As of today, our new online merch booth is open for business.  Now you can go online and get Winhara merch shipped right to your door.  The launch features our new Deer Head T-Shirt design (pictured at left) with more merch items on the way.

Check out the goods at www.winhara.com/shop.

If you would like to know when new items are available sign up for our newsletter.  Newsletter members get all the latest information direct to their inbox.

(Payments for the Winhara shop are made via PayPal’s secure site).

This weekend we’re teaming up with old friends (and awesome bands) Tamarack and Union City at the Red Dog Tavern in Peterborough, Ontario.

We open the night off starting at 10:00 so if you’re in town make sure you get there early and clear yourself a circle on the dance floor!

For all the info visit the shows page on our website:  www.winhara.com/shows.html.

A couple years ago now we covered Precious by Depeche Mode on battery powered instruments, shot a video and posted it on YouTube. Since then it’s been, by far, our most popular video, climbing to over 3000 hits (I know, I know, not Beiber numbers but what can you do). It’s also been re-posted and discussed in a couple Depeche Mode fan forums.

So we thought we’d follow it up.

We decided to cover Joy Division‘s haunting tune Love Will Tear Us Apart. We found a cool location (climbed into an archway under a bridge by Mount Pleasant), set up our un-plugged instruments (yes, Steve is supplying the air for the Hohner Melodica keyboard) and went to work. We did it in one take – mainly because Kent couldn’t feel his hands by mid song – got some shots of the surroundings and headed home to warm up.

We sincerely hope you like it!

For the month of January we are streaming Hold Back Light Show in the music section of winhara.com.

Hold Back Light Show was our debut album, recorded over the span of 2 years with Byron Kent Wong, and released in October of 2008.  (Some of you may remember our release party at The Rivoli in Toronto).

The tracking, mixing and mastering of this album took us to many strange and wonderful places (Shogun Labs, Homework Studio, Canterbury Music Co., Jao Carvahlo Mastering) and introduced us to equally wonderful people.

If you would like to get a copy of this record for your very own you can do so in a couple of ways.  Hold Back Light Show is being sold at Soundscapes in Toronto.

To download a digital copy or order a CD online use these links:

Enjoy!

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack frost nipping at your nose.  We’re getting further into December and we figured it was time to get into the Christmas spirit!  So we covered a popular christmas song (The Christmas Song) and filmed an accompanying holiday video!

Catch the video on our youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD0fmRHJC-I

And, even better, you can download the MP3 for free at winhara.com!  That way you can add it to your holiday playlist and show all the people at your Christmas party that you’re indie-cool all year round!

Thank you to everyone for your patience regarding our mailing list.  (Because we have exceeded a certain number of members our server couldn’t handle the outgoing emails).  The new list server is up and running like a dream. 

People can joing our mailing list by visiting www.winhara.com and entering their e-mail address at the bottom of the page.

Due to circumstances beyond our control we will not be able to open for Polarity tonight at their East Coast Tour kick off.  The concert will still be on at the Hard Luck Bar in Toronto.  We will be playing another show soon so we hope to see you then!

September 2nd we will be heading out Queen West to play at a little bar/eatery called Mitzi’s Sister. We chose this intimate setting because it’s the perfect place to perform those tunes that often get overlooked in our large loud live sets.

Songs like Mercy Please and Baby Steps will be played among others that sometimes get squeezed out much to certain listeners’ dismay.

Details can be found on our shows page.

Hope to see you there!

We have just been offered a show in the Kitchener/Waterloo area.  On Saturday July 24th we will be at Maxwell’s Music House with up and coming solo artist Andrew Allen.

We played in Kitchener last fall and it was one of the best shows we can remember.  The energy was amazing.  If you can get to this show it will be well worth your while!

Doors are at 9:00.  Cover $7.00, $5.00 for students.

Full details and links at www.winhara.com/shows.html.

We’ve added a show on Thursday, July 22nd at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern. For this one we’re putting everyone on the guest list! To get your and your friends in for FREE just click here and give us the info.

We go on at 9:00 sharp so you’ll be able to get home and get your beauty sleep before your Friday morning alarm clock goes off!

All the info is at www.winhara.com.

(If the link to the guest list above isn’t working copy the following URL into your address bar or send an e-mail to winhara@winhara.com:

http://www.winhara.com/guestlist.html)