Fall in New Orleans is a warm one. Park The Van just wrapped up their first summer back in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, and while it was the typical hot and sticky you'd expect, it was supposed to be. Last fall the label was in Philadelphia, packing away their shorts and watching the leaves shift hues. Now they're again watching beers out-sweat bodies in the Crescent City.
In keeping with a trend the label started earlier this year, the Park the Van Fall Tour is hitting the highway this October with The Spinto Band, Generationals and Pepi Ginsberg. Along the way, the label is presenting a six band bill in Brooklyn on October 23rd for CMJ, and the PTV 5 Year Party on the 29th and 30th at the Marigny Theater back in New Orleans. Locals and Park the Van recording artists Floating Action will headline the tour when it hits The Grey Eagle on Tuesday, October 27. Tickets for the 8pm show are only $8 in advance, and are available here at the club, at Orbit DVD and Harvest Records in West Asheville, and online.
There are three kinds of American folk artists: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America's landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them. This [latter] is the area that the sombre-voiced Richard Buckner has been exploring since 1984. - Sylvie Simmons; The Guardian, 2004
Friday, October 2, 2009. with Colour Revolt opening, 9pm. $10 advance / $12 day of show. Advance tickets are available online and at our local outlets.
WPA (Works Progress Administration) is an expandable collective, with Luke Bulla (Lyle Lovett), Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) and Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) at its core. Additional members include Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Greg Leisz (Bill Frisell, Joni Mitchell), Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello and the Imposters), and Davey Faragher (Cracker, the Imposters). The members of the band had known and admired each other for years, and found themselves with a strong batch of unrecorded songs, a little down time, and a collective feeling that it might be a good idea to put something on tape.
Friday, September 18, 2009, 9pm. $18 advance / $20 day of show.
