NEWS UPDATES

• ZILLA announces their own festival called
SONIC BLOOM
May 19 & 20 2006 @ Mishawaka Ampitheatre, near Ft. Collins, CO

• Jamie now has a profile on MySpace
check it out - it has a never before released track from 1998 called Unitones...

• Jamie will play several gigs with his band Jamie & Friends this summer including gigs @ High Sierra Music Festival & the Oregon Country Fair. This time around his band consists of Michael Manring (Michael Hedges) on Bass, Joe Craven (David Grisman) on fiddle/mandolin/perc. and Inkx (Hamsa Lila) on drums.

• Zilla plays 3 festivals on Memorial Day Weekend 2006 - moe. Summercamp, Schwagstock and Big Wu Family Reunion.

• Another big spring Zilla tour including stops in Nelson, Vancouver and Whistler B.C., all with DJ Hoola, then 3 CA shows with Ooah.

• Zilla's Winter tour will now include 2 nights in L.A. Feb 4&5 and 2 night in Durango, CO on Feb. 8&9

• Zilla will be doing 3 front range CO shows Jan 19,20,21 2006

• Zilla Plays Jamcruse 4 from Jan. 7-13 2006. Sailing from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Jamaica, Cayman Islands and Mexico

• This new site was uploaded on June 28, 2005 •
(some pages are still under construction - keep checking back)

• Just announced (8/11) Zilla will play a show in Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 24th 2005!

• Zilla played in front of well over 3000 people at String Cheese Incident's Horning's Hideout festival on 8/4. Jamie also helped to "conduct" SCI for their special ritual set complete with major props, fire, costumes and giant puppets.

• Jamie helped to organize the Boulder Posse Lovefest, a reunion of old friends that also included a show in Boulder @ Trilogy on 7/31. Jamie conducted the Lovefest Orchestra which included members of The Motet, String Cheese, Samba Dende, Cabaret Diosa, Zilla, Aphrodesia plus Maya Dorn, Libby Kirkpatrick, Liza and Jans!

• 7/25/05 - Jamie conducted The Everyone Orchestra feat. Steve Kimock at the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival on July 23 - other guests included Jamie Masefield from The Jazz Mandolin Project and Reed Mathis from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey along with all 4 members of ALO, the Delta Nove horns and Matt Butler played drums and also conducted.

.• Zilla will tour Alaska Aug. 11-14

• 7/5/05 - The High Sierra Music Festival
For Jamie's set he was joined by bassists Michael Manring & Kai Eckhardt (Garaj Mahal) along with drummer Mike Bell from The Limbic System and Mbira player Richard
.• Conducted The Everyone Orchestra late-night @ High Sierra feat. members of The Disco Biscuits, ALO, Tea Leaf Green, Perpetual Groove, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Taarka, ThaMuseMeant, plus Al Howard, Matt Butler and Samantha Stollenwerk.
• Rode the Realmsmobile all over - collaborations with people in the back trailer included Jarred from The Lymbyc System, Asher Fulero from Surrounded By Ninjas, and Richard Crandell

• Jamie's sets from High Sierra 2005 and 2004 are available here

• Just announced: 3 front-range of Colorado ZILLA shows
- Sept. 7,9 and 10

• Jamie is organizing a reunion show of the Boulder, CO posse on July 31st @ Trilogy in Boulder. The show is billed as feat.:
Maya Dorn / Libby Kirkpatrick / Jans Ingber / Liza / Marca Cassidy / SKIN (reunion) / ZILLA (acoustic)  / Mo Realms / Samba Dende