Snaggle – Nominee in the 16th Independent Music Awards!

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We’re extremely humbled and honoured to announce that we are a nominee in this year’s The Independent Music Awards in the Funk/Fusion/Jam category for our latest release THE LONG SLOG! An enormous heartfelt thank you to everyone who worked on the record and those who’ve been a part of the band’s continued journey!
See the whole list of nominees
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In other news our bandleader and Browntasauras comrades in the Nick Maclean Quartet – a HARD SWINGING Herbie Hancock-influenced modern jazz group – are about to head out on a CD Release tour to Kingston (Thr-Feb-15), Montreal (Fri-Feb-16), Ottawa (Sat-Feb-17), and Cobourg (Sun-Feb-18) to celebrate the release of their hot new disk RITES OF ASCENSION! If that sounds like something you’re into make sure to check out the full details here!
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THE LONG SLOG
“The music of Snaggle, a fruitful sextet based in Toronto, translates into mature compositions and stupendous executions. The members of the band, virtuosos in their respective instruments, resort to a laudable sense of unity and superior taste to creatively orchestrate the nine pieces of The Long Slog, their sophomore feature album… In a certain moment they’re confronting Miles Davis with Medeski Martin & Wood; in the other, you may find the Red Hot Chili Peppers colliding with Incognito or Mahavishnu Orchestra.”
– Filipe Freitas – Jazz Trail (New York, USA)
CREDITS
Nick Maclean – rhodes/organ/synthesizer
Doug Moore – bass
Tom Grosset – drums
Michael Murray – guitar
Max Forster – trumpet
Graeme Wallace – tenor sax
Special guest: Brownman Ali – trumpet
Produced by Brownman Ali
Recorded by Brian Legere
Mixed by Josh Bowman
Mastered by Joao Carvalho
Artwork by Nick Ragetli
Released on Browntasauras Records

July Tour Dates

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That’s right, hot off the heels of the Toronto Jazz Festival, in a few short weeks we’ll be on the road for a bunch of out of town dates. We’re really excited to get outside the city limits again and we hope to see a bunch of you there! We’ll be playing a whole lot of the material that will be coming out in October in our upcoming album, so it’s going to be a whole lot of fun! The full schedule is listed below:

July 15th – Live at the Richmond Tavern with Fun Fact
372 Richmond St, London, ON 10pm
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July 16th – Waterloo Jazz Festival Open Jam hosted by Snaggle
The Jazz Room, 59 King Street North,Waterloo ON 6:30pm
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July 17th – Waterloo Jazz Festival
Waterloo Jazz Festival Mainstage, 4:00pm
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July 17th – Snaggle Live at Homegrown with Izoktron
27 King William St, Hamilton, ON 8:00pm
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City Cider this Sunday!

1537741_1642171822695024_2472912917215263097_o     This Sunday we’re playing at a really cool Toronto event – City Cider! This is a great big celebration of all things cider-related and it is also a fundraiser for a great charity called ‘Not Far From the Tree’ who harvests fruit from Toronto trees and shares it with the city! We’re on at 1:00pm at the Spadina Museum. It’s only $10 to get in and there’s lots to see!

https://www.facebook.com/CityCiderFestival

We Did It!!! Thank You Everyone!

snaggle banner indie celeb     We are so humbled an honoured at the outpouring of support we’ve received during the course of our indiegogo campaign. We can’t wait to get to work on this project that you guys have made possible. So on behalf of all of us here at Snaggle and Brownman Music, THANK YOU!!!!

39 hours left on the fundraiser!

Snaggle2 at May     We’ve been overwhelmed with the support and generosity that’s been shown to us during this fundraiser. As of last night, with everything added up including donations from outside of Indiegogo we’ve broken $4000! We can’t express just how thrilled we are, thank you everyone who’s donated, your support means the world to us!

We’ve got just 39 hours left on the clock, so if you’d still like to show a little love, get that donation in soon!

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Unexpected Guests – EP Digital Release!

Snaggle2_Final     Some of you may remember a bunch of videos we posted a few months ago that we did with some very talented singers here in Toronto. We’re finally releasing the recordings! Here they are in all their bandcamp glory!

We’re still in full swing with our Second Album Fundraiser. We didn’t make it to 50% last Sunday so here’s what we’re going to do. We’re putting a free T-Shirt back up for grabs to one randomly selected person in our list of funders, and we’re adding one game of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ or ‘dinner with the band (GTA only)’ if we make it to $3000 by Thursday the 16th. Let’s spread this around guys, we can do it!

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We’re at 41% and need just $435 to reach the half way mark! If we go over 50% by the end of Sunday we’re going to be randomly selecting a person from our list of donors to win a free Snaggle shirt! So keep spreading the word and if you haven’t please consider donating to our second album fundraiser.

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Thanks to everyone who’s already contributed and spread this around, you guys are helping make this happen!

SNAGGLE MOCKUP

Snaggle’s Sad Puppy-Dog Eyes

We’re into our second week of our ‘Second Album Fundraiser’ and we’re already at 20%! Thanks so much to everyone who’s donated so far. We’ve still got a ways to go to make this project happen so please consider donating. Remember we’re going to be working with the amazing Brownman Ali on this next disk, and I don’t know about you, but we are damn excited to see what this collaboration brings!

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