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Sufjan Stevens announces North American tour 10 August 2010 in Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens has shunned the limelight for a while now, only recently emerging to play on the David Letterman Show with The National. However, we’re very excited that he’s just announced a North American tour for the tail-end of the year.
Sufjan Stevens will play:
10-12 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis Theater
10-13 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall
10-14 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
10-15 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theater
10-16 Minneapolis, MN – Orpheum Theater
10-17 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
10-19 Austin, TX – The Long Center for the Performing Arts
10-20 Dallas, TX – McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
10-22 Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center (Ikeda Theater)
10-23 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
10-26 Oakland, CA – The Paramount Theater
10-28 Vancouver, British Columbia – Orpheum Theater
10-29 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
10-30 Seattle, WA – The Paramount Theatre
11-01 Salt Lake City, UT – Kingsbury Hall
11-02 Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
11-04 Indianapolis, IN – Hilbert Circle Theatre
11-05 Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theater
11-06 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
11-07 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
11-10 Philadelphia, PA – Kimmel Center
11-11 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
Watch: Sufjan Stevens performs with The National on Letterman 14 May 2010 in Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens performed with The National on their track ‘Afraid Of Everyone’ on The Late Show With David Letterman last night.
Watch the performance:
Win tickets to the UK Premiere screening of Sufjan Steven's The BQE 6 April 2010 in Sufjan Stevens
We have some tickets to give away for the UK premiere of Sufjan Stevens’ The BQE film at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield on Sunday April 25th at 5:30pm. If you would like to go please leave a comment at the bottom of this news story.
Sensoria is the UK’s festival of music, film and digital and the 7-day hive of activity takes place 23 – 29 April. In association with Rough Trade, the festival is proud to announce a special screening of The BQE by musical genius Sufjan Stevens.
UK PREMIERE SCREENING
THE BQE
Sufjan Stevens’ film was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and inspired by the stop-start motion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – and also the Hula-Hoop. The result is a widescreen triptych ode to a potholed, serpentine trunk road that doesn’t really work. New York’s “other boroughs” are captured by utilising time-lapse photography and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into beautiful compositions.
Accompanied by Stevens’ band and a chamber orchestra, the soundtrack is inspired by Gershwin, Terry Riley, Charles Ives and Warp Records’ Autechre.
On this night time underground, overground train journey we travel in a time-altered, mirrored world which turns reality, quite literally, on it’s head and motivates us to view it in a completely different way.
Biography
Sufjan Stevens. This boy makes us so proud it brings a collective tear to our eye. We like our artists ambitious and so when Sufjan arrived claiming he was going to make 50 albums (one for every state of America) we fell in love. With 2 down, 48 to go and progress slow, we’re beginning to realise that no insurance company on earth would have touched this project. But luckily, we’re in the right business as we’re happy with the two highly accomplished epics that fill us with awe for the wonderful states of Michigan and Illinoise. Personally, we’re most looking forward to Hawaii. We’ve also been privileged enough to release some gems from Sufjan’s ever so slightly prolific back catalogue of 29 volumes. One of these is a Christmas box set that contained the best of Sufjans annual yuletide albums along with all the trimmings, such as lyric sheet and chord chart for all the family to sing along to ‘Come on! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!’ with! So what does it all sound like? Well, it’s a lot like taking an engrossing road trip through ghost towns, grain mills, hospital rooms featuring guests such as a poet, a president, a serial murderer, UFOs, Superman, and Decatur’s famous Chicken Mobil all accompanied by a soundtrack weaved out of funk, pop, folk, jazz and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes played out upon the textures of 25 instruments, female choruses and Stephen’s emerging falsetto. We told you we like them ambitious.
Sufjan Stevens’ Website
