Sivan has healed and we’re back on the road again!

Hello!

Well firstly we’d like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who wished Sivan well – it worked! After our last email out with the bad news that we had to cancel our UK tour, we had hundreds of emails wishing Sivan a speedy recovery – we tried to email everyone back… hopefully we didn’t miss anyone!

The time off has seen Sivan play a lot of piano and get right back into her painting (you probably don’t know this, but before Sivan went full time with music she was very focused on her art… and she has some serious talent! Our home is full of colour from all her canvasses and ceramic pieces!!)… she was so prolific that there might even be an exhibition in the pipeline…

I’ve been getting right into vegie gardening and early morning surfs… it’s been off chops. AND I studied and took my exams, and I am now a Certified Civil Celebrant! here is my website.www.marriedbytodd.com yeeeha!

AND NOW we are gearing up to get back ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!! WOOHOO!! The first concert will be on the 19th Sept in Kuranda, Far North Queensland… see below for the rest of our tour dates : )

We can’t wait to get out into the world and see your faces smiling back at us… YOU BEAUTIES!

X Big Love
Todd and Sivan

www.theaprilmaze.com

UPCOMING TOUR DATES

SAT 19 September

Kuranda Amphitheatre Understage, QLD

w/ Zara Betts-Colefax.

Doors 6:30pm. Tickets on Door. $15 or $10 for members.

SUN 20 Sept
Private House Concert QLD

THURS 24 September

Townsville Folk Club, Bellevue Hotel, QLD

 7:30pm. Tickets on Door. $15 or $10 for members.

FRI 25 September

Private House Concert QLD

SUN 4 October

Uranquinty Folk Festival, NSW

www.uranquintyfolk.com

FRI 16 October

Pelican Playhouse, Grafton, NSW.

w/ Siobhan Corcoran
Doors 7:30pm. Tix $15 sold through Grafton News & Gifts Skinner St, South Grafton
or phone 66423021 to pay over phone and have tix mailed or picked up at venue

SAT 17 October

Surfing the Coldstream Festival, YAMBA, NSW

www.surfingthecoldstream.com.au

SAT 24 October 

Shoalhaven River Festival, Nowra, NSW. 

www.shoalhavenriverfestival.com.au

20-22 November

Majors Creek Festival, Braidwood, NSW.

www.majorscreekfestival.org

More dates and details at www.theaprilmaze.com

From the Cornwall Coast UK to BERLIN!

Our European Tour 2014 continues….. After a cracking few weeks in London, Oxfordshire, Wales, Devon and Cornwall we made our way to Berlin!

It was a treat to perform at Folk on the Lawn Festival at the beautiful Tintern Abbey, just 20 minutes from Chepstow, Wales. Todd’s nana was born in Wales before moving to Wollongong, Australia, with her family at the age of 7 so we always have an extra soft spot for the Welsh….

The beautiful fishing village of Cadgwith, Cornwall. We enjoyed a relaxing few days soaking up the scenery and sunshine on the Lizard Peninsula. The pub in Cagdwith hosts a folk night every Tuesday and is said to be some of the best sea shanty singing around:)

We had a fantastic night performing at the Ritz Acoustic Club in Burnham on Sea, Summerset. Was a full house of passionate music lovers. The Ritz Acoustic club is an open mic night that has run every Thursday for years and years.. On the 3rd Thursday of the month they host a guest touring act. We had a fabulous night and we will definitely be coming back!

Stunning walk from Woolacombe Beach, Devon.

Seals! Devon.

Germany here we come!

After arriving in Germany to a friendly gin and tonic with cucumber and pepper welcome from our Berliner hosts, Janine and Patrick, we walked the streets of Friedrichshain to discover the RAW Galange adjacent to Kevaller Straße ….. we found the streets of Berlin very inspiring… there is a very relaxed atmosphere.. so much so that it feels as if everyone is on holiday!

East Side Gallery, Berlin.

All set for our house concert!

Our lovely German audience was super enthusiastic and wouldn’t let us get away without an encore! Wunderbar!! We are in love with Berlin!!!

Sivan dancing on the bridge with Neutral Ground Brass Band from Amsterdam!

End of a big night on Berlin at Urban Spree with Spike and Mikey from Me Band.

May the good times roll on:) We have a couple days left in Berlin. We are on a Berlin radio show Tuesday night then its back to the UK. Our next show is Cogges Beer and Cider Festival back in Witney, Oxfordshire this friday 1st of August… all our tour dates with time and venue details are up at http://www.theaprilmaze.com

Peace out! Todd and Sivan, The April Maze.

Summer Tour UK…… and it’s only just begun

After a fun and successful tour of Australia it was time to head back to the UK!!!! We had such an eventful UK Summer Tour in 2013 we owed it to ourselves to get back to the UK again this summer and keep the musical connection alive in Sivan’s home country of England.  So we packed our bags double checked we had our passports and plane tickets and boom! England here we come.. The best deal on flights was via Vietnam so we figured we may as well make a stop over on the way!

Packing for UK Summer Tour

And we’re off to the UK!

Stop over in Vietnam

We made it to England. Went to the Pub for a pint and Our Album is in the Juke Box!

We went to see George Orwells Grave in the village of Sutton Courtanay via boat with friend we made at the local Pub last year… great bloke, actor, writer, musician and director Stephen Rees

Our first show of the UK tour.. and its on the front porch of a house in Surbiton, Surrey. Mark, Sarah and Jessica supported our new album crowd funding project by purchasing a house concert for their friends and family! It was a great concert and a wonderful afternoon all round!

We played the River Stage and the Rapture / Truck Store Record store at Cornbury Festival in Oxfordshire. A massive family friendly festival… headlines included Jules Holland and The Gypsy Kings.. we made some new friends and some new fans from all over the UK including Manchester, Brighton and locals of Oxfordshire.

and on to Maverick festival!

Sivan made friends with this cute donkey at Maverick American Roots Festival in Suffolk! Was an awesome festival with dedicated folk fans that listen to every word and note of every song…

We drove from Suffolk to Oxford and made it just in time to perform in front of this jovial crowd at Cowley Road Carnival on The Cape of Good Hope Stage! It went off!

After a super eventful week we now have some down time to chill with Sivan’s sister and her husband in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. This week we are looking forward to heading into London to catch up with some old friends, drinking some pints and watching the world cup semi finals… Germany vs Brazil and Holland vs Argentina.. quality football! Is so good to be back in England! May the good time roll on xoxox

THANK YOU for making our NEW ALBUM pozible!

It’s all over… the race has been run! A thousand THANK YOUs to everyone who contributed – you are keeping the independent music dream alive. We are over the moon with the results and feel very happy and grateful! Now we can finish this album! Sleeping Storm coming soon!!! and very soon exclusively to our 300 supporters! xoxo Todd and Sivan x

20 hrs to go! Last Chance to be part of our ‘Sleeping Storm’ Crowdfunding project via pozible

We don’t want you to miss out on receiving the new album first! To get the album song by song (starting on tuesday) pledge now before it’s too late! http://www.pozible.com/theaprilmaze We can’t believe there’s only 21hours til our crowdfunder closes! We have hit our target, but any extra is much needed and will go towards promotion… AND if you pre-order the album now you will receive a signed copy well before it’s official release!! Thanks for all your support! LOVE x

We smashed it! Less than 48 hrs left on our crowdfunding Album Project!

YIPPEE! We did it! So grateful for all the support so far!!! Thanks so much to everyone that has supported us on our biggest album project EVER! There are still some exclusives left that we would love people to get including album cover art, our back catalogue which includes some very rare early CD’s, and a CONCERT in your HOUSE – And of course THE ALBUM – pre-buy it through http://www.pozible.com/theaprilmaze and receive a signed copy in the post, months before it’s official release!! Any extra funds raised will go towards promo for the album!! So if you haven’t done it yet – there is less than 48hrs left to pre-buy our new album ‘Sleeping Storm’!!

Pozible Album project – We’ve hit 76%

YIPPEEEE!! We have reached 76% of our goal (that’s $12,220 so far of the minimum $16k we need to raise to make our album happen) !! 179 amazing people have pledged to pre-buy our new album (if you don’t know what we are going on about go to http://www.pozible.com/theaprilmaze ) SO MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL!! XXX

Thanks Canberra

Still buzzing from last nights show! Thanks to Alice Cottee for opening, Don for playing OUD and the 100 or so people who crammed in to see us at The Front Gallery and Cafe . We Love you CANBERRA! our pozible tour continues! Thanks for all the support:)

Interview with iMusician Digital about being an independent band

Interview with iMusician Digital about being an independent band

The lovely peeps at iMusicianDigital have featured us on their website.  They asked us some questions about being an independent band, our obsession with the 60s and 70s, being a married couple, and the new album!

We still love folk music! our version of ‘Fare Thee Well’ (Dink’s Song)

Last weekend we went to the cinema for the first time in over a year to see the latest Coen brothers film ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ – which follows a week in the life of a folk singer in New York in 1961. This song was a highlight for us so we came home and recorded our own version. Its a traditional folk song first captured in 1908 when an African American woman called Dink was singing it while washing her mans clothes in the Brazos river, Texas. http://www.theaprilmaze.com