From OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com Tue Apr 11 18:33:17 2006 From: OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:33:17 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Dates This Week Message-ID: <2cd.6b07320.316d88ad@aol.com> Hello everyone, Wow, Spring has sprung it would seem. We're safely back from an incredible few weeks in New Zealand. Much more on all that later. We're due for a real update letter. For now, just a reminder about a few opportunities to get together and soak in some good, healing music this week: Wednesday, April 12: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, CLUB CAFE. An evening with Over the Rhine (no opening act...) Join Karin and Linford for a relaxed evening of music and conversation at this cozy venue in a fun and funky Pittsburgh neighborhood. Friday and Saturday, April 14 & 15: Dayton, Ohio, CANAL STREET TAVERN. Special guest Amy Rigby joins us for these two extended evenings of music in this famous listening room that has come to feel like an extension of our living room. Check out overtherhine.com for more details. Hope to see you! Enjoy the fab weather and more to announce soon... Over the Rhine ps After weathering a couple of significant delays, all copies of Live From Nowhere Volume One have shipped. Hopefully most of you who ordered have rec'd your copies. If not, they should be there soon. Thanks for your patience. Enjoy and let us know what you think... (There are still copies of Volume One available, but they are going fast.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com Tue Apr 11 21:44:27 2006 From: OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:44:27 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] ps Message-ID: <279.81da827.316db57b@aol.com> If you would like to sell cd's for Over the Rhine at the Club Cafe show in Pittsburgh this Wednesday evening, April 12, 2006, in exchange for 2 tickets, please e-mail Brandon Dawson. Brandon at overtherhine.com Thanks, Over the Rhine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com Mon Apr 24 14:54:53 2006 From: OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:54:53 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Update Letter from Over the Rhine: NZ, Spring Tour, More... Message-ID: <3d4.127f9de.317e78fd@aol.com> Hello everyone, Springtime. Hope all is well. Thought we'd pass along a little overdue news from Nowhere. (Might want to get comfortable: it's a long one. If you just want the Over the Rhine tour dates, skip to the end.) First, here's the part that was written in March: We're home again, sitting at the dining room table after breakfast, putting a few words to paper. Had a cup of Karin's strong coffee, scrambled a pan full of eggs, toasted some whole grain bread, raspberry jam, glass of cranberry juice, the usual. Elroy is curled up asleep after his morning walk. A couple of the neighbor dogs were poking around in the maple grove, and he tore over there to say hello and make sure all was well. A little tail waggin' in the morning? (Aralee said that Elroy caught his first rabbit while we were away. A big one. She tossed it in the garden. Next day the cloak and dagger turkey buzzards arrived from the top story of the sky and left nothing but the backbone. We can't walk on the paths without a cottontail darting off somewhere.) We came back from New Zealand to find the silvery limbs of the old maples rouged with fuzzy buds. In fact as you look out across the fields, all the tree lines are rosy cheek red with expectation. Winter dumped three inches of snow on the farm to celebrate the arrival of the first day of spring - daffodils blooming in the snow - but I don't think it will last through this day. My father said they used to call that a sugar snow - those late snowfalls that would come during maple syrup season. And the birds are returning for real: robusty robins everywhere, the rusty hinge conversations of the grackles, starlings chuckling like old Tom Waits himself, the whistles and unwinding asides of the redwing blackbirds. Kildeer feigning alarm in the open fields, practicing their distractions for later when their ground nests are full of young. Cardinals singing a new song, a song they'd never sing in the winter. Haven't heard the bobwhite yet this spring. I'm afraid the hawks were awfully hard on them this winter. I saw the first redwing blackbird in one of the locust trees next to the garden the day before spring. Impeccable timing. I think the redwing is my favorite. We come back from tour, the redwing comes back from God knows where. Those wings dipped in bright paint. *** So New Zealand. Packing our bags at the farm for our first real trip of the year, Brandon dropping us off at the airport... (The crew and band will catch up with us in a few days.) The flight to Los Angeles: I'm thinking a nice nap will be just what the doctor ordered, but then we hear the movie is Walk the Line and we can't help but watch. (I remember reading The Man in Black before I was a teenager.) Karin and I process how fortunate we are to be able to travel together making music we can call our own. We meet up with Glen our manager at good ol' LAX, and then the long flight over the ocean. (My Mother, when I said goodbye on the phone, couldn't help wondering aloud how many planes were lying at the bottom of the Pacific.) Each passenger on Air New Zealand had his or her own movie library available with headphones etc, so we watched Anthony Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian and then most of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Then slept as long as we could. Our time in New Zealand felt charmed from beginning to end. It was one of those trips that made us look back and think, We're glad we didn't give up, or none of this would have happened. A few firsts: We had never before arrived in a foreign country on tour and heard our music playing in the International Airport when we arrived. Same when we departed. Drunkard's Prayer was number one on the ?Heatseekers? chart and one of the top 20 records overall in the country. (We couldn't recall ever having a record at the top of any sales chart.) And we had never before played four consecutive SOLD OUT shows in one city, let alone beautiful Wellington. Our first stop was Auckland. Thierry and Rae at EMI NZ rented us a great little apartment above an airy and sunny cafe on Ponsonby Road across from a sprawling city park with trees that looked like they were fertilized with fairy tales. We arrived early in the morning after 24 hours of traveling, but we knew we would stay up and drink cafe coffee and have breakfast and explore until the sun went down. Thierry and Rae kept us busy the next few days doing interviews and radio and TV etc, and we did a little invitation only gig (just Karin and I) that was taped for the New Zealand equivalent of VH-1. Then we headed up to Keri Keri to meet Rick and Devon and Brandon and Dave. Everybody had arrived safely so we strolled into town together and Dave said, I forgot my rosary - I'm just going to look for a used book store and get some much needed solitude. But then somehow he took a left turn and ended up at the pub where like Dylan Thomas himself, he had half the sweet intoxicated town gathered around singing and telling stories and still whooping it up long after the sun went down. Fisherman pulling fresh lobster off the truck to broil for the spontaneous American, bartenders slipping home to get their acoustic instruments so they could join in... We only heard the rumors, but later realized that just about everyone in Keri Keri was on a first name basis with our sound engineer. The next day someone was kind enough to loan us their beach house on a remote, secluded bit of sea with bold rock outcroppings and Pahootakowa (sp?) trees big as our farm house back home. We ran headlong into the late summer ocean and combed the sand for heart-shaped rocks and other unexpected bits of underwater artwork. We cooked a meal for each other, having stocked up on supplies earlier in the day, Brandon at the grill. After dark we looked at the sky and saw that the moon was waxing fuller on the opposite side from what we were used to and the stars were not the same stars we saw at home in Ohio, Orion's sword at an odd angle, or maybe that's not Orion. In the morning some of us ran along a river trail in the Keri Keri woods and heard birds crying out that we had never heard before. That evening we played our first New Zealand concert with the band. The songs had found themselves a home, far from home. People gave out little cheers when we started one that they were looking forward to hearing performed for the very first time. Great grin factor and wonderful to enjoy the fruit of good labor. Then onto the little plane headed south in the morning and dropping into the windy Wellington airport? (The locals coached us: it's pronounced Wundy Willington.) Our hotel on the water overlooking sailboats bobbing up and down? The Wellington International Arts Festival in full swing, Spanish flamenco dancers, French trapeze artists, actors and musicians from around the world mingling late at night, and some of the best wine in the world (New Zealand's finest whites and big reds being passed around free as a hand shake?) And those French trapeze artists, gathering around Karin wanting to buy her champagne: what's up with that? I never knew that Karin singing, Swing me on your trapeze, could be so problematic. We met many lovely people, and we look forward to returning as soon as we are able - maybe for one of those winery tours we've been talking about. Special thanks to Thierry and Rae for their hard work and generous spirits. And to Carla and the festival organizers who made us feel so welcome. A good life: Believe in what you do, and do it. *** But now it's April on the farm, another gorgeous day in April, it's not supposed to be this gorgeous. I took my first outdoor shower beneath the cherry tree beneath blossoms once again. But the apple tree in the front yard is waving around in the wind like a big calico dress stealing the show this year - a riot of white blossoms. Hard to imagine it will have energy left over for actual apples. Karin trimmed some apple blossom branches and put them in a vase on the dining room table. Beautiful. Looks like we dropped $100 on a fancy florist. We've been mowing the paths and carrying our breakfast outside while the backyard woodpecker taps out a few quarter notes on one of the maples. The dove is on her nest. Robins are engineers, solid Midwesterners. Their sturdy, mud-reinforced nests are the bird equivalent of a three bedroom ranch with a two car garage. Doves are bohemians. They lay a few twigs crudely on a low branch and hope for the best - a writer's shack, an afterthought. I look up from this letter and watch the patient dove. It's been exactly a year now that our friends helped us load the boxes and furniture into the farmhouse. There are signs of progress. The award-winning poison ivy thriving about the property when we first moved couldn't handle my many attacks last year, and opted to give up trying to come back this spring for the most part. We've seen no snakes, which is fine by me. And there seem to be far fewer ticks now that we've mown all around the garden, and tamed a few wild areas here and there. I don't know how big the garden will be this year because we want to grow a lot of songs in the coming weeks and months. But I do clearly remember the sensation of reaching underneath our vines and pulling out a plump tomato for lunch and thinking that the curious weight in the palm was almost as pleasurable as cupping one's hand on a breast. Almost. I didn't know when we bought the farm if I might want to just stay out here more and more and turn into a bit of a hermit writer or something. But no, I look forward to traveling city to city now more than ever. I couldn't just disappear into the land. I need music, and the energy of people. But thank God for a place to retreat. If you could see the view from this porch, I think you'd agree. *** The big news is we got a call from our friend Tracy who knew of some folks who were moving and needed to find a home for their seven-month-old male Weimaraner. We looked at each other and realized that we might be ready to get a buddy for Elroy. Maybe it was time. We figured it couldn't hurt to look. He lives with us now. We had forgotten the crazy, unpredictable, and often hilarious intensity that is the young Weimaraner's world. Every meal is a pie-eating contest. Every photo is a photo with a Weimaraner in the middle. Every walk is a game to see who can be in the very front. Every flowerbed calls out, shred me. Every cat, smell my ass. It's a commitment, but we're up for it. I've had to learn about being the pack leader, which is hard for me sometimes as I increasingly prefer the relaxed and groovy Zen approach to life. But the dogs need a pack leader, and for our world not to explode, that pack leader has to be me right now. I'm working on my calm, assertive, no bullshit Daddy voice. And a well-rounded dog life: exercise, discipline (training), affection. So say hello to Shakey Jake Lewis. (Karin decided he must have been a blues guitarist in a former life.) We have to take quite a few Jake breaks so that Elroy doesn't get too worn out. We think he's gonna turn out good. And Drew Vogel sent along these words today, which resonated so well with how we were feeling: I am constantly pleasantly surprised at the capacity of the heart -- you loved Willow with all your heart. That love is not diminished as your love for the new puppy grows -- your heart expands to be able to accommodate it without taking anything away from the memory and love of Willow. Well said. *** But hey, wanna get together? We're going to tour the West Coast this spring and a decent bit of the Midwest and South with a band from Brooklyn called Hem. Like us, they're in love with the American Songbook and hope to be making music for a long time. Should make for a lovely evening all around. We still enjoy playing songs from Drunkard's Prayer and Ohio and a smattering of earlier tunes as well. But new songs have been making themselves known which we are itching to debut. We'll be touring with Devon Ashley on drums and percussion, and Rick Plant on bass and guitar. As far as we know, this will be our last tour with Rick as he and his family are planning a move to Melbourne, Australia. Our recent trip down under must have done a number on them! Rick has been with us for much of the last three years. He will be missed. Here are the dates, and do join us. It wouldn't be the same without you. Over the Rhine and Hem (see notes for particulars?) Sweet Intoxication Spring Tour 2006 May 6 Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight (Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) Special guest: Willy Vlautin, lead singer for Richmond Fontaine.) May 7 Seattle, WA - Neumo's (Hem closes show.) May 8 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom (Over the Rhine closes show.) May 9 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall (Over the Rhine closes show.) May 11 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall (Over the Rhine closes show.) May 12 Sacramento, CA - The Underground (Over the Rhine closes show.) May 13 Fallon, NV - Barkley Theater at Oaks Park Art Center (Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) May 15 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory (Over the Rhine closes show.) May 16 San Diego, CA - Belly Up (Hem closes show.) May 19 Cincinnati, OH - Ava's Hope Benefit Concert at Crossroads (Over the Rhine only, No Hem. Special guest: Katie Reider.) May 20 Fort Wayne, IN - Come 2 Go (An evening with Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) Home to the farm for a break? May 30 Chicago, IL - The Double Door (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 1 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 2 Nashville, TN - Exit/In (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 3 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 5 Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre (Hem closes show.) June 6 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 7 Chapel Hill, NC - NC Local 506 (Hem closes show.) June 8 Washington, DC - The Birchmere (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 10 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club (Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) June 12 Boston, MA - Paradise (Hem closes show.) June 13 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of the Living Arts (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 14 New York, NY - Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (Hem closes show.) June 15 Northampton, MA - Ironhorse (Hem closes show.) (PLEASE NOTE: Some shows may not have tickets on sale yet. Check out overtherhine.com for more info.) 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Two things: One: We realized our buddy Scott Ross could use a few extra hands back at the Over the Rhine boutique, because in addition to our cd's, we've got three brand spankin' new Over the Rhine T-Shirt Designs available exclusively on this upcoming tour. (After the tour we'll make some available on the website as well.) Want to help out? We're looking for two volunteers in each city below and are willing to make free tickets available to those who are willing. You'll still be able to see most of the show, and with any luck, you can bum a fine cigar off of Scott. Please e-mail our tour manager Brandon Dawson: Brandon at overtherhine.com Two: We're happy that a fair number of the dates on this upcoming trip are ALL AGES WELCOME. Some of you have been asking, so we've included the age restrictions below and at overtherhine.com... Pour me a glass, Over the Rhine *** Over the Rhine Sweet Intoxication Spring Tour 2006 w/Hem May 6 Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight (Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) (21+) Special guest: Willy Vlautin, lead singer for Richmond Fontaine.) May 7 Seattle, WA - Neumo's (Hem closes show.) (21+) May 8 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) May 9 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) May 11 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) May 12 Sacramento, CA - The Underground (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) May 13 Fallon, NV - Barkley Theater at Oaks Park Art Center (Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) (ALL AGES) May 15 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) May 16 San Diego, CA - Belly Up (Hem closes show.) (21+) May 19 Cincinnati, OH - Ava's Hope Benefit Concert at Crossroads (Over the Rhine only, No Hem. Special guest: Katie Reider.) (ALL AGES) May 20 Fort Wayne, IN - Come 2 Go (An evening with Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) (ALL AGES) Home to the farm for a break? May 30 Chicago, IL - The Double Door (Over the Rhine closes show.) (21+) June 1 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 2 Nashville, TN - Exit/In (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 3 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 5 Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre (Hem closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 6 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle (Over the Rhine closes show.) June 7 Chapel Hill, NC - NC Local 506 (Hem closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 8 Washington, DC - The Birchmere (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 10 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club (Over the Rhine only, No Hem.) (18+) June 12 Boston, MA - Paradise (Hem closes show.) (18+) June 13 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of the Living Arts (Over the Rhine closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 14 New York, NY - Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (Hem closes show.) (ALL AGES) June 15 Northampton, MA - Ironhorse (Hem closes show.) (ALL AGES) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu May 18 11:24:42 2006 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:24:42 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Hello from Nowhere Message-ID: <31b.4665908.319debba@aol.com> Hello, Just a quick note for now? We returned to Nowhere Farm from the West Coast in time to see the locusts in blossom. The strawberry plants are heavy with young strawberries. Everything: green with the envy of spring. It was a truly memorable trip once again: the Northwest cool and wet and welcoming, eating at the Stinking Rose in San Francisco, driving through the desert out to Fallon, Nevada, late night French toast in a Hollywood diner at 2am after the Knitting Factory concert, and finally, sitting on Solana Beach in the evening with the ocean waves rolling and spreading out all around us, a smooth, frothy table cloth. We have to dream our oceans in Ohio. Not so in California. I turned to Devon near Hollywood and Vine and said, Do you ever think about everything that had to happen in order for you to be here right now? All the time, he said. All the time? Thanks to all of you who found us. We loved seeing you. We love this growing musical community that we get to be a part of. We hope we can do it again soon. ** Just a reminder that tomorrow, Friday, May 19th, is a rare opportunity to see Over the Rhine on our home turf. We're playing a new state-of-the-art 3500 seat auditorium in Cincinnati. We've heard a lot about this space, and we're curious to check it out for the first time ourselves. So far this year we've had the privilege of touring New Zealand and the beautiful West Coast of the USA. We're still a bit high from it all, and we think you'll agree the band is in a very special place musically at present. We hope you can join us. Katie Reider opens? Check out overtherhine.com for more info. And we wanted to remind you that proceeds from this concert will benefit a new charity called Ava's Hope. Ava's Hope will assist hopeful parents with the often exorbitant costs of adoption. Many people who are loving, qualified and willing to provide good homes for orphans simply can't afford the initial financial investment: the fees, the travel costs etc, can cost as much as $30,000 per child. So we hope you'll join us and help raise money to make the world a little brighter for a few children who could use a new start in a loving home. Maybe we can't change the whole world, but we can change one child's whole world? Check out AVASHOPE.ORG for more info, and if you can't join us this Friday evening, please consider making a donation directly at AVASHOPE.ORG. Looking forward, Linford for Over the Rhine Check out overtherhine.com for much more... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Sat May 27 13:35:11 2006 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:35:11 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Latest News... Message-ID: <3b5.32b1d9e.31a9e7cf@aol.com> Hello again, We wake up on Nowhere Farm on a Saturday morning and let the dogs out. Mist lying in the fields, bobwhite whistling from hidden places, doves bending a few notes from slender throats? Hummingbirds darting up to the back porch and hovering on a single vibrating note, like tiny musical instruments with invisible strings. No cars going by, no people, just the songs of birds and the fields and the open air and the new light of morning. Heck of a show for an audience of two. Are you going to make the coffee or am I? Yesterday morning, first thing, Elroy spied a black dog snooping around the garden while we were walking on the paths and he and Jake tore off around the bend after it. I expected this to be a short-lived bit of excitement, but by the time I rounded the corner, I saw Elroy in perfect Greyhound race track form, and I watched stunned as he disappeared over the horizon at full speed in pursuit of the black dog, the black dog running for broke while somehow simultaneously embodying the dog essence of, Oh Shit. Jake, the new Weimaraner, who has been making lovely farm dog progress all around, processes this new development in his devious Weimaraner brain and decides to go into Catch-me-if-you-can mode when I whistle for him. I have to turn it into a game and finally coax Jake back into the fenced yard and latch the gate. As I set out through the thigh-high wheat field, across the creek and toward the distant tree line where I last saw Elroy, I hear Jake behind me wailing and griping and yelping like someone is beating the puppy, utterly offended that his morning walk has been cut short, cursing me and the day he was born. I have to ignore him and continue through the wet fields in pursuit of the ghost of a Great Dane. Eventually, I crest a hill and see Elroy down on the edge of a woods facing east, looking contemplative. I holler his name. He seems to snap out of a trance, and turns loping toward me soaking wet, happy tongue lolling out. I can't scold him for coming to me. And he leans on me as if to say, I'm just doing my job. The Weimaraner puppy is more than enough. We don't need no more dogs around here. I understand. We begin the slow trek back to the farm. As we come into view of the old house I see Karin on the back porch in her nightgown looking amused, waiting for the first story of the day. It's not all peace and quiet. ** So we have this weekend at home on the farm, a holiday weekend low key and alone, just what we need right now. Tuesday, our world will shift the other way as we head for Chicago to start the second leg of our Spring tour. Now that we have this off-the-beaten-track piece of earth that we can disappear to, I find myself looking forward to these musical gatherings in the city more than ever. We had a fine run down the West Coast with Hem and a lovely evening in our hometown at the Ava's Hope Benefit. We'll see if we can top it as we work our way South and then back up through the Northeast. We'll be dipping liberally into the songs of Drunkard's Prayer, Ohio, Films For Radio and Good Dog Bad Dog. We'll also continue introducing new songs that have recently arrived. Makes for a good night all around. Here's the skinny (and check out overtherhine.com for more details). Paste Magazine Presents: Over the Rhine and Hem Sweet Intoxication Spring Tour 2006 Tue May 30: Chicago, IL, Double Door Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Thu Jun 01: Bloomington IN, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Fri Jun 02: Nashville TN, Exit/In ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Sat Jun 03: Atlanta GA, Variety Playhouse ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Mon Jun 05: Charlotte NC, Visulite Theatre ALL AGES Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes Tue Jun 06: Asheville NC, Grey Eagle ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Wed Jun 07: Chapel Hill NC, Local 506 ALL AGES Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes Thu Jun 08: Alexandria VA, Birchmere ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Sat Jun 10: Lancaster PA, Chameleon Club (No Hem on this show) Mon Jun 12: Boston MA, Paradise Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes Tue Jun 13: Philadelphia PA, Theatre of Living Arts ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Wed Jun 14: New York NY, The Concert Hall ALL AGES Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes Thu Jun 15: Northampton MA, Iron Horse Music Hall ALL AGES Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes See overtherhine.com for more? Special thanks to the good folks at Paste Magazine for their help in getting the word out regarding these dates. We're honored to have Paste as a presenter of the tour. If you haven't had the pleasure of subscribing to Paste Magazine as of yet, it's easily some of the best writing about music (and film and books and?) that you'll find in America today. Check out this link for a special offer for fans of Over the Rhine and/or Hem? https://www.pastemagazine.com/offer/otrhem And for those of you able to attend one (or more) of the concerts, don't forget to check out our new shirts while they last, the limited edition tour poster, and the few remaining copies of Live From Nowhere Volume One, as well as the plethora of additional Over the Rhine treats at our little traveling boutique. We have a lot of fun designing our wares, often with the help of long time friends. Well, enjoy this holiday weekend, and do join us if you can. It wouldn't be the same without you. 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We've had a wonderful run of dates this Spring out on the West Coast and then South from Chicago through Atlanta and North Carolina etc. Can't ever remember the band sounding better or there being more love in the room as we like to say. Thanks to all of you who have found us. You made us feel so welcome. Go deep or don't go at all. We're in the final week: we're excited, and also looking forward to checking back in on Nowhere Farm this weekend. We played The Birchmere in Washington, DC, and then taped a 60 minute concert with XM Radio that will be broadcast later this summer on XM 50: The Loft. Stay tuned at overtherhine.com for more details. Karin and I were invited to the White House on Friday afternoon for a little sit down with some politicians who are interested in opening conversations with artists and performers. They've met with people like Bono, Peter Gabriel, Mel Gibson, various television and movie producers et cetera. We met in Room 180 of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the room where all the Nixon tapes were made. My favorite thing about Washington is not the power or the politics or the monuments, it's the fact that there's a story lurking in every staircase, in every room, just about anywhere you turn. We found it heartening that people who think of themselves as career politicians have expressed interest in sitting down with songwriters and actors and painters to toss around ideas, look for common ground, maybe even be surprised. It made for an interesting afternoon to say the least... We'll have to see where it all leads. Well, we wanted to invite you once again to join us for the four remaining dates on our Sweet Intoxication Spring Tour. We're playing some great rooms in some of America's great cities. We're in dialogue with several record labels RE our future, looking at options as to what might be best for our music at this point. It would be especially great to have some familiar faces at the New York show if you can make it. Hope to see you, Linford for Over the Rhine Paste Magazine Presents Over the Rhine and Hem Mon Jun 12: Boston MA, Paradise Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes Tue Jun 13: Philadelphia PA, Theatre of Living Arts ALL AGES Hem opens; Over the Rhine closes Wed Jun 14: New York NY, The Concert Hall ALL AGES Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes Thu Jun 15: Northampton MA, Iron Horse Music Hall ALL AGES Over the Rhine opens; Hem closes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: