[OTR Announce] Happy Thanksgiving from Over the Rhine

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Greetings extended musical family,

It’s a crisp sunny morning in Ohio. Hope you all had a good 
Thanksgiving. Karin spread the table here at home yesterday for just 
the two of us:

Nowhere Farm Thanksgiving Menu 2011

Chicken stuffed with garlic, onions and rosemary
(basted and infused w/Sauvignon blanc and citrus stock)
Homemade gravy
Mashed potatoes
Chestnut fig dressing
Fordhook Lima beans
Garlic naan
Cranberry apple butter
Moscato

One of the supreme bonuses of my life: I knew the young Karin could 
sing. I didn’t know she could cook.

(Today we head to Indiana for our family gathering so there’s more to 
come.)

I took a walk last night after dark beneath the stars and was reminded 
of what I wrote as a younger man:

“And the sky. The sky is an upside down cobalt blue breakfast bowl of 
stars newly spilled and milky and we feel our eyes sting in the chill 
air. And we begin walking in the same direction and I realize there are 
so many things I’d love to tell you because now there is no longer need 
for words.”

The younger version of me: I was often overwhelmed with how to respond 
to the unwieldy gift of being alive in this beautiful, heartbreaking 
world. I didn’t know where to begin.

But eventually I came to believe that music was as good a response as I 
was ever going to come up with. What better way to try to say thank 
you? Was there ever going to be a more nourishing ritual than gathering 
a group of people together in a room somewhere where we could make 
music over the course of an evening and have a conversation of some 
kind? Lean into the imaginary harness, and bend the world ever so 
slightly toward the hopefulness we longed for?

I know of no better time of year for music. The dark evenings are 
growing ever longer. The night air helps us make ghosts with our 
breath. We’re going to find some warmly lit stages and offer our songs 
to the close and holy darkness.

It’s not the same without you.

Peace like a river, love like an ocean,

Linford and Karin

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December 2011 Over the Rhine Christmas Tour

(We’ll be pulling songs from our two Christmas/Winter CDs: Snow Angels, 
The Darkest Night of the Year, and playing a few of your requests along 
the way from our entire catalog.)

With very special guests, The Milk Carton Kids (You will love!)

(After 20 years of touring, suffice it to say the following are among 
our favorite venues ever):

DEC 2 – Berklee Performance Center, (at Berklee School of Music), 
BOSTON, MASS
DEC 3 – Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
DEC 4 – The Birchmere, DC
DEC 5 – World Café Live, PHILLY, PA

DEC 7 – The Lincoln Theater, COLUMBUS, OH
DEC 8 – Kent Stage, KENT, OH
DEC 9 – Calvin College, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DEC 10 – Old Town School of Folk, CHICAGO (Two shows! Early and late.)

And finally we bring it all back home to end our working year in Ohio:

DEC 17 – The Taft Theatre, CINCINNATI, OH (Our homecoming show at the 
newly renovated Taft! Can’t wait to see it. With very special guest, 
our friend, Lucy Wainwright Roche!)

DEC 18 – 3pm, St. Elizabeth’s, Sunday Soiree, CINCINNATI, OH, (We lift 
a glass with friends in a ragged old cathedral and share some festive 
food and drink. Also, get this: Q&A with K&L. Join us.)

‘As for your tender heart, this world’s gonna rip it wide open. It 
ain’t gonna be pretty. But you’re not alone. All my favorite people are 
broken.’

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Also, please consider sharing the music of Over the Rhine during this 
season as you contemplate gifts for friends and family. We have 
specially priced bundles of both Snow Angels and The Darkest Night of 
the Year (5 CDs for $50, or 10 CDs for $75).

And starting next week we are going to add this:

Five CDs that changed our world: OtR Studio CD package $50
Good Dog Bad Dog
OHIO (2 CD set)
Drunkard's Prayer
The Trumpet Child
The Long Surrender

(Also, you will receive The Trumpet Child songbook with any order over 
$35.)

Thanks as always for your support. As Karin likes to say, Without you, 
we’d be homeless.

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