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Hometown	Winnipeg, Canada
Genres	Indie Rock, Pop
Band Members	Josh Benoit, Rosie Blais, Zach Allard, Marc Gomez, Luke... » more
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Upcoming Shows	None

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# Years Experience Performing Live:	3
Market Draw:	Home Market: 76-100
Performing Rights Society:	N/A

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Enjoy Your Pumas is a female-fronted indie pop/rock quintet that blends powerful soaring vocals with atmospheric guitars and a punchy, energetic rhythm section. Their infectious, genre-defying music has fans of all styles jumping out of their seats....

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Bon Jovi's Wanted: A SuperBAND Tonight!

Reached 24th in Best of Pop chart in 2011. In the top 100 for 25 weeks.

Reached 82nd in Best of Pop chart in 2011. In the top 100 for 1 week.

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Top 10 Alternative Rock Albums of 2009 by CD Baby Music Discovery Podcast
Aside from having one of my favorite band names of the year, this group has the songs to back it up. Vocalist Rosie Blais is diverse as they come, with a huge voice.

Review by Jared Story
A+ Ink: The EP is a re-release of Enjoy Your Pumas' 2007 debut and it's good - really good, actually. The five-piece indie rock band cleverly splits this release into two parts, 'Awake' and 'Sleeping.' The Awake songs, Less Enthused, SFRS (Paris) and Ink, are lively bits of progressive rock, with singer Rosie Blais sounding a bit like Metric's Emily Haines. Between Shores is a short, atmospheric number that sees the Pumas straddling cognizance and coma. The Sleeping songs, Sister Rose and Sleeping Awake, are mostly piano-driven lullabies that serve as a soothing soundtrack to your dreams. Overall, a dynamic and diverse recording.

Puma Power! by Jared Story
Second time lucky? Local indie rock band Enjoy Your Pumas hopes so. The five-piece is re-releasing its 2007 debut recording, Ink the EP, Halloween night at the Park Theatre. Why we are re-releasing it is basically because two years ago when we recorded it, we only had one show where we had the actual EPs there," vocalist Rosie Blais says. That was our last show for a number of months, because our old drummer went away and so we went on kind of a hiatus. Basically, the album never really got the life it should have had. The re-release of Ink the EP will also include three new downloadable tracks produced by Ryan McVeigh (The Consumer Goods) that Blais says will give listeners "a better sense of our sound with a new drummer." The stated skinsman is Luke Janzen who, in 2008, joined Blais, guitarist/pianist Ian Jeffrey, guitarist Josh Benoit and bassist Marc Gomez in Enjoy Your Pumas. Still, it's not like the Pumas have gone completely unnoticed. Earlier this year, the band's song Less Enthused climbed the 92.9 KICK FM Top 40 chart, eventually peaking at No. 3. We were a little shocked, just because we hadn't been pushing (Ink the EP) as much as we should have," Blais says. "When it started playing on KICK and people were calling in wanting to hear it over and over again, it's just that reinforcement saying we really should give the album the life it never had when we first recorded it. With that newfound puma power in tow, the band's future looks bright. Earlier this year, the quintet contributed a cover of Neil Young's Tonight's the Night to an upcoming compilation by Grumpy Cloud Records, so stay tuned to myspace.com/enjoyyourpumas for that and much more. We're hoping the EP release will go very well and it will create some more buzz around Enjoy Your Pumas and what we have been doing," Blais says. "Another reason we're having this EP re-release is so we can raise funds to record a full-length, which is something we want to do because we're continuously working on new stuff all the time. We'd like to have a full-length out by summer and hopefully be able to tour that album in the summertime. Everything up to then will be playing more shows, trying to create buzz around the band and, of course, having lots of fun doing it, too.

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