[OTR Announce] The Home Stretch -- Over the Rhine in Concert

Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine otrannounce at overtherhine.com
Thu Dec 10 16:10:16 EST 2009


Hello friends,

We are back in Ohio after a memorable string of shows in the Northeast.
Thanks to all of you who found us for your warmth, support, and 
contagious enthusiasm.
Thanks to all of you for giving our songs a life.

It was an honor and privilege to peform at such beautiful venues 
including our first ever show
at Berklee School of Music, as well as the archictectural wonder known 
as The Egg in Albany,
the beautiful music hall in Tarrytown, the Katherine Hepburn in Old 
Saybrook, the stunning
Synagogue in DC to name a few...

It's cold and wintry now back in the Midwest. If you haven't already 
made plans, please do come
find us in Kent tonight, Ann Arbor friday, and/or Chicago (two shows) 
this Saturday.
We hope to see you, and as you come in out of the cold, hopefully 
you'll find
that warm music does the soul an immense amount of good at this time of 
year.

We know one thing for sure:
When the nights get long and dark,
what we need is music.

Here are a few previews for your perusal:

CLEVELAND SCENE MAGAZINE
Preview for tonight's (12/10/09) OtR concert at
Kent Stage -- Kent, Ohio

Over the Rhine have an uncanny way with emotion. They’re also pretty
good at choosing the most appropriate sonic backdrop for delivery. The
band’s tendency toward bleaker psychic explorations has largely
disappeared over the past few albums, but it recently added jazzy
Americana to its mix. Bluesy cabaret swagger plays alongside gospel
nouveau and pop balladry, as Karin Bergquist channels a classier era of
powerful female singers. If anything, her voice sounds more natural in
this setting than it does in the band’s indie-pop. The immediacy of the
music mingles well with the more upbeat moods. In the Live From Nowhere
series, Over the Rhine couple this new stylistic permutation with
classics from their catalog. The band’s ongoing ability to engage with
its music and audience manages to shed new light on everything it’s
done to this point. Over the Rhine perform at Kent Stage (175 E. Main
St., Kent, 330.677.5005) at 8 p.m. Tickets: $22. — Nicholas Hall

**

CONCENTRATE
Preview for OtR's Friday night (12/11/09) concert at
The Ark, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Cincinnati's dream pop duo is kinda the perfect band for Ann Arbor.
Literate, genre skipping and melancholy, Over The Rhine fall into the
company of Belle And Sebastian or Cowboy Junkies, going so far as to
play as 'adjuncts' for Margot Timmon's mellower-than-mellow band.

They're also tres popular in The Deuce, with shows selling out before
you can say, "Go Blue."

Dog lovers, heartbreaking country connoisseurs, and gospel-flecked folk
rockers, they're the type of band that might have showed up on the 4AD
label many moons ago. Over The Rhine's impressionistic lyrics sigh more
than soar and Karin Bergquist's lovely whiskey vocals have the kind of
burnished poignancy that has earned them a devoted following. Go.
Swoon.

Tickets are $25. The ark is at 316 S Main in downtown Ann Arbor.

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PREVIEW for OtR's Friday night (12/11/09) concerts at
Old Town School of Folk Music (Two shows: 7pm/10pm)

The core of Over The Rhine lies in the husband and wife team of Linford
Detweiler and Karin Bergquist whose beautiful pop songs unfold in an
earthy and impassioned way. Their live shows are always significant
events that have a transcendent quality.

"Over the Rhine's double album
OHIO
is a deeply moving, maddening, and redemptive work of art,
and necessary, ambitious pop..." ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Special guest for all of the above!: Lucy Wainwright Roche...
The daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche, Lucy Roche has
inherited all of that talent and much more. Her songwriting is unique
and her voice is "clear as a bell" according to the New York Times.

And don't forget about our homecoming Cincinnati concert on December 
19,
and the Christmas party that we host every year on Sunday, December 20.

More details at OvertheRhine.com.

Hope you can join us!

Again, we are grateful to all of you.

xoxo,

Over the Rhine





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