We’re happy to report that we’ve been nominated to board VIA Rail for a cross-Canada, four-day-and-three-night trip and music showcase as part of CBC Music and Green Couch Productions‘ “Tracks on Tracks” contest! The train leaves Vancouver on June 8, with stops in Kamloops, Jasper, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, and arrives in Toronto on June 12 for the North by Northeast music festival.

The first step is to vote for us, every Wednesday until May 9th.

Next, enter yourself to win tickets to join us, or buy tickets now at a discounted rate.

As a thank you for voting, until May 9th, we’d like to give all of our supporters a free copy of our debut album, Sounds From The Treeline. Tweet your support, or make a Facebook wall post, and you’ll get a download link right away.

Tweet your support …and get a free copy of Sounds From The Treeline

Late last year one of our songs, Old Hearts, got a fair bit of airplay on CBC Radio 3 (R3). This was really exciting for us as R3 is streamed all over the place, in cafes and offices, over satellite radio, and through the internet to individual users, and we got to experience the thrill of both hearing ourselves and having our friends tell us they heard us on the radio.

One of the neat things about R3 is the built-in web 2.0 features. For any song that’s been uploaded, you can save it to a playlist and play it any time you like, and you can become a fan of an artist and get updates on their activity. If you go to our R3 artist page you can see how many people have added us and how many times they’ve played our songs; when I wrote this article, we had 32 fans, 179 playlist-adds, and a total of 3,424 plays.

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Bands often get asked about their name. Ours is no different.

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