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May 13th, 2012 | 
Author: MUSIC: Here’s to hoping we can turn you on to some outstanding bands we’ve had the opportunity to share stages with..check often the list will keep growing..
Big Dog Mercer
Polarizer
American Opera
Vince Dynamic
A Lull
Unicycle Loves You
The Employees
Jake Dewar
Sisai
VENUES: Here is a few of our favorite venues, and yes these venues love live original music acts!
Elbo Room
Double Door
The House Cafe
The Frequency
The Acoustic Cafe
Indie Coffee
FOOD: Who doesn’t love to eat good food?!!
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Update
It’s been awhile since I officially wrote a webblog. So I am here in a Starbucks parking lot, borrowing their wonderful wifi. Right now, I’m just more comfortable sitting in my car in silence. Sometimes even the roar of those fancy coffee-making machines is enough to break my focus.
So it was exactly 2 weekends ago we played our first show in Minnesota and it was BEAUTIFUL. We played at the Acoustic Cafe in Winona, and the scenery around the Mississippi River was amazing. Rolling hills, water…we’re doing it again in September sometime. Acoustic Cafe employees and patrons were so amazingly friendly and I was very impressed at how they were very into serving locally grown, organic food at their cafe. (I’m totally into that type of thing.) From Winona, we stopped at Indie Coffee in Madison, Wisconsin and that was also such a treat!! Same thing happened to us there that happened in Winona! Friendly, smiling faces serving locally grown, organic oh-so-yummy food! 
Can’t wait to go back.
Yesterday, we went to record with our producer, Jaben Pennell. Our next song we’re working on titled ‘Change’ is going to be a good one! More on the mellow side, with a cello and some strings in the backround. Can’t wait for you to hear it when its done! Jaben is an amazing producer and is able to breath life into our songs, we are so happy to be working with him. The ease of recording with him is also something I don’t take for granted. For years, I was used to scheduling out blocks of time with engineers. It was like punching in on the clock to go and be creative. Yuck. And I’ll be honest–producing is not one of my finer qualities. At this point, I am a songwriter–and happy to do just that–but you never can tell what the future can bring.
We are working on launching a Kickstarter Project for our next album. I am nervous about this, reason being is because the release of our next album depends on the success of this kickstarter project. If you haven’t heard of Kickstart, check out their website at http://www.kickstarter.com. I am hoping to have this project up and running by the time of our next radio interveiw, which is on May 24th. Its a time crunch to get it up and running by then but I think we can do it!
I am laughing out loud, because our next show is at Lincolnwood Mall. . .A MALL!!!!! On my set list–I am going to have to write in notes along the side–reminders on when not to swear, what words to omit. I am excited to play at this Lincolnwood Mall, and it is in celebration to all those awesome Mom’s out there, for Mothers Day. I think it will be fun and I think as long as I have my notes on the side of my set list I will be able to keep this thing rated PG. Wish me luck! Mike and I have been practicing a cover song for the mall show. I KNOW we don’t really do covers, but we both thought it’d be fun to play ‘Crazy Love’ by Van Morrison. I really do enjoy that song. It was the song my brother Eric, and his wife Marissa danced to at their wedding…awww… haha.
Playing @ Lincolnwood Mall for ‘Mom’s Nite Out’ on May 10th at 6pm! Event starts at 5pm
DATE: Thursday, May 10th
TIME: 5pm-8pm, we perform a 45min set starting at 6pm
LOCATION: Lincolnwood Mall
3333 West Touhy Ave
Lincolnwood, IL
Mom’s Nite Out event is sponsored by Diet Coke, Dove, Little Black Dress Vodka and VisitFlorida.com. This is the ultimate celebration
of motherhood. Mom’s Nite Out is intended to bring together today’s moms for a night of fun, pampering and relaxation. There will be great mall-wide discounts available at some of your favorite stores!
Vendors include:
AD Kids Model Management
Art of Health
Art Room Jewelry
Barbizon Modeling and Acting Center
Caricatures by Marc
The Children’s Place
Chiro One Wellness Centers
Elizabeth Arden
Jayvis Gifts
Jenny Franck (performance at 6 p.m.)
Lancôme
Lia Sophia
Lifeway Foods
Old Navy
Sisai (performance at 5 p.m.)
T-Mobile
Victoria’s Secret
Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen
VisionWorks
Whole Foods
and more!
The first 100 to register will receive a complimentary goodie bag with samples and special discounts!
Enter their raffle at the registration table to win one of ten prizes valued anywhere from $10 to $395. All raffle proceeds benefit the Simon Youth Foundation.
Entertainment, refreshments and great samples will be available from the vendors and retailers throughout the mall!
Playing @ The Elbo Room June 2nd
DATE: Saturday, June 2nd
TIME: 8p-9p
LOCATION: The Elbo Room
2871 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL
We’re back at our favorite place! We know when we play at The Elbo Room, we’re coming back to play at our second home! $5/door ages 21+. There’s going to be a ton of stuff going on this night, including a cd release party and another act after us from 9p-12a…So we’ll have plenty of time to hang after our performance.
WLUW FM88.7 Interview on May 24th at 8pm
DATE: May 24th, 2012
TIME: 8pm
Location: If you live on the North side of Chicago tune into FM88.7, if not you can go to WLUW’s
website for a live stream!
DETAILS: Mike and I will be interviewed by the staff of Radio One!!
Playing @ Sycamore Farmer’s Market July 8th
DATE: July 8th
TIME: 12p-1p
LOCATION: Sycamore Farmer’s Market
Corner of Somonauk and Elm St
Sycamore, IL
DETAILS: TBA
Playing @ Indie Coffee in Madison, WI April 29th
DATE: April 29th
TIME: 7pm
LOCATION: Indie Coffee
1225 Regent St
Madison, WI
WONC FM89.1 Interview and Featured Artist Performance Night!!
DATE: April 24th, 2012
TIME: Interview between 6p-7p, featured performance from 9p-10p
LOCATION: The Boiler House Cafe
29 N Loomis St
Naperville, IL
Tune into FM
89.1 between 6pm-7pm to listen to us LIVE ON AIR and then come out to The Broiler House Cafe from 8p-10p to check us out live in the flesh! Lol. WONC sponsored open mic will go on from 8p-9p and then we’ll get to entertain you from 9p-10p. . . . it’s FREE and ALL AGES. Don’t miss it. . . . .
Music Reviews
“With a pinch of grungy, 90′s style punk rock delicately interwoven into her indie rock foundations, it is hard not to fall in love with this rocker chick.” -Alec Cunningham, ReviewYou
“If you are listening to Jenny Franck for the first time, be prepared to be wowed by a great voice and some killer riffs…Jenny is sure to catch the ear of many listeners” -Andrea Guy, ReviewYou
“Jenny’s an infinitely talented singer/songwriter who’s fearless, genuine, refreshing, worldly.” -Mike Noonan, 96.7 Will Rock, WLLI Radio
“Her music is melodic, raw, and passionate, with a twist of grunge.” -April McGrath, Examiner.com
Playing @ Sylvie’s Lounge in Chicago this Saturday March 3rd
DATE: March 3rd, 2012
TIME: 9pm
LOCATION: Sylvie’s Lounge
1902 W Irving Park Rd
Chicago, IL 60613
2 of our songs we perform at Sylvie’s will be featured on their internet radio station!!
