WEST COAST TOUR // SOLO NEW ENGLAND SHOWS
Not gonna lie folks, it’s a challenge to stay focused amidst the daily tsunami of current events, but shows must be played and bells must be rung, so here I am to ring them at you. I thought it would be refreshing for us all to stick to undisputed facts, which I will lay out for you here.
FACT #1: THERE IS A FEBRUARY WEST COAST DUO TOUR. We’ll start by loitering around northern California for a few days to play 2/20 at The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz, 2/21 at Hopmonk Tavern in Novato, 2/22 at Amado’s in San Francisco, and 2/23 at Feist Wines in Sutter Creek. Then we’ll head up to pay a visit to the Pacific Northwest, specifically 2/26 at Bunk Bar in Portland OR, 2/27 at the Sylvia Arts Center in Bellingham WA, 2/28 at the Victoria Listening Room in Victoria BC, and 2/29 at Ballard Homestead in Seattle WA. My friend and frequent tourmate Austin Nevins will be on hand to play guitars with me and help find adventures. Please get your tickets early, so we don’t have to stress about if anyone is coming, and you don’t have to stress about whether or not the show will be sold out. There is enough general stress without adding these easily avoidable situations into our lives. SPECIAL NOTE FOR PORTLANDIANS: we put some extra effort into making a PDX show happen, and the only way we could get it to work was to play on a Wednesday, so we are going to need you guys to get your rally hats on and have an afternoon espresso or a post-work disco nap, whatever it takes to enable you to come out mid-week. We’re looking forward to you rising to this challenge and we trust you implicitly.
FACT #2: THERE ARE A COUPLE SOLO KD SHOWS IN NEW ENGLAND: It’s good practice to play solo show every now and then to keep one’s self honest, so I’ll be the whole show on 3/12 at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA and 4/10 at the Word Barn in Exeter, NH. There will be plenty of room to play old chestnuts, field requests, go on tangents, or whatever the situation seems to suggest.
SIDE PROJECTS & EXTENDED-FAMILY NEWS:
One of the most exciting parts of recording my new, as-yet-untitled record was having Màiri Chaimbeul in the band. Màiri is an extraordinary Celtic harp player from the Isle of Skye, and her band Aerialists has a new record out which is mesmerizing, sideways, outside-the box traditional-based music. Check out Dear Sienna wherever you harvest your music.
My friend Alastair Moock is a Grammy-nominated kids’ music maker (the kind of kids’ music that is pretty much just Good Music, for whoever’s on hand to listen, kid or not) and I was honored to sing a bit on his newest one, Be a Pain, a collection of great songs celebrating activism and leadership. Moock has a crowdfund going right now to finish paying for the record and to enable him to offer it, in both live and recorded form, to kids at underserved schools, so that they can go out and change the world. Take a look and maybe lend a hand.
Last heads-up for this month is my bud Miss Tess’s brand new one The Moon Is an Ashtray, out February 7. Tess is a comprehensive badass and this record is gonna be a beauty.
Thanks everyone and hope to see you west coasters out on the town(s) in a few weeks!
Undisputedly yours, *kd
UPCOMING SHOWS:
FEBRUARY 20 - Crepe Place, SANTA CRUZ, CA Tix
FEBRUARY 21 - Hopmonk Tavern, NOVATO, CA Tix
FEBRUARY 22 - Amado’s, SAN FRANCISCO, CA Tix
FEBRUARY 23 - Feist Vineyards, SUTTER CREEK, CA Tix
FEBRUARY 26 - Bunk Bar, PORTLAND, OR Tix
FEBRUARY 27 - Sylvia Arts Center, BELLINGHAM, WA Tix
FEBRUARY 28 - Victoria Listening Room, VICTORIA, BC Tix (email for info)
FEBRUARY 29 - Ballard Homestead, SEATTLE, WA Tix
MARCH 12 - KD solo @ Club Passim, CAMBRIDGE, MA Tix
APRIL 10 - KD solo @ Word Barn, EXETER, NH Tix
tix/info for all shows http://krisdelmhorst.com/tour