Category: Cool Of The Week

  • Our song Take This Town took 6th place (Honorable Mention) in the 2009 Indie International Songwriting Contest, in the Rock category.  You can check it out on the winners page for their spring/summer 2009 songwriting contest. Better yet, just download the song for free or send it to a friend. Several years back, The Spelunkers cut this track for our little…

  • Photo by Breann Neal, May 23, 2009.  Thanks Bre!!! 

  • Thanks to everyone who came out to our two sold out shows at TheatresCool. Both audiences were awesome. We had an absolute blast with y'all. I guess we are gonna have to do this again…     We did get some good video footage, so my son and I are in the process of putting…

  • We just found out we took 2nd place in the pop category with “Looks Are For Free.” You can check it out on their homepage or on the winners page for their fall/winter 2008 songwriting contest.   This is a song that Greg Pare and I wrote together as an experiment through email. Greg played a…

  • It is always nice to know that people continue to discover the music. Here's a sweet little review from the Chicago-based print and online pub, the Illinois Entertainer:   "Bloomington duo 100 Year Picnic delivers a stunning collection of songs on Tales Of A Modern Splash. Friends/neighbors Jeff Greeneberg and Edwin Pierce revel in family and the everyday…

  • Come out to see 100 Year Picnic's first show of 2009.  We are the opening act for Chicago songwriter Matt Robinson and his band at NV Lounge in Normal IL on Saturday, January 31. Festivities start around 9.   Last summer I had the opportunity to sing background vocals and play drums on Matt's vibey LP, Everybody…

  • A good friend of mine is a generous and giving soul.  To me he is someone who gives freely from his heart and I'd like to be more like that.  He's also a gifted musician and you would know his brilliant cello arrangements and performances on Looks Are For Free and Come On.  He's also…

  • Well, I know next to nothing about numerology, but I do know that this year goes to eleven (2 + 0 + 0 + 9 = 11).  And that can't be a bad thing. So long 2008.  It was nice while it lasted.  Well, bits of it.  Somewhere around this time last year, I posted…

  • It's thanksgiving weekend here in the states, and we'd like to say thank you to all of the hard-working podcasters out there still playing independent music.  100 Year Picnic has now been featured on over 90 podcasts around the globe.  Here are some from the past two years: 2008 Mevio Radio, Florida, played Hot Balloon…

  • For the most part, I like to stay out of politics and I'm an independent voter.  But never in my life has there been a more important election here in America, and I'm casting my vote today for Barack Obama.  Take a stand Americans, and exercise your freedom to vote.