+ "PAULA" WAS INDICATED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS TIM MUSIC AWARD! Yes!! This is so very exciting. The Tim Music Award - Premio Tim de Musica, formerly the Sharp award, is the biggest Brazilian music award you can get... (To read more please go to paula's myspace and click on the Tim Music Award blog.)
+ Paula Maya is performing in Austin at Ruta Maya on THU MAR 13 7pm. It's SXSW Music Festival / Conference week! CHECK OUT THE MARCH '08 TEXAS TOUR!
+ CHECK OUT PAULA'S CD RELEASE TOUR '07 FULL SCHEDULE!
+ OCTOBER: WE ARE BEING FEATURED ON BRASILBEST!
+ New: We are sooo excited. Our new record "Paula" will be featured June 18th-20th at the 2007 USA/Canada musician's Union convention, being held in the Las Vegas Convention Center! They wanna use us as an example of a Seattle independent record label doing it the right way in the recording industry.
+ WE ARE BEING FEATURED ON SONICBIDS THROUGH THIS LAST WEEK OF MAY!
+ THE 1ST REVIEW OF "PAULA" JUST IN! It's in the April issue of Seattle Sound Magazine: "With her second local release, Brazilian pianist/vocalist/songwriter Paula Maya cracks the Seattle code. Like the best of Northwest rock, "Paula" " is hard to pin down, with touches of progressive rock, ska, and art metal snaking through guitarist Pat Hewitt's production..." read more!
+ Astoria's paper Hipfish features Paula Maya on 2 different issues, in support of her show on jan 24th
+ Paula Maya gets a great review on Times-Standard Humboldt County paper, in support of her show in Arcata on Jan 21st.
+ "My little Texas tour was a blast! Sharing shows with my friends and talented musicians Bob Livingston and El Gato Negrito was amazing. And the article on the Waco Tribune-Herald was a life saver :)"
+ Paula Maya and band were featured on the Seattle Weekly's Best of 2006 issue.
+ Paula Maya was featured in the March 06 issue of www.onlinerock.com that featured artists performing at the prestigious music conference in Austin, TX SXSW
+ International Airplay !!!
The title track of our CD, Resurrection, is getting airplay internationally. Some of the places include Canada, France, Mexico, Brazil, and many more. It is featured in the movie The Learning Curve. The whole song! It's the last song, setting up the mood of the last scene... By the way, they changed the name of my song from Resurrection to Intersection.
+ A HURRICANE NAMED RITA:
Hi my friends. Needless to say that it was amazing being down south during hurricane Rita. We had shows scheduled in Beaumont, Lafayette and a couple in Austin. The beaumont and Lafayette ones got canceled. We were sorry we couldn't play with Headrones from Lafayette. It was a party for 260 soldiers coming back from Iraq. The party was scheduled for Saturday night. But Sat. early in the morning Rita touched land. And that area was already evacuated. We were also sorry we couldn't played at the Logon Cafe, in Beaumont on Thursday night. They were also evacuated by then. Or at least stuck in traffic! We played in Houston at Helio's, sharing the stage with this cool band called El Gato Negrito. Next day we headed to Austin. the temperature there was 105! It was great. What a vibrant town. We made new friends during Writers Who Rock, a weekly series featuring singer/songwriters solo or with band, at this cool room inside the mexican restaurant El Mercado, on S. 1st. On Thursday at Red Fez we had a chance to catch up with our friend and keyboard player/composer Ian, from Drop Trio. He just moved to Austin from Houston. He is performing at the Elephant Room in Nov. Also, it was great to meet Gordon, Marcia Ball's husband and great artist. Unfortunatelly for me she was on tour ): Gordon has been helping a lot of great musicians who became victim's of Katrina to get back on their feet. And I wanna thank my good friend David Cutaia, a Houstonian...thanks Dave!! who played drums for us, and worked his ass off! And his wife Thu, for her huge generous heart, and for opening her home to us. Being inside Rita, and getting out basically unscathed, was an amazing experience. A couple of canceled gigs is a good trade off ! Rita was the 3rd biggest hurricane ever recorded in history. Over 15 times bigger than Katrina! I know nobody is talking about it anymore...I tell ya. God was merciful. If Rita had reached land as Category 5, as it was 24 hours prior to that, Who knows what could have happened. Me and my guitar player Pat were staying with friends in S.E. Houston, just 50 miles from Galveston, where the experts thought it would be the path of Rita's eye. We didn't evacuate. As the hurricane started veering to the east, and the traffic from the avacuation was bumper to bumper, there wasn't a way to avacuate. 1.5 milliom people tried to. And there were thousands of people stranded on the freeways for up to 48 hours, or even more! We never saw anything like it. People were taking 15 hours to drive 50 miles! Eveybody running out of gas! And water, food. Children and elderly dying from the heat. Over 100 degrees outside! Luckily just the fence of David's place fell. And we were without power for only 1/2 day. Some of our neighboors weren't this lucky. But Houston was definatelly spared.
A week after Rita hit land, we drove about 170 miles on I10 towards Lake Charles to check out what had happened. It's trully amazing the power of nature. Hundreds and hundreds of trees down...houses, churches, trailers, power lines. The eye of Rita was about 50 miles long.(as opposed to about 3 miles in Katrina).The walls around it with winds reaching about from 70- 120 miles or more an hour reached over 200 miles! It was a great and eye opener experience.
+ Paula Maya was nominated for the 2005 Seattle Weekly Music Awards, and the only artist/band featured on the cover of their pull out magazine!
+ Our most recent CD Resurrection is still going strong! Yes! A new one is in the works.
+ Would you like to join Paula Maya's task force? Get in shows for free, backstage access, free merchandise, and potential to make some cash! Send us an email.
+ Resurrection is featured as the closing song in the movie The Learning Curve with the name "Intersection" (The film has received national distribution). It also won 2nd best World Music song 2001 on the Just Plain Folks Music Awards , and is part of Northwest Heavy Hitters Compilation, released by DiscMakers.
+ Train was released on a compilation from Heyday Records, that includes Marty Willson-Piper (The Church) and Jay Aston (Gene
+ Paula is spinning RAIZES every other Saturday from 2-4pm
"I play everything from Native Indian to Brazilian Rock/Punk!". .