This is my favorite time of year. Although it gets dark early we have the lights strung on houses, trees & street lamps to keep our spirits illuminated. I love the smells, the sounds & the childlike excitement many of us feel as the festivities grow closer.
I’m especially excited because The Moxy’s playing some cool shows in December and planning more for the rest of the winter. We’re playing at Angels & Kings in NYC on the 14th, which I’ve heard great things about and NYC in December can’t be beat. It’s an acoustic show which is so different from when we’re playing an all out show but it’s one of my favorite things to do. I grew up singing just me and my guitar so it’s familiar to me but so much more fun because the guys kill it on their instruments; something I didn’t know how to do growing up.
The next show is in West Chester, PA at The Note on December 17th. This show is our baby this month for a couple reasons. It’s an All Ages show, something we try to do as much as possible for our younger crowd. We don’t want you trying to sneak into bars all the time :) It’s our first time playing West Chester since the summer so we’re stoked to return for our Festivus show. Btw, does anyone get the “Festivus” reference? I’ve only heard from one person who knows. We’re playing with some friends of ours too, Cheap Seats, who played with us in August at The Note, The Goodnight Anthem, & American Living. They’re great guys and we’re stoked for you to see them live too. Get Tickets.
Lastly, we’re really excited about this show because we’re raising donations and awareness for our SPCA in Chester County. The SPCA in general needs our donations and attention so please check out the ones in your area and show them some love. If you’re coming to our show on the 17th make sure to bring a donated item like towels, blankets, toys, or check their list of needed items or donate money and for either we’ll give you a signed picture for free.
If you're from out of town and want to donate, use this donation form and put "The Moxy" where it says "In Honor Of" and we'll send you a signed picture.
The Chester County SPCA does a great job and unfortunately they do the dirty work, but they save so so so many lives too. Here’s just one story of why we love them so much. Taylor and I found a severely emaciated cat in Everhart Park in September. the poor thing was laying by a tree, people were around but no one seemed to notice or care about this thing. We walked closer to see that it had flies swarming it’s back leg, like it was dead. We scooped him up to try to get him some help but everything was closed. Taylor left a message on the SPCA’s answering machine asking advice on what we should do. There is a 24 hour emergency vet but we wouldn’t be able to pay the bill.
We took him back to our house and gave him water (which he couldn’t get enough of) when the phone rang. A woman from the SPCA called, she was in the process of rescuing a cat as well. She said for us to meet her at the emergency vet and she would pick up the tab. Taylor asked “Isn’t this cat just going to be put down?” to which she replied that although it happens it’s the very last resort and they place so many animals in homes. We already have 3 cats, a dog and a snake, not allowed to have more right now.
Fingers crossed we B-lined to the vet. They took the kitty in and we were told to just call and check in later. A few hours later they said he would be fine, nothing that wouldn’t heal. We figured this was someone’s cat as it was so friendly and a beautiful grey persian so Taylor made fliers to put up around the area to see if we could find the owner. Just before we put them up we checked in with the woman at the SPCA.
To our amazement...they found the owners! We couldn’t believe it. Turns out he had been missing since July! What an amazing miracle. So this is the kind of work that the SPCA does and we thank them for it every chance we can.
Hope to see your lovely faces at a show soon.
Keep rockin and much love.
Greta
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