Open Mic Tour

Well, kinda

we will be trying to hit an open mic at least once a week most likely just the ones around long island and the city but if we are feeling frisky we might hit some of them out of state


the ones we have played and will play most frequently...
Wednesday nights @ The Cup in Wantagh
Thursday nights @ Mr. Beerys in Bethpage
Sunday nights @ Jake's Tavern in East Meadow

the ones we know about but haven't had a chance to go to...yet
Monday nights @ KJ Farrell's in Bellmore
Sunday nights @ The Vox Pop Cafe in Brooklyn
Monday nights @ The Sidewalk Cafe in Manhattan
Tuesday nights @ The Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, CT
Monday nights @ The Muddy Cup in New Paltz


soooo if you know of other ones we should add to this list please let us know and we will keep you updated on when we can play them!

we hope you are all as excited as we are about getting out there and playing more and we are already really happy with the responses we get when we play and the feeling we get when we are able to share our music with our friends so please come share this with us

- A Tuff Rose

Vlog.

This might be a bit redundent since we linked this written blog to our video blog, but...whatever...


http://www.youtube.com/users/atuffrose




:) <3

All you need is love

Slowly finding more and more time to practice is leading to more ideas and new songs and just prospects in general so we hope that you will all stay tuned as things start to get more interesting...


oh speaking of awesomenes...

We have a show coming up!

Feb 2, 2010 we will be performing alongside our friends The Holy Soviets, Alias Frequency, and The Sun Doctors at a cool little venue in the lower east side of NYC called Otto's Shrunken Head (located on E14th st near 1st ave) the party gets strated at 7pm so we hope those of you reading this will try and make it down cause that would make us so very happy :-)

we hope to debut some new songs and also have some ideas up our sleeves pertaining the date of the show...just sayin

we also just hope to share our love with the world because what better gift can you give?


-ATuffRose

blooming

Hello everyone..

just stopping in to update - we have a show coming up: Holy Soviets' New Years Eve Pajama Johnny Jam! it's a slumber party! and we go on at 1am - what a wonderful way to start 2010.. doing what we love for the people we love :)

in other news we have a few new songs brewing that we're pretty excited about - one of which featuring an instrument we haven't performed with yet!

we're looking to play at a few open mics this winter.. if you know of some places/dates let us know!

<3

 

@ Joe James's house show :)

 

Welcome to my World

so over the past weekend due to my parents being away in Florida with my little brother and sister I had the house to myself in which case a threw a little last minute Acoustic House Show featuring some of my good friends that I have made via giging and attending local shows around the island. The show went off without a hitch everyone had a great time and everyone that played put on incredibly soild performances

It was so much fun we ordered a few pizzas people brought some wine and beer and we all just relaxed and listened to some great original tunes by all of our friends, you really couldn't have asked for a better time. I really hope we can do something like this again soon :)



the line up was as so...

Alias Frequency
Chelesa Smile
Joyce Nancy
Matty Marcus (of Nifty Breed)
Meredith Plummer
A Tuff Rose
The Holy Soviets


we really want to thank everyone for being so awesome and obviously we couldn't of had this show without all of you (otherwise we would just be playing for no one in my basement...which we do anyway ha) for everyone that played (you were all sooo good!) and for the audience for being respectful of the artists and giving them your attention and making this all worth it.

some photos to nom on ;)

We Love Mr. Beery's!

over the past year or so I've gone on and off to a place called Mr. Beery's in Bethpage NY. Usually on thursday nights because of the open mic they have there (this is also my only steady day off from work) everyone is just so welcoming and supportive. I have played in almost every style and played with sevreal bands/acts and it doesn't matter if there is 5 people in there or 50 everyone claps and most people listen it's a really nice feeling. Honestly the only place we like MORE is the Holy Soviets House Shows because if you wanna talk about respect and listening they have got it down to a science so here is the second shout out of the blog :)

Anyway last night was the first time we performed as A Tuff Rose and the response was amazing! I was so touched and excited by the fact that halfway through our first song about 90% of the place stopped what they were doing to turn around or come closer to hear our songs. We sold a few cd's and even made some new friends. All and all a great fucking night.

A special thanks to Mike Longo (from My Summer) whom does sound at Mr. Beery's and is always such a nice guy. Thank again Mike for recording us last night.
Check out LazySundayRecords on Youtube for all of his videos INCLUDING a new song from us on there!

http://www.youtube.com/lazysundayrecords


Thanks again to everyone that has been supporting us from the begining we are just getting started with this and I already feel like we have the love and support by everyone we come across you guys are what it's all about :D