"Decembersongs," a holiday-themed tour featuring singer-songwriters Amy Speace
, Sally Barris
, Jon Vezner and Dan Navarro, is set for December. The quartet - with Grammy nominations and awards among them - will visit the Northeast, Midwest, South, and Mid-Atlantic regions with 11 stops. Speace conceived "Decembersongs" following separate showcases last February at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Memphis with Barris, Vezner and Navarro (of the L.A.-based duo Lowen and Navarro, now solo following Eric Lowen's ongoing battle with ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's Disease).
“The showcases were just magical,” Speace said. “Imagining all of us together was simply extraordinary. I envisioned it like a [Nashville's] Bluebird Café-style show, with four high-level songwriters playing on each others' stuff. We all bring something different to the table.” The group plans to play in-the-round, spotlighting mostly original holiday songs, which appear on an album Decembersongs by the quartet, available for sale at all of the shows, as well as online at iTunes and Amazon.com.
The set list will also include traditional holiday favorites and some of the artists’ non-holiday material. “I thought putting together a show that didn't just rework old classics but one that featured really great songwriters who could mostly present new original songs for the holidays – and selling a CD of those new songs at the shows – would really play well in December in great listening rooms," Speace said.DECEMBERSONGS 2010 TOUR DATES:
Wednesday, December 8 Nashville, TN / Bluebird CafeFriday, December 10 Zumbrota, MN / Crossings At Carnegie
Saturday, December 11 Mequon, WI / Wisconsin Singer-Songwriter Series
Sunday, December 12 Chicago, IL / Old Town School of Folk Music
Monday, December 13 E. Lansing, MI / Pump House
Tuesday, December 14 Ann Arbor, MI / The Ark
Wednesday, December 15 Pittsburgh, PA / Calliope Folk Music Society at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Thursday, December 16 Vienna, VA / Jammin' Java
Friday, December 17 Phoenixville, PA / Steel City Coffeehouse
Saturday, December 18 New York, NY / The Living Room
Sunday, December 19 Cambridge, MA / Club Passim
Decembersongs links
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