That Portugal show has a great cast of young talented players, but the prices are steep. I wish these travel destination shows and fests would give the option to just get tickets to see the music. I can travel well on the cheap and not having to spend $$$$ on lodging in some cheezy hotel would make going to these shows much more realistic.
^^^ ooh, thanks, HeathenTom, I'll want to go to that one, and won't have to travel for it.
Ken > Agree with you on all points. This trip isn't for everyone... I've always stayed away from group travel myself, because I don't care to follow a strict schedule while on vacation, and I find it tiring to go through a large-group decision making process for unplanned group activities.
The way I understand it, they are creating / curating a musical bonding experience and that's why it's important for everyone to stay in the partner hotel. This is probably the only group trip I've ever wanted to go on -- they were in Barcelona and Prague previous years, would have preferred to go to those cities.
for those interested in some funk, The Pimps of Joytime are touring the West Coast in Feb, and Dumpstaphunk are swinging through in June (seeing both at Moe's Alley).
And now for something completely different, a couple of excellent Scott Amendola projects are coming to the BA, Oregon & the east coast in March & April.
First is Damn Skippy, a trippy, exploratory "jazz" group with John Schott & Will Bernard on guitars, Scott Amendola on drums/percussion/electronics, Jenny Scheinman on violin & Todd Sickafoose on bass. Every one of those people are great players, and they're sure to play some pretty strange music that will likely twist your brain around pretty good.
They'll be at The Ivy Room in Albany on March 2nd, The Hopmonk in Novato on the 3rd, Mitchell Park Community Center in Palo Alto on the 4th, Arcata Playhouse in, well, Arcata on the 6th, The Shedd in Eugene on the 7th & Polaris Hall in Portland on the 8th.
Then on the east coast in April it's Amendola vs. Blades (that's Will Blades, a great organ/keyboard player) with Cyro Baptista & Skerik.
They'll be at 118 North in Wayne PA on April 12th, Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport CT on the 13th, Nublu in New York City on the 14th, The Falcon in Marlboro NY on the 15th & The Stone Church in Brattleboro VT on the 16th.
I don't know if anyone reading this is anywhere close to any of these places, but if you are you should try something a little/a lot different and check out these great groups.
An added bonus is tix will be cheap and I seriously doubt any will be on evil Ticketmaster, so you'll have that to feel good about as well.
^^^^ ooooh, thanks! I've seen Will Bernard and Will Blades + Skerik, having lived in Seattle when he was playing in really small places. Worth the effort.
I'll likely check out that Amendola v. Blades date at The Stone Church, Lance. Heading to Portsmouth NH to see Nate Smith + Kinfolk the following weekend, so it might be a little too much travel for my partner, but I like Brattleboro and tend to enjoy that jamband-adjacent faux-jazz, so thanks for putting that on my radar.
The last time I was in Brattleboro was to see a show at the other downtown stone church that they converted into a mixed-media art space, so it'll be another square on my bingo card.
An added plus for me taking the time to type out that post was learning about three towns I'd never heard of, Brattleboro, Wayne & Marlboro. I had to look them up on Google maps.
Marlboro & Brattleboro in particular look like cool little rural burgs, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The kind of ancient towns that probably have lots of ghosts.
Just picked up a pair of front row seats for Friday, July 27th, and a pair of seats on the first tier on Saturday, July 28th at the Triple Door in Seattle at the venue. $60 each for Premium seats out the door (they also had regular seating for $50), no fees.
>> cool little rural burgs, seemingly in the middle of nowhere
That's just where the most interesting shows are happening these days. As an urban dweller I can tell you that most of the jam-econo bands that value creating music that is vibrant, and who eschew or are simply lack the backing of the bloated beast of promotional, marketing and management firms, are not coming out to the big city anymore (with the obvious exception of the very big, centrally-located and very major urban centers), and who can blame them?
As far as that region of New England goes, Brattleboro is a veritable cultural hub. Most of the student population of Cambridge/Somerville/Boston doesn't know what the hell is going on anyway. Why bother dealing with the soul-killing trek into BiotechLand when most of the folks who would be in the audience aren't even from the urban hub, anyway? The hills and mountains are where the New Weird America (and its New Music cousins) are thriving. Small cities, culturally clued-in townships, and the wildwood are the places you'll be much more likely to see some truly interesting ("relevant"?) art.
I wholeheartedly support checking out the Falcon in Marlboro, Tony Falco was a real visionary (and super nice guy) and his son Lee (a killer musician in his own right) is carrying on the tradition of presenting original music in a variety of styles and genres with no cover charge (there is a suggested donation). There is also a great rock and roll exhibit (Avalon Archives) and a second bar/stage in the downstairs area. Check out the schedule;
Thanks for the tip about the Falcon, Burnz. Since traveling to Kingston NY for a show at the venerable underground venue Tubby's, and visiting the holy site of Big Pink, we've had a growing interest in that corner of the world for both its beautiful natural features andfor the diversity of arts and culture up and down the valley. Nice to learn of a venue willing to operate a little outside the norm, hopefully it gets a lot of love from the locals who tire of the tedious ad nauseum of classic rock cover bands and etc.
On sale 10 AM Friday - Lucinda Williams at The Wall Street Theater, Norwalk CT.
And yes, The Falcon is a great venue, really good vibes. Sits right next to a waterfall, was a button factory years ago, and a waterwheel powered the factory.
In good weather you can sit outside. Seen many good bands there, my favorite place to see a show. Decent food too.
The most relevant 2023 music announcement for me is that there is a new Peter Gabriel album and tour coming soon. That alone makes 2023 a very good year musically for me.
This was just announced and brought a smile to my face. The last 2 of the final 50 shows, during their 50th anniversary will have Kiss at Madison Square Garden. Seems the proper place for them to go out. They might not be the most talented bunch of musicians but a Kiss show is always memorable. Dec 1st and 2nd.
yeah a fun time... the local newspaper published this pic of my daughter and I heading into a Kiss show a while back. Her face makeup earned us a seat upgrade to vip and a plectrum from Gene too.... we had a great time
The 22-year-old musician grew up in Tennessee idolizing tenor iconoclasts like Albert Ayler. Now she’s working with New York’s avant-garde masters.
By Hank Shteamer
Sept. 26, 2022
The saxophonist Zoh Amba recently led a guest into the Upper West Side brownstone that houses the Vedanta Society of New York. Removing her shoes, she made her way upstairs to a cozy library, where she has spent hours studying Hindu philosophy since arriving in town last fall. She darted among the shelves and offered nutshell biographies of the Holy Trio, sacred figures in her discipline of Advaita Vedanta.
Later, sitting on a bench in nearby Central Park, she held forth on a different pantheon: a lineage of fiery, uncompromising free-jazz saxophonists she first heard during deep YouTube dives as a teenager, including Albert Ayler, Frank Wright, Frank Lowe and David S. Ware. Speaking each name, she pressed her hands to her heart and assumed the same reverent tone she used when holding forth on the Trio.
Reflecting on the winding route that’s taken her from a troubled childhood in Tennessee to her current position as a ubiquitous presence on New York’s avant-garde jazz scene, Amba, 22, stressed that the twin passions in her life aren’t distinct.
“Something as intense as the music led me to Advaita Vedanta,” she explained. “But also, the music is that, you see? It’s both things: The music is God; God is the music. Hand in hand.”
Hearing Amba play, it’s clear that her passion comes from somewhere deep inside. In the first few minutes of a recent concert at the Stone in Manhattan, alongside the pianist Micah Thomas, the alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and the drummer Billy Drummond, she erupted with low-register blasts, then worked her way up to the altissimo range of her tenor sax, her cheeks puffing as she summoned harsh multiphonic squeals.
But her music also has a soft and prayerful side, beautifully captured on “O, Sun” from March, one of three albums she’s releasing this year as a bandleader. “Bhakti,” a new collaboration with Thomas and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey captures the full range of her expression, from fervid to lullaby soft. On its Tuesday release day, Amba will perform at Roulette with Thomas, the bassist Thomas Morgan, the guitarist Matt Hollenberg and the drummer Marc Edwards. (In the spring, she’ll debut at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn.)
“Anytime I enter the space,” Amba said, referring to music itself, “I look at this as a moment for me to get closer to God.”Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
The 73-year-old Edwards — a percussive dynamo who has worked with free-jazz titans including Ware, Cecil Taylor and Charles Gayle across a nearly 50-year career — was struck by his musical chemistry with Amba from their first performance together. “She was the perfect partner for me,” the drummer said. “It reminds me of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, how they dance so well together.”
Sorey described Amba as a “fearless” improviser. He explained that while first-time free-improvised sessions often begin tentatively, theirs for “Bhakti” quickly reached peak intensity. “With Zoh, the way that started off — where it’s just, ‘OK, here it is. This is who I am. Let’s go there,’” he said, “that’s something that I don’t really encounter too regularly.”
For Amba, collaborating with luminaries like Edwards and Sorey — as well as the trailblazing saxophonist-composer John Zorn, who produced “O, Sun” and cameos on the record; the eminent bassist William Parker, who plays on “O Life, O Light, Vol. 1,” another of Amba’s 2022 albums; and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase — once seemed unlikely. She grew up in Kingsport, Tenn., near the Virginia border, with a single mother who had Amba and her twin brother at 18.
“Kingsport is, like, middle of nowhere,” Amba said. “We have a big chemical plant that explodes once a year. I went to a high school, 12 people in the class, very tiny, and the mascot was the Rebels; the school flag was the Confederate flag.”
“I love straight-ahead,” Amba said, referring to the mainstream of jazz. “But unfortunately, it’s just not the song in my heart.”Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
She played guitar and wrote songs, but switched to alto saxophone after seeing a video of Charlie Parker in middle-school band class. “My mother hated the saxophone,” Amba said, so she developed a daily routine of practicing in the woods near her house. Eventually, she swapped the alto for a tenor, and at that point, “It felt like everything completely vanished, and I was living in this world that I always dreamed of.”
Amba started browsing YouTube, devouring the work of tenor greats like John Coltrane, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. But she sensed that there might be a more obscure strata of players who would speak to her even more.
A web search led her to Albert Ayler, whose roaring, quavering tone and palpable thirst for transcendence have made him an icon to generations of freethinking tenor players. Amba immediately identified not just with his music but also with the resistance he faced in his own home.
She heard an interview where Ayler recalled practicing saxophone in his parents’ house. “He comes downstairs and his mother tells him, ‘I don’t think you’re my child; I think they made a mistake at the hospital,’ and he just cried, just feeling like, people aren’t accepting me,” she said. “I really understood that.”
After high school, Amba attended the San Francisco Conservatory, where her allegiance to free jazz put her at odds with her teachers. “I love straight-ahead,” she said, referring to the mainstream of jazz. “But unfortunately, it’s just not the song in my heart.” After two years, she dropped out.
Growing up, Amba was intensely drawn to religion, but the absolutism of Christianity turned her off. In San Francisco, a fellow musician gave her a book on Advaita Vedanta, a tradition that embraces all faiths as equally valid. “As soon as I found it,” she said, “it was a huge turning point for every single thing in my life.”
She dropped out of the conservatory and spent time at Vedanta centers on the West Coast. Within the community, she was given the name “Amba,” a Sanskrit word meaning mother. (She has added her given middle name, Zoh.) She moved back to Tennessee, but in the fall of 2020, after being invited by a mutual acquaintance, she made daylong drives from Kingsport to Harlem to meet and eventually study with David Murray, the master saxophonist who has reconciled the whole history of jazz tenor, from swing to free, during a wildly prolific career.
“We would play really high together and just scream on the horn together in our lessons, and he’s like, ‘Come on, give me more,’” Amba said. “He’s the one who encouraged, like, ‘Don’t stop, keep pushing, let me hear it, go farther.’”
In an interview, Murray said Amba reminds him of himself when he was her age. “She’s trying to find her voice now, which is when I tried to find my voice when I got to New York, when I was 20 years old,” he said. “And to find your voice early is a rare thing.”
Her mother hated the saxophone, Amba said, so she developed a daily routine of practicing in the woods near her house. Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
After another brief music-school stint, this time at Boston’s New England Conservatory, Amba made the full-time move to New York in fall 2021 and played gigs with the pianist Vijay Iyer and a trio with Parker and the drummer Francisco Mela. But tensions also arose between her and some members of the scene.
“One musician who’s older said that I was aggressive and pushy,” she said, and she began connecting with new collaborators, including the genre-spanning multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and expanding her range of listening, delving into noise and metal. (She cited a 2018 collaboration between the Japanese improv extremist Keiji Haino and the bruisingly heavy trio Sumac as a recent favorite.) In February, she recorded “Bhakti” — the title means “devotion to God” — which she sees as her strongest statement to date, and the one most closely aligned with her life’s purpose.
“Anytime I enter the space,” she said, referring to music itself, “I look at this as a moment for me to get closer to God.” That idea guided the “Bhakti” session: “I prayed before and I said, ‘OK, God, let me get closer to you.’ Then we stepped in there, turn off the lights, and it was just like, boom.”
<<This was just announced and brought a smile to my face. The last 2 of the final 50 shows, during their 50th anniversary will have Kiss at Madison Square Garden. Seems the proper place for them to go out. They might not be the most talented bunch of musicians but a Kiss show is always memorable. Dec 1st and 2nd. >>
KISS isn't playing the Bay Area one last time?
I love KISS too, they sounded so great on Stern this morning. NEVER had a bad time at a KISS show.
Good luck Christine. It is a beautiful setting. Many of those acts will be at Hardly Strictly, which is free and also in a beautiful setting.
I just picked up a Patti Smith ticket for August 16 at Woodland Park Zoo. Couldn't get the Flaming Lips or Built To Spill as they both sold out in a flash.
Saw KISS twice. First time was for the "Hot in the Shade" tour sans makeup. Just another crappy hard rock band.
Second time was in 2009 with full makeup, spitting blood, fireworks, more fireworks, and every trick and gimmick in the book. Same juvenile cock rock but seriously the Greatest Show on Earth.
^^^ Thanks Herbal! I had set up an alert for Telluride on CoT and got an alert today for a couple of passes.... didn't go for them for these reasons:
1) IPost said that festival ticket seller SEE Tickets doesn't allow electronic transfers and that buyer would need to give name and mailing address for snail mail delivery by SEE. That worried me.
2) Price was $370 per pass -- thought this seller might have raised the price a bit...
Somebody else bought them.
If anyone has tips about SEE tickets, pls let me know.
Peter Gabriel just announced his 2023 North American tour. Only a dozen dates with 5 of them in Canada.
Peter Gabriel North American Tour 2023
Sept. 8 - Quebec City, Quebec @ Videotron Centre
Sept. 9 - Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre
Sept. 11 - Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena
Sept. 13 - Montreal, Quebec @ Bell Centre
Sept. 14 - Boston, Massachusetts @ TD Garden
Sept. 16 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania @ Wells Fargo Center
Sept. 18 - New York, New York @ Madison Square Garden
Sept. 30 - Chicago, Illinois@ United Center
Oct. 7 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena
Oct. 8 - Seattle, Washington @ Climate Pledge Arena
Oct. 11 - San Francisco, California @ Chase Center
Oct. 13 - Los Angeles, California @ Kia Forum
"Peter Gabriel fans should also stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston."
Snarky Puppy is coming to the Hult Center in Eugene, Tuesday June 20... they're my neighbors favorite band, so we're going. I guess nobody knows, virtually every seat was open!
Oh, saw David Rhodes first gig with Peter Gabriel at the Greek in LA... he was in the warm up act, and PG asked him to play. I was shakey on my memory, so I asked Tony Levin about it after the Stickmen show, and he confirmed it.
The GAMH will be a great venue for this, and the shows are fully seated, which means people will shut the fuck up.
All four shows should be real good. I'm specifically interested in the show on the 6th with Akinmusire, an excellent trumpet player, and anything in Grace Cathedral is pretty spectacular. There is a four or five second echo in that vast space that excellent gentle players like Frisell can really make work.
I can actually go to this show as I'll be in Berkeley on 3/17 for a cool daylong liquid light art workshop + evening jam!
There are no AirBnbs out there.... where should I camp? Does anyone know the Sky Campground? Looking for a drive-in spot w/ a view to pitch tent.
I've worked so much overtime in new job that I wrote supervisors a rant letter last night and told them the dates I would be out of office next weekend since I don't have enough vacation time saved yet.
There's always a way to GTTS, first full paycheck tomorrow, yay. ;)
The Garcia Project is also doing a '70's inspired JGB show with Muldaur & Buchanan on March 17th at the awesome little venue Club Fox in Redwood City, as well as a 90's inspired show with Jacklyn LaBranch on the 16th, also at Club Fox.
I don't really know much about that band, but Club Fox is one of my favorite venues in the Bay Area so I'm hoping to make at least one of the two shows there.
They have said there wil be 'No dynamically priced or Platinum tickets'. So, it CAN be done!
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE WEDNESDAY MARCH 15TH VIA TICKETMASTER VERIFIED FAN SALE AND WILL REQUIRE REGISTRATION TO ACCESS
REGISTRATION CLOSES MONDAY MARCH 13TH AT 10AM PT
WE HAVE PRICED TICKETS TO BENEFIT FANS AND OUR EFFORTS TO BLOCK SCALPERS AND LIMIT INFLATED RESALE PRICES ARE BEING SUPPORTED BY OUR TICKETING PARTNERS
THE CURE HAVE AGREED ALL TICKET PRICES, AND APART FROM A FEW HOLLYWOOD BOWL CHARITY SEATS, THERE WILL BE NO ‘PLATINUM’ OR ‘DYNAMICALLY PRICED’ TICKETS ON THIS TOUR
SEE YOU THERE!
XXXXXX
THE FULL LIST OF DATES ARE:
MAY ’23
10 NEW ORLEANS, LA SMOOTHIE KING CENTER
12 HOUSTON, TX TOYOTA CENTER
13 DALLAS, TX DOS EQUIS PAVILION
14 AUSTIN, TX MOODY CENTER
16 ALBUQUERQUE, NM ISLETA AMPHITHEATER
18 PHOENIX, AZ DESERT DIAMOND ARENA
20 SAN DIEGO, CA NICU AMPHITHEATRE
23 LOS ANGELES, CA HOLLYWOOD BOWL
24 LOS ANGELES, CA HOLLYWOOD BOWL
25 LOS ANGELES, CA HOLLYWOOD BOWL
27 SAN FRANCISCO, CA SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE
JUNE ’23
01 SEATTLE, WA CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA
02 VANCOUVER, BC ROGERS ARENA
04 SALT LAKE CITY, UT VIVINT SMART HOME ARENA
06 DENVER, CO FIDDLER’S GREEN AMPHITHEATRE
08 MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL, MN XCEL ENERGY CENTER
10 CHICAGO, IL UNITED CENTER
11 CLEVELAND, OH BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER
13 DETROIT, MI PINE KNOB MUSIC THEATRE
14 TORONTO, ON BUDWEISER STAGE
16 MONTREAL, QC QC BELL CENTRE
18 BOSTON, MA XFINITY CENTER
20 NEW YORK, NY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
21 NEW YORK, NY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
22 NEW YORK, NY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
24 PHILADELPHIA, PA WELLS FARGO CENTER
25 COLUMBIA, MD MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION
27 ATLANTA, GA STATE FARM ARENA
29 TAMPA, FL AMALIE ARENA
>>>No dynamically priced or Platinum tickets. So, it CAN be done<<<
Of course it can. Other than regular fee's, the artist ALWAYS has final say and complete control over all ticket prices & policies.
They just don't want their fans to know that.
And despite whatever they try to do, the mega "broker" industry will still get theirs, and especially if the shows are popular & sell out many if not most of the best seats will be re-sold for much more than face. The only difference is the artist and promoters who do all the work to put on the show won't see any of that money.
Yep. The ticket brokers ALWAYS get their tickets regardless of the system used. I have some very reliable information that when recent Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift tickets went on sale in the NYC area, one well established broker with a client list that reads like a who's who of capitalism had more than 28,000 Verified Fans windows open when the tickets went on sale. Some got in, most were the waiting room. The dynamic pricing part of the equation only saw those as individual demands for tickets and the prices went higher and higher until only those A list clients could afford them. At least 2 pairs of tickets for Taylor Swift (best of the best) were sold to the client for north of 35,000 a piece.
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On Saturday I learned about
On Saturday I learned about this event when I went to see Everyone Orchestra with the host of this trip, Matt Butler (also on Rex Fdn board).
Lots of familiar artists you know and love on the lineup.
Just wish single people wouldn't have to pay so much more proportionally to get their own room... the bane of single travelers!
https://www.musicalsojourns.com/
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Wouldn't it be great to stay
Wouldn't it be great to stay in Hawaii for another couple weeks to get that tour in.
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That Portugal show has a
That Portugal show has a great cast of young talented players, but the prices are steep. I wish these travel destination shows and fests would give the option to just get tickets to see the music. I can travel well on the cheap and not having to spend $$$$ on lodging in some cheezy hotel would make going to these shows much more realistic.
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Old? Perhaps. Brilliant?
Old? Perhaps. Brilliant? Always.
Shakti summer/fall tour announced.
https://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/john-mclaughlin-and-zakir-hussain-a...
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^^^ ooh, thanks, HeathenTom,
^^^ ooh, thanks, HeathenTom, I'll want to go to that one, and won't have to travel for it.
Ken > Agree with you on all points. This trip isn't for everyone... I've always stayed away from group travel myself, because I don't care to follow a strict schedule while on vacation, and I find it tiring to go through a large-group decision making process for unplanned group activities.
The way I understand it, they are creating / curating a musical bonding experience and that's why it's important for everyone to stay in the partner hotel. This is probably the only group trip I've ever wanted to go on -- they were in Barcelona and Prague previous years, would have preferred to go to those cities.
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Drives me crazy when bands
Drives me crazy when bands think playing the Csp is serving the upstate community ....
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^^^ What is CSP, please? I
^^^ What is CSP, please? I love NY! :)
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Another tour announced for
Another tour announced for Robert Plant and Allison Kraus --- never seen either, so this one is on my list too.
https://jambands.com/news/2023/01/31/robert-plant-and-alison-krauss-reve...
These dates would make a beautiful road trip:
June 17 – Kit Carson Park – Taos, N.M.
June 18 – Telluride Bluegrass Festival – Telluride, Colo.
June 20 – Kettlehouse Amphitheater – Bonner, Mont.
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Sorry Cap
Sorry Cap
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Wouldn't it be great to stay
<<<Wouldn't it be great to stay in Hawaii for another couple weeks to get that tour in.>>>
I guess Vince is...
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too bad Frisell and/or Bela
too bad Frisell and/or Bela aren't on the bill for the Shakti Davies show...
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"Ozzy Osbourne announces
"Ozzy Osbourne announces retirement from touring amid health issues, cancels remaining shows"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ozzy-osbourne-announces-retirement-f...
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I get promo emails from
I get promo emails from FolkYeah Productions.
Hipnic in Big Sur.. have wanted to go to that fest for a long time... anyone been?
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for those interested in some
for those interested in some funk, The Pimps of Joytime are touring the West Coast in Feb, and Dumpstaphunk are swinging through in June (seeing both at Moe's Alley).
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And now for something
And now for something completely different, a couple of excellent Scott Amendola projects are coming to the BA, Oregon & the east coast in March & April.
First is Damn Skippy, a trippy, exploratory "jazz" group with John Schott & Will Bernard on guitars, Scott Amendola on drums/percussion/electronics, Jenny Scheinman on violin & Todd Sickafoose on bass. Every one of those people are great players, and they're sure to play some pretty strange music that will likely twist your brain around pretty good.
They'll be at The Ivy Room in Albany on March 2nd, The Hopmonk in Novato on the 3rd, Mitchell Park Community Center in Palo Alto on the 4th, Arcata Playhouse in, well, Arcata on the 6th, The Shedd in Eugene on the 7th & Polaris Hall in Portland on the 8th.
Then on the east coast in April it's Amendola vs. Blades (that's Will Blades, a great organ/keyboard player) with Cyro Baptista & Skerik.
They'll be at 118 North in Wayne PA on April 12th, Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport CT on the 13th, Nublu in New York City on the 14th, The Falcon in Marlboro NY on the 15th & The Stone Church in Brattleboro VT on the 16th.
I don't know if anyone reading this is anywhere close to any of these places, but if you are you should try something a little/a lot different and check out these great groups.
An added bonus is tix will be cheap and I seriously doubt any will be on evil Ticketmaster, so you'll have that to feel good about as well.
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^^^^ ooooh, thanks! I've
^^^^ ooooh, thanks! I've seen Will Bernard and Will Blades + Skerik, having lived in Seattle when he was playing in really small places. Worth the effort.
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I'll likely check out that
I'll likely check out that Amendola v. Blades date at The Stone Church, Lance. Heading to Portsmouth NH to see Nate Smith + Kinfolk the following weekend, so it might be a little too much travel for my partner, but I like Brattleboro and tend to enjoy that jamband-adjacent faux-jazz, so thanks for putting that on my radar.
The last time I was in Brattleboro was to see a show at the other downtown stone church that they converted into a mixed-media art space, so it'll be another square on my bingo card.
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Just announced a Jorma solo
Just announced a Jorma solo shoe here
$160!!
Is that normal for Jorma tix now?
Last time Tuna came through a few years back it was $50
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An added plus for me taking
An added plus for me taking the time to type out that post was learning about three towns I'd never heard of, Brattleboro, Wayne & Marlboro. I had to look them up on Google maps.
Marlboro & Brattleboro in particular look like cool little rural burgs, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The kind of ancient towns that probably have lots of ghosts.
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^^^^$160!!
^^^^$160!!
I dunno I got a 2nd row seat in Geneva for Acoustic Tuna coming up and it was 59$ out the door
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Jorma should cover "take the
Jorma should cover "take the $ and run"
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Just picked up a pair of
Just picked up a pair of front row seats for Friday, July 27th, and a pair of seats on the first tier on Saturday, July 28th at the Triple Door in Seattle at the venue. $60 each for Premium seats out the door (they also had regular seating for $50), no fees.
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>> cool little rural burgs,
>> cool little rural burgs, seemingly in the middle of nowhere
That's just where the most interesting shows are happening these days. As an urban dweller I can tell you that most of the jam-econo bands that value creating music that is vibrant, and who eschew or are simply lack the backing of the bloated beast of promotional, marketing and management firms, are not coming out to the big city anymore (with the obvious exception of the very big, centrally-located and very major urban centers), and who can blame them?
As far as that region of New England goes, Brattleboro is a veritable cultural hub. Most of the student population of Cambridge/Somerville/Boston doesn't know what the hell is going on anyway. Why bother dealing with the soul-killing trek into BiotechLand when most of the folks who would be in the audience aren't even from the urban hub, anyway? The hills and mountains are where the New Weird America (and its New Music cousins) are thriving. Small cities, culturally clued-in townships, and the wildwood are the places you'll be much more likely to see some truly interesting ("relevant"?) art.
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>>>>Shakti summer/fall tour
>>>>Shakti summer/fall tour announced.
Appreciate the heads up. Got front row balcony for the Ryman. More dates to be added.
This thread is one of the most useful I've found in a while. Bumpin it up.
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We're headed up to Novato for
We're headed up to Novato for that Damn Skippy! show. Hadn't seen the local Palo Alto show, damn.
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I wholeheartedly support
I wholeheartedly support checking out the Falcon in Marlboro, Tony Falco was a real visionary (and super nice guy) and his son Lee (a killer musician in his own right) is carrying on the tradition of presenting original music in a variety of styles and genres with no cover charge (there is a suggested donation). There is also a great rock and roll exhibit (Avalon Archives) and a second bar/stage in the downstairs area. Check out the schedule;
https://www.liveatthefalcon.com/
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Little Feat just announced
Little Feat just announced some Summer dates:
https://jambands.com/news/2023/02/21/little-feat-plot-boogie-your-summer...
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Thanks for the tip about the
Thanks for the tip about the Falcon, Burnz. Since traveling to Kingston NY for a show at the venerable underground venue Tubby's, and visiting the holy site of Big Pink, we've had a growing interest in that corner of the world for both its beautiful natural features andfor the diversity of arts and culture up and down the valley. Nice to learn of a venue willing to operate a little outside the norm, hopefully it gets a lot of love from the locals who tire of the tedious ad nauseum of classic rock cover bands and etc.
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On sale 10 AM Friday -
On sale 10 AM Friday - Lucinda Williams at The Wall Street Theater, Norwalk CT.
And yes, The Falcon is a great venue, really good vibes. Sits right next to a waterfall, was a button factory years ago, and a waterwheel powered the factory.
In good weather you can sit outside. Seen many good bands there, my favorite place to see a show. Decent food too.
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Bob Dylan is playing 10 shows
Bob Dylan is playing 10 shows in Japan in April.
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The most relevant 2023 music
The most relevant 2023 music announcement for me is that there is a new Peter Gabriel album and tour coming soon. That alone makes 2023 a very good year musically for me.
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Steve Marley acoustic last
Steve Marley acoustic last night in a sideways blizzard, already twice rescheduled.
pure bliss for those who managed to beat the road closures
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Seeing the Flaming Lips next
Seeing the Flaming Lips next Monday
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This was just announced and
This was just announced and brought a smile to my face. The last 2 of the final 50 shows, during their 50th anniversary will have Kiss at Madison Square Garden. Seems the proper place for them to go out. They might not be the most talented bunch of musicians but a Kiss show is always memorable. Dec 1st and 2nd.
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yeah a fun time... the local
yeah a fun time... the local newspaper published this pic of my daughter and I heading into a Kiss show a while back. Her face makeup earned us a seat upgrade to vip and a plectrum from Gene too.... we had a great time
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Juicy!
Juicy!
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For the Saxophonist Zoh Amba, Free Jazz Is Gospel
The 22-year-old musician grew up in Tennessee idolizing tenor iconoclasts like Albert Ayler. Now she’s working with New York’s avant-garde masters.
By Hank Shteamer
Sept. 26, 2022
The saxophonist Zoh Amba recently led a guest into the Upper West Side brownstone that houses the Vedanta Society of New York. Removing her shoes, she made her way upstairs to a cozy library, where she has spent hours studying Hindu philosophy since arriving in town last fall. She darted among the shelves and offered nutshell biographies of the Holy Trio, sacred figures in her discipline of Advaita Vedanta.
Later, sitting on a bench in nearby Central Park, she held forth on a different pantheon: a lineage of fiery, uncompromising free-jazz saxophonists she first heard during deep YouTube dives as a teenager, including Albert Ayler, Frank Wright, Frank Lowe and David S. Ware. Speaking each name, she pressed her hands to her heart and assumed the same reverent tone she used when holding forth on the Trio.
Reflecting on the winding route that’s taken her from a troubled childhood in Tennessee to her current position as a ubiquitous presence on New York’s avant-garde jazz scene, Amba, 22, stressed that the twin passions in her life aren’t distinct.
“Something as intense as the music led me to Advaita Vedanta,” she explained. “But also, the music is that, you see? It’s both things: The music is God; God is the music. Hand in hand.”
Hearing Amba play, it’s clear that her passion comes from somewhere deep inside. In the first few minutes of a recent concert at the Stone in Manhattan, alongside the pianist Micah Thomas, the alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and the drummer Billy Drummond, she erupted with low-register blasts, then worked her way up to the altissimo range of her tenor sax, her cheeks puffing as she summoned harsh multiphonic squeals.
But her music also has a soft and prayerful side, beautifully captured on “O, Sun” from March, one of three albums she’s releasing this year as a bandleader. “Bhakti,” a new collaboration with Thomas and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey captures the full range of her expression, from fervid to lullaby soft. On its Tuesday release day, Amba will perform at Roulette with Thomas, the bassist Thomas Morgan, the guitarist Matt Hollenberg and the drummer Marc Edwards. (In the spring, she’ll debut at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn.)
“Anytime I enter the space,” Amba said, referring to music itself, “I look at this as a moment for me to get closer to God.”Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
The 73-year-old Edwards — a percussive dynamo who has worked with free-jazz titans including Ware, Cecil Taylor and Charles Gayle across a nearly 50-year career — was struck by his musical chemistry with Amba from their first performance together. “She was the perfect partner for me,” the drummer said. “It reminds me of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, how they dance so well together.”
Sorey described Amba as a “fearless” improviser. He explained that while first-time free-improvised sessions often begin tentatively, theirs for “Bhakti” quickly reached peak intensity. “With Zoh, the way that started off — where it’s just, ‘OK, here it is. This is who I am. Let’s go there,’” he said, “that’s something that I don’t really encounter too regularly.”
For Amba, collaborating with luminaries like Edwards and Sorey — as well as the trailblazing saxophonist-composer John Zorn, who produced “O, Sun” and cameos on the record; the eminent bassist William Parker, who plays on “O Life, O Light, Vol. 1,” another of Amba’s 2022 albums; and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase — once seemed unlikely. She grew up in Kingsport, Tenn., near the Virginia border, with a single mother who had Amba and her twin brother at 18.
“Kingsport is, like, middle of nowhere,” Amba said. “We have a big chemical plant that explodes once a year. I went to a high school, 12 people in the class, very tiny, and the mascot was the Rebels; the school flag was the Confederate flag.”
“I love straight-ahead,” Amba said, referring to the mainstream of jazz. “But unfortunately, it’s just not the song in my heart.”Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
She played guitar and wrote songs, but switched to alto saxophone after seeing a video of Charlie Parker in middle-school band class. “My mother hated the saxophone,” Amba said, so she developed a daily routine of practicing in the woods near her house. Eventually, she swapped the alto for a tenor, and at that point, “It felt like everything completely vanished, and I was living in this world that I always dreamed of.”
Amba started browsing YouTube, devouring the work of tenor greats like John Coltrane, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. But she sensed that there might be a more obscure strata of players who would speak to her even more.
A web search led her to Albert Ayler, whose roaring, quavering tone and palpable thirst for transcendence have made him an icon to generations of freethinking tenor players. Amba immediately identified not just with his music but also with the resistance he faced in his own home.
She heard an interview where Ayler recalled practicing saxophone in his parents’ house. “He comes downstairs and his mother tells him, ‘I don’t think you’re my child; I think they made a mistake at the hospital,’ and he just cried, just feeling like, people aren’t accepting me,” she said. “I really understood that.”
After high school, Amba attended the San Francisco Conservatory, where her allegiance to free jazz put her at odds with her teachers. “I love straight-ahead,” she said, referring to the mainstream of jazz. “But unfortunately, it’s just not the song in my heart.” After two years, she dropped out.
Growing up, Amba was intensely drawn to religion, but the absolutism of Christianity turned her off. In San Francisco, a fellow musician gave her a book on Advaita Vedanta, a tradition that embraces all faiths as equally valid. “As soon as I found it,” she said, “it was a huge turning point for every single thing in my life.”
She dropped out of the conservatory and spent time at Vedanta centers on the West Coast. Within the community, she was given the name “Amba,” a Sanskrit word meaning mother. (She has added her given middle name, Zoh.) She moved back to Tennessee, but in the fall of 2020, after being invited by a mutual acquaintance, she made daylong drives from Kingsport to Harlem to meet and eventually study with David Murray, the master saxophonist who has reconciled the whole history of jazz tenor, from swing to free, during a wildly prolific career.
“We would play really high together and just scream on the horn together in our lessons, and he’s like, ‘Come on, give me more,’” Amba said. “He’s the one who encouraged, like, ‘Don’t stop, keep pushing, let me hear it, go farther.’”
In an interview, Murray said Amba reminds him of himself when he was her age. “She’s trying to find her voice now, which is when I tried to find my voice when I got to New York, when I was 20 years old,” he said. “And to find your voice early is a rare thing.”
Her mother hated the saxophone, Amba said, so she developed a daily routine of practicing in the woods near her house. Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
After another brief music-school stint, this time at Boston’s New England Conservatory, Amba made the full-time move to New York in fall 2021 and played gigs with the pianist Vijay Iyer and a trio with Parker and the drummer Francisco Mela. But tensions also arose between her and some members of the scene.
“One musician who’s older said that I was aggressive and pushy,” she said, and she began connecting with new collaborators, including the genre-spanning multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and expanding her range of listening, delving into noise and metal. (She cited a 2018 collaboration between the Japanese improv extremist Keiji Haino and the bruisingly heavy trio Sumac as a recent favorite.) In February, she recorded “Bhakti” — the title means “devotion to God” — which she sees as her strongest statement to date, and the one most closely aligned with her life’s purpose.
“Anytime I enter the space,” she said, referring to music itself, “I look at this as a moment for me to get closer to God.” That idea guided the “Bhakti” session: “I prayed before and I said, ‘OK, God, let me get closer to you.’ Then we stepped in there, turn off the lights, and it was just like, boom.”
© 2023 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/arts/music/zoh-amba-bhakti.html
We'll be seeing her at a small, boutique festival setting in New Hampshire. Would love to hear her duo set with Steve Gunn in Brussels.
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<<This was just announced and
<<This was just announced and brought a smile to my face. The last 2 of the final 50 shows, during their 50th anniversary will have Kiss at Madison Square Garden. Seems the proper place for them to go out. They might not be the most talented bunch of musicians but a Kiss show is always memorable. Dec 1st and 2nd. >>
KISS isn't playing the Bay Area one last time?
I love KISS too, they sounded so great on Stern this morning. NEVER had a bad time at a KISS show.
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June 15-18
June 15-18
Already sold out
Let me know if anyone has a pass to sell!
This lineup combines several acts that I've been trying to see.
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Good luck Christine. It is a
Good luck Christine. It is a beautiful setting. Many of those acts will be at Hardly Strictly, which is free and also in a beautiful setting.
I just picked up a Patti Smith ticket for August 16 at Woodland Park Zoo. Couldn't get the Flaming Lips or Built To Spill as they both sold out in a flash.
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>>>>NEVER had a bad time at a
>>>>NEVER had a bad time at a KISS show.
Saw KISS twice. First time was for the "Hot in the Shade" tour sans makeup. Just another crappy hard rock band.
Second time was in 2009 with full makeup, spitting blood, fireworks, more fireworks, and every trick and gimmick in the book. Same juvenile cock rock but seriously the Greatest Show on Earth.
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Hope everyone saved their $$$
Hope everyone saved their $$$
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^^^ Thanks Herbal! I had set
^^^ Thanks Herbal! I had set up an alert for Telluride on CoT and got an alert today for a couple of passes.... didn't go for them for these reasons:
1) IPost said that festival ticket seller SEE Tickets doesn't allow electronic transfers and that buyer would need to give name and mailing address for snail mail delivery by SEE. That worried me.
2) Price was $370 per pass -- thought this seller might have raised the price a bit...
Somebody else bought them.
If anyone has tips about SEE tickets, pls let me know.
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Hope everyone saved their $$$
I did and looking forward to a Peter Gabriel concert. I was at his first solo concert and many after that. I have never been disappointed.
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Fantastic Cat covering Warren
Fantastic Cat covering Warren Zevon's "Keep Me In Your Heart" and some praise from Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/fantastic-cat-warren-zevon-keep-me-in-your-heart-1234691839/amp/
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Peter Gabriel just announced
Peter Gabriel just announced his 2023 North American tour. Only a dozen dates with 5 of them in Canada.
Peter Gabriel North American Tour 2023
Sept. 8 - Quebec City, Quebec @ Videotron Centre
Sept. 9 - Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre
Sept. 11 - Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena
Sept. 13 - Montreal, Quebec @ Bell Centre
Sept. 14 - Boston, Massachusetts @ TD Garden
Sept. 16 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania @ Wells Fargo Center
Sept. 18 - New York, New York @ Madison Square Garden
Sept. 30 - Chicago, Illinois@ United Center
Oct. 7 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena
Oct. 8 - Seattle, Washington @ Climate Pledge Arena
Oct. 11 - San Francisco, California @ Chase Center
Oct. 13 - Los Angeles, California @ Kia Forum
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"Peter Gabriel fans should
"Peter Gabriel fans should also stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston."
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Snarky Puppy is coming to the
Snarky Puppy is coming to the Hult Center in Eugene, Tuesday June 20... they're my neighbors favorite band, so we're going. I guess nobody knows, virtually every seat was open!
Oh, saw David Rhodes first gig with Peter Gabriel at the Greek in LA... he was in the warm up act, and PG asked him to play. I was shakey on my memory, so I asked Tony Levin about it after the Stickmen show, and he confirmed it.
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Bill Frisell four night
Bill Frisell four night residency in San Francisco...
https://gamh.com/page/4/
The GAMH will be a great venue for this, and the shows are fully seated, which means people will shut the fuck up.
All four shows should be real good. I'm specifically interested in the show on the 6th with Akinmusire, an excellent trumpet player, and anything in Grace Cathedral is pretty spectacular. There is a four or five second echo in that vast space that excellent gentle players like Frisell can really make work.
GTTS!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-garcia-project-tickets-528771177827
I can actually go to this show as I'll be in Berkeley on 3/17 for a cool daylong liquid light art workshop + evening jam!
There are no AirBnbs out there.... where should I camp? Does anyone know the Sky Campground? Looking for a drive-in spot w/ a view to pitch tent.
I've worked so much overtime in new job that I wrote supervisors a rant letter last night and told them the dates I would be out of office next weekend since I don't have enough vacation time saved yet.
There's always a way to GTTS, first full paycheck tomorrow, yay. ;)
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The Garcia Project is also
The Garcia Project is also doing a '70's inspired JGB show with Muldaur & Buchanan on March 17th at the awesome little venue Club Fox in Redwood City, as well as a 90's inspired show with Jacklyn LaBranch on the 16th, also at Club Fox.
I don't really know much about that band, but Club Fox is one of my favorite venues in the Bay Area so I'm hoping to make at least one of the two shows there.
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The Cure North America Tour
The Cure North America Tour on sale Wednesday
They have said there wil be 'No dynamically priced or Platinum tickets'. So, it CAN be done!
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE WEDNESDAY MARCH 15TH VIA TICKETMASTER VERIFIED FAN SALE AND WILL REQUIRE REGISTRATION TO ACCESS
REGISTRATION CLOSES MONDAY MARCH 13TH AT 10AM PT
WE HAVE PRICED TICKETS TO BENEFIT FANS AND OUR EFFORTS TO BLOCK SCALPERS AND LIMIT INFLATED RESALE PRICES ARE BEING SUPPORTED BY OUR TICKETING PARTNERS
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The dates:
The dates:
THE CURE HAVE AGREED ALL TICKET PRICES, AND APART FROM A FEW HOLLYWOOD BOWL CHARITY SEATS, THERE WILL BE NO ‘PLATINUM’ OR ‘DYNAMICALLY PRICED’ TICKETS ON THIS TOUR
SEE YOU THERE!
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THE FULL LIST OF DATES ARE:
MAY ’23
10 NEW ORLEANS, LA SMOOTHIE KING CENTER
12 HOUSTON, TX TOYOTA CENTER
13 DALLAS, TX DOS EQUIS PAVILION
14 AUSTIN, TX MOODY CENTER
16 ALBUQUERQUE, NM ISLETA AMPHITHEATER
18 PHOENIX, AZ DESERT DIAMOND ARENA
20 SAN DIEGO, CA NICU AMPHITHEATRE
23 LOS ANGELES, CA HOLLYWOOD BOWL
24 LOS ANGELES, CA HOLLYWOOD BOWL
25 LOS ANGELES, CA HOLLYWOOD BOWL
27 SAN FRANCISCO, CA SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE
JUNE ’23
01 SEATTLE, WA CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA
02 VANCOUVER, BC ROGERS ARENA
04 SALT LAKE CITY, UT VIVINT SMART HOME ARENA
06 DENVER, CO FIDDLER’S GREEN AMPHITHEATRE
08 MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL, MN XCEL ENERGY CENTER
10 CHICAGO, IL UNITED CENTER
11 CLEVELAND, OH BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER
13 DETROIT, MI PINE KNOB MUSIC THEATRE
14 TORONTO, ON BUDWEISER STAGE
16 MONTREAL, QC QC BELL CENTRE
18 BOSTON, MA XFINITY CENTER
20 NEW YORK, NY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
21 NEW YORK, NY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
22 NEW YORK, NY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
24 PHILADELPHIA, PA WELLS FARGO CENTER
25 COLUMBIA, MD MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION
27 ATLANTA, GA STATE FARM ARENA
29 TAMPA, FL AMALIE ARENA
JULY ’23
01 MIAMI, FL MIAMI-DADE ARENA
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FISHCANE
FISHCANE
slogging thru this all has been worth it thanks to your BADASS KIDPIC
thanks for sharing!
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>>>No dynamically priced or
>>>No dynamically priced or Platinum tickets. So, it CAN be done<<<
Of course it can. Other than regular fee's, the artist ALWAYS has final say and complete control over all ticket prices & policies.
They just don't want their fans to know that.
And despite whatever they try to do, the mega "broker" industry will still get theirs, and especially if the shows are popular & sell out many if not most of the best seats will be re-sold for much more than face. The only difference is the artist and promoters who do all the work to put on the show won't see any of that money.
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Yep. The ticket brokers
Yep. The ticket brokers ALWAYS get their tickets regardless of the system used. I have some very reliable information that when recent Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift tickets went on sale in the NYC area, one well established broker with a client list that reads like a who's who of capitalism had more than 28,000 Verified Fans windows open when the tickets went on sale. Some got in, most were the waiting room. The dynamic pricing part of the equation only saw those as individual demands for tickets and the prices went higher and higher until only those A list clients could afford them. At least 2 pairs of tickets for Taylor Swift (best of the best) were sold to the client for north of 35,000 a piece.
Some people have a lot more money than brains.