Well, 2011 has come and gone, and what a year it was!  Many standout Furthur shows, including Red Rocks, Madison Square Garden, the Greek, the whole Abbey Road album live... and a New Year's dragon!  Yours truly got to sit in with the Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon and the Everyone Orchestra at the Fillmore, SF.  The John K. Band saw the happy addition of Nathan Graham on drums and Lizzy Friel on vocals, made our first foray outside the DC/Baltimore zone at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, and  had some sweet special guest sit-ins by Sanjay Mishra and Trevor Specht (nice YouTube video of Bird Song w/Sanjay & Trevor).  I also debuted some new songs and it looks like more collaborations with lyricist Indi Riverflow will be forthcoming.  There was also a partial reunion of The Mix for a Rex Foundation benefit show, and I began working on a soundtrack recording for an independent documentary film about Walter Pahnke.Whew!  Allright, 2012, what do you have in store?  For starters, a solo acoustic set January 27 at the Ram's Head Live in Baltimore, opening for Crowded Streets (a Dave Matthews Band tribute) with On the Bus and Nayas; the John K. Band will play Iota in Arlington, VA on February 4, the 8x10 in Baltimore on February 10 and our first trip to the Big Apple on February 11 at Sullivan Hall; and an acoustic show with Djesben & friends opening for Ron Holloway & Covered With Jam at Jammin Java in Vienna, VA on March 2.  A few other cool things are in the works... but you'll just have to wait until the next edition of the JK Wireservice!Upcoming Shows:Fri Jan 27 - Rams Head Live - John Kadlecik solo acoustic - tix online20 Market Pl - Baltimore, MD - 21202 - $10 - All agesopening for Crowded Streets (a DMB tribute) + On the Bus & NayasSat Feb 4 - Iota Club & Cafe - The John K. Band - no advance tickets2832 Wilson Blvd - Arlington, VA - 22201 - $12 - 2 sets - 21+Fri Feb 10 - The 8x10 - The John K. Band - tix online10 E Cross St - Baltimore, MD - 21230 - $10 - 2 sets - All agesSat Feb 11 - Sullivan Hall - The John K. Band - tix online - Facebook event link214 Sullivan St - New York, NY - 10012 - $15 advance/$20 day of show - 2 sets - All AgesFri Mar 2 - Jammin Java - John Kadlecik acoustic w/ Djesben & friends227 E Maple Ave - Vienna, VA - 22180 - 1 setlate show - opening for Covered with Jam featuring Ron Holloway

The big announcement is two special Hairball Willie reunion shows in the Chicago area.  It has been 17 years since the last performance of the "classic lineup" of Hairball Willie, and 20 years since work began on Just Defying Gravity, the band's only full-length studio album.  Formally released in June 1993, Just Defying Gravity is now available on Itunes and CDBaby.  Featuring an early version of "Sister Smiles,"  this album was reviewed in Relix Magazine by Mick Skidmore, who declared it "extremely tight and musically inventive."  The May 18 Aurora show is free, but tickets are available online for the May 19 Martyrs' show, which will also feature another reunion of sorts: an opening set by the Dime Store String Band, my old bluegrass group, who I am also looking forward to joining on stage.

In other news, I had the pleasure of co-writing and recording guitar and vocals for a song with Massama Dogo and his afro-funk group, Elikeh, called "Nye Mind Nao," which should be released very soon.  And the John K. Band went into the studio to begin work on "Desert Trance" and "Your Mileage May Vary."  The John K. Band will also be making our first appearance west of the Mississippi in Denver for a three-night run at Quixotes June 8-10.  Also, The Rex Foundation has released most of last December's "Run For the Roses" fundraiser show, and is available for purchase at Nugs.net.

There are also a couple of solo performances on the calendar: a Monday night "off" in the middle of Furthur's Beacon run on April 16th at the Gramercy Theatre opening for Jam Stampede (most likely sitting in with them, as well); and another solo set at a groovy event called The Joy of One-Us on the west front lawn of the US Capitol building on Saturday, June 2nd.

This is my first newsletter of the year, so... welcome 2013!  Thanks for your continued subscription to the JK Wireservice.  I use ReverbNation to maintain this subscription list (similar to Constant Contact, but music-oriented), and if you are interested, they have an entire social network dedicated to music.  Also, if you wish to unsubscribe, please feel free to click the 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom of this email.Its already been an eventful year... four Furthur shows at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, CA; four Phil Lesh & Friends at Terrapin Crossroads with God Street Wine; a small, intimate solo show with Tom Constanten in DC; and then four more Furthur shows in Denver.  Now I am pleased to announce the addition of three new John K. Band dates to the schedule:Mar 23 - State Theatre - Falls Church, VA7pm doors/9pm show - 2 full sets - $12adv - 18+Facebook event page    Online ticketsFri Apr 12 - Cafe 611 - Frederick, MD7:30pm doors/9pm show - $15adv - 18+w/ Ultraviolet HippopotomusFacebook event page    Online ticketsSat Apr 13 - Mexicali Live - Teaneck, NJ6pm doors/9pm show - 2 full sets - $20adv/$25dos - 21+Facebook event page    Online ticketsAnd then Furthur picks up at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY for eight shows starting April 16, wrapping up the east coast spring run at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ on April 27.For more schedule details please visit the Schedule Page on my website.In other news: I had the honor of playing electric violin on a track for the upcoming debut studio release from Djesben.  The song is titled Bahia Beat, and the CD album is due out sometime this spring.   And, Indi Riverflow, my lyrical collaborator on the song Desert Trance, has just published a collection of his poems called Gyroscape: a year of the lyrical life and it is available online.Peace, Love, & Light... and thank you for your support!

Announcing: the first time in Madison, WIsconsin with JKB, and we will be at the Barrymore Theatre on Thursday, November 10th with my old pals, Mr. Blotto!

Also, please note that the John Kadlecik Band show in New York City Saturday, October 29th has been moved to DROM. Tickets purchased for the Highline Ballroom will be honored.

Just a quick note to let you know Atlanta has been added to the December solo tour schedule! Tuesday, December 20 will be at the Red Light Cafe with an opening set by Jonathan Brill. Hope to see you there! Plus: ticket links have been updated all over the schedule page.

Here's a quick December rundown...

Thu Dec 1 - Solo
The Purple Fiddle - Thomas, WV

Fri Dec 2 - Solo
Town Run Brewpub - Shepherdstown, WV

Thu  Dec 8 - JKB
Mexicali Live - Teaneck, NJ

Fri Dec 9 - JKB
Toad's Place - New Haven, CT

Sat Dec 10 - JKB
The Met - Pawtucket, RI

Tue Dec 13 - Solo
Skipper's Smokehouse - Tampa, FL

Wed Dec 14 - Solo
Funky Biscuit - Boca Raton, FL

Sat Dec 17 - Solo
The Basement - Nashville, TN

Mon Dec 19 - Solo
New Mountain AVL - Asheville, NC

Tue Dec 20 - Solo
Red Light Cafe - Atlanta, GA

Fri Dec 23 - Solo
Southgate House Revival -  Newport, KY

Wed Dec 28 - JKB
Ardmore Music Hall - Ardmore, PA

Thu Dec 29 - JKB
State Theatre - Falls Church, VA

Fri Dec 30 - JKB
State Theatre - Falls Church, VA
 
NYE! Sat Dec 31 - JK & Keller Williams
Ram's Head Live - Baltimore, MD

For more info, visit: www.johnkmusic.net
Please help spread the word, and thank you for your support!

Well, last year was certainly one for the books! The hottest year in recorded history saw the departure from this world of so many beloved artists and performers, and an election cycle that seemed to be lifted from the pages of a Batman comic book… don’t get me started! ;)

But my music world continued growing and evolving in the “post-Furthur” phase of my life. The John Kadlecik Band hit the road hard in 2016, playing 72 shows across the country, including two full west coast tours, and Todd Stoops joined the band in May, playing most of the rest of the year with us. I am sad to bid farewell to Nathan Graham, who is going back to grad school and taking time off from full-time touring in 2017, so JKB will take a brief hiatus from hard touring while we regroup. (literally!)...

The Golden Gate Wingmen, while only playing sporadically (16 shows in 2016), is still active, and we have a run of four shows coming up in February on the east coast. Keep your ears to the ground for more news down the line...

The DC Mystery Cats is my DC-area-only (non-touring) Jerry Garcia Band tribute project, and we played a bunch of shows at Gypsy Sally’s, including another Thanksgiving-eve benefit show for the DC Food Kitchen. I really enjoyed playing those JGB setlists with that great bunch of "cats," and certainly plan for more shows in 2017...

I did a number of fun side-man gigs in 2016, including Phil Lesh & Friends in Las Vegas, Melvin Seals & JGB at the Warfield in San Francisco, Keller Wiliams’ Grateful Gospel at Lockn and New Years Eve, and a return to Venice, Italy for another of Innovative Giving Enhancement’s amazing “Immersion” benefit-parties. But another first-time-played-in-a-new-country event happened last year when I was invited to play with Oteil Burbridge and friends in Costa Rica! And now, as I am writing this, I am in Utah having just played with Oteil, Aron Magner, and Jeff Franca for the Sundance Film Festival in a new project we are calling the Bureau of Sabotage after having just played a wildly fun show at Gypsy Sally’s on January 20th. We are definitely looking forward to more shows popping up in the future… stay tuned! And right on the horizon coming up in the sideman department are two shows just announced with Dead Feat in New Orleans during Jazz fest!

And last, interestingly enough, this past year my solo shows started taking off, and this has become a very fun way to get out in the world and tour. I call my one-man concert “Solo Acousti’lectric,” in part because I can produce a convincing acoustic guitar sound out of my electric guitars, and part because I explore other sounds outside the usual “solo with acoustic guitar” format, and lately I have been having a lot of fun with it. And tonight begins a 7 show solo tour in Salt Lake City at Gracie’s…

The road goes ever on and on… thanks for traveling with me!

Peace, Love, and Art,

-John

After New Orleans, the solo tour resumes, bringing me back to Birmingham, AL after many years and stopping aging in Chattanooga before dropping in to the Grateful for Spring Festival at Mountain Sky in Jermyn, PA.  JKB has a short mid-Atlantic weekend run before the solo tour picks back up in the Pacific Northwest June 1 & 3! June 9 & 10 I am part of two great all-star jams for a Rex Foundation benefit at the Ardmore Music Hall near Philadelphia, and looking ahead, tickets are on sale for 2 Phish afterparty shows with JKB July 25 & 26. The road goes ever on and on, and as always, the best place to get my show info is: johnkmusic.net

John Kadlecik Band feat. Jay Lane, Joe Gallant, & Benjie Porecki

John Kadlecik will be participating in the upcoming Oteil Burbridge & Friends tour, along with Melvin Seals, Jay Lane, Eric Krasno, Weedie Braimah, and Alfreda Gerald! Ticket for all shows are available now! Visit oteil.com/tour for more info & ticket links.

But that's not all! The next John Kadlecik Band Tour with Jay Lane, Benjie Porecki, & Joe Gallant is right around the corner, and most shows are also on sale today!

John Kadlecik Band
Fall Equinox Tour 2017

Sep 19 - Ithaca, NY
The Haunt

Sep 20 - Ardmore, PA
Ardmore Music Hall

Sep 21 - Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Bowl

Sep 22 - College Park, MD
The Milkboy

Sep 24 - Plains, PA
River Street Jazz Cafe

Sep 25 - Cleveland, OH
Beachland Ballroom

Sep 26 - TBA

Sep 27 - Chicago, IL
Martyrs'

Oteil & Friends
Fall Tour 2017

Oct 31 - Ardmore, PA
Admore Music Hall

Nov 1 - Charleston, SC
Pour House

Nov 2 - Athens, GA
Georgia Theatre

Nov 3 - Asheville, NC
Salvage Station

Nov 4 - Charlotte, NC
Neighborhood Theater

Nov 5 - Raleigh, NC
Lincoln Theatre

Nov 6 - Silver Spring, MD
The Fillmore

Nov 7 - Pittsburgh, PA
Rex Theatre

Nov 8 - Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Spoundstage

Nov 9 - New York, NY
Le Poisson Rouge

Though the winter ahead may be icy, at least we can celebrate the days becoming longer! The big news around here is the first onsale announcement for the Golden Gate Wingmen Spring Tour 2018! More announcements are on the way through the first week of January. 

Golden Gate Wingmen: April 13, 2018 at the Great American Music Hall. Tickets go on sale December 22.

Tickets are still available for the John Kadlecik Band New Year's weekend shows: December 28 in Baltimore, December 29 in DC (Falls Church) and New Year's Eve in Norfolk (Portsmouth). This run features Rat Dog drum and bass team Jay Lane and Robin Sylvester along with local funk/soul/jazz keyboard legend Benjie Porecki. Planning is in the works for a late winter tour... stay tuned.

John Kadlecik Band tour posters from 2017 make great last minute gifts and are available at the new [online store]! 

Don't forget to check out the free Ever-Morphing Live Album at my Soundcloud page, featuring recent live versions of most of my original tunes, as well as a few unusual covers I have made a regular addition to my setlists over the years.

It’s a special double-wireservice week! The John Kadlecik Band Winter Tour 2018 is complete and tickets for all but one show are on sale now! The lineup for this tour will feature Jay Lane (Furthur, RatDog, Primus) on drums, Benjie Porecki (Keller Williams' Grateful Gospel, Chuck Brown) on keyboards, and Wavy Dave Burlingame (Cornmeal, JK Band, Wingnut) on bass. This tour will be split into two legs...

John Kadlecik Band Winter Tour 2018

First Leg:
Feb 15-17 - Beonkey's Psychelic Ripple - Denver, CO
Feb 19 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
Feb 20 - Aggie Theater - Fort Collins, CO
Feb 22 - Martyrs' - Chicago, IL
Feb 23 - The Mouse Trap - Indianapolis, IN

Second Leg:
Mar 7 - 1904 Music Hall - Jacksonville, FL
Mar 8-9 - The Funky Biscuit - Boca Raton, FL
Mar 10 - Skipper's Smokehouse - Tampa, FL - [On sale soon!]
Mar 11 - High Dive - Gainesville, FL
Mar 13 - The Music Farm - Columbia, SC
Mar 14 - The Pourhouse - Charleston, SC
Mar 15 - Lincoln Theatre - Raleigh, NC
Mar 16 - The Grey Eagle - Asheville, NC
Mar 17 - The Blind Tiger - Greensboro, NC

The last 2 shows of the Golden Gate Wingmen Spring Tour 2018 are this weekend! Friday the 13th in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall, and Saturday the 14th at the Crystal Bay Casino in Lake Tahoe! The band stopped into KPFA studios in Berkeley for a short live on-the-air set Wednesday night on the Dead to the World show, and you can catch the whole show [HERE.]  Scroll down for a few recent photos...

Upcoming shows in April and May:

Fri Apr 13 - San Francisco, CA - GAMH - GGW
Sat Apr 14 - Lake Tahoe, NV - Crystal Bay Casino - GGW 
Fri Apr 20 - Nelson's Ledges, OH - NLQP - Solo
May 3 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Putnam Place - EO
May 4 - Cambridge, MA - The Middle East - EO
May 5 - S Burlington, VT - Higher Ground - EO
May 11 - Denver, CO - Spread the Word Festival - EO
May 12 - Denver, CO - Cervante's Masterpiece - EO

This weekend the John Kadlecik Band celebrates Jerry Garcia's birthday with a couple of shows: tonight at the Hamilton in Washington, DC, and Saturday at Bear's Picnic Music Festival in Blain, PA! This JKB run will feature Jay Lane, Benjie Porecki, and Wavy Dave and will be putting extra focus on the music of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Feed your belly (and your head) and bring your dancing shoes!

Just added!

August 18: Space Ballroom - Hamden, CT
Solo Acousti'Lectric (One Man Show) - 2 sets

August 23: Brooklyn Bowl - NYC
Solo - Opening for Circles Around the Sun

Upcoming Shows:

August 2
JKB - feat. Jay Lane, Benjie Porecki, & Wavy Dave
The Soundry
Columbia, MD

August 3
JKB
The Hamilton
Washington, DC

August 4
JKB
Bear's Picnic
Blain, PA

August 5-9
Roots Rock Revival
Music Camp
Big Indian, NY

August 11
Solo - FREE & ALL AGES
Dogfish Head Brewpub
Rehoboth Beach, MD

The Golden Gate Wingmen launched their east coast leg of Spring Tour 2019 this week.

Golden Gate Wingmen Spring Tour 2019

Fri Apr 12 - Sherman Theatre - Stroudsburg, PA
Sat Apr 13 - Le Poisson Rouge - New York City, NY
Sun Apr 14 - Hamilton Live - Washington, DC
Fri-Sun Apr 19-21 - Psychedelic Ripple - Denver, CO
Thu Apr 25 - Cafe Istanbul - New Orleans, LA - Late Night
Sun Apr 28 - Cafe Istanbul - New Orleans, LA - Late Night

And in May, three our of four Wingmen hit the road as: The Fellowship of the Wing! Jay, Reed, and I will be joined by Todd Stoops on keyboards and vocals as we trek across the southwest for most of the month, starting in Tulsa, OK May 8th and continuing through Texas, Arizona, Nevada and Utah before closing with 5 shows in California and one set back at the Ardmore Music Hall for the annual Unlimited Devotion Rex Foundation benefit. Scroll down and/or visit my website schedule page for more information and ticket links!

Shows are being added all the time!  ...for ticket links, the latest news & show updates -- please visit my website at: www.johnkmusic.net

Almost 17 years ago, back in 2003, I played my first show with Melvin Seals in Albuquerque, NM and had an absolute blast. I worked on the "Keepers of the Flame" album, and we formed a group called "The Mix" which was actually signed to a recording contract and did a full-length CD release in 2004 called American Spring (still available on Apple Music) and we toured as much as we could between Dark Star Orchestra tours until the scheduling with DSO became too difficult in 2006, and The Mix went on indefinite hiatus. Melvin and I would play sporadically for special occasions in the following years, until this past June when I was asked to fill in as special guest for the remaining shows of 2019.

Today I am pleased and honored to announce that I have been asked and agreed  to join Melvin Seals and JGB as a permanent member!  I have had a wonderful time working with this team over the last few months, and we already have some great shows to announce for 2020, including 4 shows in Hawaii February 12-15 and a full east coast/Midwest tour in March!

We hope you all had as spectacular of an Halloween as possible under the, ah... current circumstances. I'll be doing a special all-Grateful Dead livestream performance tonight on YouTube at 7:15p EST in honor of the "Day of the Dead" and the 50th anniversary of the release of American Beauty!

Virtual Tip Jar (Paypal/Venmo/Visa/MC/Amex)

For more info & ticket links, please visit:

www.johnkmusic.net/schedule.html

Shows are being added all the time! (or will be as soon as we can have shows again!)  ...for ticket links, the latest news & show updates

A few tickets are still available for Saturday, November 28 at Ram's Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD, but tomorrow night's benefit show for the DC Central Kitchen at the Hamilton is sold out!

However... a multi-camera soundboard livestream will be available, and $3 from each livestream ticket will go towards the DC Central Kitchen!

[Click/tap here for Wednesday, November 25 Livestream tickets]

Thank you all, and I hope you have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!

But I am very glad to finally be looking at 2020 in the rear-view mirror! It has been interesting seeing how different artists have been coping with the pandemic and related restrictions. I have, like everyone of course, had to cancel and reschedule a number of shows and scaled waaaaaay back on touring. Fortunately, I had been working on my Solo Acousti’Lectric show pre-covid and have been able to hang in there doing occasional outdoor events and extremely reduced-capacity indoor events. I have had to rethink how a concert experience works under these circumstances, and as a result I sadly have had to discontinue all the social interactions that used to be typical: no meet & greets, no selfies/signings, and no in-person merchandise sales. This just seems wise to me in the face of being lucky enough to still have live concerts of any kind. Live music is church for many of us, but we should still take precautions.

Internet live-streaming became a whole new rabbit hole for me to wander down, and I have become (I think) fairly decent at broadcast production on my little Linux laptop. Which leads me to this: I cannot begin to share how truly grateful I am at the generosity folks have shown in making donations to help cover costs during this emergency. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart! I can’t wait to get to the other side of all this, but until then, more YouTube live-stream events will be on the way...

This upcoming year is starting off with several interesting developments. I am teaming up with my old DSO bandmates, Rob Eaton and Rob Barraco, along with Jay Lane, Skip Vangelis and Jake Wolf for a run of shows in Denver and looking forward to that! A couple of Central American destination events have popped up: four nights Solo Acousti’Lectric in Costa Rica at a brand new Grateful Dead themed hotel February 15-20 (send email to [email protected] for package/reservation info) and then Mexico with another all-star “supergroup” featuring Melvin Seals and Rob Eaton again (rescheduled for May 21 & 22 now.) As usual for these times, new shows sometimes pop up on short notice and I will try my best to keep you informed via my website, email blasts, and social media.

It looks like covid restrictions are going to continue a while longer, but the vaccine is rolling out, most people are wearing masks where appropriate and keeping safe social distance, and hopefully by late spring some short tours with bands should start happening again. It will be a challenge for everyone in the live music world, from musicians to clubs and venues to road crews and production staff to publicists and managers. The music touring world that we all had pre-covid took decades to build to where it was, and it will take a while to get it rolling again, even once restrictions are lifted. But everywhere I still see the fire in peoples eyes… music fans, musicians, venue teams… and I believe we will get back truckin’ on, and we will survive!!

Peace, Love & Art!

-John Kadlecik

I just want to let you know how excited I am about the upcoming debut/album release shows coming up for a project I am part of called The Latin Dead! Led by percussionist, Brenden Tacon, and featuring a "who's who" of Latin Jazz (including 4x Grammy-winning keyboardist, Oscar Hernandez) as well as Andy Vargas (Santana) helping me out on co-lead vocals, I think you will dig this mash-up of songs and styles. An album release announcement should be coming soon, and our first three debut performances are just a few weeks away!

Thursday, February 16
The Mint
Los Angeles, CA
[TICKETS]

Saturday, February 18
Sweetwater Music Hall
Mill Valley, CA
[TICKETS]

Sunday, February 19
Moe's Alley
Santa Cruz, CA
[TICKETS]