Hey Everyone! I'll be playing in Memphis, TN at The Cannon Center with the lovely and talented Amritha Vaz on Sat. June 25.

This is a two day conference and event will bring together young adults and internationally renowned invited speakers, local speakers and music groups, in an effort to create the conditions for channeling their energies for self-improvement and community-improvement.

I will most likely be playing in the early afternoon and our set is only a half hour, so if you feel like attending the event and being part of a beautiful movement for Unity and Hope, I'll see you there!
Here is the link for their website: www.unityandhopememphis.org/

Much Love to YOU ALL!!!
Shanti

I almost forgot to say......
I'm playing an acoustic show in Seattle this Saturday, April 9th!
Donations will aid the people of Japan and the devastating situation there.
See you soooooon!
xo
Shanti

Saturday, April 9
8:00pm -11:00pm

Porchlight Coffee Shop
1515 14th Ave, Seattle, Wa

Featuring acoustic music by: Gregory Attonito (Bouncing Souls) Shanti Wintergate, Amritha Vaz, Tomo Nakayama (Grand Hallway) & Jason Clackley. The door price will be a $5 suggested donation. All proceeds will be donated tohttp://www.globalgiving.org/ to aid the people of Japan

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I just wanted to tell you all about my friend and amazing musician Amritha Vaz. She's a wonderful multi-instrumentalist and composer whom I've had the honor of playing with. She has added so much of her lovely self to my music live and I hope to create more with her. I just thought you all should know about this fierce and fabulous woman. :) check her out at Amritha Vaz
Here are some photos that my other wonderful friend and sister Amanda Bloom took..

March 4th and 5th Greg and I will be kicking off a display of our art in Portland and Seattle. We'll be playing acoustic sets with some friends and showing a collection of individual and collaborative original art. So... brush off those winter blues, let the sun shine in and check out what we've been creating all winter!

March 4, 2011
The Red & Black Cafe, Portland
400 Southeast 12th AvenuePortland, OR 97214 (503) 231-3899
Restaurant will be open at 10am Show starts @ 8pm

March 5, 2011
Porchlight Coffee, Seattle
1515 14th Avenue, Seattle, WA (206) 329-5461
Doors will open @ 7pm and the show will start at 8pm

You are beautiful and I love you!
Xox
Shanti

Internet is a little harder to come by than I had thought.. So I'll bring you up to date as best as I can. We spent a couple of great days I Melbourne, played two great shows and explored a bit of the city. Then, we hopped a plane to Perth o the West Coast of Australia. The weather was beautiful so we spent an afternoon at the beach playing in the waves of the Indian ocean. The coastline in this country is beautiful.. as expected, but it's still breathtaking in person. I've taken a ton of photos with my big DSLR and I'll upload those as soon as I can. I keep forgetting to take snapshots here and there on my phone so I can add them to these blogs, so sorry about that. Near Perth is a town called Freemantle which is the birthplace and resting place of original ACDC singer Bon Scott.. So we swung by and paid our respects. Here's a snap from that..

Arrived in Australia today! So far so good... The summer heat is beginning here and it feels great.. Here's a shot from the plane..

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Wellington was great, now off to Auckland! The weather has been beautiful!! Here's the crew.. We found free wifi at the airport...

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After one more cancelation and one more unexpected overnight stay in Auckland instead of Wellington, finally three days later I arrived. Things could have been worse, I could have been stranded at the various airports unable to get good rest and forced to stay at the airports. Anyway.. I'm here and the weather feels great! Strange to think at the start of this trip I was driving through a white-out blizzard. Luckily it's the beginning of summer here!! Whoooooohooooo! Very excited about that. Here's a shot of Wellington from yesterdays walk about..

I guess it's more of a shot my feet and some ocean...oh well. Good thing I recently had a pedicure. ha.
Something I absolutely love about this place so far is, every coffee shop I've been in has hot Lemon Ginger Honey. Even at the airport! Mmmmmmmm.

Hello everyone! It's been a while since I've updated.. I have spent the last few months working on music and art and traveling. I'll update you more as I release and finish these projects..so stay tuned. On another note, I'm going to attempt to bring u along on my next adventure to New Zealand and Australia! I've been lucky enough to accompany The Bouncing Souls on their tour of these beautiful countries. I have the looming feeling I will see more airports than I'd like to... But oh well.. I hope to see as much of these countries as I can. Hopefully, I'll have wifi now and then to update and hopefully I'll be holding a Koala soon and running from the Dingos.
I guess I'll see ya down under!

The flight I was supposed to be on last night was canceled due to a major power outage at the Aukland airport.. So after spending a relaxing night at LAX (air nz put everyone up in a hotel) here we are again waiting to board. Wellington, here I come!!

Last show tonight for the Vroom Vroom Vespa Tour! Come celebrate with us!! The Middle East Club, 7pm doors/ 8pm Show!
We made it to Boston!!! Whoo!
It was a bit of a challenge but were here, in one piece! We made every show and managed to avoid heavy rain.. Thank you universe! All the shows have been great and a lot of fun! I can not thank our caring friends and musicians who have traveled with us on this crazy adventure!! Thank you for your endless patience, help and support!! Really. Words can't express. To all the new friends we've made along the way, thanks for adding to this adventure and giving us riding guidence and rolling with us!! And of course i cant forget our awesome video crew, Jarrett, Rocco, Nick, you guys rule and you've been incredibly helpful! Thanks to them, all of you will be able to see the whole adventure! Well keep u posted on the completion of this project! Thanks for the adventure my little Ruby and Vespa! Sooooo much thanks!!!!! Much love!! Remember, life is out there to be lived! Choose your own adventure and Go!
All the love is going out to you right now!

- XO Shanti