News

DECEMBER 2009

MAGGIE SPIKE has had a productive, busy year performing at coffeehouses, restaurants, festivals & community events. We have an updated gig schedule and will update this website in the near future. Look for us at some new venues in 2010l as well as some familiar places that we always enjoy performing at. To purchase our new cd: www.cdbaby.com/cd/maggiespike. And to view our bio & for bookings: www.sonicbids.com/MaggieSpike.

Some of the venues we played at this past year included Mayfair Festival of the Arts, The Mifflin Library Summer Concert Series, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Phoenixville’s Summer Street Series, The Reinholds Inn, Ten Thousand Villages, The Reading Public Museum, The Half Moon Cafe, Crave Coffee & Espresso, Frecon’s Hard Bean Cafe, Trooper Thorn’s Irish Beefhouse, Celtic Myth and Moonlight, The Historic Pleasantville Hotel (now called The Bridge Inn), The Summit Bar and Grille, Longswamp Township Park, Berks County Parks & Recreation and a yearly wine festival at the Manatawny Creek Winery. MAGGIE SPIKE is also featured at community events and celebrations such as John Paul II 25th Anniversary Celebration and The Ronald McDonald House Summer Camp’s Fundraiser at The Somerset Nursery (Zionsville, PA).

Peggy (”Maggie”) performed with Bruce Siekmann and his band, DEM HILLS, “The Rhumba Mystery”. You can learn more about Bruce (we record at his studio, Amoeba Studios in Fleetwood, PA) at www.demhills.com.

MISS MAGGIE SINGS is Maggie’s children’s persona. She has performed at The PA Renewable Energy Festival in Kempton, PA, The Reading Public Museum, Berks Co. Parks & Recreation & The Crayola Factory (Easton). She performed at area community events such as the Boyertown YMCA’s annual Easter Egg Hunt, The Boyertown, French Creek & Reading School’s Wellness Events. She performs at area elementary schools such as Conrad Weiser West, Longswamp, Cumru, Thomas Ford Elementary Schools & others, and continues performing at area daycare centers and preschools. MISS MAGGIE is performing her one-woman shows, “Miss Maggie’s Mother Earth Show” (NEW!), “Be Creative With Miss Maggie”, “Stay Healthy With Miss Maggie” and “Catch The Reading Bug”.  She has performed at Chaplin’s Music Cafe (Spring City, PA) for their Chaplin’s Kids Series & will be featured at the Phoenixville Kiwanis’s Children’s Area this Spring/Summer. You can view her interview on “Comcast Tonight” (Comcast Cable TV) on her website. Please see MISS MAGGIE’S website, www.missmaggiesings.com to learn more about her!

We would like to extend special thanks to everyone for supporting us and we look forward to seeing everyone soon. Please feel free to post your comments on our website. Also, if you know of any venues you’d like to see us play at, please let us know. We’d love to hear from you!!! Many thanks…

Peggy (”Maggie”) and Eric (”Spike”)