Braddigan & Adam Ezra Group – April 19 at Roxy

Braddigan joins forces with our friends: Adam Ezra Group and world recognized activists Dr. Paul Farmer, Jeffrey Sachs and Ira Magaziner to celebrate the first Millennium Campus Conference and generate awareness for the movement to make poverty history. Please come to the Roxy in Boston (doors at 6:30pm) to rock out in the name of eradicating poverty. Proceeds benefit Grassroot Soccer’s HIV/AIDS education in Zimbabwe. Braddigan will be in attendance at the conference and we want to see you there... these are important topics deserving of our attention, AND if you’re registered for the conference you get FREE transportation to and from the concert! Learn more and get involved...

OurStage.com wants YOU to sit down with Braddigan! Register to win one of three great prizes: 1) admission to soundcheck at the Roxy, 2) invitation to the exclusive Artist Access interview with Braddigan at the Roxy, 3) a prize pack with Dispatch and Braddigan goodies! And check this out: for every registration for the contest OurStage.com will donate $1 to the Dispatch Foundation! Help us raise some cash for AIDS education in Zimbabwe and win a chance to hang with the band! Register now...

NEW VIDEO FROM THE BAHAMAS
From director Kasey Kirby (who did the documentary Side of the Road ) comes this epic featurette documenting Braddigan’s tour stop in the Bahamas. Through miserable conditions and bug-eyed fish attacks he persevered to create this one-of-a-kind piece. Watch now...

Dia de Luz

Braddigan performed in the second annual Dia De Luz on March 6, 2008. Love, Light & Melody brought together a community of artists and hundreds of college students from across the country for a day of solidarity in a trash dump in Nicaragua. Keep your eyes on braddigan.com and lovelightandmelody.org for new photos, videos, blogs and news. Were you there? Join us Love, Light & Melody on Facebook and share your story.

Letter from Management

A big warm welcome to the Braddigan newsletter community—it has been a while since we sat down to talk and we have a lot to catch up on! 2008 has been a fun year so far... a Carnaval tour of Brazil, Tiago’s wedding, another breathtaking show in the Bahamas, a life-changing week in Nicaragua, touring the states... whew! And its only been three months!

Thanks to so many of you who have come out to the shows this spring: special thanks to all of you who have used the new booking resource on and booked these shows at your schools! If Braddigan hasn’t come to your city or school this spring (Jasper, IN and New Jersey, I’m talking to you!) please keep in touch and we’ll get those dates on the fall tour.

We are honored to be a part of the Millennium Campus Conference and we hope you will all come out to the show at the Roxy. Your ticket is a $15 donation to the Dispatch Foundation and it's our only public performance this spring in northern New England so bring your dancing shoes!

We’ll be in touch around a month from now with another set of updates. Hope that springtime is treating you all well... and as always, thank you from the bottom of our collective heart for your support! We can’t do this without you.

James Kenly
and Team Braddigan

Store Updates

The store has been given a makeover: it’s a new design and we can now process international orders! New items are in the works for the summer season and stock is limited in the current designs so head over to the store now and pick up these amazing Jedidiah designs before they’re gone! New item coming this week: Beyond Boarders television series (3 DVD set). Go to the store...

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SPRING 2008 TOUR

4/11 Providence College (Providence, RI) with The Roots

4/13 Under One Sky (Charlottesville, VA) — cancelled

4/14 Gravity Lounge (Charlottesville, VA) 7:30pm, $10, Alex Mejias opening

4/18-20 Millennium Campus Conference (MIT campus, Cambridge, MA) free to the public

4/19 The Roxy (Boston, MA) 6:30pm, $15, with Adam Ezra Group

4/24 Cambridge Queen's Head (Cambridge, MA) — private show

4/26 MLKjr Peace Festival (Boston University campus, Boston, MA) — private show for BU community

See the full calendar...

ICHTHUS FESTIVAL 2008

June 11-14 in Wilmore, Kentucky. By nature, the Ichthus Festival is about the senses—sights and sounds. This year’s theme “Listen. Live.” places value on intentional listening and doing. Life can’t be experienced at its highest without listening that produces living. More info soon...

JEDIDIAH'S NEW WEB WARDROBE!

Congratulations to our friends at Jedidiah on their new website... we're pumped here at Team Braddigan to see all of the new stories, features, profiles and gear online! There’s also a profile of Braddigan that we’re excited about. Here's a good excuse to browse for a few minutes (or the entire afternoon...)

Check out Jedidiah's new site...

IN THE PRESS

Catch another one of Rey’s amazing solos in this video of Fallin’ from the March 20 show in Chicago. Watch the video...

Check out Braddigan playing Ileana live on WRBS in Baltimore, MD from March 31. Listen to the show...

Check out this article in the Wilmington Star about the UNC-W show. Go to the article...

"I jumped in the back of a truck with my camera. We flew down the streets of Managua, hitting several speed bumps and dodging huge pot holes, getting confused glances from traffic and commoners. The trash dump was eight or so miles from our hotel. The entrance was scary, five burnt teddy bears dangling from a telephone line like shoes in the US, small fires, middle aged men, faces covered with bandannas, with pitchfork-looking tools in their hands, picking through the garbage."

That was written by Austin Blasingame, an artist who, alongside Patrick Maxcy and our friend (and Jedidiah designer) Kelli Murray, were in charge of painting a mural at the school in the trash dump. There’s a lot more to his story and more stories like it at the brand new site. Please visit us, share your thoughts, reactions, stories and visions on the new discussion board, and check out photos, videos, and commentaries from the second annual Dia de Luz.

Visit Love Light & Melody...

SHOUTOUTS

Mike Hilger
Many thanks to this long time friend and fan from Chicago for spearheading the show at Lyons Township High School on March 20. Thanks also to Brian Nolan for his administrative support and to all the students who came out to the show... we can’t wait to see you again soon.

OurStage.com
A big thumbs-up for providing a truly democratic way to support independent music and supporting Braddigan’s philanthropic efforts this month. Keep your eyes out for the exclusive Artist Access interview later this spring!