Sun Bell - singer/songwriter, vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, slide whistle, kazoo, pennywhistle, executive producer
Jan Emerson - keyboard, vocals, kazoo, assistant producer
Anna Czjakowski - Bass, mandolin, guitar, backup vocals
These studio musicians:
Pete Hale - rhythm guitar
Barry Bison - keyboard
David Sydney Scott - sax
Laurie Roth - flute
Terry Knierim - Drums
Tom Finch - Lead, Bass, Rhythm
Influences
Extraordinary experiences, Joan Jett, U2, John Lennon, Patti Smith, Elvis, Jesse Mae Hemphill, Bonnie Raitt, Cheryl Crow, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sun House, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Melissa Etheridge, Paul McCartney, Chrisse Hynde, Cake, Patsy Kline, John Estes, REMM< Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Tina Turner, Devo, Zappa, Aaron Neville, Cindi Lauper, Johnny Lang, T. Rex, Heart, Grateful Dead,The Breeders, Jonathan Richmond, Sleeter-Kinney, Ozzie Osbourne, The Zimmers, Cheryl Hill, Billi & Patti,Pretenders.........
Sounds Like
Motels, Sound Garden, Grace Slick, Nina Hagen, Dilana & Storm Large (from Rockstar.MSN.com - Super Nova), Pretenders, Beatles, REMM, U2, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Cheryl Crow, B-52s, Paul McCartney, Indigo Girls, Bruce Springsteen, Cake, Rolling Stones, Heart....
Greetings from 'bell the cat' ~ Sun Bell,
Our song, "Sweet As Honey Be" is competing for $15,000 in prizes in next week's Weekly R&B/SOUL Stage Contest.
Voting begins at 12am EST (midnight) on Tuesday, May 27th and ends one week later at 12am EST (midnight) on Tuesday, June 3rd. We're competing against 14 other top artists in this genre and if our audio gets the most votes, we're the weekly winner!
VOTE AT: www.famecast.com/contest/contest.php?sid=9&audio=1
See link at bottom to send music for my radio show "The Sunnyside"!
June 15, Sunday (TTBA) ~ "Santa Rosa Pride Festival" ~ Wells Fargo Center
for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
September (DTBA), ~ YMCA Extenion Open House, Occidental, CA
September 21, Sunday 8:00p.m. ~ luver.com, Berkeley Radio & Community TV, Berkeley, CA
September (DTBA) ~ "We The People TV Show" (GLBT) ~ composing theme song,
shooting music video and guests on show.
October 22 , Wednesday - 6:00 p.m., KGGV FM LP 95.1 (www too) Guerneville, CA (Russian River), 'bell the cat' live purrformance.
Review for "Songs From The Wild" at www.gaysonoma.com
'bell the cat' trio played at the International Women's Day event,"Gather the Women" at Petaluma's Womens Building 3/8/08.
Locally KGGV 95.1 LP FM in Sonoma County is putting our CD, 'Songs From The Wild' on their playlist. Call (707)869-1131 to request a tune from the CD.
'Songs From The Wild' are being played at http://www.ckcufm.com, "Iron Maidens" with D.D. Rocker, CKCU 93.1 FM, Campus/Community Radio Station,
http://www.geocities.com/irocktheblues "Rockin' the Blues from Canada".
http://www.hotspotradio.com with Paul Saunders, 'Radio Wo Wo' in rotation soon 3 other songs.
The "Untamed Heart" video is posted on the QNation website. They regularly play from CD "Songs From The Wild" on "Pride Showcase" and my song "Untamed Heart" is in the station rotation. Listeners can go to the QNation.FM website and request it.
Woring hard at recording the 2nd CD, a double with 25 NEW original songs! We're also producing our 2nd music video. Stay in touch.
'Songs From The Wild' @ NEW!, a San Francisco based radio station and we're making progress. Go to the link below and on left top page show by
artist name. Then look for Sun Bell ~ 'bell the cat' under Rock, Alternative and Hit.
http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/artist_submission/all.html
HONORABLE MENTION in the BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST, songs, 'To The Moon Alice' and 'Radio Wo Wo.
"In recognition of having your original song compositions among the Top 500 & 1500 entries of the 14th Annual Billboard World Songwriting Contest. Only the highest quality songs make it to the top. This honor demonstrates the talent and dedication it takes to write a "Hit Song".", wrote Jim Halsey, President and Mark Furnas, Director.
'To The Moon Alice' 23rd, top 50 ~ American Idol Underground ~ Rock genre!
'To The Moon Alice' & 'TNT', on playlist rotation at INDIE104 ~ iRADIO LA. http://www.iradiola.com http://www.myspace.com/indie104
'bell the cat' music video of track 1 "Untamed Heart" on CD, "Songs From The Wild". Experience dancing Ostrich, white tiger (footage
BigCatRescue.org), wild grrrls, wild animals, wild wicked good fun, Sonoma County scenes, wayout alternative pop, Earth rock music with a message,
melodic vocals and rhythyms, Native American influence.
'Untamed Heart' music video links:
http://www.sonicbids.com/bellthecatSunBellMusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C09098djk2U
http://www.myspace.com/sunbellbellthecat
http://journals.aol.com/btc5sb/bell-the-cat-purrin-along/
http://redcarpetsuperstar.ning.com/video/video/show?id=881631:Video:2366
bell the cat purrrforms at Venues, Parties, House Concerts, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Concerts, Music Licensing for Film, Video and TV,
Commercials, Cartoons, Voice-overs, station IDs... bell the cat plays for audiences that range from tweens,teens to baby boomers and beyooooond!
People are drawn to 'btc' for many reasons including the choice of fresh NEW music by a mature artist that features a bouquet of genres.(Sun purrforms solo, duo, trio or with a band)
'Songs From The Wild' one of the Music Project of the Year Award Editor's Choice Winners, Readers Survey Top 50: 'Songs From The Wild'
ranked 30! both at Kweevak.com
Outmusic Award Nominee: bell the cat 'Songs From The Wild' - Outstanding New Recording Band!
Sun was the January 2006 featured player for GAY GUITARISTS WORLDWIDE interview @ web.
"I'm convinced that singer/songwriter Sun Bell is the love child of Grace Slick and Nina Hagen. I'd love to hear her do a 'White Rabbit'. She has
the combined power of Grace's throaty delivery and Hagen's sharp stabs..."
~Robert Lawrence - We The People - A&E 6/2005
Twist your mind with award-winning, on the edge, powerful, blazing,colorful, smoldering, sultry BLUES, ROOTS ROCK, ALTERNATIVE, POP, ADULT CONTEMPORARY, OUT & PROUD, FOLK ROCK, EARTH ROCK, and TONGUE-IN-CHEEK HUMOROUS musical stories. 'bell the cat' uses creative, artistic expression to heal, journey, share love, laughter, compassion, fun, awareness & peace through music on 'Songs From The Wild'. Music to broaden your perspective. An eclectic mix of genre written by Sun Bell.
Let the music play and the light shine!
www.sunbellmusic.com or www.songsfromthewild.com
EPK: http://www.sonicbids.com/bellthecatSunBellMusic
BUY: 'bell the cat': Songs From The Wild
http://cdbaby.com/cd/bellthecat
iTUNES: bell the cat: Songs From The Wild
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=57718801
Greetings~
Please send me your CDs if you'd like to get airplay and get listeners in a whole new physical area. Soon we'll be streaming on the web. For now it's KOWS LP Radio 107.3 FM in Occidental, CA. This is in the North Bay Area, Sonoma County. My show is called 'The Sunnyside'- for now an hour show, soon to be a 2-hour format focusing on women born women in the community and around the world who do extra-ordinary things.
Music, live performances, & interviews, phone-ins, info,facts, bits of news, public announcements and giveaways with me DJ, Producer Sun Bell.
If you want to, include a CD or so for giveaways. Email me MP3s @ sun@sunbellmusic.com. Mail your
CDs to: Sun Bell Music, P.O. Box 474, Forestville, CA 95436. Include your PR info, address, email, web site...
PeaceRocker~ Sun Bell ~ 'bell the cat' ~ SunBell Music
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HI, THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR MUSIC,SPIRIT AND FRIENDSHIP IN MYSPACE IN TIME FROM AFAR. I AM HONORED. YOU HAVE PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE TODAY WITH YOUR MUSIC. I AM SENDING LUV,PEACE AND HAPPINESS YOUR WAY. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, DONNA AUSTIN
SISTER SPIT IS COMING TO YOUR TOWN! One vanload of queer female artists + writers + bon vivants coming to your town for one awesome night of shameless literary hijinks. Featuring Michelle Tea, Texta Queen, Chelsea Starr, Meliza Banales, Tara Jepsen, Dexter Flowers, and Kat Marie Yoas. Check out www.sisterspitnextgen.com for more info! Spread the word!
OCTOBER 24 Minneapolis, MN Pi Bar 8:30pm 25 Milwaukee, WI University of Wisc-Milwaukee, Greene Hall 7pm 26 Chicago, IL Women and Children First Books 9pm 27 Bloomington, IN Boxcar Books 8pm 28 Ann Arbor, MI Aut Bar two shows- 6pm and 8pm 29 Columbus, OH Scully's 8pm 30 New York, NY Rapture Cafe 8pm NOVEMBER 1 Brooklyn, NY Cattyshack 7:30 2 Middletown, CT Wesleyan College 3 Northampton, MA Smith College 4 Boston, MA Spontaneous Celebrations 5 Chester NH Chester College 6 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery 7 Washington, DC Phase 1 8 Williamsburg, VA College of William and Mary 9 Bronxville, NY Sarah Lawrence College 10 Durham, NC TBA 11 Atlanta, GA TBA
Hey my friend. I hope you're having a great summer.
Just stopping by to let you know that I've decided to take advantage of the blogging tool so I hope you'll come by my page and subscibe when you get a chance.
thanks for the great music, we would love to work with you sometime.
Come and visit us in Sonoma County to record your next CD, we are willing to offer you reduced rates on studio time.
This is an amazing opportunity to work at a world-class recording studio in a relaxing rural setting, at a fraction of the cost of an expensive big-budget city studio.
We have an incredible collection of gear and instruments at your disposal, highly skilled and focused engineers, plenty of space, and a guest house.
We can also hook you up with beats and studio musicians.
check out our website
www.prairiesun.com
I wish you the best, and I hope we can meet sometime
HAPPY 2007! The New Year is finally here.
Heads up: Mtndawg now has 10 original songs Mastered, and Radio-ready. The new CD, "Handmade", is well on its way to being completed. The release has been moved out to allow more time recording. If all goes as planned, it will be a 2 CD set!!! Yahoo! What we need from YOU (if you are into it) is some type of short note or even a letter... commenting on Mtndawg music. Thanks for your support in helping to keep Mtndawg music going. Keep a good thought! xoxox
You know something? I really like your music!
Great vocals and a totally different sound. It is so refreshing to hear something so original and unique!
