June will be an extraordinarily busy month. From tomorrow until June 15, my acoustic duo Dykes & Young, with bassist Laura Dykes, will make its inaugural tour of the Northeast, with stops in Glenmoore PA, Pittsburgh, at the Re:Sound Festival in Cleveland, DC, Baltimore, Philly, Brooklyn, Catskill NY, and Boston. On June 19, I’ll perform my first show with my partner Evie Morrel-Samuels at a secret location in a Boston park! From June 21-23, The World/Inferno Friendship Society will play Jersey City, Boston, and one other secret location. Finally, June 27-30 marks the inaugural tour of my electroacoustic duo Wise & Young, with percussionist Pete Wise, with shows in West Stockbridge MA, Boston, Providence, and Brooklyn. Details below!
| First, a quick rundown of the past month: thingNY premiered Dave Ruder’s You Must Read a Lot of Jung in an exciting weekend of shows in Hamden CT, Queens NY, and Philly. You can watch a clip from the Queens show here; we also released videos of two songs from our December performance in Brooklyn of Andrew Livingston’s News from the Oort Cloud here and here. World/Inferno had three fun and strange shows out west – one that spilled from a tiny practice studio into a parking lot in Huntington Beach CA (check out this video on Instagram), one on a big stage at Punk Rock Bowling Festival in Vegas, and one in a Vegas hotel room. Finally, this past Wednesday I had the pleasure of organizing and performing in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Reunion and Showcase at Spectrum in Brooklyn. Now, Laura Dykes and I are rehearsing in Boston for our inaugural Northeastern tour, which starts tomorrow! I’m looking forward to making more whale sounds with Laura, to being back at Camphill Soltane where Paul Pinto and I had a residency in January, to a Pittsburgh show presented by the always excellent Alia Musica, to performing alongside musicians from all over the country at the Re:Sound Festival in Cleveland, to being back at cozy Rhizome in DC, to another Baltimore show organized by the intrepid Bonnie Lander, to a very intimate Philly show organized by Asimina Chremos, to a true NYC homecoming playing on Mara Mayer’s inspiring Home Audio series in my own most recent NYC apartment, to my first time performing at former Slow Six bandmate Liam Singer’s HiLo venue in Catskill NY, and to returning to the most magical treehouse venue in Boston’s South End after many years. Please come out to see us as we pass through! After the tour, I have a few days to catch my breath before performing for the first time as a duo with my partner Evie Morrel-Samuels! Evie and I met three years ago when I was playing music in a show where she was puppeteering, so it’s not our first time performing together, but it’s our first time creating work as a duo! Our act will involve music, movement, and storytelling, and we’ll perform at a secret location in a Boston park – let me know if you want the details. Then just two days later, I head out with World/Inferno to play at Monty Hall in Jersey City on June 21, a show in a still secret city on June 22, and Sonia in Cambridge, MA on the 23rd. Hope to see my NYC and Boston people there! The month ends with one more tour, this time with my electroacoustic violin and percussion duo Wise & Young. Pete Wise and I had a great debut show at the Harvard Ed Portal in Boston in March, and this is the first time we’re hitting the road together. Pete is one of the organizers of the Berkshire Fringe Festival, and our first performance is at The Foundry, their new venue in West Stockbridge, MA. Then we’ll play a show at a soon-to-be-announced venue in Boston, a show at Tea in Sahara in Providence, and on the OmniCortex series in Brooklyn. Please come support our new project! Down the line, thingNY will be recording Rick Burkhardt’s Passover in July, and plans are in the works for us to perform Andrew Livingston’s News from the Oort Cloud a couple more times that month as well. In August, World/Inferno will tour from NYC to Minneapolis, and my artist residency in Graz, Austria is in September and October! And then I’m moving to Philly! Yay! Bde Maka Ska please, Jeff |