AMETHYST .. Playing the hits of the 1980s!

Amethyst wishes everyone a very merry holiday season! Lots of love to all as we enter 2011.

The band will celebrate New Year's Eve at The Firehouse Eatery, for four sets of 80s tunes all night long. There are some great packages available, and it's not to late to get your tickets!

Lastly, we're now on Twitter! Come join us and get all the latest goings-on. We'd love to hear from you.

Amethyst sends out major congrats to our drummer Eric and his wife Cori on the birth of their son, Maxwell. Blessings all around, guys!

Eric's taking some time off to enjoy being a new dad, so we have our friend Ryan sitting in for the time behind the drum kit for the near future. Thanks, Ryan!

It's been quite a while since we posted a new blog installment, so to relaunch our regular updates, we've got something special. Almost exactly two years after our last blog about little Jack Rubin's benefit, we have an awesome update, courtesy of Kristy.

"Jack came home after 19 months of living in Philadelphia Children’s Hospital. He has slowly but surely spent the last year building up his strength, weaning off of his many medications, learning to eat by mouth, and most importantly, learning how to be a normal 3 year old boy. He does play dates every week, drives his parents batty with his normal child behavior, and is nothing but a miracle in perfect form to his family and friends. He is also very excited at this point because he is going to be a big brother in early 2011. He remains the impetus behind many of the Histiocytosis Association of America’s fundraising efforts and movements, and he touches the hearts of absolutely everyone he meets."

We're back and recovering from an awesome interstate road trip, and getting ready for a big event coming up this month on Sunday, July 27th. We'll be part of the Battle Acts for Jack benefit, to help Jack Rubin, an 11 month-old diagnosed with Histiocytosis (LCH). Little Jack has been an inspiration to hundreds of people to donate to worthy LCH causes, blood drives and platelet donations. Battle Acts for Jack brings together singers, musicians, friends and family of Jack’s, along with other members of the community who just want to help cure this rare disease.

It's a great event for a great cause. Jack's a fighter who needs our help. Come on out and show your support, and have a great afternoon of music to go with it. There will be full sets by Dirty Little Secret, Cobrasnake Necktie, Stronger than Dirt, and us, as well as acoustic sets by Susan Lowe and Eryn Shewell.

For full details, go to http://www.myspace.com/battleactsforjack and post a comment.

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729 S Main Street
Manville, NJ
908-707-8757
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We had a great debut last week at the Surf City Hotel, so a double-shot of thank-you's is in order. First, big thanks to the Sand Paper of Ocean County, who gave Amethyst a nice writeup in the their recent issue. (Check it out on our Press page.) We had a warm welcome not only from the Surf City regulars, but we saw some familiar faces from Clark's awesome Irish Pub, Molly Maguire's. So thanks to Tom, Tara and crew for spending some of their "down the shore" time with us.

Our "Cruel Summer Tour" continues this week. Come see us do it again for our second and third Fridays at the Surf City Hotel tonight 6/20, and again next week on 6/27. Hope to see you there!

UPDATE 6/24/2008: Okay, make that two articles this week! Thanks to the Asbury Park Press for including Amethyst in their "Leading Ladies rock Long Beach Island" piece. Rock on, Kristy.