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October 14, 2011We are happy to launch a new store for Michael Franti & Spearhead - SPEARGEAR - now with our long time tour partners, BANDMERCH. We're looking to re-vamp and launch new designs, items, and categories that our fans want. We welcome comments, and any suggestions to make our store an interactive destination and community! EMAIL all your wants, desires, and ideas to: speargear@stayhuman.com As a HUGE thank you to our loyal fans! Month of October we will offer a 15% discount. SHOP SPEARGEAR HERE>> VISIT BANDMERCH HERE>>Comments(7)
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October 5, 2011This October, Michael and Grace Potter are teaming up with Green Mountain Coffee to spread the word about fair trade. Fair trade provides a fair price to coffee farmers for their beans, resulting in high-quality coffee and a higher quality of life in coffee growing communities. Through exclusive live performances on Green Mountain Coffee’s Facebook page, Franti and Potter will share how small choices — like the coffee we drink — can help drive big change. During Fair Trade Awareness Month Green Mountain Coffee will stream exclusive live concerts on their... -
August 23, 2011Every now and then I meet someone so remarkable at our shows that I am moved to tears and action. A few weeks ago I met a woman named Tika Hick at the Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa. Within the span of one month, she and her husband David had become parents to a beautiful baby boy "Indigo," lost their home to foreclosure, and then suddenly Tika was diagnosed with breast cancer. On July 20, 2011, Tika was scheduled to have a double mastectomy surgery. 5 days before, without warning, her husband David was swept from a rock by a rogue wave and drowned in the... -
August 23, 2011Beginning today the music video for "Only Thing Missing Was You" is available on iTunes for purchase. Filmed entirely using an iPhone, Michael, Jolene, and Polly Armstrong (director of photography & editor) were able to create something provocative and stunning. Michale explains: "The Only Thing Missing Was You" is a song about love, longing, and connection. I wanted to make a video that was steamy sensual, playful and that pushed the boudaries of anything I had done before. After years of making videos that have had strong social messages in them, I...
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June 22, 2011
Courtesy of Fairfieldweekly.com
Michael Franti & Spearheadwith Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
June 27, 6 p.m. (Gates at 5p.m.),
Ives Concert Park, 43 Lake Avenue Ext.,
Danbury, CT (203) 794-1117 www.ivesconcertpark.com
When most musicians find themselves with...
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April 20, 2011'The Sound of Sunshine' is the upcoming seventh studio album by Michael Franti and Spearhead due to be released on May 16th.
USA Today has hailed it as full of "Festival-friendly reggae pop grooves and radiant hope-filled songs." and it is arguably the most cohesive, romantic and life-affirming album that the duo have ever made.
After their 2008 album 'All Rebel Rockers' Franti was hospitalized for a ruptured appendix which gave the artists plenty of time to pen the tracks.
"Music is sunshine," Franti says." It gives us...
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April 20, 2011By James Ball
Stereoboard.com
At the time of writing, the weather outside my window has gone from being a glorious display of sunshine and warmth of the last few days to a grey, drab affair that can’t even be bothered of rain. And it’s muggy. Of course, Michael Franti and his long-time creation Spearhead aren’t known for taking a bright day and making it all crappy, so I placed this new album, already huge in the musical behemoth of the USA, in the player and while the weather outside didn’t change a whole lot, I felt a whole lot sunnier on... -
November 1, 2010
