From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Wed Oct 3 15:38:08 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:38:08 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine's Ohio Homecoming Message-ID: Over the Rhine's Ohio Homecoming Greetings all, Hello from sunny St. Louis. After a memorable, truly spectacular run down the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego, past redwoods and whales, we headed east through the desert, watched an eery, violet sunset, greeted a massive moon rising, waved at Pike's Peak, woke to the morning snowfall across the top of the rockies outside of Denver, felt the restless wind of the wide open Kansas grasslands on our faces, crossed the rivers, covered the miles, lived to tell. Yesterday we drove through a Missouri downpour, and here we are today: feet back on the solid ground of the Midwest. Tonight we play the storied Duck Room at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis, owned by none other than the man Chuck Berry himself. This Friday, it's the beautiful Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington, Indiana, a town that has been good to our music. (We recorded much of Ohio there, mixed Drunkard's Prayer and Snow Angels there, mastered Good Dog Bad Dog there back in the day?) Not to mention the fact that Karin and I will be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary that evening, on the road, together. Saturday, October 6, 2007, we cross the border arriving home in Ohio after 4 long weeks of spreading the music of The Trumpet Child around America. We'll be performing for the first time this Saturday at the beautiful Wexner Center in Columbus - a dream come true for us. William Wegman is currently showing his whimsical photographs of Weimaraners at the Wexner, so you can be sure we'll be checking out his show earlier in the day and invite you to do the same. Hope you can join us for this very special evening of dogs and music! This current month-long leg of The Trumpet Child tour ends in Morgantown, WV, on Sunday, October 7, with a performance for syndicated radio show Mountain Stage. Do join us if you can. We'll be meeting up with our old friend Amy Rigby there who is also performing and has been living in France. We expect a full report. Check out OvertheRhine.com for more details on the above. Thanks for all the support and encouragement along the way. It means the world. More soon I'm sure, Linford for Over the Rhine ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Oct 11 17:39:53 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:39:53 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Free Show and More Message-ID: Just a quick heads up: Over the Rhine will be playing a free lunchtime concert in Louisville tomorrow, Friday, October 12 at noon Eastern time. Pls contact radio station WFPK in Louisville for more info. The concert will be broadcast as well, so tune in or listen online! Hope to see you if you can make it. The Trumpet Child North American Tour heads South and East next week with special guest Rosie Thomas. Check out OvertheRhine.com for all the upcoming dates. We're looking for a few good volunteers in each city to help sell our CD's, T-shirts and sundry treats. Pls e-mail merch at overtherhine.com and put MERCH VOLUNTEER, CITY, STATE in the subject heading, and include your contact info in the body of the e-mail. If you don't hear from us, it just means we're covered. Thanks -- it's a big help! (We really appreciate the great job our volunteers did on the West Coast leg!) Hope to see you in the coming weeks. Much more soon! Over the Rhine *** The Trumpet Child and Snow Angels are now both available online and in fine record stores nationwide. Check out OvertheRhine.com for more! ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Nov 1 10:29:11 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:29:11 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Rounding 3rd and Heading for Home Message-ID: Hello all, Just a quick late night note from Philly to say thanks for an unforgettable tour -- undoubtedly the best of our career so far. We covered so many miles of beautiful country since late July, and those of you who attended the concerts have been inspiring and amazing to us in countless ways. In short, thanks for everything. We are blessed with the best listening audience in the world. If all goes according to plan, Karin and I will be back at Nowhere Farm this Sunday evening for some much needed rejuvenation. I'll send out a real letter sometime in November. In the meanwhile, we're looking forward to our final concert this evening with wonderful Rosie Thomas in Philadelphia, and to our live broadcast with WXPN at noon on Friday, November 2. Tune in online at xpn.org if you'd like to listen. The Taft Theater Concert in Cincinnati is planned for Saturday, December 15 with special guest Michelle Shocked. We are planning another conversational gathering, acoustic show and Christmas party for the afternoon of Sunday, December 16 so that we can bask in the afterglow of a great year with all of you who might be interested in meeting up with us. More details on all of this soon -- stay tuned at OvertheRhine.com... You're invited. And finally, we wanted to mention a very special bit of news. Michael Wilson, one of America's most gifted, sought after photographers, is opening a portrait studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. Soon, anyone can make an appointment to have this important American artist make an archival, natural light portrait that can be enjoyed by loved ones both now and in years to come. Michael Wilson has photographed many vital songwriters, musicians, writers and artists around the world. We've been priveleged to include Michael's work in many of Over the Rhine's CD packages over the years. We are thrilled that his services will now be available to anyone. On the evening of this coming Wednesday, November 7th, Michael Wilson will be showing work at York St. Int'l Cafe, and there will be a silent auction of some of his photographs as he launches his new portrait studio. All are welcome. Admission is free. Check out this link which contains the invitation if you'd like to attend: http://daylightportrait.com/opening See you there if not before, Linford and Karin ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Fri Nov 16 12:52:09 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:52:09 EST Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Update Letter Message-ID: Hello all, We returned home to the farm to chilly fall weather. The old maples had waited for us: they still had their leaves and have slowly blushed crimson and rusty yellow in the last week or so as if on cue. The first mildly shocking thing upon arriving home was the absence of birds and butterflies. The hummingbirds were gone, the songbirds had all but vanished. The silence is stunning - mostly just the sound now of the restless wind through the trees and pines. The bluejays assert themselves in this new silence - their monosyllabic diatribes reverberate through the woods. The bluejays seemed to be everywhere when we got back, and it wasn't long before the hawks noticed. We have twice found circles of neatly plucked bluejay feathers in the field, like the dying embers of a blue fire. Of course, the cardinals are still here leaving the occasional smear of red in the air - the tip of God's paintbrush. The blackbirds and grackles do their dizzy maneuvers, little black undulating clouds morphing just above the harvested fields. And occasionally, cozy little birds of a dusty blue grey make themselves known in the bushes, stealthy and bright-eyed - birds that I can't name, which I assume must be Canadian, just passing through. The second mildly shocking thing was Elroy got skunked on our very first after dark walk - the first night we were home. He trotted over to the weeds to fish lip a dark moving animal and took a direct blast to the head. Wow. I carried the 20 guage around for a few days, but haven't seen hide nor hair of the offender. Fortunately, Karin has a special potion that a local farmer gave her (involving peroxide, baking soda and dish soap). She got the Great Dane smelling pretty good all things considered. But it was pretty ripe around here for a few days. Oh well, that's the price you pay as a dog for waking up every morning surrounded by 1500 acres of not too much. This is the time of year when we can begin to see the end of a long road. I wouldn't want to count the number of miles we've traveled since late July, and we have more miles to go, but we can now begin to see the finish line. Now we feel always that sweet tiredness that comes from having given the best that we could muster, the hard-won exhaustion of seeing a long road through to the end. As the darkness arrives earlier each evening, we hunker down as much as possible at home in the old farm house in the warm lamp light. But I do love sneaking out later and walking alone after dark through the blustery fields, seeing the mist rolling in around the house. I'm an incurable night walker. The finish line. In our case, it's our annual hometown Christmas concert at a beautiful, historic, 2600 seat theater, followed by a little party that we throw in a ragged old cathedral the following afternoon. We invite anyone to attend and to our surprise, people from all around the world accept the invitation. We hope you can make it this year on Saturday, December 15, for the concert, and Sunday afternoon, December 16, at 3pm for what we're calling our Snow Angels Soiree: Chuck will be serving his impeccable lattes, we'll have some drink and assorted refreshment, some acoustic music, some spoken word, some conversation, dozens and dozens of slightly used roses. We continue to marvel at the unique symbiotic relationship we have with our extended musical family. We look back on all the miles and ask ourselves, How did we just do all that? Often it simply comes down to the energy and enthusiasm of an audience propping us up. On a good night, something takes over that's bigger than all of us. Bigger than the caffeine, the drugs, the sleeping pills, the women of the night that constantly surround us? (Just wanted to make sure you were still with me?) We'll try to bottle hints of the elusive magic again on the limited edition series we began a few years ago called, Live From Nowhere. Hard to believe we'll be up to Live From Nowhere Volume Three already, after this year. You can pre-order your limited edition copy now. We'll include as many musical highlights as we can from The Trumpet Child and Snow Angels tours, including reworked versions of some older Over the Rhine songs, and maybe a surprise or two. Should be fun. So check out OvertheRhine.com for details and much more. And I shouldn't get too far ahead of myself: we've got miles to go before we sleep. Once again, we're looking for a few good volunteers to sell our wares in each city at our concerts. Who better for the job than folks who have actually listened to the music. If you'd be willing to help us out pls send an e-mail to merch at overtherhine.com. Pls put MERCH VOLUNTEER/CITY/DATE in the subject heading. Include your contact info in the body of the e-mail. If you don't hear back, now worries, it just means we're covered. Thanks again. Here are the remaining dates this year? This weekend: This Friday, November 16, Canton, Ohio, Malone College. SOLD OUT. (Yes, our alma mater, the liberal arts college where Karin and I first made tentative music together. No tickets remain, but come sit in the hallway if you're in the neighborhood...) Saturday, November 17, Dayton, Ohio, Canal Street Tavern. SOLD OUT. (One of our favorite listening rooms and the only venue in America where we play two sets. Tradition. Limited standing room only tickets will be made available the night of the show.) Sunday, November 18, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Taft Theater. The Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. (We'll be playing a short set to kick off the proceedings. Thanks to CityBeat and to all who nominated us for Album of the Year and Best Cincinnati Musical Ambassador?) *** Short break at the farm. You can be sure we'll trim our tree early. Karin will festoon the old staircase (so it will all be waiting when we arrive home). Vince Guaraldi will suddenly be in heavy rotation. *** OVER THE RHINE SNOW ANGELS TOUR 2007 Saturday, November 24, Chicago, Illinois, Old Town School of Folk Music. Two Shows! Special Guest Griffin House. (Wonderful venue in a fab neighborhood in one of America's greatest Live Music cities.) Sunday, November 25, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cedar Cultural Center. (Finally. Looking forward to seeing all of you - our first appearance at this venue - we've heard good things.) Tuesday, November 27, Madison, Wisconsin, Majestic Theater. (Great city to visit during the holidays - you'll probably see Karin and I bundled up wandering around with our hot coffees exploring.) Wednesday, November 28, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Miramar Theater. (Go Packers.) Friday, November 30, Kent, Ohio, Kent Stage. (Beautiful old theater, red velvet seats, piano with a broken heart?) Saturday, December 1, Columbus, Ohio. Private show. Sunday, December 2, Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Ark. (Always one of our favorite stops on the Christmas Tour. Another great town to walk around in during the holidays.) Friday, December 7, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin College Fine Arts Center. (Wonderful venue - we still aspire to be the Calvin College House Band.) Sunday, December 9, Goshen, Indiana, Goshen Theater. (Karin and I ended up in this area on our backroads Midwestern honeymoon. We hit the Shipshewana Antique Auction, and to our knowledge, this is the only place in the world you can find a hotel room with genuine handmade Amish quilts, oak furnithure and an ultra-modern hot tub.) Tuesday, December 11, Nashville, Tennessee, Belcourt Theater. (Our first headline show at this historic venue. Hope you can join us. Thanks to WRLT for all their help with this one. Look for some additional musicians to appear.) Wednesday, December 12, Indianapolis, Indiana, The Music Mill. (Hopefully we won't have to drive through 10 hours of snow this time.) Thursday, December 13, Lexington, Kentucky, The Kentucky Theater, with Michelle Shocked. (Our first headline show at this historic venue. Thanks to all at Woodsongs for their help.) Saturday, December 15, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Taft Theater, with Michelle Shocked. (Join us in our hometown for our final concert of a very big year in this stunning venue. Always a special evening. Tickets are selling fast. Special thanks to WNKU for all their support over the years. Note: tickets are available at OvertheRhine.com w/o expensive service charges.) Sunday, December 16, Cincinnati, Ohio, (Norwood): The Snow Angels Soiree at Saint Elizabeths. (3pm. Join us for an afternoon of conversation, drink, festive food, impeccable lattes, an acoustic performance by Over the Rhine and some spoken word and Q&A. We'll bask in the afterglow together. See OvertheRhine.com for ticket info.) That's the finish line. Then we disappear for 6 weeks. In late January we head to Florida and Texas (finally) and parts unknown. Hope to see you soon and thanks again for everything, As my wife likes to say, without you we'd be homeless. Lookin' forward, Linford (and Karin) Pls feel free to pass this letter around to family and friends. Perhaps parts of it are fridge-worthy. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Mon Dec 17 00:05:09 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:05:09 EST Subject: [OTR Announce] npr 2007 survey Message-ID: Just a quick note from the OtR office: thanks to all for such a wonderful year. More soon I'm sure... If you'd like to help out Over the Rhine, and you enjoyed The Trumpet Child this year, please go to the following link and cast a vote for the band and album. (The deadline for voting is Monday, December 17, today.) We'd really appreciate it. Happy holidays and thanks again for everything... Stay tuned. *** Please vote for The Trumpet Child here: http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=833977 ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: