PRESS RELEASE
Greetings From Area Code 207 Volume 7" CD Release Party
102.9 WBLM-FM and Cornmeal Records, in association with Shipyard
Brewing Company, Casco Bay Brewing Company and The Inn On Peaks
Island, are proud to announce the "Greetings From Area Code 207
Volume 7" CD release party, which will take place on Thursday, May
22, 2008 at The Empire Dine And Dance, located at 575 Congress
Street in Portland.
The show will feature music by Sara Cox (w/ Chicky
Stoltz), The Jason Spooner Trio, Dominic & The Lucid and surprise
special guests. Tickets are $10 and 100% of the proceeds go to benefit The St Lawrence Arts Center of Portland. The show will get underway at 8PM.
"Greetings From Area Code 207, Volume 7", a compilation CD of songs
from Maine bands and musicians was officially released on April 22nd.
As with "Greetings From Area Code 207 Volumes 1- 6" (compilation CD's
released in 2000-2005), 100% of the proceeds will go to benefit The
St. Lawrence Arts Center on Munjoy Hill in Portland. The six volumes (plus a best-of CD, "Maine Tracks", released by Bangor Savings Bank
in 2007) have raised over $100,000 to date. Headlining Volume 7 are previously unreleased songs by Ray Lamontagne, Rustic Overtones,
Phantom Buffalo, Sara Cox, The Coming Grass, As Fast As, The
Boneheads, Darien Brahms, Adam Gardner (Guster), Jon Nolan, Steve
Jones and Seekonk, along with 9 others. The disc was mastered at the
world famous Gateway Mastering studios in Portland by Grammy Award
winning engineer Adam Ayan. The new CD will be available at all Bull
Moose stores (located throughout Maine and in Portsmouth and Salem
NH) and at Borders Books and Music in South Portland. It will be
available at Bullmoose.com and at CornmealRecords.com.
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