We had a rocking Christmas Party this year and one of my old band mates from Motor Dolls showed up!! Dana plays with Crud and 60 Second Crush currently. I think we both still look pretty rockin!!! xoxo A.Joy

Happy Happy Christmas everyone!! Don't ya love the tree pictured here? I think it's classy!!

Thanks for all the support in the past year friends, family and fans!! Candy Band looks forward to a rockin' new year!! Until then.......eat cookies!! xoxo A.Joy

I love polar bears!!! I just wanted to let everyone know that and also that we will performing at the Detroit Zoo for 4 shows in March - stay tuned!! And please go visit the polar bears at the zoo - they love this time of year - especially when visitors come!!

xoxo A.Joy

Happy Happy Joy Joy - I made it through my "cookie exchange" last night. Now I am all cookied out!! Candy Band had two gigs this past weekend. The New Way Bar gig with Free Beer was a blast. We sure love to play extra loud!! Then we played at Club Venetian at noon the following day - wow - we were tired but we rocked out!! Now we have no gigs until Jan 11!! Rock on xoxo A.Joy

Ok Moms and Dads!! This Saturday night, Candy Band makes it rare "club" appearance at the New Way Bar in Ferndale. We go on first -around 9:30!! Then our pals in Free Beer take the stage. Please get a sitter (if you have a kid) and come join us - we have some surprise "non-candy" songs to play!! xoxo A.Joy

In addition to the post below - if you live in the Detroit area -the Doll Hospital in Berkley and Solo Records in Royal Oak also carry Candy Band CDs!! xoxo A.Joy

It's that time of year again - make your purchases now to get your CD's in time for Christmas!! Oh yeah, our newest CD "Calling all Kids" was name one of the best kids CD's of 2007 by WXPN out of Philly on www.npr.org !!! Rock on!! xoxo A.Joy

I have nothing new to report - so I am going to give you some facts to ponder for the week while I start and hopefully finish up my Christmas shopping (yeah, right) xoxo A.Joy

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.?
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose & ears never stop growing.
The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

UPDATE: Candy Band will not perform at the Lake Orion Town Lighting ceremony today due to extremely cold weather. We just can't play outside in this kind of stuff!!! Sorry for the inconvenience:( A.Joy