We are very excited to announce that ANTIGONE RISING will travel to Israel and the West Bank as Arts Envoys, a cultural initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. During the trip, from February 18- 29th, AR will perform in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramallah and other regional cities, leading community outreach workshops and making music with Israeli and Palestinian musicians. We are promoting peace and understanding through good (we like to think) rockin’ American music, a common global language. We will be tweeting our thoughts and pictures, so follow us on twitter @antigonerising.

Don’t forget, our performance and interview session on Acoustic Café will be aired this week. Acoustic Café is a two hour weekly radio show syndicated to more than 75 commercial and non commercial stations as well as Voice Of America. Be sure to check their site for a station in your area, or you can just stream it online http://www.acafe.com/

To celebrate our appearances at the 30A Songwriters Festival this weekend, we are offering a free download of “No Remedy” from our latest CD -23 Red! Be sure to share it with your friends:

Our Acoustic Cafe appearance will be airing week of January 16th on a radio station near you. The appearance includes 4 songs performed live in the studio plus an extensive interview. Check the Acoustic Cafe website to find a station in your market or stream it from their site next week!

This weekend’s 30A Songwriters Festival schedule has been announced:

Saturday night 01.14.12
Pandora’s Main Stage
63 Defuniak Street
Grayton Beach, FL 32459
11PM

Sunday night 01.15.12
The Vue on 30A
4801 W. Co Hwy 30A
Santa Rosa Beach, FL
8PM

Other artists performing at the festival include Indigo Girls, The Bangles, Matthew Sweet, Rodney Crowell, Chely Wright, Michelle Malone, Garrison Starr, Lori McKenna and more. Go to 30A Songwriters Festival for more info.

For the entire month of December, purchase the “23 Red Package” (CD & t-shirt), and the band will autograph (and personalize) the 23 Red CD for you. It’s a great idea for a holiday gift! All orders received by 12.18.11 will be shipped in time for Christmas.

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It’s the perfect holiday gift idea! Get autographed (and personalized, if you’d like) copies of Kristen Henderson & Sarah Kate Ellis’ memoir, Times Two, Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made. It will ship in time for the holidays so long as you get your order in before 12.18.11!

ORDER AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF TIMES TWO NOW!

So, it’s official. We’ve hit the 2nd tier. This means you get to tell us what cover song you’d like to see us perform. We will post a video to You Tube in mid -December. So hop on over to our Facebook page and let us know what song you’d like to see and hear us do.

There’s one more tier left to conquer! If you’d like to see us do an impromptu show in a NYC subway, click the link and share the news…CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW!

The Huffington Post followed Kristen and Sarah through their recent nuptials. Watch all three parts of the video series:

If you couldn’t see us live during our midwest run, we spent 45 minutes live streaming with uDetroit.com. Part interview, part performance – we played four songs – “No Remedy,” “Everywhere is Home,” “One Foot In” and “Borrowed Time.” PLUS we spoke with host Pam Rossi about everything from Charro to who we’d be if we were a Spice Girl. This is must see stuff: