Sweet Irene Performs Original Song “Honey Pie” at Swamp Boil Restaurant

Sweet Irene played at our favorite swamp fusion restaurant, Swamp Boil, back in November. We are happy to finally release some musical footage from that night.

If you’d like to leave Irene a tip you can do so via Venmo: @emily-price-92

Sweet Irene brings a sweet and sultry energy to (V)OWLS with her powerful saxophone riffs complimented by her ethereal vocals.

The Vagileles will be performing at Cypress and Grove Brewery on Saturday 12/18/2021 at the Gainesville Girls Rock Camp Fundraiser! Join us for a family friendly night of holiday covers, karaoke, food, and more!

More about Swamp Boil: Swamp Boil kindly hosts a variety of local musicians and songwriters to play during their weekday dinner rush. Their food is great, and they treat the artists well. We enjoyed playing music at Swamp Boil

“Established in July 2020, Swamp Boil combines the exciting experience of Cajun seafood boils with the freshness and aromatics of authentic Vietnamese cuisine. The result is a hands-on, high-energy culinary experience that immerses all five senses. It’s perfect for family meals, gatherings, and celebrations.”

Caitlyn Vinci “What is True” Original Song

Caitlyn Vinci Performing her original song “What Is True”

Check out this original tune by our humble band leader, Caitlyn Vinci.

This track will soon be released on Caitlyn’s Solo Album coming soon!

If you would like to leave her a digital tip you can do so through Paypal: SmilinCaitlyn@gmail.com

Caitlyn Vinci Live at Swamp Boil Restaurant

Caitlyn Vinci Performs Live at Swamp Boil in Gainesville, FL, USA

Set One:
00:00:00 – Pallet on Your Floor – Missippi John Hurt
00:04:30 – What is True – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:09:40 – Stolen Water – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:15:05 – Composition of Soul – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:18:50 – Shit To Do – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:21:45 – Waiting in Vain – Bob Marley
00:26:35 – Love You Like You – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:29:45 – You Pushed Me Out – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:34:30 – Spoonful – Charley Patton/Old Blues
00:38:15 – Rocky Raccoon – The Beatles
00:43:45 – Change – Blind Melon

Set Two:
00:47:45 – Can’t Find My Way Home – Blind Faith
00:51:50 – Sailin’ – Caitlyn Vinci Original
00:55:55 – Better Way – Caitlyn Vinci Original
01:00:50 – Pay Attention – Caitlyn Vinci Original
01:05:15 – Apple Tree – Erykah Badu
01:09:35 – Going Up the Country – Canned Heat
01:13:15 – You Can’t Hide (What’s Inside)

Leave Caitlyn a Digital Tip via Paypal or Contact her for Bookings at: SmilinCaitlyn@gmail.com

Photo from Instagram @vowlslikeowls

More about Swamp Boil: Swamp Boil kindly hosts a variety of local musicians and songwriters to play during their weekday dinner rush. Their food is great, and they treat the artists well. We enjoyed playing music at Swamp Boil

“Established in July 2020, Swamp Boil combines the exciting experience of Cajun seafood boils with the freshness and aromatics of authentic Vietnamese cuisine. The result is a hands-on, high-energy culinary experience that immerses all five senses. It’s perfect for family meals, gatherings, and celebrations.”

*All audio and visual content in this video is for educational purposes only *

Show Recap 01/24/2020

January 24th 2020 – High Dive – Gainesville, FL

VOWLS opened up for Florida’s favorite Grateful Grass band the Grass is Dead last week. We had a spectacular evening of jams, dancing and great energy. One of the best things about playing live shows is when the crowd is really feeling the music. There really isn’t anything better than a room full of people sharing songs and having a ball.

We knocked our set out of the park. No set list, no rules, all heart! We opened the set with an improvisational jam followed by some of our heavy hitters like “Shining Gold,” “Foggy,” and “Fleeting Glimpse.” Lunchbox slayed the crowd with his elegantly elevated freestyles on “Float” and “Bliss.” We brought the fire, and if you ask us we all feel like we leveled up.
Playing music together just feels so good, and this formation of VOWLS is locking into its groove and is about to take off.

Grass is Dead brought the fun and serenaded us with all the best Dead Tunes. Slick licks, magical jams, fun singalongs, and sweet improv are some of the many reasons to see the Grass is Dead. Especially on that particular Friday night in Gainesville. We were sharing in the groove for sure.

VOWLS at the HIGH DIVE Photo by The Orange Peel GNV

Hello 2020!

Where were we on NYE?

Hello New Year! VOWLS is here and we are ready to reap all the amazing opportunities 2020 has to offer. We started the New Year off right at the Flaming Phoenix Party in Melrose, FL with fireworks, alien beings and jams until the morning hours. We enjoyed the amazing food and we greatly appreciate the hospitality shown to us by Patrick and Amy.
Later on in the week we performed at the sweetest local folk fest, Riverine Reunion. Located at the beautiful Oleno State Park just north of High Springs, FL, this was a fest to remember. The organizers of this event took such great care of us. We enjoyed our Saturday afternoon set inside the log cabin right by the river in the scenic Florida woods. At the end of the night after all the bands played everyone at the fest met up at the community campfire and we jammed out to each others songs and had a great time. We look forward to performing at these two events in the future.

Upcoming Shows

As the new year unfolds we have some shows that we are looking forward to playing the first being on Friday 01/24/20 at the HighDive Gainesville. We will be opening for Florida’s favorite grateful grass band, Grass is Dead! These are guys are some of the nicest, fun loving, and all around great musicians and we are so excited to open for them.

Next on Saturday 01/25/20 the ladies of VOWLS will perform at the Roe v Wade Anniversary party at the WOOLY in Gainesville.

The following weekend 02/01/20 we will be performing at the Springs Run 7.2k at First Magnitude Brewery. This event raises money for the Springs Institute and brings awareness to the help that our springs so greatly need.

What are our plans for 2020?

As most of you know we released not one, but TWO mixtapes last November. We also released USB drives with all of our recorded albums, live sets and solo material. You are probably wondering, “That is pretty awesome. What will VOWLS do next?” That is a great question.

We look forward to playing more festivals and awesome gigs and we hope that 2020 will be the year we explore more of Florida’s sweet spots like St. Pete, St. Augustine and Jax Beach. We hope to be back at some of our favorite festivals throughout the year like Orange Blossom Jamboree, Spring Fest, Danksgiving, Riverine Reunion, JamFest, Changeville, Fest, VegFest, Spirit Fest, and Heartwood Fest.

In addition to gigging and playing around our lovely Sunshine State we will begin planning and recording a 10-13 track album featuring some music that has never been recorded.

Our personal plans for the year may vary but we all can agree that the members of VOWLS are excited about what this year has in store for us. Thanks for listening.

A Very VOWLS Summer

Here is what we have been doing this summer. . .

Summer 2019 has been quite a productive summer for us. We have several different creative projects in the works that will be coming together with rapidity in the fall.

In the beginning of the summer we started shooting music videos at Caitlyn’s childhood home for a community video series entitled, “Let Us All Be Home.” We invite you to join us on this musical journey to share your songs of home with us. We hope that you can take your own video of yourself/selves playing your songs of home in a lovely homey location, uploading it to your social media platforms, and tagging us. #vowlslikeowls #letusallbehome

We hope this project can be an ongoing engagement that brings our community of creators together.

You can find our first few submissions to this project on our YouTube Channel.

Over the last few weeks we have started cultivating some of our new songs and started focusing on recording and releasing new music. That’s right, NEW MUSIC.
We have not one, but TWO short EPs that we will be releasing this fall. The first is a home studio recording mixed by our drummer and dear friend Tristan Harvey and the second is a studio recorded EP that we recorded with Rob McGreggor at Goldentone Studio.

photo by Rob McGreggor – Goldentone Studio

Our Fall Schedule is staring to fill up fast so stay connected with us and follow our social media presence on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and of course right here on our website!

Let Us All Be Home – Episode 2 – “Twilight”

HallowHulaween with VOWLS

This Hallow’s Eve some of us VOWLS had the opportunity to experience Suwannee’s Hulaween and performed on the Lost Stage at the Spirit Lake.

Suwannee’s Hulaween is an immersive art festival held during the Halloween season that brings living art and music together in a cohesive and beautiful way.

Caitlyn and Sweet Irene hit the Lost Stage on Saturday Night and sang sweet songs to rock your soul. With their captivating harmonies and sweet ukulele jams these precious gems created a sweet and sultry experience at the Spirit Lake.

Spirit Fest 2017 at Heartwood Soundstage

From the vault we have our recordings from Spirit Fest 2017 at Heartwood Soundstage.  Heartwood is a live recording venue that offers high quality audio and visual recordings of musicians and performing artists.  We had so much fun performing at Spirit Fest and hope that this fest reemerges in 2019.

Spirit Fest 2017 Live Recordings

“Home”

“Fleeting Glimpse”

“Float”

“Bliss”

“Pay Attention”

“Shining Gold”

“Schrodinger’s Castle”

“Home”

“You Can’t Hide What’s Inside”

“Matter and Blues”

“Surrender”