Teitur, a singer songwriter from the Faroe Islands will be touring N. America in February and March 2012. His tour includes a stop at The Ark in Ann Arbor on March 8th, a perfect venue to listen to his delicate melodies.
On Feb. 1, Da Capo Press releases The Book of Drugs, Mike Doughty's enthralling memoir of his life, career, addiction, and the doomed-from-the-start, eight-year roller coaster ride of his former band, Soul Coughing. Doughty will tour the eastern U.S. in February, performing music solo, reading from the book, and answering audience questions each night.
Tour Dates 2/3 Charlotte, NC @ Evening Muse 2/4 Atlanta, GA @ Eddie's Attic 2/7 Orlando, FL @ The Social 2/8 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum 2/10 Birmingham, AL @ Workplay 2/11 New Orleans, LA @ Parish 2/14 Austin, TX @ Cactus Cafe 2/15 Dallas, TX @ Cambridge Room 2/17 Nashville, TN @ 3rd & Lindsley 2/18 Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie's 2/19 Cincinnati, OH @ The Redmoor 2/21 Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark 2/22 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern 2/23 Toronto, ON @ The Drake 2/24 Rochester, NY @ The German House 2/25 Albany, NY @ The Linda Theatre
Book Store Events 2/2 New York, NY @ Barnes & Noble Tribeca 2/6 Savannah, GA @ The Book Lady Bookstore 2/8 Tampa, FL @ Inkwood Books 2/22 Cleveland, OH @ Mac's Backs 2/24 Buffalo, NY @ Talking Leaves
In 1992 Mike Doughty was working as a doorman at New York's legendary Knitting Factory club. With musicians he met there he formed Soul Coughing, a great 1990s band whose unclassifiable mix of rock, beat poetry, hip-hop, and electronica gained in passionate admiration what it lost in mainstream success. The reasons for Soul Coughing's 2000 breakup included Doughty's own drug addiction. His reinvention of himself as a solo singer-songwriter has brought new creativity, warmth, and, dare we say it, a bit of lightening up as he has sung, written, and blogged about a huge range of topics from the personal to the political to the whimsical. Mike comes to Michigan with a new release, "Yes and Also Yes," that includes one song in German and other accompanied by a Chinese zither.
Chris Thile and Michael Daves will perform at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 8th, 2011.
Sleep with One Eye Open, recorded live to tape over four days at Jack White’s Third Man studio in Nashville, includes 16 traditional tunes by bluegrass legends like The Monroe Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Jimmy Martin, and Flatt & Scruggs. The Tiny Desk Concert includes six songs off the album—the title track by Lester Flatt, Howard & Hart's "It Takes One to Know One," and the traditional tunes "Rabbit in the Log," "Bury Me Beneath the Willow," "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms," "Billy in the Lowground."
Bell X1 will embark on an acoustic tour in North America this fall. Fans in the midwest will be happy to know they are planning a stop at The Ark in Ann Arbor on October 11th.
Bell X1 are an Irish rock band from County Kildare in Ireland. Ireland's most renowned domestic band, they have thus far released four critically-acclaimed albums in Ireland, and are now used to playing large arenas, platinum-selling albums and obtaining number one singles in the country. The band is named after the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft in history. Bell X1 began their existence as Juniper, a 1990s act who had success in Ireland and counted, as their frontman, Damien Rice prior to his international success as a solo artist.
