More Fun with Widgets!

I just interviewed Juli Crockett and Lisa Dee the co-founders of a band called The Evangenitals on my radio show this week. Started almost as a joke where they sang 2 Christmas carols and one original at an open mic in LA, they soon grew to a full band with a rotating cast of players, including two Fairfielders at the moment - David Hurlin and Matt Ticciati! I think some people might get freaked out by the name, and also wonder what kind of music it is. Let's start with the name first. On their site it says:

EVANGELICAL: characterized by ardent or crusading enthusiasm; zealous. GENITALS: the organs of creation; the private parts

These people are definitely highly creative and extremely enthusiastic about life in general, including their music! Everything I find written by Juli online is inspiring and passionate about life. She started meditating recently and will post on her twitter about how she's meditating in the back of the van before a show or some other random place.

The music is a wonderful mix of alt-country, folk-rock, and even has some punk mentalities every so often. Hard Luck, for example, starts out as a loping, rickety, sad country song and then fills out to a lush, full, rocking sound in the choruses.

Juli's multi-talents also include writing and directing plays! So when she and Lisa Dee met, and found out that Juli wrote plays and Lisa sang opera, they said, "Let's make something together!" and one of the results was the musical "The Dawn of Quixote: Chapter the First".

7 or 8? years later, they have been invited to perform the show at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, with the full Evangenitals band as the live orchestra!

They are currently raising funds to pay for room and board for all 9 members of their company with this fascinating website called "Kickstarter". People pledge their donations and will get prizes for certain levels, but nobody pays a cent until/unless the full goal amount is met by the due date! At the time I'm writing this they have 30% worth of pledges and 13 days to go, so I imagine they must be biting their nails a bit... Check out the widget and see what you think:



Minimum pledge is $1, and every dollar helps them!