Above are two new songs of the four we recorded in the woods of North Hillsdale earlier this summer. We've posted "Airline Baggage Handlers Suck" as a free download if you're on our mailing list. We dedicate this one to, well, the airline industry, of course. Pass it around. The next is "Yellow Lines", one of the many new songs that will be part of our Wiyos of Oz song cycle we're touring this fall. More to come...

 How long has it been since a Wiyos show in St Louis? Too long...

Friday Aug 13, Off Broadway, St Louis, MO. w/Joy Kills Sorrow and Rum Drum Trio
Sat Aug 14, Ozark Folk Center, Mt View, AR

And...... our set times for FloydFest this weekend will be:
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM (Saturday, Dance Tent)
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (Sunday, Dance Tent)

But not before we make a Purple Fiddle stop on Friday the 23rd at 8:30pm. Safe to say The Purple Fiddle could be a favorite small room stop-over for The Wiyos. If you've never been... check it out- totally worth it for a weekend get-away.

The band recorded four new songs this week with Joebass at the console. Stay tuned for new posts......

The WIYOS will perform from 7-8pm on Friday, July 9 on the mainstage, and again from 8-9pm on Sat July 10. They'll also be doing an acoustic old-time set on Stage 2 at 11:30am on Saturday the 10th.

Lot's of new sounds in the works folks. Michael, Teddy and Seth, in a trio version of them Wiyos will be rippin' an old-school Wiyos set at 2pm this Sat, June 19, New London, CT!

Details:
Traditions: New London Music Festival
Sat June 19, 2-9pm
The Wiyos play from 2-2:45PM
Also appearing: Daphne Lee Martin & Jim Carpenter, David Wax Museum, Nordet, Over A Cardboard Sea, Brown Bird, and The Can Kickers!

Then back to the tree house to check the fermentation on our recording concepts....... more soon.

Joebass returns for a KS run!

So next week we finally return to Swallow Hill in Denver. We owe it to you after bailing on a date last year to be on the Dylan tour. Even better, we'll be playing with Colorado man himself, Kort McCumber. Then we roll out I-70 to the Palisade Bluegrass Festival. Hope to see some of you out there!

Friday June 11, 8pm Swallow Hill, Denver, CO
Saturday June 12, 3pm set, Palisade Bluegrass Festival, Palisade, CO

For three nights only! We're very excited to be returning to Kansas for three more nights of this hybrid film/dance/music production with the WSU Dance Program. Click here to read more about the show.

Saturday, May 22, 7:30pm - Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center, Hays, Kansas
 
Tuesday, May 25, 7:30pm – Memorial Auditorium, Pittsburg, Kansas

Thursday, May 27, 7:30pm – Orpheum Theatre, Wichita, Kansas

Sauerkraut Seth and Michael at the Clickimin Center,
Lerwick, Scotland. Washboard this set?

Want to give a big shout out to all the people who came out to our sets in Shetland, all the bands we shared the stage with, the musicians we jammed with til daylight, our generus hosts and most of all, the committee that kept the whole thing together! Did you hear us on the boat as we departed Bressay Sound? The Wiyos love Shetland!

Oh, and, ehem, a big shout out to Baskery for giving us their cab in Aberdeen. We definitely would have missed our plane.

Hi folks,

Remember that album called My Changing Planet we told you about a few months ago? Well, we just heard that starting in April, the album is going to be in Whole Foods near the registers. So if you have kids, and next time you need to stock up on Tofurkey, Kale and free range Ho Ho's, check it out. We played "Gas Guzzling Blues". My Changing Planet combines takes from over 20 artists. The writers and creators of the project have produced a family album that delivers meaningful messages about conservation and environmental awareness in an engaging, funny and interactive album of original material. It's an album to inspire our next generation to be responsible stewards of the planet, and even better, 100% of the proceeds go to The Nature Conservancy. The Wiyos are really stoked to be apart of this!

March 25-27 7:30pm 
March 28 3:00pm
Wilner Theatre, Wichita State University
The School of Performing Arts Dance Program presents, The WIYOS of OZ.
Film, Dance and.... The Wiyos, of course (all four of us, including Joebass), together on stage in an original production and most unusual adaptation of the 1939 Wizard of Oz story. Hope to see you out there! This one is going to be really exciting!

Thanks to all for coming out to the UK shows. Good to see some old friends and lots of new faces. The legendary road manager, man of endless jokes, native of Paisley Scotland, and tireless cold hearted driver, Gerald Roach (aka: Wrong Turn Roach) plopped all four blurry-eyed Wiyos at Heathrow Monday morning and sped off into the London fog. Stateside now, we head for Wintergrass, WA next week!

Check out a review of the Nottingham show at The Maze here.

Also, just learned we'll be returning to Scotland in May for the Shetland Folk Festival. Twelve hour ferry? Seriously?

After nearly 48 hours of battle with the airlines to get some missing instruments to Glasgow (a few harmonicas gone for good), we all managed to make it in the cabs in time for sound check for Pacific Quay on BBC last night. The show included Fraser Anderson, Maya Andrade, Natalie Merchant, KAN and The Wiyos of course. Awesome kick off to the tour. The performance was filmed for possible later airing. Keep your eyes peeled on BBC's site for announcements.