Hey Marseille and Radiation City To Rock Foothills Day

We’re giving Foothills Day a night to remember! 

Join us this Saturday at the Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee for a night of music that will blow your mind AND benefit our community. This day-long festival of music and culture is to aid the Chelan Douglas Land Trust Foothills Campaign. Proceeds and funds raised from ticket sales for the headlining bands Hey Marseilles and Radiation City, will go to purchase more of the surrounding foothills area for public use so our community can hike, bike and enjoy more of the natural beauty that surounds us!

We’ve brought in some hot Pacific Northwest bands you don’t want to say you missed seeing while you had the chance…

The Bands:

Hey Marseilles – This gang of Seattleites originated on the campus of the University of Washington and shine like stars in a contemporary Pacific Northwest music scene teeming with raw talent and promise. Seattle Weekly has said that, “the biggest reason Hey Marseilles stands out in Seattle’s saturated pop scene is its innate knack for crafting sincere songs that rise with anticipation and recede gracefully.”

Check out this video for their single, “Rio”:

Radiation City – No PNW benefit concert worth its salt would dare to overlook booking a band from Portland to help in such a noble pursuit as the preservation and enjoyment of the natural beauty we are fortunate enough to live and work in. These indie-electro dynamos are just the group to get you dancing awkwardly by yourself and digging the music, in true hipster fashion. They describe their music on their Facebook page as, “your parents’ record collection spent some time on the Event Horizon, and this came out.”

Check out this video for their song “Construction” http://vimeo.com/27890950

Once the Foothills Campaign is successful, the Land Trust will be able to DOUBLE the size of our current trails system AND set aside funds for consistent maintenance. That’s a cause we can get behind, and we hope you do too!

We Need YOU – To Join The Street Team!

You might have recently heard some of the hoopla about the Caffè Mela Street Team we’ve recently created. It’s a small but growing group that cares about cultivating a quality, contemporary live music scene in the Wenatchee Valley.

As you may or may not know, during the last five years we’ve brought in some pretty amazing Pacific Northwest artists including (but not limited to) Pickwick, Motopony, Hot Bodies In Motion, Ravenna Woods, Big Sur, OK Sweetheart and many, many more.

But in order to keep growing this burgeoning music scene we need YOUR help!

So join the Mela Street Team and do your part (not to mention it’s a great way to meet new friends). What we do is meet up at Mela a few weeks before any of big gig, talk about the upcoming artist, listen to some of the featured tunes and then hand out posters and handbills for you to give to your friends, family and whomever else you think would enjoy the show.

And did we mention there are perks? Oooohhhhhhh, yeah. But you’ll have to come to the next street team meeting to find out what they are (insert maniacal chuckle here).

Our next street team meeting is tomorrow at Caffè Mela at 5 p.m. and it’s focused on promoting our next big show – Portland’s own Radiation City with special guest Kevin Sur – coming up this Friday, Feb. 15 (a perfect Valentine’s Day date night if we do say ourselves).

As per usual the band we’ve booked is on its way up. Radiation City was recently on NPR’s “Top Ten Bands You Should Know About This Year” list. Here’s a video of theirs from KEXP’s musical festival called the Doe Day Sessions:

Time Entertainment had this to say about them:

• “After hearing their nostalgia-fueled retro dream pop, the fact that Radiation City is young may come as a surprise. Their charmingly evocative debut, The Hands That Take You, has a polished ’60s-inflected sound that belies their years — or at least implies that they raided their parents’ record collections. Their album and the follow-up EP, Cool Nightmare, are filled with mercurial pop songs and organ-driven melodies that pair perfectly with singer Lizzy Ellison’s elusive voice to create a languid pop sound that is evocative of groups that came before, yet still is very much their own.”

We couldn’t agree with that analysis more. So join the Mela Street Team and help us promote awesome shows and amazing bands like this one. And who knows, maybe you can help bring your favorite band to town…

They came. They saw. They rocked.

Ryan and Whitney rocking out

Saturday night we welcomed the very talented  didgeridoo-playing guitar phenom Blake Noble and  Seattle indie-rock power duo The Grizzled Mighty to  the Mela stage and the place was packed!

The G.M. have a harder sound than many of the acts we’ve booked but sometimes you just got to get the lead out, y’know?

But for those of you who like a mellower vibe, don’t forget our Tuesday night jazz sessions presented by VIM Sports at 7 p.m.

And mark your calendars for our next big show, Radiation City on Feb. 15th at 8 p.m. This 5-member Portland based band has an atmospherically-old school sound and the haunting melodies intertwined with their beautiful voices take you on a journey of sound. It’s really an experience!

Check out this video for their song “Construction” shot in Minneapolis, MN.

On their Facebook page they describe their sound as, “Your parents’ record collection spent some time on the Event Horizon, and this came out.”

We think that’s a pretty good way of putting it. Get your tickets online today and we’ll see you at the next show!

We’re Just Getting Started…

The Mela Green Room

We here at Caffè Mela have a reputation for being THE spot for live music in the Wenatchee Valley. And that’s a reputation we’ve worked very hard to cultivate.

Last year we welcomed tons of great Pacific Northwest bands to Mela and treated Wenatchee to live music that you’d have to travel to Seattle or Portland to see otherwise.

To the left you can see the Caffè Mela Green Room, with all the posters for past shows proudly displayed. And we’re here to tell you that we’re going to double down on our commitment to great live music and bring even MORE bands to Wenatchee to rock your faces off.

If you weren’t at our New Year’s Bash featuring Noah Gundersen, Hot Bodies In Motion and the incomparable Motopony then you truly missed out. But have hope! We’re just getting started…

Motopony – I Am My Body – LIVE at Caffe Mela from Voortex Productions on Vimeo.

Check out this great video from New Year’s (if you were here you’re probably in it). And then make plans to see the next few great bands we’ve got lined up in the coming months. Tomorrow night we’re going to treat you to some inspired, gritty blues rock from Seattle indie darling duo The Grizzled Mighty. Here’s a video of them performing live on Seattle’s indie rock radio KEXP.

Doors open tomorrow night at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 and the very talented Blake Noble will be opening for The G. M. Check out our website here for all the details and ticket information.

And if you can’t make it tomorrow night, mark your calendars for our NEXT big show. We’re welcoming the up-and-coming Portland phenomenon Radiation City to Mela Feb. 15th. It’s the perfect date night for Valentine’s Day!