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Water for Wolves will be performing at the Central Texas State Fair in Belton, TX April 11th. We are one of the bands opening for The American Rejects!

I'll be performing my new EP Soulful Symphony live at a Sofar Sounds Austin showcase on Friday November 8th in East Austin. Sofar Sounds curates these shows thoughtfully to provide a personal experience with the performers and is sure to be a great night of music. You can grab tickets from the link below. I would love to see you there!

Tickets: https://www.sofarsounds.com/events/57953?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=ArtistAdvance

First show of 2024

Tomes and The Tones Live at Meridian Buda

January 5th

Tomes and the tones live at the skylark lounge

Live in studio on Kwvh 94.3 wimberly radio

Tomes and The Tones Live at Oskar Blues

Tomes and The Tones Play 70’s party at Superstition ATX

Water for wolves

CASA Fundraiser

Growler Express 5th Anniversary

Dripping Springs Distilling

Krause’s Café and Biergarten

My Band Water for Wolves will be playing at the Central Texas CASA fundraiser! We are very excited to play for and support such a great organization.

First Performance at Gruene’s Last Call

Water for wolves

First performance at Meanwhile Brewing

First performances at roughhouse Brewing and celis Brewery

Full Band Performance at The St. Anthony Hotel

First Performance at Nate’s Coffee and Cocktails

First Performance at The St. Anthony Hotel

Unstarving Musician Podcast

Austin based musician Emmanuel Tomes is a singer songwriter of the blues and funk variety. His early inspirations came from Elliott Smith and Ben Harper. It was in fact Ben Harper who inspired him to start writing and recording original material. That inspiration took Emmanuel down the path of his first release October Skies, a project that began as a collaboration with his sister Elyssa. He unfortunately lost Elyssa to illness in 2016 before the project was finished. With a little time and perseverance, Emmanuel completed and released the EP project in 2018.

He describes the making of October Skies as disorganized and not well planned. When I asked what he might do different on his next release, Emmanuel focused most on the idea of collaboration. As we discussed a forthcoming release further, Emmanuel admits that he’s not sure that an album or even an EP is what he’ll do. He and I go down the rabbit hole talking about the different ways in which he might release his next batch of songs, a common quandary in today’s music business.

In addition to discussing the eventual and inevitable release of October Skies, we touch on how he’ll manage his next recording project, why he’s not overly active on the social, and how songwriting challenges him personally.

I finished our conversation thinking to myself that Emmanuel is reserved by nature. A bit shy. Hopefully our chat left him thinking about how he’ll put his face and life out there for his fans, existing and yet to be discovered. The world definitely needs his music.

Emmanuel has a regular gig Charlie Brown’s in San Antonio, and gigs in and around Austin.

ITNS Radio's Neon Rotation show

My single Welcome Sunshine will be on the ITNS Neon rotation starting Tuesday February 19th @ 8pm CST: http://www.spreaker.com/itnsradio