Coffis Brothers Sweet 16

Is your bracket a total mess? Are there red lines marked on seemingly every inch of paper? Was New Mexico State’s Round 1 loss a bracket buster for you? (What was I thinking? New Mexico St in the Final Four?) Do you have any idea what we’re talking about? For all of you whose brackets have been crumpled up and thrown away after the first weekend of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, we’re giving you a clean slate. In honor of of March Madness, which has been celebrated in the Coffis household for decades, we decided to make our very own Coffis Brothers Sweet 16.

We have very carefully, hand-selected (eh, I just sorta chose the first ones I thought of) 16 of our songs and put them in a bracket format for you to vote on. For you super fans who love a Cinderella Story, this is your chance to get that deep-cut that no one else knows about into a Final Four, and for those of you who root for the Duke’s and North Carolina’s, take care of business and make sure the “Hits” see their way to another Championship. If you still don’t have a clue what we’re talking about, don’t worry about it. It’s pretty simple. All week long we will be putting our songs in a head-to-head matchup over on our Instagram Story until we have just one song remaining, and that one song will forever be dubbed the greatest of all Coffis Brothers songs. Well, probably not, but I thought this could be fun and we’d love your participation. Tune into our Instagram all week long to follow the results and get a peak at the full bracket below.

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2018 Year In Review

We did it! We’ve made it to the end of the year and also to my favorite post of the year. It’s one of those posts where we talk about how we can’t believe how fast the year has gone, or maybe we could go with the “actually, this year felt even longer than normal” take, but I don’t have any sort of hot take about if 2018 felt long or short or if it was great or terrible.

As I reflect about the past year I do think that 2018 will be a very memorable and notable year for the Coffis team. At least it feels like that right now. Once again we played more shows than any other year, we completed our first full calendar year with Sam as our drummer, we played at the legendary Strawberry Music Festival, we got to play a handful of shows with one of our favorite bands, The Mother Hips, and we played at our good friend’s new brewery (Humble Sea Brewing Co). Without going too far into all of the crazy sleepless traveling we did, or the times we couldn’t believe how hot it was in the backseat of the van, or what seemed like the ten thousand times we loaded our gear in and out of a venue, (and we use the word venue very loosely), I think what has stood out most about 2018 is all the people we’ve met at our shows over the years that we saw so many times in 2018 and have formed real relationships with. I hesitate to call them fans because they feel more like good friends at this point and we’re so grateful and thankful to all of you who take time out of your days and nights to go see us perform. We are very aware of the effort and money it takes for you to come to even one show, let alone dozens of shows some of you have gone to. If you’re reading this then I’d imagine you’re probably one of those people we’re talking about and we’d just like to say thank you. We hope that you’ve enjoyed every one of our shows no matter how early or late it was, how hot or cold it was, how loud or quiet we were, (usually loud) and most of all we hope that every show was very musical for you.

2019 we’ll begin the the 9th year that Jamie, Kyle and I have been performing under the name The Coffis Brothers, which is pretty amazing to think about. Along the way we picked up Aidan and Sam who have become great partners in music and also great friends, but for all the crazy things we’ve done and for all the hundreds and hundreds of shows we’ve played, it’s really refreshing to know that without a doubt I can say we’re having more fun than we’ve ever had and are more excited than we’ve ever been about the band. On the second day of 2019 we’ll officially start recording our fourth full length album. We’re beyond excited to get to work on it and we can’t wait to show it to you all when it’s done (don’t hold your breath though.) Happy New Year, everyone, and for one last time in 2018 we’d like to say thank you all so so much. Your support means more to us than you could know.

Love,  Jamie, Kellen, Sam, Aidan, and Kyle

Here’s a look back at some of our most memorable moments of 2018

Castoro Cellars, Templeton, February

Kate Wolf Music Festival, Laytonville, June

Santa Ynez, October

Downtown Santa Cruz, December

Redwood Mountain Faire, Felton, June

San Luis Obispo, February

Santa Cruz, April

3rd Annual SLV Soccer Fundraiser Concert

On Friday December 21st we will be performing our third San Lorenzo Valley High-School Soccer Fundraiser Concert. Given that this is our third year in a row doing this, you probably know the backstory by now, but in case you don’t, here’s the abridged version. Jamie, Kyle, and myself all played soccer for San Lorenzo Valley High-School for four years. After graduating from SLV, I coached the Boy’s Junior Varsity team for four years before taking over the Girl’s Varsity team three years ago. For the past two seasons Jamie has been my assistant coach and we’ve had a blast doing it. Being the head coach of a Varsity Soccer team and being in a traveling band has certainly been a bit of a juggling act but we’ve always been able to pull it off. Sometimes it involves sprinting out of a practice to a gig and changing out of soccer shorts into jeans at the venue but it’s always worth it.

These fundraiser concerts have not only been a good way of raising money for the girl’s but also a fun way to show the team what Jamie and I are up to when we’re not on a soccer field. If you find yourself free on Friday December 21st we hope you come out to San Lorenzo Valley High School and check out their new Performing Arts Center where we will be performing. Our good friend, and SLV Alum, Henry Chadwick will be opening the show. Here’s some pictures of the girl’s soccer players that will be benefitting from you attending this show. They’re awesome kids. Show them support this Friday night.

San Lorenzo Valley High School Performing Arts Center, Felton December 21st Doors 7pm Show 7:30pm Henry Chadwick opens $20 https://slvsoccerconcert.brownpapertickets.com/