Bill Callahan announces a few tour dates

photo by Joanna Newsom

Bill Callahan will embark on a somewhat modest tour later this year, with half a dozen stops in Ireland and Great Britain, about as many dates in the US and a triplet of shows in Canada. All ye who take Callahan’s willingness to play your area for granted, consider yourself unworthy of the artist formerly known as Smog and (smog), whose Drag City release Woke on Whaleheart was dubbed a “gospel-tinged ... emergence into spiritual clearing.”

Here’s the schedule:

August:
10 - Dublin, Ireland - The Village
11 - Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
12 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Spring & Airbrake
14 - Glasgow, Scotland - Arches
16 - London, England - Dingwalls
17 - Brecon Beacons, Wales - Glanusk Park (Green Man Festival)

September:
2 - Asheville, N.C. - Grey Eagle *
5 - Pittsburgh, Penn. - Andy Warhol Museum *
7 - New York, N.Y. - Highline Ballroom *
8 - Boston, Mass. - Museum of Fine Arts *
9 - Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *
11 - Toronto, Ontario - The Music Gallery *
12 - Toronto, Ontario - The Music Gallery *
13 - Grand Rapids, Mich. - The Breakroom *
14 - Chicago, Ill. - Lakeshore Theater *

October:
7 - San Francisco, Calif. - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
10 - Seattle, Wash. - Triple Door *

* with Sir Richard Bishop

Related links:
Drag City: Callahan
Drag City: Smog.
All Music Guide: Bill Callahan

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