Free Music!
The Bowerbirds/ Strand of Oaks/ Prypyat tour begins tomorrow, in Nashville, and here’s some free music from Bowerbirds and Strand of Oaks, to download, share with your friends and get ready for the shows.
Click the image above to download the music, and to get a full list of shows with ticket links!
This will be our last tour for a while, and we have all new versions of the songs, including some old ones. See you out there.
xo,
Beth, Phil, Yan & Leah
After we play at two great festivals, The Pickathon Festival in Portland and Lollapalooza in Chicago, it’s back over to Europe for the rest of August! Then back to the west coast of the U.S. for October, with more dates to come. We hope to see all of you out there!
Here are the latest dates and ticket links
(and you can always stay up to date on dates and tickets at our Tourdates page or on our Facebook page):
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
August 3 Portland, OR Pickathon Festival [tickets]
August 4 Portland, OR Pickathon Festival [tickets]
August 5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza Festival [tickets]
August 8 Oslo, NO Oya Festival [tickets]
August 9 Goteborg, SE Way Out West [tickets]
August 11 Haldern-Rees, Haldern Pop [tickets]
August 12 Utrecht, NL Tivoli [tickets]
August 15 Tilburg, NL 013 [tickets]
August 16 Hasselt, BE Pukkelpop [tickets]
August 17 Leicester, UK Summer Sundae [tickets]
August 18 Brecon Beacons, UK Greenman Festival [tickets]
August 20 Broningen, NL Noorderzon Festival [tickets]
October 16 Santa Barbara, CA Soho Restaurant and Music Club
October 17 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre [tickets]
October 19 San Diego, CA Casbah
October 20 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
October 21 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
October 23 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
October 24 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court [tickets]
October 26 Boise, ID Neurolux
October 27 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
October 28 Seattle, WA Neumos
October 29 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret [tickets]
November 1 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Bowerbirds, “Overcome with Light,” from The Clearing, released 2012.
directed, filmed and edited by Lawrence Martinez
assistant editor: Arrien Zinghini
Thank You: Alysha Colangeli, Nick Mann, Eric Loundy, Tyler Caughie, Inner Islands, 222 Collective
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Check out more of Lawrence’s photography on flickr, and journeys and projects here:
We’re very excited to be back in the US for June, and visiting so many of the cities we missed during the spring! A big swing through the northeast including stops in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and even Montreal. We wrap up in New York where we sold out the show at the Bowery so quickly it’s been moved to the Music Hall of Williamsburg! Supporting us for the tour is Basia Bulat, an amazing Canadian folk singer-songwriter (check out her Facebook page).
In August we’ll be performing at two great festivals: The Pickathon Festival in Portland and Lollapalooza in Chicago. Hope to see you out there!
Here are all the dates and ticket links:
US TOUR DATES
June 7 Baltimore, MD The Ottobar [tickets]
June 8 Columbus, OH Wexner Center for the Arts [tickets]
June 9 Bloomington, IN The Bishop [tickets]
June 11 Detroit, MI Magic Stick [tickets]
June 12 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom [tickets]
June 13 Millvale, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre [tickets]
June 14 Buffalo, NY Tralf [tickets]
June 17 Ithaca, NY The Haunt [tickets]
June 18 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall [tickets]
June 19 Montreal, Canada il Motore [tickets]
June 20 Portland, ME SPACE Gallery [tickets]
June 21 Pawtucket, RI The Met [tickets]
June 23 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg [tickets]
August 3 Portland, OR Pickathon Festival [tickets]
August 4 Portland, OR Pickathon Festival [tickets]
August 5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza Festival [tickets]
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
June 29 Barcelona, ES Faraday Festival [tickets]
July 1 Lyon, FR Transbordeur [tickets]
July 2 Ravenna, IT Hana-Bi [tickets]
July 4 Vienna, AT Arena [tickets]
July 5 Krakow, PL Rozrywki 3 [tickets]
July 7 Roskilde, DK Roskilde Festival [tickets]
August 8 Oslo, NO Oya Festival [tickets]
August 9 Goteborg, SE Way Out West [tickets]
August 10 Aarhus, DK Voxhall [tickets]
August 11 Haldern-Rees, Haldern Pop [tickets]
August 12 Utrecht, NL Tivoli [tickets]
August 15 Tilburg, NL 013 [tickets]
August 16 Hasselt, BE Pukkelpop [tickets]
August 17 Leicester, UK Summer Sundae [tickets]
August 18 Brecon Beacons, UK Greenman Festival [tickets]
August 20 Broningen, NL Noorderzon Festival [tickets]
Bowerbirds - “Stitch the Hem”
Phil Moore of the Bowerbirds plays a solo acoustic version of “Stitch the Hem” from The Clearing for Soul Kitchen in Paris.
A few hours after Phil played this intimate version in the streets behind the venue, we played a show inside, and it was one of our favorites on tour. Such a lovely crowd and a beautiful room. Thank you to all who came out.
We’ve got more tour dates coming up, listed below, and more in the works. Sign up for our email list to stay tuned.
June 7 Baltimore, MD The Ottobar tickets
June 8 Columbus, OH Wexner Center for the Arts tickets
June 9 Bloomington, IN The Bishop tickets
June 11 Detroit, MI Magic Stick tickets
June 12 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom tickets
June 13 Millvale, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre tickets
June 14 Buffalo, NY Tralf tickets
June 17 Ithaca, NY The Haunt tickets
June 18 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall tickets
June 19 Montreal, Canada il Motore tickets
June 20 Portland, ME SPACE Gallery tickets
June 21 Pawtucket, RI The Met tickets
June 23 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg tickets
August 3 Portland, OR Pickathon Festival tickets
August 4 Portland, OR Pickathon Festival tickets
August 5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza Festival tickets
More European and UK dates coming soon! Sign up for our email list to be the first to know when we are coming to your town.
A Day in the Life of Bowerbirds
Paste Magazine sent a photographer (Dustin Chambers) to document the last day of our Spring U.S. tour, when we played the Earl in Atlanta, GA.
There are photos from when we loaded in to the venue until we loaded out at the end of the night. Check them out here.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/1000words/2012/05/a-day-in-the-life-of-bowerbirds.html
Bowerbirds - “Always An Ear To Bend”
Phil Moore of the Bowerbirds plays Record Store Day exclusive track “Always An Ear to Bend” for Soul Kitchen in Paris.
We just finished up a EU/UK tour, which was a lot of fun. Here’s Phil playing a solo version off the B-side from our Record Store Day exclusive 7” for “In the Yard.” You might like it. Check it out.
While we were in Minneapolis on our most recent tour, we played a show to 500 of our new best friends at the Cedar Cultural Center, went dancing late at a bar behind the venue, where the DJ was dancing almost more than we were, and then crashed on the floor of our friend Nate’s house, who was actually out of town, but his brother Justin let us in. (Thanks, Nate!)
The next morning we had breakfast with Justin, and then met up with the great folks from North Shore Sessions to record a couple songs from the new album, in different arrangements from how we normally play them live, while walking around an empty building with great acoustics.
Follow this link to see videos of two songs we played at the Cedar, and also two songs from the empty building.
