We’ll be heading out east to play a few shows over Labor Day weekend. Can’t wait! Details below
BROOKLYN: 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30 concert and square dance at Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, 315 Columbia St., New York City. Alex Kramer will be calling dances.
Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, noon Sunday, Sept. 1 on the Main Stage, 725 U.S. 40, Pilesgrove, New Jersey. Check out the three-day fest, which also features Ricky Skaggs, the Travelin’ McCourys, Kathy Kallick, and many more.
West coast come on out! We will be playing in a town near you in June — more detailed schedule in the text below. We are excited to wrap up our tour with a week of teaching at Big Sur Fiddle Camp, and we’ll also be leading the teen band lab at Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend WA the following week. Details on our LIVE page. Hope to see you down the road!
tour dates:
June 14: Olympia WA (house concert)
June 15: Seattle WA (Royal Room)
June 16: Portland OR (Rose City Book Pub)
June 17: Summit OR (Summit Community Center)
June 18: Eugene OR (Viking Braggot)
June 19: Milo OR (house concert)
June 20: Alameda CA (house concert)
June 22: Santa Paula CA (Deep End Sessions)
June 29: Big Sur CA (Big Sur Fiddle Camp concert)
Sami Braman, Leo Shannon, Riley Calcagno, and Vivian Leva will head out on the road as a unit to play some old-time and country music for the people of California, Oregon, and Washington!
Dates:
6/24: Big Sur, CA: Fiddle Camp Concert https://
6/25: Berkeley, CA: The Back Room https://www.facebook.com/
6/27: Arcata, CA: House Concert (details TBA) http://
6/28: Eugene, OR: House Concert (details TBA)
6/29: Portland, OR: The Fremont Theater https://www.facebook.com/
Sami Braman, Leo Shannon, Riley Calcagno, and Vivian Leva will head out on the road as a unit to play some old-time and country music for the people of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee!
5/23 Charlottesville, VA: Front Porch Tuesday Tunes at James Monroe’s Mansion: https://www.facebook.com/events/244539802678759/
5/24 Lexington, VA: House Concert
https://www.facebook.com/events/1866513540280370/
5/25 Greensboro, NC House Concert: https://www.facebook.com/events/629335240609799/
5/26 Knoxville, TN: Boyd’s Jig & Reel
http://jigandreel.com/music-events/
5/27 (AM) Knoxville, TN: WDVX Blue Plate Special
5/27 (PM) Asheville, NC: The Cork and Keg
5/28 Winston-Salem, NC: Across The Blue Ridge w/ Paul Brown at Muddy Creek Music Hall
https://www.facebook.com/events/1536624486355696/
We’re just in one of those life phases that some might call post-high school. Sami and Riley are in their first year of college (Whitman, Oberlin), and Leo’s living the high-life of a traveler and North Carolingian till he settles down next fall at Warren Wilson College.
In the meantime, we find ways to keep playing music. We teach (look for us at Big Sur Fiddle Camp), play, and even plan gigs — we’ll keep you posted on our Appalachian tour, coming in May! And if you need us to play Glastonbury, it’s simple: info@theOnlies.com!
Check out our new video of Jubilee! Enjoy, share, beware the weird faces we make…and please don’t sew your lover to your side like we suggest in the song!
We’re getting super excited to share “Long Before Light” with you! Seattlelites (and a few of you wackos coming from out of state!) can get the CD before the rest of the world at our CD release party, 8 p.m. April 4 at Town Hall Seattle. (Advance tix are $10/$5 student; get them here. Day of are $5 more.) It’s gonna be a beautiful night. Consider this:
Atlas Stringband, arguably Seattle’s premier purveyor of old-time music, gets things rolling just after doors open at 7. They’ll be playing in the Town Hall Café, where you can nosh on snacks and beverages (including beer and wine) while chatting and rubbing elbows with the nicest people in the world (or fans, duh!).
Then, at 8 p.m., Kristin Andreassen takes to the Town Hall stage, performing songs from her latest CD, “Gondolier.” Kristin, with whom we’ve spent countless hours jamming into the night, is the folk world’s latest darling, criss-crossing as she is the country at the beck and call of folk stages and radio stations. You will love love love her.
Finally, it’s release time. We’ll play a good amount from our new album, and even toss in a few new things we’re working on. Our producer Tristan Clarridge (Crooked Still/Bee Eaters) will join us on a few numbers, as will our favorite bassist in the whole wide world, RuthMabel Boytz.
If you can’t make it, we’ll be glum and blue, but there’s light at the end of that dark tunnel: The CD will be available on iTunes and CD Baby on April 8. It’ll brighten your day, and then some!
Actually, they’re overwhelmingly positive, so far. Way positive. And biased as we are, we’re not totally surprised. It’s been six months since we were in the studio, and we still love listening to each and every tune.
But this post isn’t about our review of ourselves. It’s about what others think of us. So far, we’ve had two lengthy reviews, one from Los Angeles, and a second from Great Britain: “…bucket-loads of talent, musically accomplished with voices that match the messages.” We had a mini review from Americana Rhythm Music Magazine of Bridgewater, Va., which you see to the immediate left! And finally (at least for now), a mini-mini-mini review from Sing-Out Magazine’s Pinterest page (you can pin it!), and we quote: “Very good.” Not bad!
Hold onto your seats, folks, because there’s a new wind blowing through town: It’s a heady Northwest mix of folk and jazz coming when The Onlies join The Westerlies for the latter’s Seattle CD release party., 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, at Seattle’s Royal Room in Columbia City. You likely know all you need to know about us Onlies, but if you haven’t heard The Westerlies, do yourself a favor.
Graduates of the Garfield and Roosevelt Jazz Orchestras, the four Westerlies found themselves together in New York City and decided to form a band: Two trumpets, two trombones, and unlimited imagination. We’ve listened to them live, can’t get enough of their new CD, Wish The Children Would Come On Home: The Music of Wayne Horvitz, and we’re super proud to be opening for them. And we’re not the only ones with goose bumps. NPR’s Fresh Air gave the CD a great review, and they’ve garnered accolades from a host of jazz critics. Kurt Gottschalk of NYC Jazz Record put it this way: The CD “is a lot of things, but first and foremost it should be noted that it is just a lovely listen. It is that rare combination of approachable and unusual that can challenge listeners who want to be challenged and entertain those who don’t.”
Tickets are $20 adults, $10 students, and apparently are going fast. You can get yours at StrangerTickets.com.
