As we set time aside in March to wrap up our second album of original music, we want to thank everyone who came out on a bad weather day Feb. 24 to hear us perform at Pam’s Fine Wines in Mukwonago. We hope to get back there sometime this month and perform a request that we couldn’t do that Friday. It’s a Bonnie Raitt song, and we should have that tune in shape for our next appearance at Pam’s.

Meanwhile, we are working with Tony in Austin, Texas, to pull together the final mixes for our seven-song CD, which we hope to release in April. And we’re working with photographer/ designer Jeff Zmania on the art for the album. We’re also using March to nail down our summer performance schedule, which will include, among others, return stops at Bastille Days and the Wisconsin State Fair.

We’re also pleased to announce that in April we will be returning to the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s Fire Pit Sports Bar and to Arriba’s Mexican Restaurant and Lounge on the border of Wauwatosa and Butler, and we’ll be making our first appearance in Lake Geneva. Stay tuned for more details on those performances.

Thanks to everyone for supporting us and our music.

Thanks to everyone in the standing-room-only crowd who came to hear Rebecca and the Grey Notes perform Saturday night, Feb. 4,

at Arriba Mexican Restaurant & Lounge in Butler. Among the crowd: Nancy Juley, the Famularo family, members of the Differentials band and family, Pulitzer Prize winner (yes, we had celebrities in the audience) Lou Saldivar with wife Tama and friends, Greendale super fans Patricia Shimeta Koncki and husband Mark, Diana Gallegos, national award-winning investigative reporter Gina MarieBarton and Dallas main man and investigative reporter Miles Moffeit, super reporter Ashley Luthern and husband Dan, photo guru and hockey fan Jeff Zmania, superfan and music afficionado Gary Roeglin and wife Nancy, private party expert Mike Nichols with wife Jane and friends who came from Cedarburg to hear us, expert copy desk chief and all-around good guy Paul Sevart and wife Deborah Baer Sevart, in-the-pocket drummer Don Ambyand wife, Rebecca’s friends and those at the bar who liked our music. Special thanks to Arriba Mexican Restaurant & Lounge for inviting us to play. We had a fantastic time and hope to be back soon.

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.