Pass — Dubb Nubb

We hope you are excited to hear 16 more S.P. songs.  The cd will be released on Thursday, April 30th at the Special Passenger Party!!

Grab your S.P. and put on your cruise ship finery to board the S.S. Passenger for a night of mayhem on the high seas that you won’t soon forget.  There will be special video passengers and live performances by Emily Baker, Lizzie Wright Super Space Ship, AJC, The Bachelorettes, and more.

$10 at the door gets you into the party, a cd, and a raffle ticket for the chance to win a membership to One to One Studios, which gets you free shows for a year.

Josh Hailey took this! he's a walkin' miracle :)

Thanks to everyone who came out to One Blu Wall on Thursday during Arts Eats and Beats to see The Bachelorettes.  We were happy to bring the beats to our friends who sang along to every song and to the strangers walking by.

This weekend is the Crossroads Film Festival where Lizzie is an official photographer! There are films showing today and tomorrow and fabulous music tonight at Hal and Mals.

Listen to our concert calendar for more fun things to do this weekend and check out the Mississippi Happening blog to download last night’s radio show. If you like music, funny things and cat stories then you can’t miss it.

See y’all at the movies!

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We can’t stop! It has been a crazy week of partying and concert going and there is only more to come.  Listen to the concert calendar and get your green wigs on for the craziest weekend in Jackson.  The Bachelorettes will be marching and riding in the Hal and Mals parade tomorrow wearing green wigs, lots of sparkles and playing glorious percussion beats.

Sunday and Monday we will be busy practicing, because we have a show on Tuesday (aghghgh!!!!) March 24th at 121 Studios–Taylor Hildebrand, The Physics of Meaning and THE BACHELORETTES! 8pm, $5   RSVP here!

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STOP in the name of love! Joosy karaoke b-day funtimes

photo by THE William Patrick Butler

One of the things that we love about Jackson is the collaboration that goes on within the arts community.  People are always working together on events and projects and everyone  gets excited to contribute to the creative scene in Jackson.  Whether it is helping organize a literary reading, printing t-shirts or learning about a Jewish holiday, it is always amazing to us how wonderful and involved this community is.

With that, we are excited to formally announce our ‘Special Passenger’ project!  We are compiling a CD of ‘Special Passenger’ songs written by our friends and we need your help!  Click on the link below to learn all about Special Passengers and how you can contribute to this project.

Special Passenger Promo

The rules are simple:  Write and record a song inspired by the phrase ’special passenger’ and send it to The Bachelorettes by April 15th.  We will compile them and create a beautifully designed CD that will be released at a Special Passenger show/party on Thursday, April 30th, location TBD.  We will also love for you to play your songs at the party!  The CDs will be sold at various locations around Jackson and the proceeds will go to a charity or cause to be determined.  Please comment on this post if you have any ideas for donations or the project in general, or to let us know that you are participating.

We can’t wait to hear what everyone comes up with!

p.s.  Come out to our show at 121 on Tuesday, March 24th to see the debut of The Bachelorettes’ special passenger song!

Listen to our weekly installment of the Bachelorettes Concert Calendar to hear all of the crazy events happening in Jackson this week.

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Here are some upcoming events we are particularly excited for:

Tonight is Janine’s Writers Spotlight at the Sneaky Beans at 7:30pm

Monday is the Jewish holiday of Purim!!  We are celebrating with Purim crafts, Megillah reading, carnival games, costume wearing, dance pong, and so much more!  RSVP 7pm at 121 Studios

March 19th at Sneaky Beans is a special performance of Taylor Hildebrand and Lizzie Wright.  It will be beautiful.

March 21st is the St. Patties Day Parade!!  Look for The Bachelorettes in green wigs.  You may even get to hear a song on the street!

March 24th, 121 Studios.  Taylor Hildebrand, The Physics of Meaning, The Bachelorettes. The Physics of Meaning will be here all the way from Chapel Hill and are very talented and friendly.

March 26th – DUBB NUBB are coming to Jackson!!!  They are the amazingly talented little sisters of Amanda and they are playing a show at Drink Space at Swell-O-Phonic.  Robert’s son Baxter will be opening and Lizzie Wright Super Space Ship + band will close out the night.

Holy Cow!! There is so much happening….MISSISSIPPI HAPPENING!!

The Bachelorettes are playing at 121 Studios on March 24th with The Quills and Physics of Meaning.  More information coming soon.

The Bachelorettes have a new website!!!

Here we can post pictures from our shows, music we have recorded and where you can find out about upcoming shows!!

On our blog, we will talk about things going on with The Bachelorettes and other interesting things going on around town.

Stay tuned for more!!