Hope you're enjoying the summer!
I signed up for a contest to win $25k through a site called Artist Signal, it is a simple popularity contest. Artist Signal lets any artist or band create a profile where fans can vote for them every hour on the hour, and after 90 days whoever gets the most votes will win $25k! I've pledged to make three new big-budget music videos with the earnings. So please bookmark this page: https://artistsignal.com/crankshaftmusic and vote as often as you can! Tell your friends to vote, tell your parents to vote, tell the neighbor kids with their newfangled fancy phones to vote, tell your mailman to vote, tell the cashier at your grocery store to vote, tell the dude you normally try to avoid to vote, tell that one person whose name you can never remember to vote, show your grandparents how to use the internet and only teach them how to vote, tell your dealer to vote, tell your best friend's new significant other who you can't stand to vote, guilt your mechanic to vote before you agree to pay, tell your best friend that if they agree to vote you will buy them a beer at the next Crankshaft show that they attend, tell your landlord that you will not be late on rent for the rest of the year if they vote! Tell you what, if you vote a few times per day for the next couple months, you'll be helping me win $25k, then you'll get to enjoy three new Crankshaft music videos, deal?! ... Hope to see you at a show, thanks for your support! Alex.
 
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Monday, July 2nd - 8pm, No cover! Famous Dave's
3001 Hennepin Avenue 
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Featuring: Keith B. & Pete H.

I feel that it's necessary to explain to you what Weber's Deck is (the show listing below this). Four years ago, Casey Weber decided that he wanted to start doing Sunday concerts in his backyard, so he literally removed one of the railings on his deck and made it a stage. The idea is simple: ask a few bands to come play and the people will come to listen, and they definitely have. I was talking to Casey on the phone a few weeks ago and he mentioned that his last year's final show drew more then 1,200 people! Again, I feel it's necessary to reiterate, there were over 1,200 people listening and dancing to music in Casey Weber's backyard! This is just four years after he started hosting shows! This is a very cool DIY approach to having a music venue, it's very old school American in it's attitude, and that's what I love about it! This is a volunteer-run event and all of the bands get paid equally from donations made by the crowd. So, bring a lawn chair, a cooler, a few bucks for the band, and your tired soul to Weber's Deck, you will leave there feeling better than when you came, and you can't beat that on a Sunday!

Sunday, July 8th - 12:30pm, $$$ Donation. Weber's Deck Kick Off Party!
If you can find French Lake, MN...
It wont be hard to find Weber's Deck!
3177 County Road 3 NW
Crankshaft & The Gear Grinders
Tom VandenAvond (Austin, TX)
The Calamity Cubes

Friday, July 13th - 9pm, No cover! The Eagles Nest Lounge
4106 Lakeland Avenue N.
Featuring: Keith B. & Pete H.
Molly Gene's One Whoaman Band
On tour from Warrensburg, MO!
Crankshaft (solo) - opening.

Saturday, July 28th - A Wishes & More event! Mack & Chester's S.R.O.
18919 Lake George Blvd NW

Sunday, July 29th - Tickets available now! SoundTown Music Festival
Sunday's show starts at Noon, Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders play at 2pm!