The BlueGirls once again sang the National Anthem for the Los Angeles Lakers. This time the game was in San Diego as the Lakers hosted their annual pre-season game at the San Diego Sports Arena. The BlueGirls were also scheduled to sing at the Lakers pre-season game in San Diego last year but the game was cancelled due to the wildfires. This is the third consecutive season the BlueGirls have performed for the Lakers. The Lakers won 102-98 over the Bobcats but Kobe Bryant was injured in the first quarter. Attendance was 9829.

The last day to register to vote in California is Oct 20th. Be an active citizen. Liquid Blue encourages all US citizens to exercise their right, responsibility and privilege to participate in our democracy.

All Liquid Blue shows in the month of October are inspired by the legacy of journalist and musician Daniel Pearl. World Music Days uses the universal language of music to spread a message of hope and unity across cultural divides.

Liquid Blue met a living legend on Saturday in the person of Ralph Nader. To some, Nader has become controversial due to his presidential bids but there is no denying the positive impact he has had on our society. The band played three songs to open the Nader Rally at UCSD including "If You Gotta Ask" and "Real". Scott Stephens had the privilege of introducing Ralph to the enthusiastic college crowd.

Top & bottom right: LB performs winning song. Bottom left: LB receiving their first Posi Award

IF YOU GOTTA ASK will be a featured track on the new Empower CD which features the 2008 Posi Awawrd Nominees. Liquid Blue will travel to Kansas City in September to perform at the Posi Awards. Empower is the 21st compilation CD featuring a track from the Liquid Blue album Supernova. If You Gotta Ask has now been picked for five compilation CD's.

Liquid Blue tracks Real and Pretend are both amongst the most downloaded tracks at SanDiegoReader.com for the past few weeks. Real got as high as #4 and Pretend made it to #8. The Reader (Bart Mendoza) did a short "Blurt" feature and Liquid Blue in the July 31st issue as well.

For the third time in the past four years, Liquid Blue headlined one of San Diego's biggest July 4th events; the Lake Murray Music Fest. This year the event drew a huge crowd and featured five opening acts including local favorite Rockola. Liquid Blue performed from 6:00-9:00, followed by a spectacular fireworks show. There were over 6000 in attendance.

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Last year in December, Liquid Blue visited their 100th country. On Tuesday, June 17th the band visited their 108th country with a show in Vilnius-Lithuania, which is the 100th country the band has performed in. The other eight were side trips taken on various tours throughout the years. Each time Liquid Blue performs in a new country the band breaks their own world record for worlds most traveled band. On this tour TFB also visited Moscow-Russia and Riga-Latvia. To view a complete breakdown of where and how Liquid Blue has traveled,

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Liquid Blue was the headliner for the annual Beatles Forever Festival in the city of Logoisk, just outside the capital of Minsk on June 7th. Belarus is a communist country that has recently had rough relations with the United States but the festival is a coming together of people, not politicians. Bands from around the world attended and over 16,000 fans turned out. Liquid Blue performed an hour set of Beatles classics with emphasis on works that were originally recorded with Sitar. These include Norwegian Wood, Across The Universe and others. Songs by George Harrison (My Sweet Lord, What Is Life), John Lennon (Imagine) and Paul McCartney (Junior's Farm) were included. Last year, Two From Blue, the acoustic duo of The Grovler and Scott Stephens, performed a show at the Beatles Cafe in Minsk. The owner was pleased enough that he invited the entire group back to perform at this years festival. Europe is the 5th continent the band has visited in 2008! 

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Liquid Blue is likely the first and only band ever to travel to all seven continents. While there are no "land gigs" on the frozen continent, the band performed aboard the Star Princess cruise liner after making the request for the itinerary that included Antarctica. Liquid Blue band leader Scott Stephens went on a landing expedition to King George Island on March 13th. The band performed aboard the Star Princess while is was just a few miles off the coast, which is considered official territorial waters.

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Liquid Blue performed at perhaps the bands biggest show ever (in terms of international exposure) on New Year's Eve in Beijing China in the first televised event for CCTV's new All-Olympics channel, CCTV-5. The sold-out concert featured many of China's biggest stars and was held at the 8200 seat China Agricultural University Sports Arena in Beijing, which will host the Wrestling competition at the 2008 Summer Games. The event was televised not only on CCTV-5 but also CCTV 1, 3 and 9 as well and seen by millions of viewers. See photos