If you could only see that Jessie's girl found out about you...

June 28th 2011

Wow, so where to begin? We’ve been busy since I last wrote one of these updates. Things are going well in Bear Lake land. Our CD release at the Magic Bag was an awesome time and the support of all of our families, fans, and friends gave our boners boners. Not in a sexual way mind you, but in a grateful for support kind of way, so lets start this off by giving you, the reader, a resounding "thank you!" You are kickass and I’m sure also really nice looking. It was great to share the stage with Brae, Deep See Soundsystem, and I Love Lightning Bugs as well, so your next waves to surf on the Internet should be sites containing their bodacious jams.

After the success of the Magic Bag, we've been feeling great and have had a really fun string of shows. These were highlighted by our most recent outing at the Shelter, where we opened for Bedouin Soundclash. We were honored to share the stage with such a top notch act and made lots of new fans and friends. (As a side note I’ve never misspelled the word friend due to my 3rd grade teacher telling me that a friend is someone you can eat fries with until the end…thanks Mrs. Patterson.) We also received delicious cookies after the show…thanks Rachel. She said that we should try to give the most cookies to Jon because he’s really skinny. Skinny, fat, or in between, the cookies were too good to pass up and I’m hoping there are some left in the van as I’m writing this. Oh, and I don’t want to leave out the magical "booya beads" given to us by a man who called himself Papa Smurf (if you've hung out at The Shelter around closing time, you've probably met him), so…thanks to Papa Smurf for the beads and for protecting our equipment. If you use capital S on word, it recognizes the word Smurf otherwise underlying red squiggly...weird.

In other news, our drummer (Steve Stetson) just celebrated his birthday which prompted him to tell the rest of the band that we should start lying about our age when people ask. So everyone in Bear Lake just turned 24…still young, hip, and in touch with the youth of the world if anyone’s asking. More info - for anyone asking - includes our upcoming tour dates. We start on the 12th in Chicago and finish in New York on the 20th, so come and catch one of the 8 shows in 8 cities in 9 days (there is a detailed listing below) and who knows what you may see on stage? We will also be opening up for some other interesting acts over the course of this summer including Rick Springfield, Tonic, The Gin Blossoms and other early 90's flashback-inducing bands, so needless to say these next few months are not to be missed. Come share them with us at a show or other social outing. We will be sending out a newsletter in the upcoming week with even more news, wit and wisdom, so sign up soon if you haven't already.

TOUR SCHEDULE:

Sunday, July 3 5:00 pm

Stars and Stripes Festival - Opening for Rick Springfield and Tonic

Budweiser National Stage: Mt. Clemens, MI, United States

• Saturday, July 9 5:00 pm
• Uncle Sam Jam - Opening for Gin Blossoms
• Budweiser National Stage: Woodhaven, MI, United States
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  • Tuesday, July 12 7:00 pm
  • Bear Lake in Chicago
  • The Abbey: Chicago, IL, United States (MAP)
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• Wednesday, July 13 9:00 pm
• Bear Lake @ The Southgate House
• The Southgate House: Newport, KY, United States

• Thursday, July 14 9:00 pm
• Bear Lake in Tenessee
• JJ's Bohemia: Chatanooga, TN, United States

• Friday, July 15 8:00 pm
• The Highland Inn - Atlanta, GA
• The Highland Inn: Atlanta, GA

• Saturday, July 16 7:00 pm
• The LAB
• The LAB: Asheville, NC

• Sunday, July 17
• The Velvet Lounge
• The Velvet Lounge: Washington DC
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• Monday, July 18
• Bella Cafe
• Bella Cafe: Baltimore, MD
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• Wednesday, July 20
• Rockwood Music Hall
• Rockwood Music Hall: NYC, NY
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• Tuesday, July 26 8:00 pm
• Bear Lake in Grand Rapids
• Frederik Meijer Gardens: 1000 E Beltline Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI

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