Bonjour nos amis French,

Bienvenu à notre nouveau site web. Notre capacité d’écrire en français est très limitée, pas limitée, drôle. Nous avons engagé des spellers french professionels pour nous aider. Voici notre bio et nos “liner notes” en french. On apprécie votre patience avec nous et j’espère que vous êtes capable d’assister à notre premier spectacle à Montréal depuis 15 ans, le 12 octobre 2007 à huit heure au Tulip. Merci de nous avoir visitée

Upcoming Manteca Tour Dates
(Click on the link in green for more information):

October 11th, 2007 - Centrepointe Theatre, Ottawa

October 12th, 2007 - La Tulipe, Montreal

October 18th, 2007 - Oakville Centre, Oakville

October 19th, 2007 - Brock University, St. Catherines

For those of you who would like to get concert news and updates emailed right to your inbox, please send an email to mantecaband@yahoo.ca with “Fan List” in the subject.

You can also find us on www.myspace.com/mantecamusic.

Our tour continues with a trip to Niagara-on-the-Lake for the

Hillebrand Jazz and Blues at the Winery
this weekend, July 7th and 8th.

Click the Hillebrand Logo below for more information or to purchase tickets.

You can catch us on the 7th or the 8th,
or come for the whole weekend.

Come see for yourself that Mantecians are just like wine
- we get better with age.

Click here:

to hear Matt and Henry talk about white towels, performing live, the Manteca ringtone, and more… on NewsTalk 1010 CFRB

Read our latest reviews:

“Onward! is vibrantly mysterious, (with) sublime moments, and brilliant playing all around.”

Dave Morris - Eye Magazine

“Intriguing melody-driven textures…humour, precision and high energy, in a blaze of lights - Manteca is back without missing a beat…”

Ashante Infantry - The Toronto Star

“Manteca remains impressively tight with the outsized rhythm section maintaining a supple, infectious groove while the horns navigated ambitiously athletic charts.”

J.D. Considine - The Globe and Mail

Greetings all,

We had a great gig in Toronto on June 22 at the Toronto Jazz Festival -not sure who had more fun, you or us! We have a photo below of our fans giving us the finger - it’s an old loving ritual of ours.

We’ll post some more polite pictures soon.

In December of last year my mother gave me a recipe for bread that she found in the New York Times - I never used to bake bread, until I got this recipe and since December I have been baking three to four loaves a week. Try this you shall not be dissapointed it is so simple and so good!

mz

Great Bread, No Boule! and no kneading, needed!

3 Cups of stone ground unbleached white flour
1/4 teaspoon of yeast
A little less than tablespoon of Salt
1 & 2/3 cup of tepid water
cornmeal

Equipment
1. Cast Iron or ceramic casserole pot with lid (ours is 5 inches tall by 10 inches wide)
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Hello - we bid you welcome to Manteca’s new website.

There’s good stuff all around, so make yourself at home. Be sure to listen to a few cuts from our new record “Onward!” Watch our new video to see Manteca in the studio, hear Matt Zimbel try to do a British accent, and see some retro shots of really bad 80’s hair. If you want to catch up on your Manteca history (it has been a few years), click on our biography. You’ll probably more likely want to see what we look like after all this time. For that, just visit our gallery (Don’t worry - no 80’s hair here.)

Most importantly, you are going to want to get tickets to our first show. Manteca is headlining the opening night of the Toronto Jazz Festival on June 22nd. If you’re going to be in town, we hope you’ll stop by.

We hope you’ll stop back soon. Plenty more to come…