Rebecca and the Grey Notes had a rockin’ time Friday night, Jan. 20, at Pam’s Fine Wines in Mukwonago. We were pumped by the overwhelming reaction from the packed house to our original songs, even though Rebecca was doing her best to power through a bad cold and cough. Someone even brought her cough drops and cough medicine from the Walgreen’s across the street. Wow. Special thanks to John Guehrer, who joined us onstage for some mean harp playing, and Mark and Jeff. Also, a big thanks to Georgia Pabst and Ralph Pabst for driving all the way from Glendale to join us. And thanks to Pam and Mike for inviting us back.

Our seven new original songs, which were recorded this fall, are being mixed in Austin, Texas. Once those are mixed, we’ll get them mastered and then put onto a new CD and also on iTunes and CD Baby for release this spring if not sooner. We will be playing these new tunes along with our five other originals and covers at Pam’s Fine Wines, 100 Main St., Mukwonago, at 7 p.m. Jan. 20. Hope to see you there.

We will be welcoming in the new year with a show this Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at Spring City Wine House, 336 W. Main St., in downtown Waukesha. This is another early start – 7 p.m. – and there is no cover charge. We will be blending into our sets our new original music from our next album, which is in production. Hope to see you there.

Mark your calendars! Friday, Dec. 30, we will be playing from 7-10 pm at Pam’s Fine Wines in Mukwonago. This will truly be our last show of the year. It’s an awesome gig and a fun little place. Start you New Year’s celebrations a day early. And take note of that early starting time. We cannot wait to be back there and to see your faces supporting live music.

Rebecca and the Grey Notes wraps up its 2016 concert tour with a stop this Friday night, Dec. 2, where it all began – Tally’s Tap & Eatery, S31-W24661 Sunset Drive, on Waukesha’s south side. The first chord will be struck at 8:30 p.m. As usual, this is a free show. We are extremely thankful for this past year, which featured performances at Club Garibaldi with the incredibly talented Shirley Green, the intimate venue at Spring City Wine House, a concert date cancelled because of a raid on a bar by the ATF, the pro stage at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino for two shows, Frank’s Power Plant with the traveling Community Center, playing all of our originals at Saloon on Calhoun, an incredible daytime show at Bastille Days followed by another incredible show that night at Jane and Mike Nichols‘ house in Cedarburg, a hot show at the Ozaukee County Fair, another double-concert day at the fantastic Major Goolsby’s Stage at the Wisconsin State Fair and later at the Delafield Brewhaus for the first time, a third double-concert day outside in 95-degree weather in Mequon and inside an air-conditioned Spring City Wine House, a very cool and worthy church festival in Racine, meeting new fans at Pam’s Fine Wines in Mukwonago, and a private party with, of all people, the Milwaukee Curling Club in Cedarburg. Along the way we managed to finish recording our second album, which is now in production and set for release early next year. Please join us Friday to help us celebrate this incredible year.

We are at Pam’s Fine Wines tonight from 8-11. This is a new place for us, so come out and show your support for a local business that supports live music,

We’ll be finishing up our recording on Sunday! Looking forward to creating with some wonderful people at Anton Music Productions. The night before we’ll be having a blast at a private party. Didn’t know we do private events? Contact us for more information! thegreynotesband@gmail.com, facebook.com/rebeccaandthegreynotes

And don’t forget to visit us at Spring City Wine House Wednesday, November 23, 7pm.

We are putting the final touches on two more new original songs that we hope to record in a couple of weeks. That will give us seven new originals to add to the five we already have published. All of our original material is written by guitarist Tyler Famularo and arranged by the rest of the band. We hope to be able to play most of these new originals at our next scheduled gig, 7 p.m. Nov. 23, at the Spring City Wine House in downtown Waukesha.

We visited Anton Music Productions in Sussex this week to go over the final changes we wanted to make to the next five original songs that we have recorded. Tony will then do the final mix, and in mid-November we’ll be attempting to add two more originals to the five that already are in the can so that we can have seven new originals ready for our second album, which should be released either late this year or early next year. Super photographer Jeff Zmania will once again be doing our album art. We still have some work to do, but we think you’ll like the result.

Rebecca and the Grey Notes will have its CD featured at radio station WGTD-FM (91.1) Racine/Kenosha Public Radio each day beginning Monday, Sept. 26, at 12:20pm. All five of our original songs on that CD will be featured, one a day. Make sure to check it out either over the air or online at the station’s home page.