Sun Sep 2 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley WRLT Live Broadcast - 9:00pm

Hey Bill... is Karin gonna be doing anymore of the Tour Diary?? I was really enjoying that for a bit there.... ... you've got sway hahaha and sweeet on the new dates!!

The current plan is that the Tour Diary will continue with the Trumpet Child tour.

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Haven't seen anyone mention this show yet:

Sun, 2007-09-23 San Juan Capistrano, CA The Coach House $15 - All Ages - 8:00pm

pollstar says (a few new ones):

Wed 09/26/07 Tucson, AZ Club Congress

Tue 10/02/07 Kansas City, MO Grand Emporium

Wed 10/03/07 Saint Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's Duck Room

Fri 10/05/07 Bloomington, IN Buskirk-Chumley Theater

Sat 10/06/07 Columbus, OH Wexner Center

I'm gonna shoot for this one...that's my birthday

i definitely in for bloomington, the B-C is a great theatre and prob (99%?) in for columbus, i've heard nice things about the wexner center.

it's pretty dope for sure, Bill.
should be a great time!

Whoa, that's two days before my wedding, and Keith should be in town. I smell a bachelorette party forming!

then do it right, party on for two nights and i'll drag his ass to columbus on the wedding's eve too.

Sounds good to me, just get me to the [non-religious wedding location] on time!

I'll work on Amanda and see if we can make a weekend out of this too. That is if we are invited to the party as well.

Abso-freakin-lutely! Keith, Bill, The McFaddens, Kylie, the whole Cinti crew, and whomever else wants to come! Just get me a designated driver because I intend to drink.

Bill, You can have Keith for the Saturday show, but I'm out. I need my beauty sleep. Just make sure you get him there on time on Sunday!

Putting in for the vacation time now! Now hopefully we will be able to make at least one of the shows!!

according to pollstar:

According to the Dame's website;;

Over the Rhine
Saturday, 09/01/2007
8 p.m.
$14

The Dame; Lexington, KY

i'm curious (and this may have already been asked elsewhere on the orchard), but on the websites for both otr and griffin house, they both make it seem that the other act is opening for them...

so, is griffin house opening for otr, or is otr opening for griffin house, or will it be like the hem/otr tour last year where they split duties?

Aug 1 2007 8:30P The Fox Theater Boulder, Colorado
Aug 9 2007 7:00P Meijer Gardens Grand Rapids, Michigan
Aug 17 2007 5:00P Flevo Festival - Netherlands Liempde, Noord-Brabant
Aug 18 2007 9:00P Flevo Festival - Netherlands Liempde, Noord-Brabant
Aug 21 2007 8:00P The White Church - Scotland Comrie, Scotland
Aug 24 2007 8:00P Greenbelt Festival Cheltenham
Aug 25 2007 8:00P Tara Music & Arts Festival Armagh city, Northern Ireland
Aug 31 2007 8:00P Coney Island - Moonlight Gardens Cincinnati, Ohio
Sep 1 2007 9:00P The Dame Lexington, Kentucky
Sep 2 2007 9:00P 3rd & Lindsley Nashville, Tennessee
Sep 13 2007 7:30P The Triple Door Seattle, Washington
Sep 14 2007 8:00P The Triple Door Seattle, Washington
Sep 15 2007 9:00P The Doug Fir Lounge Portland, Oregon
Sep 16 2007 7:00P Sprague Theater Bandon, Oregon
Sep 18 2007 9:00P Cafe Du Nord San Francisco, California
Sep 19 2007 9:00P Cafe Du Nord San Francisco, California
Sep 21 2007 7:30P Knitting Factory Hollywood, California
Sep 22 2007 7:30P Anthology Lounge San Diego, California
Sep 22 2007 10:00P Anthology Lounge San Diego, California
Sep 23 2007 8:00P The Coach House San Juan Capistrano, California
Sep 25 2007 7:30P Rhythm Room Phoenix, Arizona
Sep 26 2007 8:00P Club Congress Tucson, Arizona
Sep 29 2007 9:00P The Soiled Dove Denver, Colorado
Oct 2 2007 8:30P Grand Emporium Kansas City, Missouri
Oct 3 2007 9:00P Blueberry Hill St. Louis, Missouri
Oct 5 2007 8:00P Buskirk-Chumley Theatre Bloomington, Indiana
Oct 6 2007 8:00P Wexner Center Columbus, Ohio
Oct 17 2007 8:00P The Grey Eagle Asheville, North Carolina
Oct 18 2007 8:30P Melting Point Athens, Georgia
Oct 19 2007 8:00P Handlebar Greenville, South Carolina
Oct 20 2007 9:00P Visulite Theatre Charlotte, North Carolina
Oct 22 2007 8:00P Eddie's Attic Decatur, Georgia
Oct 23 2007 8:00P Eddie's Attic Decatur, Georgia
Oct 26 2007 9:00P Highline Ballroom New York, New York
Oct 27 2007 7:00P Ram's Head Tavern Annapolis, Maryland
Oct 28 2007 8:00P The Birchmere Music Hall Alexandria, Virginia
Oct 30 2007 8:00P Sculler's Jazz Club Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 30 2007 10:00P Sculler's Jazz Club Boston, Massachusetts
Nov 1 2007 7:30P World Cafe Live Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 16 2007 7:00P Malone College Canton, Ohio
Nov 24 2007 7:00P Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago, Illinois
Nov 24 2007 10:00P Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago, Illinois
Nov 30 2007 8:00P The Kent Stage Kent, Ohio
Dec 2 2007 7:30P The Ark Ann Arbor, Michigan



Pardon my need for organization and sanity - but that one-date-at-a-time thing is tough on the brain and I don't even know if I'll be seeing any of these shows myself. Its just much nicer, and much easier, to click on a new post and see the schedule laid out all nice and in order with a bold here and a color there for new dates. Whad'ya say?

(i got the dates off their myspace page as Brandon's pretty quick on the draw with dates)

ooh..... does this mean that some of you Apple types may be coming to Ann Arbor this December???

no, but some of us Apple types will be in Grand Rapids next week.

Are any of us apples going to be in Lexington September 1?

lol, check your e-mail. i was thinking the same thing. looks like you're gonna get a three-fer.

ps: we're gonna be a couple of tired old dudes come monday (labor day) morning.

You know Amanda and I will be in Lexington. I am also thinking that we will make Buskirk-Chumley Theatre on October 5th, but not Columbus on the 6th.

Yay!!

Yeah, I figured that'd be a no. Grand Rapids is still a few hours away from us too.... ah well. Y'all don't know what yer missin' by not coming to the Ark (well, some of you, at least).

last night i asked linford about the CST and...

unfortunately, there will only be one night @ CST this fall/winter, sat 11.17, he said the schedule was just filling up and that was the only night that worked between their's and CST's schedule.

just thought i'd let ya'll know.

just added (@ pollstar)

Sun 12/09/07 Goshen, IN Goshen Theater
Sat 04/05/08 New Harmony, IN Under The Beams (mickey playing for a hometown crowd, should be fun)

oops.

I saw these in my Pollstar update email today as well:

11-25-2007 Minneapolis, MN
11-27-2007 Madison, WI
12-13-2007 Lexington, KY

They are not on Pollstar.com yet though.

Just another random thought here, but I would love to see them play Woodsongs here in Lexington again on this tour.

Yay, coming to my home turf on 11/25
I heard they may do an in-studio on the The Current (Minnesota Public Radio's indie station) on the 26th.
I just may have to follow them down I-94 to Mad-town for the 11/27 show.

yay, finally a show that kent and sue don't have to fly to!

We got you hooked bad. (Or is that good?)

so i would make an educated guess that "the taft" is looking like 12.15. maybe? possibly?

I hope it's the 22nd, but that's highly unlikely due to its proximity to xmas.

I took off the second and third weekends in December just to be safe!

I know *I* can't think of a better way to spend my birthday, so I'm hoping!

I sure hope not, as luck would have it that the Bengals play the 49ers at 8 PM on that evening...

I'm hoping for the 14th instead...

i think it's only been on a friday once, maybe twice. and that sure makes it tough on all those who come in from out of town for this show, which is a large percentage of the people there.

i think attendance would take quite a hit if it's on a friday night. moreso than if it's just going up against a bengals game.

and a friday show would definitely screw-up the new tradition of the sunday afternoon at st. elizabeth's, which is a pretty great thing...

Yeah, I know *I* am looking forward to that (being where 'Yote and I met face to face for the very first time after all). *grin* (Gee...and you wonder why OTR became my favorite band so quickly..teehee)

Hello from Nowhere Farm,

We flew back from Belfast Sunday evening, arrived home safely to a couple of grinning dogs and a swaggering cat. Last night, Karin came opened the screen door and said, Drop everything, come quick. I ran outside, and we watched a plump, golden, full moon rise over the fields once again drenching the world in an eery, after dark light. When a full moon rises in a clear sky out here on the farm, it always feels like the brightest night of our lives.

It had been 5 years since we'd been across the great pond to the old world. Karin did the math and realized that since our last trip in 2002, we had released eight CD's:

OHIO
Changes Come | Over the Rhine LIVE
Drunkard's Prayer
Live From Nowhere Volume One
Snow Angels
Discount Fireworks
Live From Nowhere Volume Two
The Trumpet Child

So we had a lot of catching up to do with folks abroad who have found all this music.

We enjoyed Holland once again. The Dutch are easily some of the most organized, most efficient folks on the planet. We can't understand why we don't just get them over here to fix New Orleans - they know all about reclaiming reams of land from the ocean, planting pristine forests, weaving their endless bike paths through it all. The production at Flevo Festival is world class, and we're hoping to get our hands on some of the film footage they shot of our mainstage performance. Thanks for the hospitality.

We got to spend 4 nights in Scotland (Crief and Comrie). The weather was sunny and lovely. We hopped on the train to Edinburgh to meet up with Jack and Hazel and 6-year-old Finlay, and then Jack came up to the Highlands for a few days. We sat out under the stars and reminisced, solved the world's problems over a glass of something good as we are prone to do. Juicy wondered up into the hills to talk to the sheep about the world's first blues singer, David the shepherd boy, songwriter, fighter, lover, king, a man after God's own heart.

We played a show in Comrie in an old church that had been converted into a concert venue, and it's always inspiring to see a village come together to put on a show, off the beaten path. Dr. Payne cooked a fabulous meal for us, and 15-year-old Scottish girls bought copies of The Trumpet Child and had us sign them.

It was good to be back at Greenbelt Festival - (Over the Rhine's sixth in fifteen years) - lots of memories made at this festival including Karin's song, The Seahorse (and in 1995, our first ever whirlwind trip to Wales to find Dylan Thomas's writing shack). This time around, Billy Bragg sounded great, and we ran into Robert from Willard Grant Conspiracy (who toured with us extensively on the Films For Radio tour). Also ran into Ian Archer (and Miriam), a fine songwriter from Ireland, who turned us on to Lowden acoustic guitars back in 1990's. Karin and I have played them ever since. It was good to see Ric and Josh and Sarah Masen and Steve Stockman - pretty much impossible (especially for Jake) to walk around a corner without recognizing someone. Brandon got to meet up with friends he hadn't seen in years, and Lloyd had e-mailed us about sampling a 25-year-old Scotch after our show. We were happy to oblige, and there we were sitting in a tent, the sound of our laughter and real conversation and music in the distance, something resembling the Holy Spirit our glasses. (If bread and wine remind us of Jesus, a glass of Scottish Whisky aged with care in the misty hills is a pretty good symbol of the 3rd member of the Trinity.)

We ended with a quick trip to Belfast - and played a gorgeous concert hall in Armagh. Then back home to our little farm in Southern Ohio - as beautiful in its own way as anything we saw on our entire trip.

We were talking a lot about Home the last few weeks. Karin and I have chosen a life where pretty much every day we get to spend at home is a prize, a rare gift, something we worked for, an event drenched in gratitude. And yet, maybe home is not really about geography or air quality, or moonlight, or being in the city or out of the city, or in a red state or blue state, or in a music town or a working class town. Maybe home has more to do with the work we've all done as individuals to increasingly become people we can live with. Maybe home is the desire to live soulfully, the tiny ongoing decisions we make that allow the soul room to breathe.

That's our prayer for our extended musical family: that we would all find lives that allow the soul to thrive.

***

Speaking of, wanna get together this week?

(The Trumpet Child has arrived. We're having a good time with this one.)

Here's what we've got:

Thursday, August 30, 7pm, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Rookwood) in our old neighborhood of Norwood, Ohio: We'll be playing an acoustic set featuring songs from The Trumpet Child, and signing copies of the CD, giving away posters etc. This is a free performance - everyone is welcome. (We've realized we're probably not going to be able to greet all y'all at the Coney show, other than from stage, so pls stop by Jo-Beth this Thursday if you're able - we'd love to see you prior to embarking on one of our most extensive tours of the USA ever.)

Friday, August 31, 7pm: This is our big hometown, Trumpet Child release concert, with special guest Josh Rouse. Finally! Karin has given Coney Island the recipe for Show Ponies (a fab summer drink we were served on tour in New Zealand, referenced in the new song I'm On A Roll) so you might wannna sample one, I dunno. For those who don't know, Moonlight Gardens is a stunning outdoor venue at one of Cincinnati's old treasures - Coney Island - a historic amusement park on the banks of the Ohio River. WNKU will be taping the concert. Hope you can join us. (If you want to make a holiday wknd of it, one of the largest fireworks shows in the Midwest takes place this Sunday evening in downtown Cincinnati.)

Saturday, September 1st - We're packing the band into The Dame in Lexington, Kentucky, for an early show. Check out OverTheRhine.com for details. (In case you've forgotten, The Dame is next to one of our favorite hat shops in the world.)

This Sunday, September 2nd - We're performing at 3rd and Lindsley, Nashville, Tennessee, with special guests Swan Dive. WRLT will be broadcasting the Over the Rhine concert live on the air. (Tune in on-line as well.)

The West Coast Tour starts in a few weeks. Check out OverTheRhine.com for much more.

Hope to see you soon,

Linford (and Karin)

I am also headed to the Bloomington Show...as I live about 8 minutes from the theatre. Yeah!

MICHELLE SHOCKED and OVER THE RHINE.
Thursday, Dec 13, 7PM

Michelle Shocked burst into the music world at a fiery protest singer, fiercely independent and lyrically aggressive. Her first hit, “Anchorage” introduced her to mainstream audiences and her career hasn’t stopped since. www.michelleshocked.com

Over the Rhine is a husband and wife duo from the Cincinnati area who have garnered critical raves and a huge audience for their musical work. Over the years, the band has opened for a number of musicians, including Bob Dylan, and toured as members of Cowboy Junkies. They perform songs from their new album, “Trumpet Child.” www.overtherhine.com

Tickets are on sale August 25th at the Kentucky Theater. For credit card orders call 859-231-7924 after 4PM.

well, after too long away from the apples, i am going to make the most serious effort to get to the ann arbor show on Dec 2. it's a Sunday, and its the shortest trip i can make to see otr.
id love to meet any area apples and love to see any of my beloved apples who can get to ann arbor then. with my move and school starting this week--and too many complications in terms of my job--i just could not get to show on the 31st as much as i wanted to. i am burnt out--to a crisp--right now but circumstances have to be better by Dec--when i wont be on a mission to find every item of clothing or dinner ware etc. et.c etc. whatever.

sooooo, please message me if you even think you might make it to the Ark.
fiercely missing the apples,
d.

So...any more news on when the Taft is going to be? I keep watching, and seeing announcements of dates in December...

Where is this from? I didn't see it on the Kentucky Theatre site. I want more details. Michelle Shocked is another one of my faves, and a couple of years ago I tried to turn her on to OtR. She said she liked the lyrics, but I never heard that she ever actually listened to the music. If they're doing a double bill now, I'm interested.

linford also announced it saturday night at the dame, i'm pretty sure that this is a "one off" show as part of the kentucky theatre's "troubador series" and don't think there are any additional dates or touring plans with her.

i'm really looking forward to the show, "short, sharp, shocked" is one of my favorite albums. ever. and i've seen her a couple of times, she puts on a great show.

should be a fun night.

That's all the info there is right now. It is from the Troubador Series website. I am planning on calling the theatre today and getting ticket prices, etc.. I will post later when I have more info.

Well, If d. is going to make it to ann arbor, than so are the mcfaddens! Anyone else?