Chris & The Wood Brothers
JOHN MEDESKI will join the brothers on May 9th at the Bearsville Theatre , May 17th at the Bowery Ballroom, and June 14th at theBonnaroo Music Festival.

May 09 Bearsville, NY / Bearsville Theatre
May 10 Troy, NY / Revolution Hall
May 13 Northampton, MA / Iron Horse Music Hall
May 14 Philadelphia, PA / World Cafe Live
May 15 Fall River, MA /Narrows Center For The Arts
May 16 Tarrytown, NY / Tarrytown Music Hall
May 17 New Yok, NY / Bowery Ballroom
The new album "Loaded" was released on April 1!
www.thewoodbrothers.com
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John's News
JOHN MEDESKI will join the brothers on May 9th at the Bearsville Theatre, May 17th at the Bowery Ballroom, and June 14th at the Bonnaroo Music Festival.

He's also working on a piece for the Brighton Arts Festival / to be played on the Brighton Dome Organ on May 24.

And on May 31 John performs in Hagerstown, MD /Western Maryland Blues Festival/ w/ John Scofield and Adam Deitch
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Camp MMW. Are You Ready?
This summer, August 5 - 10, pack up your instrument, open your mind, and enter the boundary-breaking world of Medeski Martin & Wood. Camp MMW is an incredible opportunity for musicians of varying levels and ages, to live and study with MMW in the intimate setting of a beautiful Catskill Mountain resort. You and a select group will gather together for five days of intensive workshops and seminars, deep listening, musical exploration, and improvisation. No matter what instrument you play, you will expand your approach to music, improve your listening skills, and interact with other musicians in a completely fresh, innovative way.

Please visit CAMP MMW for detailed infomation, including how to apply.
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MMW Join Jamcruise 7 in '09
Jam Cruise 7 sets sail January 4-9, 2009 and we're going! Aboard the luxurious MSC Orchestra, we will head to Belize City, Belize & Costa Maya, Mexico.
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Billy Martin News
Billy Happenings:

Billy's stick company is celebrating their 50th anniversary by giving away lots of cool stuff.
Including Billy's new book "Claves of African Origin."
Regal Tip
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Headcount.org
MMW IN HEADCOUNT DOCUMENTARY
John Medeski and Chris Wood make a cameo appearance in a documentary entitled "A Call to Action" that tells the story of how HeadCount and other grassroots organizations have used live music as a platform for positive social action. To view a trailer or the full documentary, visit www.HeadCount.org or www.iclips.net.
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HardWear
Thank you to everyone who participated in the benefit concert for Scott Harding at the Highline Ballroom in NYC. The event was a huge success, musically and financially (sold out with a line around the block)! 100% of the concert proceeds were donated to the Scotty Hard Trust, established to provide financial support to Scott for hefty medical bills, and the long road to recovery. A special ?HARDWEAR? T-shirt, designed and produced by Ropeadope, can be purchased online at ropeadope.com with 100% of the profit going to the Scotty Hard Trust. Please buy a shirt today, look cool, and do good! Thank you.
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A Benefit for the Scotty Hard Trust
A Benefit concert for notable music producer and engineer, Scott Harding, was held on March 19th at the Highline Ballroom in NYC. While a passenger in a car service after a late night mix session, the car Scott was in was hit and crushed his T5 vertebrae leaving him partially paralyzed. Like many other Americans, Scott is without health insurance and is facing a great amount of medical and legal fees. Having contributed great talent to hip-hop and jazz genres and with production credits with artists such as Wu-Tang and Tricky, many people came out to spread some love to him and all his friends and enjoyed great performances by John Scofield, John Medeski, Billy Martin, Eric Krasno, Neal Evans, Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, Adam Deitch, Antibalas, Sex Mob, DJ Logic, John Ellis, Michael Blake, Vijay Iyer, Tommy Hamilton and Kevin Kendrick.

100% of the concert proceeds will go to the Scott Hardy Trust and will let this music producer enter rehab for his back injuries. Personal Donations can be made as well and are payable to "The Scotty Hard Trust" c/o Heesok Chang 970 Kent Ave #401 Brooklyn NY 11205
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viva la evolution
Medeski Martin & Wood are planning 3 tours, plus 3 albums in 2008. Each tour and subsequent album will consist of all NEW MUSIC. The plan: Write > Tour > Record > Repeat. Bucking the traditional process of recording an album, THEN touring after its release. The band feels this new approach for 2008 will lend itself to their way of performing and developing music. On Feb. 14, MMW will get together for 5 days to write new material for their Northeast tour, Feb. 19 - 29. Directly following the tour they will head into the studio to record the music developed on the road. Each body of new material will be unique to each tour (if you see it in New York, you won't see it in Los Angeles). Some of the material may make it into the band's festival sets, but the bulk of it will only be performed during the specified tour period. Please come celebrate. Watch the music evolve, and be part of something different!

Information coming on how to obtain all 3 recordings in a signed, limited edition, eco package.

-Thank you
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The long awaited Children's Album
Get your copy of MMW's first children's record "Let's Go Everywhere" available in stores and at the MMW STORE now. Also, MMW has created a special myspace page where you can listen to select songs from the new album. Please visit myspace.com/letsgoeverywhere and add us as a friend!
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Merch
We have a limited amount of MSMW Tour shirts left over from the West Coast run and they are now on sale at the MMW Store! These high quality shirts from American Apparel come in Olive and Baby Blue with tour dates on the back. We have a special package deal that includes your choice of tour shirt along with an Out Louder cd for just $25! The holiday season is coming up, so place your orders soon!
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Zero to Sixty in Four Seconds - The New Electric Car
While in California, MMW visited Tesla Motors, makers of the Tesla Roadster, a 100% electric sportscar which goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. The Roadster changes perceptions of the electric car, proving it equivalent to the performance of gasoline powered vehicles.
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Illy B's Veggie Oil Diesel
Here's Cyro Baptista and Billy Martin with his 1991 Dodge Ram (Cummins diesel).
This truck has moved, dirt, rocks, garbage, drums, bamboo, and more for Billy. He has been driving this used vegetable oil truck for over a year now. Not only has Billy helped recycle the truck, but he has also recyled all the nasty restaurant
waste oil that is eventually dumped in a land fill somewhere. If interested in converting your car to run on grease like Illy B did, please order a kit from greasecar.com and have your local mechanic install it. If you smell a little Japanese tempura on the highway, it's probably Illy B and his truck!
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OUT LOUDER Now Available
The new album by Medeski SCOFIELD Martin & Wood is now available. OUT LOUDER is the first collaborative effort from the quartet since John Scofield's 1998 release A Go Go and the first release on MMW's independent label Indirecto Records. Click HERE to place your order through Music Today. Purchase the album via digitial download and receive bonus MSMW tracks. Itunes purchases include "The Cropper" and Rhapsody downloads add "In The Cracks."
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