The New Deal is currently off the road while keyboardist Jamie Shields spends time with his newly born son, Benjamin Max Shields. But the group has announced a pair of New York shows scheduled to take place in the new few weeks. On December 9, the New Deal will perform at Rochester, NYs Water Street Music Hall. As previously reported, the New Deal will ring in the New Year a few hours into 2006 with a late-night/early morning performance at BB King Blues Club scheduled to commence at 1:30 AM January 1. Until then, the group is pondering Benjamins first word which the elder Shields hopes will be Moog.