For the 5th straight year Liquid Blue has been chosen as one of the top-ten dance bands in the USA at the National Music Awards. The band won the award in 2001.
Arms of Love, Making Up, and Rhythm of Love have all been selected as semi-finalists in the pop/rock category of the 2005 Dallas Songwriters Song Contest. Liquid Blue is the only artist with three songs selected. Last year If You Gotta Ask won the pop category and Real won the best movie soundtrack category. 2005 winners will be announced in November.
Liquid Blue will be featured 3 times on Adelphia Headline News on Wednesday, Sept 7th at either 6:54, 7:54, 8:54, 9:54, 10:54 or 11:54. The interview was conducted by popular on-air personality Lynn Harper, one of the most prominent names in the San Diego radio and TV world.
Liquid Blue has agreed to donate all profits from the sales of Supernova in the month of September to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
The band did several shows in Kansas City this week. Thursday night (Sept 1st) the BlueGirls performed the National Anthem at a Kansas City Royals MLB game. Actor Peter Falk threw out the first pitch and met with Nikki Green prior to the game. Friday was a party night with performers Nikki, Rocket and Michael all sitting in with some great local bands.
Give Me Back My Heart has won BEST POP SONG in the WRA (William Robert Abate) song competition for 2005. The WRA Song Competition selects songs that promote peace, love, community, and/or speak out against violence, war or hate. Founded in 1993, in conjunction with the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the original William Robert Abate Competition awards gifted artist for their achievements.
Liquid Blue has been selected to perform at the 2005 China Shanghai International Arts Festival. The event is the most prestigious of all the Chinese festivals and features 45 artists from 29 countries. Only three artists from the USA will appear; The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The New York City Ballet and Liquid Blue.
The title track from Supernova has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2005 Mars Society Rouget d’Lisle Contest. Maggie Zubrin, Executive Director of the Mars Society stated “These girls could really energize the entire space movement. Sort of like musical rocket fuel”. The winning pieces will be chosen at the 8th International Convention of the Mars Society, to be held in Boulder, CO, August 11-14th, 2005.www.MarsSociety.org
Check out the August 4th issue of the San Diego Reader which features Liquid Blue interviewed for the “Lists” section.
Liquid Blue is a featured artist on TNT Volume 1 (Top New Talent) CD, which includes 12 artists from the America’s Best Independent Artist program on PCT Music Records. The CD will be available in a variety of non-traditional music outlets such as college bookstores, convenience stores and more. The featured song on the compilation is Real. A special version of the Liquid Blue album Supernova will be sold alongside this compilation.
Although Liquid Blue has become known for extensive overseas travel, the band is also truly as LOCAL as it gets, having now performed in all 18 cities in their home county of San Diego.
To add to an already package 2005 schedule, Liquid Blue is performing a series of “unplugged” acoustic shows. The 2 hour set includes unplugged versions of every song from the Supernova LP, as well as selected covers.
The Liquid-Blue.com web site was viewed by 14,357 unique visitors during the month of June, the highest numbers to date. This included 12,778 “hits” for the month as well. The site is powered by www.interdat.com. Statistics provided by Webalizer.
An estimated crowd of 7000 witnessed Liquid Blue at the Lake Murray July 4th Music Fest in San Diego, CA. The annual all-day event featured 4 live bands and fireworks. The line-up included:
1-3 pm Beyond Blue
3-5 pm Yavaze Latin Jazz
5-7 pm Ruby & The Redhots
7-9 pm Liquid Blue
9 pm Fireworks Spectacular (simulcast by KYXY 96.5)
An estimated crowd of 5000 showed up to witness the Liquid Blue headline performance in Douglas, Arizona for their 100th Anniversary Festival. Other acts included Atrest, New Direction, El Paisano & Tony Tee. The event was held at Veterans Memorial Park in Douglas on July 3rd. The Douglas daily newspaper featured the band on the cover of the June 30th paper.
Liquid Blue has performed songs on stage from many of our favorite artists over the years and now a young Canadian singer is covering the Liquid Blue song, Can’t Stop It, from Supernova. The singer, Kelle Wardle, is fifteen years old and resides in Kelowna, British Columbia (population 103,000). Kelle is performing the song (among others) at shows throughout British Columbia. Kelle states “I love the message of the song, the music and it’s unique style”. Good luck Kelle!
Nikki Green performed the Star Spangled Banner at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, June 29th. The game featured the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. the San Diego Padres. This marked the 20th time members of Liquid Blue have sung the national anthem at pro sporting events. Nikki was accompanied by the legendary Dodger organist Nancy Bea Hefley, who has been with the Dodgers since 1988.
Liquid Blue has been invited to perform at the Call To Arts Festival sponsored by Artists Helping Artists on Sat, June 25th at Cal Poly Pomona. Michael Vangerov and Nikki Green will perform “unplugged” versions of If You Gotta Ask, Real and Rescue at 4:00.
UK Sounds will feature Give Me Back My Heart as Song of the Day on Friday, June 24th. The track will be featured on three site in the USA, UK and Austrailia, including UKsounds, USASounds and OZSounds.
Liquid Blue has an exciting summer planned with shows in many new venues across California. Stops will include Ventura County, Temecula, Los Angeles, Douglas Arizona, La Mesa, Palm Springs, Anaheim, Santee, Pismo Beach, Carlsbad, Mammoth Lakes, Alpine, Ontario and Kansas City. In the fall the band travels to Asia once again, for two months.
