"Live Wire" - February

Greetings everyone and welcome to the first edition of our newsletter we call "Live Wire"! This will be a monthly update to keep everyone“Current” with all our latest news.

Francesca and the 440 Hum played at The Steaming Cup this last Saturday to a full house! In addition to some standard favorites we debuted a couple songs we will be performing at the upcoming Food Pantry Benefit at The Coffee House in Milwaukee.

(Click Here for Details on that gig).

 We got some very favorable reactions to our covers of “Stormy Weather” and “Ain’t Misbehaving” so they are likely to be put into rotation as a regular part of our standard set.

We will be heading back into the studio in early march to record the last tune for our upcoming CD. After we have that in the can we can start mixing and then it’s PARTY TIME!!!

Till next time,

Keep on Humming!

New Gig Announcment!!

Greetings Friends!

We have some exciting news! Francesca and the 440 Hum will be performing at a food pantry benefit on Friday March 2^nd  at The Coffee House in Milwaukee. The theme of the evening is Songs from the Depression Era. We will be performing an entire set of cover tunes from this era! Here are the nitty grities of the gig.

The Coffee House,

631 N. 19th St. 

Milwaukee, Wi  

Food Pantry Benefit

Friday March 2nd

"The Thirties-Songs from the Depression to Help Us through Our Recession"   featuring:

-John Blandino with Brett Kemnitz;                            

-John King;

-Tom Martinsen;                       

-Francesca and the 440 Hum  

               

Donation of $4.00 and two cans of food at the door

We hope to see you all at the very worth while event.

January Recap!

January was an eventful month for Francesca and the 440 Hum. In addition to rolling out the new band name, we had our first gig of 2012 at The Steaming Cup. January 7^th we set up in our usual spot at The Cup and play to a wonderful audience. They got to hear a brand new song called “Small and Quiet Love”. It has a Spanish feel to it which is jokingly referred to as “fauxmenco” since it was a written by a Jewish lady from Chicago. We also performed a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire”. The crowd was very receptive to both securing those songs in future set lists. It was a very good time and we look forward to our next performance which will be February 18^th at The Steaming Cup starting at 7pm. What better way to finish up Valentine’s Week than to take your special someone to The Steaming Cup for some “Espresso Love Cake”! We would LOVE to see you all there!

January also saw us back in the studio working on our forth coming album. We got together at Rainbird Studios in Big Bend Wisconsin and recorded “Little Bird”. It was a special session because we were filming it in order to put together a little video to share with everyone. “Little Bird” has been in Francesca’s repertoire for many years and is a crowd favorite. We are very excited to have it on this album. There is still some footage of the primary mixing of the song to be done and as soon as that footage is edited we will post it here for you all to enjoy.