Instrumental rock-fusion quartet TAUK have added new dates to their 2017 tour. Headlining some of the biggest venues to date in Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York, the tour will take them around the country before a summer festival season that will see them featured at Summercamp, Electric Forest, FloydFest, LOCKN’ and more. In addition to their headline shows and festival appearances, they will co-headline with Papadosio in Minneapolis and offer direct support for Railroad Earth, and STS9 for select shows - see below for full tour schedule. Openers have been added for many of the shows and have been announced below.

For a sneak peek of what to expect when TAUK hits the road, the Oyster Bay, NY quartet have also announced that they will begin selling select live shows via Nugs.net. The first release from the band’s archives, which is available today, is a two-set show from October 13^th, 2016 at The Waiting Room in Omaha, NE.  Guitarist Matt Jalbert said “We’re excited to be releasing our shows through Nugs.net so that fans can have a place to find high quality live soundboard recordings from us. We’ll be putting up some older shows to start, and will continue to release more shows from our upcoming tours.”

TAUK are touring on the heels of their latest studio album Sir Nebula. Released on September 16, 2016 via STS9’s record label 1320 Records, Sir Nebula was produced by Grammy award winner Robert Carranza. Steeped in a juxtaposition of genres as diverse as jazz, rock, funk, electronic, ambient, and hip-hop, Sir Nebula emphasizes the band’s knack for creating progressive melodies and producing intrinsic soundscapes.

Tour Dates:

02/01/17 - Alchemy - Providence, R.I. (w/ Teddy Midnight)

02/02/17 - Pearl St. - Northampton, MA (w/ Strange Machines)

02/03/17 - Flour City Station - Rochester, NY (w/ Flux Capacitor)

02/04/17 - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY*

02/28/17 - Blind Tiger - Greensboro, NC (w/ Butcher Brown)

03/2-5/17 - Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival - Okeechobee, FL

03/03/17 - Barrelhouse South - Savannah, GA

03/04/17 - Visulite Theatre - Charlotte, NC

03/06/17 - Zydeco - Birmingham, AL

03/08/17 - Old Rock House - St. Louis, MO (w/ EGI)

03/09/17 - Majestic - Madison, WI (w/ PHO)

03/10/17 - Skyway Theatre - Minneapolis, MN @

03/11/17 - Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL

03/14/17 - Rose Music Hall - Columbia, MO (w/ Linear Symmetry)

03/15/17 - Vega - Lincoln, NE (w/ Linear Symmetry)

03/16/17 - Aggie Theatre - Fort Collins, CO (w/ Skydyed)

03/17/17 - The Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO (w/ Greener Grounds and Eminence Ensemble)

03/18/17 - Animas City Theatre - Durango, CO (w/ Greener Grounds)

03/22/17 - Town Square Tavern - Jackson, WY (w/ Yak Attack)

03/23/17 - The Filling Station - Bozeman, MT (w/ Yak Attack)

03/24/17 - The State Room - Salt Lake City, UT (w/ Yak Attack)

03/25/17 - O.P. Rockwell - Park City, UT (w/ Yak Attack)

03/29/17 - Crown Room - Crystal Bay, NV

03/30/17 - Great American Music Hall - SF, CA (w/ Lebo & Friends)

03/31/17 – The Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA

04/01/17 - Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV +

04/04/17 - The Vanguard - Tulsa, OK (w/ MONTU)

04/05/17 - George’s Majestic - Fayetteville, AR (w/ MONTU)

04/06/17 - 1884 Lounge - Memphis, TN (w/ Soul Mechanic)

04/07/17 - Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN (w/ Soul Mechanic)

04/08/17 - Concourse @ The International - Knoxville, TN (w/ Soul Mechanic)

04/09/17 - Revelry Room - Chattanooga, TN

04/12/17 - Cosmic Charlie’s - Lexington, KY (w/ Peridoni)

04/13/17 - Madison Live - Covington, KY (w/ Peridoni)

04/14/17 - The Hi-Fi - Indianapolis, IN (w/ Peridoni)

04/15/17 - Woodlands Tavern - Columbus, OH (w/ Earphorik)

04/18/17 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH (w/ Consider the Source)

04/19/17 - Iron Works - Buffalo, NY (w/ Consider the Source)

04/20/17 - The Haunt - Ithaca, NY (w/ Strange Machines)

04/21/17 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA

04/22/17 – Irving Plaza – New York, NY

05/26-28/17 – Summer Camp Music Festival – Chillicothe, IL

06/22-25/17 – Electric Forest Weekend 1 – Rothbury, MI

06/29-7/2/17 – Electric Forest Weekend 2 – Rothbury, MI

07/26-30/17 – FloydFest – Floyd, VA

08/24-27/17 – LOCKN’ – Arrington, VA

TAUK are bringing their all-instrumental blend of funk, hip-hop, progressive rock, and jazz around the U.S. with this fall’s Montage tour. Fans will be able to pick up tickets this Wednesday via the band’s fan ticketing here.

Fans who purchase tickets through the band’s ticketing service will have the option of adding on a limited edition tour poster and pin bundle that will not be available anywhere else.

Tickets to all shows will be available to the general public on Friday at 10 AM local time. 

TAUK will be performing songs from their entire catalog including last fall’s Sir Nebula, Collisions, Pull Factors, and fan favorite Homunculus that is  available September 15th on vinyl, exclusively at the TAUK merch booth.  The newly pressed vinyl version of Homunculus features the original album mastered for vinyl and 3 bonus tracks from the recent Sir Nebula album sessions.

The band has been making multi-track mixes of select shows available for sale via Nugs.net, and starting today, all of those shows will be available to stream via the Nugs.net streaming app, which can be downloaded here. The app gives fans access to over 10,000 shows from bands in the extended jam scene.

Plans are underway for a large New Year’s Eve celebration, the details of which will be announced soon. Keeping in the holiday spirit TAUK’s show on 11/24 at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom will be performed under the banner of TAUKsgiving, with special guests to be announced.

Tour Dates:

July 28-29        Floyd, VA                     FloydFest

Aug 3               Ozark, AR                     Homegrown On The River

Aug 4               Bellevue, NE               Hullabaloo Music Festival

Aug 11             Darrington, WA                        Summer Meltdown Festival

Aug 25             Arrington, VA               LOCKN’

Aug 26             Greenville, SC             Shoeless Jam Music & Arts Festival

Sept 15               Burlington, VT             ArtsRiot+

Sept 16            Syracuse, NY               The Westcott Theater+

Sept 20            Morgantown, WV         Mainstage Morgantown*

Sept 21            Kalamazoo, MI                        Bell’s Eccentric Cafe*

Sept 22-23       Thornville, OH             Resonanace Music & Arts Festival

Sept 24           Milwaukee, WI             The Miramar Theatre*

Sept 26           Des Moines, IA             Wooly’s*

Sept 29           Kansas City, MO          The Riot Room*

Sept 30           Boulder, CO                 Fox Theatre~

Oct 1               Durango, CO                Animas City Theatre~

Oct 4               Boise, ID                      Neurolux^

Oct 5               Missoula, MT               Top Hat Lounge^

Oct 6               Seattle, WA                 Nectar Lounge^

Oct 7               Portland, OR                Star Theater

Oct 8               Eugene, OR                 Hi-Fi Music Hall#

Oct 11             Chico, CA                    Lost On Main

Oct 12             Sacramento, CA          Harlow’s

Oct 13             Petaluma, CA              Mystic Theatre

Oct 14             Los Angeles, CA          Teragram Ballroom

Oct 15             Phoenix, AZ                 Last Exit Live

Oct 18             San Antonio, TX          Sam’s Burger Joint&

Oct 19             Dallas, TX                    Trees&

Oct 20             Austin, TX                  Antone’s&

Oct 21             Houston, TX                 Last Concert Café

Oct 25             New Orleans, LA          Republic NOLA

Oct 26             Auburn, AL                  Bourbon Street Bar

Oct 27-28        Asheville, NC               New Mountain Theatre  (28th=)

Oct 29             Live Oak, FL                Suwannee Hulaween

Nov 3               Baltimore, MD             Baltimore Soundstage

Nov 4               Ardmore, PA                Ardmore, PA

Nov 24             New York, NY               The Bowery Ballroom

Dec 1-5            Playas-Punta Cana,DR           Dominican Holidaze

+ with special guest Dynamo

* with special guest Earphorik

~ with special guest Skydyed

^ with special guest Yak Attack

# with special guest Klozd Sirkut

= with special guest Deaf Scene

& with special guest Naughty Professor

Instrumental rock-fusion quartet TAUK have confirmed a grand finale to their Fall US Tour. 2017 will come to a close with 2 shows at Charleston, SC’s Pour House, and one night at Atlanta, GA’s Variety Playhouse.  The current fall tour comes after a successful summer run of festival shows at Electric Forest, LOHI Music Festival, FloydFest and many more.  Support acts for the NYE run, and the band’s hometown TAUKsgiving show will be announced shortly. Tickets to the New Years’ run will be available this Friday at 10 am EST.

The band has recently rereleased their break through album “Homunculus” on vinyl with 3 bonus tracks on side D from the Sir Nebula studio sessions. They vinyl release will be available exclusively on the band’s web store and at shows. All 3 bonus tracks from Side D are also available on digital services now.  TAUK’s most recent studio album, Sir Nebula, was recorded with the band splitting time between producer Robert Carranza’s Solar Powered Plastic Plant Studio in Los Angeles and their home studio in Oyster Bay, NY.

For up-to-date information, and ticketing links visit - http://taukband.com

Just Announced! Fruition has invited their friends The Lil Smokies to open for them for their upcoming Pacific Northwest New Year’s Eve run. The two bands will be playing three shows together in Seattle and Portland. December 29th will be an intimate show at The Crocodile in Seattle, and December 30th and 31st will be held at Portland’s Crystal Balllroom. Fruition rang in 2017 with three hometown shows at The Wonder Ballroom, and have stepped up into the largest hometown venue they have played to date. Like last year’s New Year’s Eve show which featured a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the songs of 1967, December 31st, 2017 will hold some special surprises.

Fruition is currently in the midst of their Fall Tour which features opening slots for Greensky Bluegrass (including a sold out Red Rocks Amphitheatre in September), headline shows, and festivals. New music is due in 2018.

Fruition’s remaining 2017 tour dates: 

October 5 Parliament Room at Otus Supply Ferndale, MI*

October 6 The Rex Theater Pittsburgh, PA*

October 7 Woodlands Tavern Columbus, OH*

October 8 Beachland Tavern Cleveland, OH*

October 10 White Rabbit Cabaret Indianapolis, IN*

October 11 Atomic Cowboy Pavilion St Louis, MO +

October 13 Slowdown Omaha, NE #

October 14 Hillberry Harvest Moon Festival Eureka Springs, AR

October 15 Uptown Theater Kansas City, MO #

October 18 Mercury Ballroom Louisville, KY#

October 19 Salvage Station Asheville, NC #

October 20 Avondale Brewing Co Birmingham, AL #

October 21 The Tabernacle Atlanta, GA #

October 26 Hangtown Music Festival Placerville, CA

November Dates TBA

December 8 Strings and Sol Puerto Morelos, MX

December 29 The Croc Seattle, WA @

December 30 The Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR @

December 31 The Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR @

* with special guests The Deer

+ with Horseshoes & Handgrenades and The Kitchen Dwellers

# supporting Greensky Bluegrass

@ with special guests The Lil Smokies

ALO is excited to announce their 12th annual Tour d’Amour.  Held each year in February and March, to surround Valentine’s day, the tour is a celebration of love in all of its forms. The celebration in 2018 will be as epic as ever, with one modification.

Dave Brogan, the band’s drummer, and one of four lead vocalists, is unable to join the band on this year’s Tour d’Amour  due to family obligations.  Instead, holding down the drum chair, will be longtime ALO friend and collaborator Ezra Lipp (Phil Lesh, Sean Hayes, Magic in the Other).

ALO has always felt like a family.  While Zach, Dan and Steve will miss having Dave on drums for these shows, they all fully support Dave in taking the time needed for his family.

From Dave:

“Unfortunately I will not be able to join my ALO brothers on this 12th annual installment of the Tour d’Amour. I need to be home with family seven days a week at that time. I am excited that Ezra will be playing in my stead and very confident that his ability and personality will fit seamlessly with the band. I look forward to rejoining ALO on the road as soon as possible and thank Steve, Lebo and Zach for their patience and understanding. Family has always come first with ALO and I know that our core fans love and support that. Thanks to them as well.”

In addition to welcoming  Ezra to the stage for this run, the shows will be enriched by a great set of support acts who will be announced on November 27th.

The Fillmore weekend will include two evenings of music, plus a Saturday family Matinee show.

Tickets to all shows go on sale this Friday at 10 AM PST, except Chico which will go on sale in January.

Ticket links available at www.alomusic.com/shows

1/31 SLO Brew San Luis Obispo, CA

2/1  SoHo Santa Barbara, CA

2/2 Troubadour Los Angeles, CA

2/3 Belly Up Solana Beach, CA

2/9 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR

2/10-11 The Crocodile Seattle, WA

2/16 Center For The Arts Grass Valley, CA

2/17-18 Hopmonk Sebastopol, CA

2/19 Sierra Nevada Big Room Chico, CA

2/23 Harlow’s Sacramento, CA

2/24 Crystal Bay Crown Room Crystal Bay, NV

3/16-17 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA

With Thanksgiving weekend in the rearview, ALO is excited to announce the acts who will be joining them on the road for their 12th annual Tour d’Amour.  Held each year in February and March, to surround Valentine’s Day, the tour is a celebration of love in all of its forms.  John Craigie will open most shows, including the Friday at the Fillmore.  Monophonics will join ALO for Seattle and Portland, and TAUK will help close out the tour, and Fillmore weekend on the Saturday night in San Francisco. 

"I’m very excited to have John Cragie out for most of our TDA run. I love his writing and storytelling and we’ve been texting regularly about some fun ideas for the tour. Likewise, TAUK and Monophonics are two of my favorite bands out on the road these days, and I’m looking forward to the possibility of collaborating." - Zach

"I recently guested with TAUK at Cervantes in Denver, CO and we had such a ball together! These guys are fantastic players, and they definitely bring the party with them! We couldn't be more thrilled to have them join us for our tour closer at The Fillmore in San Francisco! And Monophonics is a band we've known and loved for a while! We both hail from the Bay Area, so our orbits have crossed many a time, but we've never gotten to do any touring together. We're fired up that we finally get to pair up for a run of shows as we bring the Cali vibe up to the Pac NW!" - Lebo

The celebration in 2018 will be as epic as ever, with one modification. As previously announced, Dave Brogan, the band’s drummer, and one of four lead vocalists, is unable to join the band on this year’s Tour d’Amour  due to family obligations.  Instead, holding down the drum chair, will be longtime ALO friend and collaborator Ezra Lipp (Phil Lesh, Sean Hayes, Magic in the Other).   

The Fillmore weekend will include two evenings of music, plus a Saturday family Matinee show. 

Tickets to all shows are now on sale, except Chico which will go on sale in January. 

Ticket links available at www.alomusic.com/shows

1/31 SLO Brew San Luis Obispo, CA*

2/1  SoHo Santa Barbara, CA*

2/2 Troubadour Los Angeles, CA*

2/3 Belly Up Solana Beach, CA*

2/9 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR #

2/10-11 The Crocodile Seattle, WA #

2/16 Center For The Arts Grass Valley, CA *

2/17-18 Hopmonk Sebastopol, CA*

2/19 Sierra Nevada Big Room Chico, CA*

2/23 Harlow’s Sacramento, CA*

2/24 Crystal Bay Crown Room Crystal Bay, NV*

3/16 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA*

3/17 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA@

* w/ John Craigie

# w/ Monophonics

@ w/ TAUK

Oyster Bay, NY’s own TAUK has announced their spring tour dates. A quick trip to the west coast to play San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore with ALO and the Pot of Gold Festival in Arizona will be followed shortly by the kick off to the tour proper.  The April dates begin in their home away from home in Colorado with a return to Denver’s Ogden Theatre with other highlights including Chicago’s Concord Music Hall, the Sweetwater 420 Festival in Atlanta (where the band sold out their NYE show at the Variety Playhouse), Washington, DC’s iconic 9:30 club, 2 trips to Boston for a headline show and the Boston Calling Music Fest, and a 2 night run at their hometown Brooklyn Bowl, where the band celebrated the release of 2016’s studio album Sir Nebula.

New music may not be too far off, as the band wrote to fans in a newsletter this morning "We're writing to you from in the studio right now where we find ourselves with more music than we know what to do with. The aim was towards a new album release this fall... but we're not sure we can wait that long!” 

Tickets to all shows are on sale this Friday at 10 am local time. Details and ticketing information can be found at www.taukband.com

TOUR DATES

Mar 17            SF, CA                           The Fillmore (Supporting ALO)
Mar 18            Chandler, AZ                 Pot of Gold Fest
Apr 6               Ft Collins, CO               Aggie Theatre
Apr 7               Denver, CO                  Ogden Theatre
Apr 10             Iowa City, IA                 Blue Moose Tap House
Apr 11             Lawrence, KS               The Bottleneck
Apr 12             Minneapolis, MN          Fine Line Music Cafe
Apr 13             Chicago, IL                   Concord Music Hall
Apr 14             Grand Rapids, MN       Elevation
Apr 15             Detroit, MI                    The Shelter
Apr 18             Columbus, OH             Woodlands Tavern
Apr 19             Nashville, TN               Mercy Lounge
Apr 21             Safety Harbor, FL         Brainquility Fest
Apr 22             Atlanta, GA                  Sweetwater 420 Fest
Apr 25             Birmingham, AL           Zydeco
Apr 26             Gainesville, FL             High Dive
Apr 27        Jacksonville, FL     1904 Music Hall
May 1              Greensboro, NC          Blind Tiger
May 2              Charlotte, NC              Visulite Theatre
May 3              VA Beach, VA              Shaka's Live
May 4              Washington, DC          9:30 Club
May 5              Boston, MA                  Brighton Music Hall
May 18-19       Brooklyn, NY               Brooklyn Bowl
May 26            Boston, MA                  Boston Calling 

ALO is heading east. Known for their annual Tour D’Amour of California and the Pacific Northwest, ALO has heard their fans’ requests and are heading east for two big weekends this fall.  First up the band will be visiting New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Boston and Pawling, NY. in October.   November will feature a visit to Colorado’s front range for shows in Boulder and Denver where the band will be joined by fellow Californians Tea Leaf Green.

ALO is more than a band. It’s a musical relationship that has endured for over two decades.  While the band sometimes takes time off to work on various side projects, ALO has always been their main home. Zach Gill (keys/vocals) continues to tour the world with the band’s college pal Jack Johnson; Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar/vocals) played shows with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh; Steve Adams (bass/vocals) toured and recorded with Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers; Dave Brogan (drums/vocals) joined up with Utah band, Mokie. Brogan is currently taking a break from touring, so the drum throne for these shows will be filled by Ezra Lipp (Music In The Other, Sean Hayes).  On this upcoming run, he band will be performing originals from their extensive catalog, as well as a selection of covers that have become live staples for the band.

Tickets are on sale this Friday at 10 AM Local time.

Details and links at www.alomusic.com

Upcoming shows:

Sept 22-23 Camp Deep End Navarro, CA (SOLD OUT)

Oct 17 Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY

Oct 18 Daryl’s House Pawling, NY

Oct 19 Gypsy Sally’s Washington, DC

Oct 20 The Foundry Philadelphia, PA

Oct 21 Brighton Music Boston, MA

Nov 2 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO

Nov 3 Cervante's Denver, CO

Jan 15-21 Jam Cruise Port of Miami, FL (SOLD OUT)

TAUK release “Let It Ride” a new video from their album  Shapeshifter II: Outbreak today, from Director Dugan Warmoth, a follow up to “Recreational Outrage” which debuted with the album on September 28th.

Musically and visually, “Let It Ride" heads deeper down the wormhole of “Blade Runner”,“Tron” and “ Ex-Machina". The video's futuristic imagery takes viewers on a dystopian trip, and shows the continuing evolution of the 'Shapeshifter' virus that began in TAUK's live action "Checkmate” video, continued onward through the animated “Recreational Outrage” video through to it’s culmination in “Let It Ride".

Shapeshifter II: Outbreak embeds a sci-fi narrative into TAUK’s most adventurous, emotionally expansive work to date. As the video’s are threaded together, the album is a continuation of their early-2018 EP, Shapeshifter I: Construct.  The new album picks up where its predecessor’s narrative thread left off, and broadens the band's sonic palette to include a vast spectrum of synth sounds and programmed effects. 

In sculpting the album’s intricate arrangements, TAUK called on such esteemed musicians as The Naughty Horns, Ghost-Note’s Nate Werth (a percussionist who’s also played with David Crosby, Q-Tip, and Snarky Puppy), and Juan Alderete (longtime bassist for Racer X and The Mars Volta). Shapeshifter II: Outbreak came to life in collaboration with TAUK’s longtime cohort Robert Carranza—a Grammy Award-winning producer/mixer/engineer also known for his work The Mars Volta, Ozomatli, and Taj Mahal.

TAUK’s Outbreak Tour has taken them around the country, and wraps up this Saturday in Buffalo, NY.  The year will close with 4 shows to celebrate the New Year, and the band will return in late January for a new tour also entitled “Let It Ride" (all dates below).

TAUK Tour Dates

Nov 14 – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi Indy

Nov 15 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall &

Nov 16 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom &

Nov 17 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo Iron Works &

Dec 21 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place (supporting Kung Fu) 

Dec 28 – Albany, NY – Jupiter Hall at Lucky Strike (supporting The Motet) 

Dec 29 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle (supporting Umphrey’s McGee) **Late Night “TAUKing McGee” Afterparty is **SOLD OUT** 

Dec 30 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry*

Dec 31 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage*

Jan 15-Jan 21 – Jam Cruise 17 – Port of Miami, FL

Jan 31 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music

Feb 01 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

Feb 02 – Ardmore, PA – Ardmore Music Hall

Feb 05 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern^

Feb 06 – Newport News, VA - Boathouse Live^

Feb 07 – Raleigh, NC –  Lincoln Theatre^

Feb 08 – Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre^

Feb 09 – Asheville, NC - Salvage Station^

& w/ Exmag

* w/ The Fritz

^ w/ People’s Blues of Richmond

Shapeshifter II: Outbreak Track Listing

1. Prelude
2. Recreational Outrage
3. CMF 9000
4. Checkmate
5. Convoy
6. Not Your Nemesis
7. Let It Ride
8. Ratchet
9. Pioneer
10. Pitter Pattern
11. Upside Down

Today, Portland, OR's Fruition announce an additional run of dates in early 2019. In addition to stops in Nashville, St. Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta, Asheville the band has announced new stops in Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Dallas Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and more. See full list of dates below. Support for all dates is also now announced. The band will be joined by Daniel Rodriguez of Elephant Revival, Brad Parsons & Starbird, and Dead Winter Carpenters at various dates.

Fruition have been touring in support of their new EP Fire, in which three of the tracks are from the same sessions the band recorded their latest full-length album Watching It All Fall Apart (LoHi Records) with acclaimed producer Tucker Martine(First Aid Kit, My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists). The 4th track, "New Colosuss," was mixed and engineered by the band's own Tyler Thompson. 

The band will be returning to several markets that they last visited as openers for Jack Johnson (Alabama and Texas) , and New Orleans where they joined him onstage at JazzFest!  They recently released the music video for the song "Baby Let's Go".

 Watch "Baby Let's Go" via YouTube:

https://youtu.be/nU5Z5REyDmU

Watch “Let’s Take It Too Far” shot in New Orleans via YouTube

https://youtu.be/aEqeNxbw0zs

Fruition will be closing out 2018 with a stop at Winter Wondergrass Stratton (Vermont) and two back to back headline shows at Boulder, CO's Boulder Theater on December 28 & 29. Full list of tour dates below.

Fire Tracklist:

1) Baby Let’s Go

2) Dirty Thieves

3) Fire

4) New Colossus

Tour Dates:

December 14-16 - Stratton, VT - Winter Wondergrass Vermont

December 28 - Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater @

December 29 - Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater @

January 3 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads Saloon*

January 4 - St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House*

January 5 - Nashville, TN - Exit In*

January 8 - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre*

January 9 - Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre*

January 10 - Charleston, SC - Charleston Pour House*

January 11 - Asheville, NC - Asheville Music Hall*

January 12 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West*

January 15-21 - Port of Miami, FL - Jam Cruise

January 24 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theatre @

January 25 - Pensacola, FL - Vinyl Music Hall@

January 26 - New Orleans, LA - The Parish at HOB@

January 29 - Jackson, MS - Duling Hall@

January 30 - Lafayette, LA - The Pearl @

January 31 - Houston, TX - Last Concert Cafe @

February 1 - Austin, TX - Antones @

February 2 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada @

February 6 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf ^

February 7 - Flagstaff, AZ - Orpheum ^

February 8 - Las Vegas, NV - Bunkhouse Saloon^

February 9 - Salt Lake City, UT - Commonwealth Room ^

February 22-24 - Steamboat Springs, CO - Winter Wondergrass Colorado

March 29-31 - Squaw Valley, CA - Winter Wondergrass Tahoe

@ with Daniel Rodriguez of Elephant Revival

* with Brad Parsons & Starbird

^ with Dead Winter Carpenters

TAUK announces their Let It Ride, Pt. 2 Spring Tour today, and shares a free download of their new live compilation “Real TAUK, Vol 1." on Nugs.net.

Download/Stream “Real TAUK, Vol 1."

http://nugs.net/browse/music/20951/TAUK-mp3-flac-download-Real-TAUK-Volume-1

2018 saw TAUK release their most adventurous, emotionally expansive work to date. An early-2018 EP, Shapeshifter I: Construct was followed by a full album Shapeshifter II: Outbreak.  The new album picks up where its predecessor’s narrative thread left off, and broadens the band's sonic palette to include a vast spectrum of synth sounds and programmed effects. The band took the new songs out on the road in the fall and released nearly every show via their partnership with Nugs.net for sale and streaming through the Nugs subscription platform. 

Now, coming off of a New Years run which saw them open for The Motet in Albany, NY, Umphrey’s McGee in Atlanta, and play to their largest headline crowds to date in Richmond, VA and Baltimore, MD, the band will celebrate the announcement of their 2019 spring tour with a compilation of their favorite performances from this past fall. The release is free on the Nugs platform, and available for sale and streaming at all major digital music services. 

TAUK’s Let It Ride tour is comprised of 2 parts. Part 1 takes the band through the Northeast with stops in January and February in Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virigina and North Carolina.  Part 2 will start back up in the spring with a month’s worth of dates in April and May. The second leg of the tour will take the band through Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Florida, Ohio and wrap up in Pittsburgh, PA.  Already confirmed for the summer are a support slot at the world famous Red Rocks opening for Lettuce, and at the already sold out Electric Forest festival. 

Tickets for all new shows go on sale this Friday, January 11th at 11 am, ET

TAUK Tour Dates

Jan 15-Jan 21 – Jam Cruise 17 – Port of Miami, FL

Jan 31 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music !

Feb 01 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall &

Feb 02 – Ardmore, PA – Ardmore Music Hall !!

Feb 05 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern $

Feb 06 – Newport News, VA - Boathouse Live $

Feb 07 – Raleigh, NC –  Lincoln Theatre $

Feb 08 – Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre $

Feb 09 – Asheville, NC - Salvage Station $

Apr 10 – Morgantown, WV - Mainstage Morgantown

Apr 11 – Grand Rapids, MI - Elevation @ The Intersection

Apr 12 – Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall

Apr 13 – Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line

Apr 16 – Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre #

Apr 17 – Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room

Apr 18 – Kansas City, MO - recordBar

Apr 19 – Tulsa, OK - The Vanguard

Apr 20 – Austin, TX - Mohawk

Apr 23 – Jackson, MS - Martin’s Downtown

Apr 24 – Memphis, TN - 1884 Lounge %

Apr 25 – Little Rock, AR - The Rev Room %

Apr 26 – New Orleans, LA - The Fillmore *

Apr 27 – Nashville, TN - Exit/In

Apr 28 – Chattanooga, TN - Songbirds South

May 01 – Jacksonville, FL - 1904 Music Hall

May 02 – Orlando, FL - The Social

May 03 – Gainesville, FL - High Dive

May 04 – Tampa, FL - Crowbar

May 08 – Greenville, SC - The Firmament

May 09 – Columbus, OH - Woodlands Tavern @

May 10 – Covington, KY - Madison Theater

May 11 – Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater

Jun 15 – Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre **

Jun 27-30 – Rothbury, MI - Electric Forest

! w/ support from Versificator

& w/ support from Rob Compa Trio (of Dopapod)

!! w/ support from Maximus Animae Musicae

$ w/ support from People’s Blues of Richmond

# w/ support from Frogleg

% w/ support from Arkansauce

* supporting Disco Biscuits

@ w/ support from Goose

** supporting Lettuce

Real TAUK, Vol. 1 Track Listing

1. CMF 9000 (11/9/2018 Boulder, CO)
2. Shenanigans (10/14/2018 Rochester, NY)
3. The Spot (10/4/2018 Rochester, NY)
4. Waver (11/2/2018 Seattle, WA)
5. Darkwing (11/9/2018 Boulder, CO)
6. Where You Are (11/2/2018 Seattle, WA)
7. Mokuba (11/13/2018 St Louis, MO)
8. Stranger Danger (10/5/2018 Burlington, VT)
9. Side Project (10/13/2018 Charleston, SC)
10. Pitter Pattern (11/14/2018 Indianapolis, IN)

California’s ALO announce that they will be releasing a series of EPs over the course of the next several seasons. The first, Creatures, Vol. 1: Spark is set to come out July 19th on Brushfire Records. As a sneak preview, the first track “Get To Do it Again" is available on all digital services today. Fans can buy and/or stream the new track here: https://ffm.to/alodoitagain. YouTube embed link also below. 

Spark features four new tracks by founding members Zach Gill (keys, vocals), Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz (guitars, vocals) and Steve Adams (bass, vocals), as well as the band's newest member, Ezra Lipp on drums.

Long-time ALO member Dave Brogan (drums, vocals) stepped away from touring last year to be closer to home, and Lipp was tapped to fill in. Lipp will continue touring with the band, as well as recording throughout the Creatures sessions.

This first EP release was engineered and mixed by long-time ALO collaborators Dave Simon-Baker and Mike Cresswell, with additional recording done by the band at home studios. While still maintaining that familiar ALO sound, there is a fresh, sparkly bounce to these tracks that should pleasantly surprise old school listeners. Gill explains, “'Get To Do It Again' is about turning a rut into a groove, finding silver linings by shifting your perspective. The idea that when you finally experience the thing you’ve been dreading, it often times is exactly what you needed. Your breakdown becomes your breakthrough."

Upcoming tour dates for the band include headlining shows in California, as well as festival appearances at High Sierra Music Festival, Oregon Country Fair, Sawtooth Music Festival, Petaluma Music Festival, and the band's own Camp Deep End. For a full list of dates and details go to: www.alomusic.com.

 Track list: 

1. Heroes (Zach Gill)

2. Just a Spark (Dan Lebowitz)

3. The Rain (Steve Adams)

4. Get To Do It Again (Zach Gill)

On Friday, Portland, OR’s own Fruition released “Alone Together,” the first track from an upcoming series of 45’s to be released on 7” Vinyl and digital services. The song was penned by the band’s Kellen Asebroek (watch the video from the recording of the song here https://youtu.be/6Kt3vFYrlbk) and will be paired with “Snapdragon,” a brand new song co-written by Jay Cobb Anderson and Mimi Naja.  Snapdragon will be released digitally on August 2nd.  The band expects to have the vinyl 7” available for sale when they join the Wood Brothers at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks on September 5th.  “Alone Together” was initially debuted at the band’s year end 2 night stand at the Boulder Theatre in Colorado, while Snapdragon has never before been heard by the public.  Asebroek explains "Alone Together is about the huge (and often overlooked) importance of listening.  When people are at their lowest, one of the most important things we can do to help is just be there and be present.  It's amazing how far an empathetic open ear and heart can help lift someone out of the fog of depression.  Reach out to your friends!  We weren't meant to go it alone.” 

Blessed with 3 songwriters and singers, Fruition has always had more material than time to record and release it.  When the band prepared to record their last full album (2018’s Watching It All Fall Apart produced by Tucker Martine), over 50 songs were written, but the studio session song list was honed down to just 13.  Each Fruition album has had several gems passed by because they didn’t fit with the rest of the current material, and till now have never had a home. 

The newly announced 45 Series will be an ongoing outlet for songs both old and new that simply need to see the light of day.  Asebroek explains "We already have four different 45's planned out, with each release containing two tracks.  The beauty of this is that we can really release ANYTHING we want, without worrying about it fitting on an album.  Some of them will be songs that we've played for years live and never recorded, some will be things your ears have never heard.  Got a favorite you'd love to hear given proper studio treatment?  Don't sleep on these 45’s."  While the songs will be released digitally, they will also be pressed to very short runs of 7” vinyl for collectors.  Only 250 copies of the 45 Series #1 release will be pressed, with 50 available for preorder on the band’s website, approximately 50 at Indie retailers, and the other 150 only available at shows.   An announcement will be made shortly about the release date of the second 45 in the series which has already been recorded and mixed by drummer Tyler Thompson.  Fans can listen to the track on their favorite digital music service , or preorder the vinyl 45 here: https://smarturl.it/Alone.Together

The band appeared this past weekend at Northwest String Summit outside of Portland, OR playing two sets including subbing in for a travel-delayed Galactic to close out Saturday’s main stage. Fruition will return to the  Pacific Northwest for a soon to be announced NYE run, and will be spending the rest of the summer playing festivals and headline dates including this weekend at Peach Festival.  Several new dates have been added in September, around their Red Rocks and AmericanaFest shows,  with support from the band’s good friend Taylor Kingman’s new band “TK & The Holy Know Nothings. A more extensive tour in October and November will be announced soon.

Upcoming Shows:

July 27th Peach Music Festival Scranton, PA
August 3rd Rhythms On the Rio South Fork, CO
August 8th Soulshine Farm Fest Green Mountain, NC
August 14th Prescott Park Concert Series Portsmouth, NH
August 16th Thunderbird Music Hall Pittsburgh, PA (w. Brad Parsons Band)
August 17th Hoxeyville Music Festival Wellston, MI
August 19th Hi-Fi Indianapolis, IN (w. The Mighty Pines)
August 20th Woodlands Tavern Columbus, OH (w. The Mighty Pines)
August 21st Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH (w. The Mighty Pines)
August 23rd LOCK’N Arrington, VA
August 24th Exile Music Festival Des Moines, IA
Sept 5th Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO (supporting The Wood Brothers)
Sept 7th Bottleneck Lawrence, KS (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)
Sept 8th Atomic Cowboy Pavilion St Louis, MO (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 11th Americana Fest Nashville, TN
Sept 12th The Firmament Greenville, NC (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)
Sept 13th Charleston Pour House Charleston, SC (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)
Sept 17th Southbound Brewing Savannah, GA (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings )
Sept 18th The Plant Dothan, AL (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)
Sept 19th Terminal West Atlanta, GA (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)
Sept 20th Jackson Terminal Knoxville, TN (w. Jon Stickley Trio, and TK & The Holy Know Nothings) 
Sept 21st Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY
October 4-13 IGE Music & Art Immersion Lisbon, Portugal
November 14 Utopia Festival Burnet, TX

TAUK is excited to announce their fall headline tour.  The "Feed The Beast” tour will take them across the country over the course of 4 weeks, with the back half consisting of a co-headline run with JAZZ IS PHSH.  After a full festival schedule  that has included Electric Forest, Camp Bisco, High Sierra Music Fest and still has Cobblestone Live, Druid City, Wormtown, Resonance, Progtoberfest and Hulaween yet to come, TAUK is looking forward to having their full light show back out on the road with them this October/November.  The band has been weaving sets of their intricate originals and select covers from their broad catalog that includes last year’s Shapeshifter II: Outbreak.  

The band has been releasing a steady stream of live video and audio content this year, with almost all shows released on Nugs.net in high res audio, and select shows released in video form on Youtube and Facebook.  The most recent release is perhaps the most sought-after show from the last 12 months.  2018’s iteration of Resonance Music and Arts Festival featured a TAUKing Beatles set consisting entirely of Beatles and John Lennon covers.  You can watch the whole thing here: http://bit.ly/TAUKingBeatles_Watch or listen to it here: http://bit.ly/TAUKingBeatles_Listen

Founded in 2015 by The Chase Brothers, Adam Chase and Matthew Chase, JAZZ IS PHSH has quickly become a world renowned tribute to Phish, attracting some of the most influential musicians in the jazz and jam scenes to take part in this collective approach to paying tribute to one of the most important and influential bands in Rock and Roll history.

Support acts for the first half of tour will be announced shortly.

All newly announced shows will go on sale this Friday at 10 am local time. For details and ticketing links go to www.taukband.com

Tour Dates:

8/2/19 Fri Cobblestone Live Music Festival Buffalo, NY
8/9/19 Fri Burning Can Beer & Music Festival Hendersonville, NC
8/23/19 Fri The Mercantile Huntsville, AL
8/24/19 Sat Druid City Music Festival Tuscaloosa, AL
9/13-15/19 Fri Wormtown Music Festival Greenfield MA
9/19-22/19 Fri Resonance Music & Arts Festival Slippery Rock PA
10/10-13/19 Fri Progtoberfest @ Reggies  Chicago IL
10/1219 Sat The Moonshiner's Ball Livingston KY
10/18-19/19 Fri/Sat Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY
10/23/19 Wed The Blind Tiger Greensboro, NC
10/24/19 Thu The Concourse @ The International Knoxville TN
10/24-27/19 Fri Suwannee Hulaween Live Oak FL
10/26/19 Sat HI-FI Indianapolis IN
10/27/19 Sun Bell's Eccentric Cafe Kalamazoo MI
10/30/19 Wed The Old Rock House St. Louis MO
10/31/19 Thu Bourbon Theatre    Lincoln NE
11/1/19 Fri The Bottleneck Lawrence KS
11/2/19 Sat TBA Denver, CO
11/6/19 Wed Meow Wolf Santa Fe NM
11/7/19 Thu The Lariat Buena Vista CO
11/8/19 Fri Mesa Theater Grand Junction CO
11/9/19 Sat The State Room Salt Lake City UT
11/12/19 Tue Brooklyn Bowl  Las Vegas NV #
11/13/19 Wed Belly Up Solana Beach CA #
11/14/19 Thur 1720 E. 16th St Los Angeles CA #
11/15/19 Fri The Chapel San Francisco CA #
11/16/19 Sat Crystal Bay Casino Crystal Bay NV #
11/19/19 Tue Domino Room Bend OR #
11/20/19 Wed Sessions Music Hall Eugene OR #
11/21/19 Thur Star Theater Portland OR #
11/22-23/19 Fri/Sat Nectar Lounge Seattle WA #
3/20-22/20 Sat Rockjavik @ Eldborg Hall  Reykjavík, Iceland &

# co-headline with JAZZ is PHSH

& opening for Umphrey’s McGee

Portland, OR’s own Fruition will ring in 2020 with a short run through the Pacific Northwest, including visits to Bend, Eugene, Seattle and Portland. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, and Danny Barnes supports on all shows. The band is currently on tour, with their next appearance coming this Wednesday at Americanafest in Nashville at the High Watt. 

This past Thursday, Vol. 1 of their new limited edition 7” vinyl series went on sale at Red Rocks where the band was supporting The Wood Brothers. The band played both the A side “Alone Together” and the B side “Snapdragon” in their scorching one-hour set. On the following day, the band released “Playin’ On (Words),” Side B from Vol. 2 on all digital services. The new song was penned by the band’s Mimi Naja and is paired with Side A’s “Driving Into the Storm.” You can hear both songs here: smarturl.it/PlayinOnWords

Blessed with 3 songwriters and singers, Fruition has always had more material than time to record and release it. When the band prepared to record their last full album (2018’s Watching It All Fall Apart produced by Tucker Martine), over 50 songs were written, but the studio session song list was honed down to just 13. Each Fruition album has had several gems passed by because they didn’t fit with the rest of the current material, and until now have never had a home. 

The recently announced 45 Series will be an ongoing outlet for songs both old and new that simply need to see the light of day. While the songs will be released digitally, they will also be pressed to very short runs of 7” vinyl for collectors. Only 250 copies of each release will be pressed, with 50 available for preorder on the band’s website, approximately 50 at Indie retailers, and the other 150 only available at shows.   

Fruition’s last show in the Pacific Northwest was at Northwest String Summit in North Plains, OR. Having already played the main stage on Friday and scheduled to close out the festival’s Saturday night with a late-night set, the band ended up closing out the main stage again, subbing in for a travel delayed Galactic. Stanton Moore made it to the festival grounds in time to be rolled out on a drum riser to join Fruition for two songs. Fruition returned the favor later that night when the three singers sat in during Galactic’s set. 

In addition to the newly announced NYE run, next Monday the band will be announcing a quick run between Hangtown in Northern California and Utopiafest outside of Austin, TX which includes a stop at Emeril Lagasse’s Boudin, Bourbon and Beers charity event in New Orleans, LA. All September dates feature support from the band’s good friend Taylor Kingman’s new band TK & The Holy Know Nothings. 

Upcoming Shows:

Sept 11th Americana Fest (High Watt) Nashville, TN

Sept 12th The Firmament Greenville, NC (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 13th Charleston Pour House Charleston, SC (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 17th Southbound Brewing Savannah, GA (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings )

Sept 18th The Plant Dothan, AL (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 19th Terminal West Atlanta, GA (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 20th Jackson Terminal Knoxville, TN (w. Jon Stickley Trio, and TK & The Holy Know Nothings) 

Sept 21st Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY

October 4-13 IGE Music & Art Immersion Lisbon, Portugal

October 24-27 Hangtown Ball Placerville, CA

November 8 Boudin, Bourbon and Beers New Orleans, LA

November 9 Gumbofest Jackson, MS

November 14 Utopia Festival Burnet, TX

December 27 Sessions Music Hall Eugene, OR (w. Danny Barnes)

December 28 The Crocodile Seattle, WA (w. Danny Barnes)

December 29 Domino Room Bend, OR (w. Danny Barnes)

December 31 Revolution Hall Portland, OR (w. Danny Barnes)

Fresh off of recent visits to Red Rocks to support The Wood Brothers, and to Nashville for a packed showcase at Americanafest, Fruition continues to roll out new tour dates to close out 2019. The band has added dates in California, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas to previously announced headline shows and festivals in Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon and Washington. Support on upcoming shows includes TK & The Holy Know Nothings, Danny Barnes, Handmade Moments, Bear Market Riot and Goodnight, TX, with more to be announced.   

Recently, the 3-part harmony driven roots rock band has been experimenting with blending the old school tradition of releasing vinyl 45 singles, with the modern music business model of making everything available on digital service providers.  While the 4 songs are now available everywhere, limited edition short runs of only 250 copies of each release on 7” 45rpm have been pressed to vinyl. Volume 1 is available for sale at their merch table and Volume 2 is available for pre-order on their website.

You can hear the new 45 sides here:

1. 45 Series Vol 1 Side A:  Alone Together  YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Kt3vFYrlbk           

2. 45 Series Vol 1 Side B: Snapdragon     YouTube:   https://youtu.be/3b9outRNZi4         

3. 45 Series Vol 2 Side A: Driving Into the Storm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmdhWItJjg

4. 45 Series Vol 2 Side B: Playin’ On (Words) -  smarturl.it/PlayinOnWords

Upcoming Shows:

Sept 19th Terminal West Atlanta, GA (w. TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 20th Jackson Terminal Knoxville, TN (w. Jon Stickley Trio, and TK & The Holy Know Nothings)

Sept 21st Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY

October 4-13 IGE Music & Art Immersion Lisbon, Portugal

October 24-27 Hangtown Ball Placerville, CA

October 31 The Mystic Theatre Petaluma, CA (w. Bear Market Riot)

November 1 The Siren Morro Bay, CA (w. Bear Market Riot)

November 2 Moe’s Alley Santa Cruz, CA (w. Goodnight, TX)

November 3  Saint Rocke Huntington Beach, CA

November 5  Winston’s San Diego, CA (evening with)

November 8 Boudin, Bourbon and Beers New Orleans, LA

November 9 Gumbofest Jackson, MS

November 12 George’s Fayetteville, AR

November 13 Venue Shrine Tulsa, OK

November 14 Deep Ellum Arts Dallas, TX (w. Handmade Moments)

November 15 Utopia Festival Burnet, TX

November 16 Last Concert Cafe Houston, TX (w. Handmade Moments) 

December 27 Sessions Music Hall Eugene, OR (w. Danny Barnes)

December 28 The Crocodile Seattle, WA (w. Danny Barnes)

December 29 Domino Room Bend, OR (w. Danny Barnes)

December 31 Revolution Hall Portland, OR (w. Danny Barnes)

TAUK released Real TAUK, Vol. 3 today, as a free digital album on Nugs.net and on all streaming services. A now regular series of live releases highlighting live performances from recent shows,Volume 3 features 7 live highlights from their spring tour. Guitarist Matt Jalbert explains "We wanted to pick some of the newer songs for this volume of Real TAUK to showcase how they stretch out live, but we also had to mix in some older favorites like "On Guard" and “Tumbler”. You can stream, or download it here https://smarturl.it/RealTAUK-Vol3

Since announcing the "Feed The Beast” tour, the band has added support acts on all shows and added 2 additional shows to close out the year on 12/30 in Richmond, VA (with Jouwala Collective opening) and 12/31 supporting good friends Pigeons Playing Ping Pong at the ExploreAsheville.com Arena.

The band has also announced a special TAUKing Hendrix set on the Saturday of their two night hometown run next weekend at Brooklyn Bowl.  They’ve enlisted Nick Cassarino of The Nth Power to perform a whole set of Jimi Hendrix tunes.  Kendall Street Company opens the Friday show and PEAK opens Saturday.  The rest of their fall tour will take them across the country over the course of 4 weeks,  with the back half consisting  of a co-headline run with JAZZ IS PHSH.

The final lineup for JAZZ is PHSH will be announced shortly. Founded in 2015 by The Chase Brothers, Adam Chase and Matthew Chase, JAZZ IS PHSH has quickly become a world renowned tribute to Phish, attracting some of the most influential musicians in the jazz and jam scenes to take part in this collective approach to paying tribute to one of the most important and influential bands in Rock and Roll history.

All shows are on sale now.  For details and ticketing links go to www.taukband.com

Upcoming Tour Dates:

10/18/19 Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY+
10/19/19 Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY=
10/23/19 The Blind Tiger - Greensboro, NC~
10/24/19 The Concourse @ The International - Knoxville TN~
10/25/19 Suwannee Hulaween - Live Oak FL
10/26/19 HI-FI - Indianapolis IN$
10/27/19 Bell's Eccentric Cafe - Kalamazoo MI$
10/30/19 The Old Rock House - St. Louis MO%
10/31/19 Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln NE%
11/1/19 The Bottleneck - Lawrence KS%
11/2/19 Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO*
11/6/19 Meow Wolf - Santa Fe NM@
11/7/19 The Lariat - Buena Vista CO>
11/8/19 Mesa Theater - Grand Junction CO>
11/9/19 The State Room - Salt Lake City UT<
11/12/19 Brooklyn Bowl - Las Vegas NV #
11/13/19 Belly Up - Solana Beach CA #
11/14/19 1720 E 16 st - Los Angeles CA #
11/15/19 The Chapel - San Francisco CA #
11/16/19 Crystal Bay Casino - Crystal Bay NV #
11/19/19 Domino Room - Bend OR #
11/20/19 Sessions Music Hall - Eugene OR #
11/21/19 Star Theater - Portland OR #
11/22-23/19 Nectar Lounge - Seattle WA #
12/30/19 The Broadberry - Richmond, VA ***
12/31/19 ExploreAsheville.com Arena - Asheville, NC^
3/20-22/20 Rockjavik @ Eldborg Hall - Reykjavík, Iceland &

* supporting The Motet
# co-headline with JAZZ is PHSH
^ supporting Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
& supporting Umphrey’s McGee
+ with Kendall Street Company
= with PEAK/ plus special guest Nick Cassarino on the TAUKing Hendrix set
~ with Doctor Ocular
$ with Mungion
% with Evanoff
@ with The High Vibes
> with Cycles
< with Dirty Revival
*** with Jouwala Collective

California’s ALO will be releasing their second EP of a series, Creatures, Vol. 2: Weave, on January 10th, 2020. The first EP, Creatures, Vol. 1: Spark, was released earlier this Summer on Brushfire Records. As a sneak preview, the first track from Weave, “Baby Blind Spot”, is available on all digital services today. Fans can buy or stream the new track here: https://ffm.to/alobbs and below is a YouTube video.

Weave features four new tracks by founding members Zach Gill (keys, vocals), Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz (guitars, vocals) and Steve Adams (bass, vocals), as well as the band's newest member, Ezra Lipp on drums.

As with the first EP, the new release was engineered and mixed by long-time ALO collaborators Dave Simon-Baker and Mike Cresswell, with additional recording done by the band at home studios. The ongoing series tracks the development of the new lineup with Lipp, while still maintaining that familiar ALO sound. Old school listeners have been raving about the band’s live sets at recent festivals (High Sierra Music Festival, Camp Deep End), and Weave has bottled that energy well. The band can’t wait for fans to hear the new songs. Gill explains, “There are a whole lot of blind spots in our collective sphere of human awareness. Sometimes we crash right into them. Sometimes it’s tragic, sometimes it’s comedic… hopefully it’s at least educational.“

ALO is also excited to announce their 14th annual Tour D’Amour. The first leg will include headlining shows in California, as well as 2 co-headlining nights with Twiddle in the Pacific Northwest. These dates have been added to a tour schedule that includes a previously announced co-headlining show with Leftover Salmon at the Warfield in San Francisco on March 7th, as well as 2 sets at Winter Wondergrass in Steamboat Springs, CO. Ben Morrison of The Brothers Comatose will support on the newly announced headline dates. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.

For a full list of shows and details go to: www.alomusic.com

Creatures, Vol.2: Weave track list:

1. Baby Blind Spot (Zach Gill)

2. Ridin’ (Dan Lebowitz)

3. The Party (I’m Sorry I Missed) (Steve Adams)

4. Fisheye Lens (Zach Gill)

Tour D’Amour XIV

Feb 6              Sierra Nevada Big Room    Chico, CA *

Feb 7-8          TBA                                        TBA

Feb 13            The Siren                               Morro Bay, CA *

Feb 14            Soho Music Club                  Santa Barbara, CA *

Feb 15            Troubadour                           Los Angeles, CA *

Feb 16            Belly Up                                 Solana Beach, CA *

Feb 21            TBA                                        TBA

Feb 22-23      Winter Wondergrass            Steamboat Springs, CO

Mar 7              Warfield Theatre                  San Francisco, CA #

Mar 13            Neumos                                 Seattle, WA ^

Mar 14            Wonder Ballroom                 Portland, OR ^

* w/ Ben Morrison (of The Brothers Comatose)

# Coheadline w/ Leftover Salmon

^ Coheadline w/ Twiddle

California’s ALO will be releasing their second EP of a series, Creatures, Vol. 2: Weave, on January 24th, 2020. The second single from Weave, “Ridin'”, is available on all digital services today. Fans can buy or stream the new track here: https://ffm.to/aloridin  A YouTube link for embedding is below.

The band is also happy to answer the call from East Coast fans for shows in NY, MA, PA, VA and DC. Previously announced legs of their annual Tour D’Amour include headline dates in CA plus co-bills with Leftover Salmon in San Francisco, The Motet in Tahoe, Twiddle in the Pacific Northwest, and Tea Leaf Green in Denver. Ben Morrison (of The Brothers Comatose) will support the newly announced East Coast dates. 

Ridin’ is a new Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz composition. Lebowitz relays: "The melody for Ridin' had been kickin' around inside my head for many years. A few days before we went into the studio this last time, it manifested into a song. I think that the line 'As long as we can get up and sing our song, there isn’t anything that can do us wrong', really gets to the heart of it. It's a song of optimism - the idea that putting energy into that which you really love will bear the sweetest of fruits!"

Weave features founding members Zach Gill (keys, vocals), Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz (guitars, vocals) and Steve Adams (bass, vocals), plus the band's newest member Ezra Lipp (drums, vocals). The four new tracks were engineered and mixed by long-time ALO collaborators Dave Simon-Baker and Mike Cresswell, with additional recording done by the band at home studios. 

Tickets for all shows are on sale now. For a full list of shows and details go to: www.alomusic.com

Creatures, Vol.2: Weave track list:

1. Baby Blind Spot (Zach Gill) Released November 8th

2. Ridin’ (Dan Lebowitz)  Released TODAY

3. The Party (I’m Sorry I Missed) (Steve Adams)

4. Fisheye Lens (Zach Gill)

“Ridin’” (Youtube link) https://youtu.be/uC8X5Qp4BHY

“Baby Blind Spot” (Youtube link): https://youtu.be/sfSk_IF_25U

Tour D’Amour XIV

Feb 6               Sierra Nevada Big Room     Chico, CA *

Feb 7-8          Crystal Bay Casino              Crystal Bay, NV +

Feb 13             The Siren                                Morro Bay, CA * 

Feb 14             Soho Music Club                   Santa Barbara, CA *

Feb 15            Troubadour                            Los Angeles, CA *

Feb 16            Belly Up                                  Solana Beach, CA *

Feb 21            Cervantes’ Masterpiece Denver, CO &                                    

Feb 22-23      Winter Wondergrass             Steamboat Springs, CO

Mar 7              Warfield Theatre                   San Francisco, CA #

Mar 13            Neumos                                  Seattle, WA ^

Mar 14            Wonder Ballroom                  Portland, OR ^

Mar 31 The Southern Charlottesville, VA *

Apr 1 Union Stage Washington, DC *

Apr 2 Ardmore Music Hall Ardmore, PA *

Apr 3 Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY *

Apr 4-5 Great Scott Boston, MA *

* w/ Ben Morrison (of The Brothers Comatose)

+ Coheadline w/ The Motet

# Coheadline w/ Leftover Salmon

^ Coheadline w/ Twiddle

& Coheadline w/ Tea Leaf Green

TAUK is pleased to announce support for Round 1 of their upcoming Squad tour that runs from January 30th to February 22nd.  Newly announced special guests include multiple dates with RCA, a new group featuring Rob Compa of Dopapod, and Chris DeAngelis and Adrian Tramontano of Kung Fu, Conscious Pilot, and Evanoff. Eminence Ensemble, Guerilla Toss, and Aaron Kamm and The One Drops and several others join the band for one-off support dates. Round 1 includes some of their biggest headline stops to date in markets like Boston and Boulder. 

Coming off of the heels of a supporting slot of their own (with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong at Asheville, NC’s Explore Asheville Arena) that saw the band sitting in on covers of Pink Floyd, Kool and The Gang, and Jimi Hendrix. The band will be premiering pro-shot video of their opening set from that night tonight at 9 pm EST at https://youtu.be/nsGUqkv_eGs . Members of the band will watch the set with fans and participate in a live Q&A.

The band has been unleashing song debuts of new material being honed for their next studio record, left-field covers (like “Tear Drop” from Massive Attack) and full tribute sets like Brooklyn Bowl’s TAUKing Hendrix set, and TAUKing Fire on Halloween which ran through a wide-ranging list of songs that play on the theme of Fire.

All shows are on sale now.  For details and ticketing links go to www.taukband.com

FULL SCHEDULE:

01.30  The Westcott Theater - Syracuse, NY $
01.31  Buffalo Iron Works - Buffalo, NY $
02.01  Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH %
02.04  Otus Supply - Ferndale, MI %
02.05  Woodlands Tavern - Columbus, OH %
02.06  Madison Theater - Covington, KY &
02.07  The Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA @
02.08  Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA #
02.12  The Warehouse at FTC - Fairfield, CT $
02.13  Higher Ground - Burlington, VT $
02.14  Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME ^
02.15  Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA *
02.19  Agave - Avon, CO +
02.20  Ullrs Tavern - Winter Park, CO +
02.21  Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO =
02.22  Cervantes' Other Side - Denver, CO  ~

ROUND 2
03.13  9:30 Club - Washington, DC  >
03.14  XL Live - Harrisburg, PA   >

03.20-22 Rockjavik - Iceland

03.25  The Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA
03.26  Lincoln Theatre - Raleigh, NC
03.27  Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
03.28  The Basement East - Nashville, TN
03.31  Saturn - Birmingham, AL
04.01  Revolution Music Room - Little Rock, AR
04.02  Tipitina's - New Orleans, LA
04.03  Deep Ellum Art Co. - Dallas, TX
04.04  Mohawk - Austin, TX
04.07  Songbirds South - Chattanooga, TN
04.08  Charleston Pour House - Charleston, SC
04.09  Elevation 27 - Virginia Beach, VA

$ w RCA (Rob Compa of Dopapod and Chris DeAngelis and Adrian Tramontano of Kung Fu)

% w Conscious Pilot

& w Dizgo

@ w Optimus Riff

# w Gnarbot

^ w Versificator

* w Guerilla Toss and Harsh Armadillo

+ w Evanoff

= w Eminence Ensemble

~ w/ Aaron Kamm and The One Drops

? supporting Umphrey's McGee
> co-headline w/ The Motet

This evening, April 23rd, Portland, OR’s own Fruition premieres a pro-shot full length concert film that captures the biggest headline show of their career.  Tonight caps a five week run of weekly hangs with their fans on their Facebook page called “The Thursday Thing with Fruition”.  Each of the bands’ three singers Mimi Naja, Kellen Asebroek, and Jay Cobb Anderson have hosted a Thursday night, playing Fruition originals, covers, and solo tunes from their homes. Last week, drummer and in-house engineer and mixer Tyler Thompson took fans through his home studio, and his thoughts on drums.   Tonight, bassist and resident film editor Jeff Leonard will debut his edit of their January 17th, 2020 show at Denver’s Mission Ballroom.  The show marked the release of their 2nd new digital album in just 2 months - Broken At The Break of Day, and a vinyl release party of a combo vinyl of “Broken” and November’s Wild As The Night on one vinyl record. 

The Mission Ballroom show was a sold-out co-bill with their good friends the California Honeydrops, and openers Mama Magnolia, who both joined Fruition for an extended 3 band encore.  Over 3800 fans packed the room that night, something that feels even more surreal in the shadow of stay at home orders across the country.  The band played classic tunes, and early live versions of songs from both records including “Dawn” which found itself lodged in the Top 5 at Americana radio, and in the top 30 of several key AAA radio charts.  The band was only 2 months into an extensive tour plan when the country began shutting down, and mid album cycle that saw features in Relix Magazine, an appearance on NPR’s Mountain Stage, a highlight of independent artists in American Songwriter and more.

 Faced with the prospect of losing all of their shows for several months at minimum, the band turned to its fans and launched a Fruition Drive, where fans receive unreleased music and special thank you's in the mail from the band, and to this series of weekly Thursday night hangs. The band hasn’t remained idle, all 3 singers contributed covers to Live From Out There’s John Prine tribute last week, and a new recording of John Hartford’s “Back In The Goodle Days” will be featured on a newly announced tribute album in June. While shows remain on the schedule for later this year, like the rest of the live music business, the band faces great uncertainty.  As soon as public health officials give the green light, they look forward to hitting the road to support its latest releases.  Till then, next week the band will move to Instagram to continue their weekly Thursday Thing hangs with their fans.

Tune in to tonight’s concert film debut at 7pm EDT: https://www.facebook.com/fruitionpdx/videos/1721164201354758/

Support the band’s fund drive: https://www.fruitionband.com/fruitiondrive

Stay tuned for concert announcements:  https://www.fruitionband.com/#tour-section

When ALO walked off stage at San Francisco’s historic Warfield Theatre on March 7th, 2020, little did they know that it would be one of the last shows together on stage for nearly a year. While it is still unsafe to hold shows at their favorite venues in California and beyond, the band will gather on private property in Northern California on Saturday February 27th for a special one-off - “BBQ d’Amour: Coming To You Live and Together With Love!” - a two-set "pay-what-you-want" live stream starting at 1pm PST. The band will play songs from their expansive catalog that has brought fans out each year for their Tour d'Amour shows over the last 15 years.

Tickets can be pre-purchased at : www.stageit.com/Alomusic/95140

The band couldn’t wait to get together, so they recorded a remote version of fan favorite “Maria” to help announce the show:

About ALO

ALO is a lot of things. Put simply, it’s a rock band, a family, an artistic outlet, a community, a business. But that only scratches the surface of this 3O-year musical vision-quest. ALO is an adventure, it’s a Spring break road trip to Colorado, it’s an all-night drive from Salt Lake City to San Jose. It’s the comfort of hanging out with life-long friends, of relaxing on a couch and finding treasures hidden in its cushions. It’s a coffee table full of amazing books on art, philosophy and music. It feels old and new, fresh and classic. It holds tension and dreams and possibility in its folds. It hopes to unveil something magical, something unheard of, something the world needs. It smells of super burritos and vans full of lemons, old bongs and epic hikes. It’s a sound of growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a sound of northern California, with sprinkles of Santa Barbara and Augusta, Georgia. It was born of childhood friendships, of shared destinies, of inside jokes and of a desire to make people happy. It’s not for everyone, although it tries to be. It wants you to love and share in its vision. It’s long and meandering, then suddenly sharp, abrupt!  It’s feral and clever, and it means you no harm. It’s love and freedom, collected and catalogued, then released back into the wilds from whence it came, over and over again. It’s an orchestrated liberation of our animal soul. 

After spending the last decade in the Pacific Northwest, Mimi Naja has made her way from Portland, OR to her new Nashville home. Raised in the outskirts of Atlanta, the urban south beckoned her spirit when touring paused. As a founding member of roots-rock sweethearts Fruition, Mimi began her professional music career as one of three friends busking on the streets of Portland in 2008. As buzz grew around Fruition’s alluring three-part harmonies and community-bonding dance floor, they took their show to stages around the country. Still, the band continued to busk in between shows, and eventually met their manager on the streets of Austin during SXSW in 2013. Fast forward to early 2020, and the band had developed into a national headline act including an album release show at Denver’s Mission Ballroom, and became ongoing festival favorites at Northwest String Summit, High Sierra Music Festival, and WinterWonderGrass; with highlight appearances at Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Bonnaroo, LOCK’N and more.

Much like her aversion to being pigeon-holed to one genre, Mimi applies the same philosophy when it comes to her instruments of choice. In Fruition, (where she is one of 3 lead vocalists), Mimi is known as a mandolinist and guitar player, but while grounded at home from the pandemic, she took advantage of the opportunity to practice for hours on piano, bass, drums, and even turntables. Growing up on all things radio pop and Southern rap, she ironically found her love of bluegrass upon moving out west, and remains forever inspired by the soul sounds of Motown and Stax. With her raw and direct voice - that’s been likened to Bonnie Raitt- she’s just as likely to croon a slow acoustic ballad as a frenetic rock and roll heater.

When Covid-19 radically altered life around the globe, Mimi found another silver lining by entering a substance treatment program. She continues to take life one day at a time and has remained in recovery since April 2020. Her latest solo endeavor, an EP entitled Nothing Has Changed, shares her latest chapter. Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers says “Mimi’s record sounds so original and refreshing to me...I’m truly inspired.” The title track “Nothing Has Changed” is symbolic of the meditative nature of entering this newfound chapter of self-improvement, and the venting of frustrations of shedding old skin for the sake of growth. The EP is honest and revealing, and while the title may seem pessimistic, a deep dive into the layers unveils a call for reinvention. After taking an early listen to the new release, fellow songwriter Anna Tivel said “If honesty had a voice, it would be Mimi’s. She has this way of lighting up the vulnerable depth, a gritty spotlight on a hard-won stage where she invites us to see our shared struggles made beautiful. These songs are human, full of questioning and compassion.” 

The EP, out April 2nd, is available for Pre-order with a limited edition autographed poster at her website, and the first track is available on all digital services today: http://smarturl.it/MimiNaja

Mimi and Fruition bassist Jeff Leonard produced a video for the title track that can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/b8glTIbd1aY

New York-bred TAUK has been laying down an all-instrumental blend of progressive rock, hip-hop and jazz on stages across the U.S. for the last several years, until Covid 19 shut down the world. For the first time since their March 8, 2020 set at Florida’s Gasparilla Music Festival, the band will perform two new sets for fans, live from their new studio in Long Island, NY on March 27th. While there can’t be an in-person audience, the band is including their fans by letting them determine the set-lists entirely by request for a show they are calling "TAUK Request Live". The band has partnered with Set The Set to let fans craft their perfect setlist, and vote for all of the TAUK songs and select covers that they want to hear on Saturday, March 27th at 8pm ET. Setlist voting will be open until March 19th here: https://tauk.settheset.com

The brand new 2 set show will be live streamed on Nugs.net, with tickets priced at $9.99. Ticket buyers that purchase their tickets by March 11th will receive a discount code for a limited-edition merch drop that will go public on March 12th. A new edition of their sought-after FUNK hats, a TAUK branded mask, and a new limited edition T Shirt will all be made available from March 12th to March 27th. Fans that want to listen to the show in audio only format after the live stream will be able to pre-order an MP3 download of the full show when they purchase tickets to the video stream for a bundle price of $17.99. The video livestream will be available live, or for 48 hrs from when the fan presses play on the stream. Current subscribers to the Nugs.net subscription streaming service will be able to access a special 15% discount on ticket purchases to the live stream. The band is also pleased to announce that they have entered the studio to begin work with long time producer/collaborator Robert Carranza (Beastie Boys, Mars Volta, Jack Johnson) on a new album. Carranza will also man the audio mix for the livestream on March 27th. They hope to be able to release new music this fall for the first time since the release of 2018’s Shapeshifter 1 & 2 cycle. 

The second track from Mimi Naja’s upcoming solo EP lands at all digital retailers today accompanied by an animated video from the muti-talented Deren Ney (Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers).

“Coin In My Pocket” is an upbeat song about renewal, alluding to the token chip of the Alcoholics Anonymous program being a tangible symbol of progress and life’s new season.

Watch The Video here

When Covid-19 radically altered life around the globe, Mimi found a silver lining by entering a substance treatment program. She continues to take life one day at a time and has remained in recovery since April 2020. Her latest solo endeavor, an EP entitled Nothing Has Changed is honest and revealing, and while the title may seem pessimistic, a deep dive into the layers unveils a call for reinvention.

The EP is available for Pre-order with a limited-edition autographed poster at her website, and the title track and new single “Coin In My Pocket” are available at all digital retailers: https://smarturl.it/CoinInMyPocket

About Mimi:

After spending the last decade in the Pacific Northwest, Mimi Naja has made her way from Portland, OR to her new Nashville home. Raised in the outskirts of Atlanta, the urban south beckoned her spirit when touring paused. As a founding member of roots-rock sweethearts Fruition, Mimi began her professional music career as one of three friends busking on the streets of Portland in 2008. As buzz grew around Fruition’s alluring three-part harmonies and community-bonding dance floor, they took their show to stages around the country. Still, the band continued to busk in between shows, and eventually met their manager on the streets of Austin during SXSW in 2013. Fast forward to early 2020, and the band had developed into a national headline act including an album release show at Denver’s Mission Ballroom, and became ongoing festival favorites at Northwest String Summit, High Sierra Music Festival, and WinterWonderGrass; with highlight appearances at Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Bonnaroo, LOCK’N and more.

Much like her aversion to being pigeon-holed to one genre, Mimi applies the same philosophy when it comes to her instruments of choice. In Fruition, (where she is one of 3 lead vocalists), Mimi is known as a mandolinist and guitar player, but while grounded at home from the pandemic, she took advantage of the opportunity to practice for hours on piano, bass, drums, and even turntables. Growing up on all things radio pop and Southern rap, she ironically found her love of bluegrass upon moving out west and remains forever inspired by the soul sounds of Motown and Stax. With her raw and direct voice - that’s been likened to Bonnie Raitt- she’s just as likely to croon a slow acoustic ballad as a frenetic rock and roll heater.

To mark the release of her brand-new solo EP “Nothing Has Changed”, Mimi Naja of Fruition will perform a live stream from Nashville’s Purple Building tonight at 9pm ET. While the EP was recorded at Fruition drummer Tyler Thompson’s studio, for tonight’s EP release show Naja will be joined by Anthony da Costa, PJ George, and Alex Bice.

When Covid-19 radically altered life around the globe, Mimi found a silver lining by entering a substance treatment program. She continues to take life one day at a time and has remained in recovery since April 2020. Her latest solo endeavor, out today on all streaming services is honest and revealing, and while the title may seem pessimistic, a deep dive into the layers unveils a call for reinvention. Naja says "These songs have been on my heart throughout my early recovery journey, so to give it you just a few days shy of my 1-year sober mark really feels poignant and special.”

Current single “All You Know Of Me”, which was selected for Spotify’s Fresh Folk playlist this week, touches on the pre-recovery period where the party never ends, and you are never alone.

The title track, a meditation on entering this newfound chapter of self-improvement, and the venting of frustrations of shedding old skin for the sake of growth was accompanied by a video directed by Fruition bandmate Jeff Leonard. : https://youtu.be/b8glTIbd1aY

“Coin In My Pocket” is an upbeat song about renewal which alludes to the token chip of the Alcoholics Anonymous program. It debuted with an animated video from the muti-talented Deren Ney (Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers). https://youtu.be/VglyhGNCOP0

The EP is available with a limited-edition autographed poster at her website, and the title track and new single “All You Know Of Me” are available at all digital retailers: http://smarturl.it/MimiNaja

About Mimi Naja:

After spending the last decade in the Pacific Northwest, Mimi Naja has made her way from Portland, OR to her new Nashville home. Raised in the outskirts of Atlanta, the urban south beckoned her spirit when touring paused. As a founding member of roots-rock sweethearts Fruition, Mimi began her professional music career as one of three friends busking on the streets of Portland in 2008. As buzz grew around Fruition’s alluring three-part harmonies and community-bonding dance floor, they took their show to stages around the country. Still, the band continued to busk in between shows, and eventually met their manager on the streets of Austin during SXSW in 2013. Fast forward to early 2020, and the band had developed into a national headline act including an album release show at Denver’s Mission Ballroom, and became ongoing festival favorites at Northwest String Summit, High Sierra Music Festival, and WinterWonderGrass; with highlight appearances at Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Bonnaroo, LOCK’N and more.

Much like her aversion to being pigeon-holed to one genre, Mimi applies the same philosophy when it comes to her instruments of choice. In Fruition, (where she is one of 3 lead vocalists), Mimi is known as a mandolinist and guitar player, but while grounded at home from the pandemic, she took advantage of the opportunity to practice for hours on piano, bass, drums, and even turntables. Growing up on all things radio pop and Southern rap, she ironically found her love of bluegrass upon moving out west, and remains forever inspired by the soul sounds of Motown and Stax. With her raw and direct voice - that’s been likened to Bonnie Raitt- she’s just as likely to croon a slow acoustic ballad as a frenetic rock and roll heater.

Fruition is happy to announce their first live show since March of 2020. The quintet will be appearing July 30th at the Dillon Amphitheater, with special guests Mipso.

As Covid 19 took over the world last March, Fruition were in the middle of their “Wild As The Night, Broken At The Break of Day” album tour. With their single “Dawn”  charting at AAA and Americana radio, plus a full summer of festivals ahead, the band was forced to  cancel their remaining shows and head home.

Though several members are still based in the Pacific Northwest, life, and love, have dispersed the band around the country, so the first time they will be able to gather as a band will be for the rehearsals for this show.

The band will also be performing from Aug 6-7  at the sold out Sawtooth Valley Gathering in Stanley, ID.

In between the two weekends the band will be beginning writing sessions for their next album. With a focus on writing and recording a new album, the band’s touring schedule will be extremely limited for the remainder of 2021.

Tickets are available this morning to the general public at 

https://www.showclix.com/event/fruition

Fruition is happy to announce their first shows in the Pacific Northwest since 2019. The quintet will be appearing at The Crocodile in Seattle on December 29th, and at The Wonder Ballroom on December 30th and 31st in the band's birthplace of Portland, OR.  

On December 29th and 31st, the band will be joined by Austin, TX’s own The Deer, while December 30th will see them share the stage with The Laurelthirst Regulars featuring TK and Lewi

Tickets are available Friday morning at 10 am PT to the general public at www.fruitionband.com

Though several members are still based in the Pacific Northwest, life, and love, have dispersed the band around the country. Of the 5 shows remaining in 2021 for Fruition, one will be on October 8th in Pittsburgh at the Thunderbird Cafe ahead of drummer Tyler Thompson’s wedding. The other is at Old Settler’s Music Festival in Tillmon TX on October 22nd.

Upcoming Shows

October 8    The Thunderbird Cafe    Pittsburgh, PA*
October 22    Old Settler’s            Tillmon, TX
December 29    The Crocodile            Seattle, WA^
December 30    The Wonder Ballroom    Portland, OR#
December 31    THe Wonder Ballroom    Portland, OR ^

* with special guests Taylor Kingman, Brad Parsons and more
^ with The Deer
# with The Laurelthirst Regulars featuring TK & Lewi

Fruition is happy to announce their biggest headline show to date, a return to Denver’s Mission Ballroom on March 11th. Colorado has been a home away from home for the band, who played their album release show for Wild As The Night, Broken At The Break Of Day on January 17th, 2020. The co-billed show with the California Honeydrops was sold out in advance and celebrated the release of their latest album which reached top 5 on both the Americana radio album and singles charts and was received to critical acclaim.

For their return to The Mission Ballroom, the band is stepping up to full headline status, and will be joined by very special guests The Record Company and DJ Sleepy.  On March 12th, Fruition will also play an intimate "evening with" the band at Beaver Creek’s Vilar PAC.  The Pacific Northwest based Roots Rock stalwarts also recently announced a run through California with Goodnight, Texas and year end shows in Seattle and Portland with The Deer.

Tickets for the Mission Ballroom are onsale this Friday at 10 am local time. Tickets for all other shows are on sale now at http://www.fruitionband.com

Since having their album release tour interrupted by the onset of the COVID pandemic, the band has kept a much more limited live schedule to allow time for writing the next record, but played to 3000 fans this summer at Colorado’s Dillon Amphitheatre, and at several festivals, plus a hometown show in Pittsburgh this fall for drummer Tyler Thompson.

Fans can relive the band’s last appearance at the Mission Ballroom with this full show video edit from bassist Jeff Leonard: https://youtu.be/PilE4PLanto

Upcoming Shows

2021
December 29    The Crocodile            Seattle, WA^
December 30    The Wonder Ballroom    Portland, OR#
December 31    The Wonder Ballroom    Portland, OR ^

2022
January 11    The Siren            Morro Bay, CA*
January 12    Harlow’s                Sacramento, CA*
January 13    Crystal Bay Casino        Crystal Bay, NV*
January 14    The Independent        San Francisco, CA*
January 15    The Lodge Room        Los Angeles, CA*
January 16    The Casbah            San Diego, CA*

March 11        The Mission Ballroom    Denver, CO%
March 12        Vilar PAC                Beaver Creek, CO

April 1-3        Winter Wondergrass    Palisades Tahoe, CA (SOLD OUT)

^ with The Deer
# with The Laurelthirst Regulars featuring TK & Lewi
* with Goodnight, Texas
% with The Record Company and DJ Sleepy

California’s ALO is elated to announce their 15th anniversary Tour d’Amour, a west coast jaunt that takes them through their home state as well as Nevada, Oregon and Washington. The band closed out their last full Tour d’Amour on March 7th, 2020 with a co-billed show at The Warfield with Leftover Salmon, which ended up being one of the last concerts in San Francisco before Covid shut down the concert business. For obvious reasons, the band put a pause on Tour d’Amour in 2021, but did reward fan’s patience with several outdoor shows in California this past summer at the Bruns Amphitheatre in Orinda, Camp Deep End in Navarro, Roaring Camp in Felton, and Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, as well as a trip down to San Diego for Oktoberfest. Next year’s tour will see them return to some of their favorite rooms on the west coast, where they’ll be joined by special guest Anna Moss (Handmade Moments).

ALO formed over 20 years ago on the UC Santa Barbara campus, but Bay Area natives Zach Gill (keys/vocals), Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar/vocals), and Steve Adams (bass/vocals) have been playing together since their early teens. The most recent member Ezra Lipp (drums/vocals) has been in the band full-time since Tour d'Amour XIII in 2019. The band has built a beloved catalog of thoughtful material, with echoes of classic California pop/psych-rock (Grateful Dead, Doobie Brothers) and dance-party/jam (Talking Heads, James Brown, Steely Dan). Members of the band have played with Jack Johnson, Phil Lesh, Nicki Bluhm, Brett Dennen, Steve Kimock and dozens more. Since 2005, the band has recorded for Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records, and has recently begun pre-production for their next release.

Tour d’Amour XV will feature stops at famed rooms like the Troubadour in LA, The Great American Music Hall in SF, The Crocodile in Seattle, The Doug Fir in Portland, and more.

Tickets for all dates will go on sale this Friday at 10 am local time at www.alomusic.com

Tour Dates

February 9    The Siren                Morro Bay, CA
February 10    Soho                    Santa Barbara, CA
February 11    Troubadour                W. Hollywood, CA
February 12    Belly Up Tavern            Solana Beach, CA
February 18    Center For The Arts        Grass Valley, CA
February 19    Crystal Bay Casino            Crystal Bay, NV
February 20    Chico Women’s Club        Chico, CA
February 25    Great American Music Hall    San Francisco, CA
February 26    Great American Music Hall    San Francisco, CA *
March 3        Liberty Theatre            Astoria, OR
March 4        Doug Fir                    Portland, OR
March 5        Crocodile (2nd Stage)        Seattle, WA **

All shows w/ Anna Moss except
* TBA
** Evening With

Fruition is happy to announce their first ever live release, “Live, Vol. 1” which is due out January 7th, 2022. Drummer and Mixing Engineer Tyler Thompson shares "This album is a recording of a show at Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID on February 10th, 2019. It was the end of a long tour, so we were definitely firing on all cylinders. Luckily, we didn't even know the show was being recorded to multitrack, so the energy couldn't be more honest and rowdy. It was so fun going back through these live tracks that it makes us feel there may be many more live albums in future.”

The first track featured from the live release is, “I Don’t Mind” which closed out 2016’s “Labor of Love”, an album that helped bring the band to national prominence. Singer/songwriter Mimi Naja (vocals/mandolin/guitars) says the song is "about when living your truth doesn’t align with someone else’s expectation of you, and not swaying from that truth even if it hurts someone else.” Bassist Jeff Leonard had begun putting up Go Pro cameras at every show on that winter tour and honing his editing chops with all of the footage on the long drives between shows. Today’s track release is accompanied by a video culled from the fruits of that labor: WATCH

Naturally, listening back to the tracks for this live record have the band thinking about upcoming live shows. Next up are 3 shows in the Pacific Northwest to celebrate the ringing in of the new year at the brand-new Crocodile in Seattle, and two shows at The Wonder Ballroom in Portland. Texas based The Deer will support on 29 and 31, and local favorites The Laurelthirst Regulars featuring TK and Lewi open the 30th. After a short break after NYE, the band will head south for a six show run through California featuring good friends Goodnight, TX.

March will see the band playing their biggest headline show to date, a return to Denver’s Mission Ballroom on March 11th with support from The Record Company and DJ SLeepy. That will be a return to the venue that hosted the release show for their most recent studio album, Wild As The Night, Broken At The Break Of Day back on January 17th, 2020. The co-billed show with the California Honeydrops was sold out in advance and celebrated the release of their latest album which reached top 5 on both the Americana radio album and singles charts, Top 20 at AAA, and was received to critical acclaim. On March 12th, Fruition will also play an intimate "evening with" the band at Beaver Creek’s Vilar PAC.

Also recently announced is the band’s return to Winter Wondergrass Tahoe April 1-3, 2022, a stop at Rooster Walk in Martinsville, VA May 26-29, and the rescheduled Levitate Music and Arts Festival in Marshfield, MA July 8-10. Additional festival appearances will be announced in the coming weeks.

Upcoming Shows 

2021
December 29             The Crocodile                        Seattle, WA^
December 30             The Wonder Ballroom           Portland, OR#
December 31             The Wonder Ballroom           Portland, OR ^

2022
January 11                 The Siren                               Morro Bay, CA*
January 12                 Harlow’s                                 Sacramento, CA*
January 13                 Crystal Bay Casino               Crystal Bay, NV*
January 14                 The Independent                   San Francisco, CA*
January 15                 The Lodge Room                  Los Angeles, CA*
January 16                 The Casbah                           San Diego, CA* 

March 11                    The Mission Ballroom           Denver, CO%
March 12                    Vilar PAC                               Beaver Creek, CO

April 1-3                      Winter Wondergrass             Palisades Tahoe CA

May 26-29                  Rooster Walk                         Martinsville, VA

July 8-10                    Levitate                                  Marshfield, MA

^ with The Deer
# with The Laurelthirst Regulars featuring TK & Lewi
* with Goodnight, Texas
% with The Record Company and DJ Sleepy

Fruition is happy to announce their first visit to the East Coast in 2 years. Four shows in the Northeast with support from Tommy Alexander will go on sale this Friday. The band has also set a new release date for their first ever live release, “Live, Vol. 1” which is now due out February 25th, 2022.

Originally timed to release around the band’s January California tour, “Live, Vol. 1” was pushed back when Covid forced the band to move their California run back to August. The live album will be preceded by “Above The  Line” a tune penned by Kellen Asebroek and originally included on the band’s 2016 studio release Labor of Love. Asebroek relates: "We've been playing this song for over a decade - it's been a staple of the setlist forever. Different versions of it have been attempted in the studio over the years and eventually it evolved into the version you hear on "Labor of Love", and now on "Live Vol 1". Lyrically it's a song like many songs - someone's gotta leave home and go work, wondering if home will still be there when they come back. In this case it was leaving home to go work on Humboldt cannabis farms to raise money for early Fruition records :)."

“Above The Line” will hit all streaming services on Friday, February 4th, and will be accompanied by a video edited by bassist Jeff Leonard.  The first song from the release, “I Don’t Mind” was released in December and a teaser for “Above The Line” and the full video for “I Don’t Mind” can be viewed HERE.

Drummer and Mixing Engineer Tyler Thompson shares "This album is a recording of a show at Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID on February 10th, 2019. It was the end of a long tour, so we were definitely firing on all cylinders. Luckily, we didn't even know the show was being recorded to multitrack, so the energy couldn't be more honest and rowdy. It was so fun going back through these live tracks that it makes us feel there may be many more live albums in future.”

2022 will see the band visit cities they last played on 2020’s “Wild As The Night, Broken At the Break of Day” album release tour. A mix of headline shows and festivals are filling out their calendar, with several more festivals due to announce in the coming weeks.

First up is a massive headline show at Denver’s Mission Ballroom where The Record Company, and DJ Sleepy will support. After a return to Winter Wondergrass where the band will play the mainstage, and headline a latenight show with Brothers Comatose, they will fly east to perform for fans in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia’s Ardmore outskirts, NYC and Boston with support from good friend Tommy Alexander. Festival season begins in earnest with stops at Rooster Walk, Hog Farm Hideaway, Blue Ox, Levitate and the final Northwest String Summit before returning to clubs for the re-scheduled club dates in California.

Newly announced shows will be on sale this Friday at 10 am EST.

Upcoming Shows

March 11                       The Mission Ballroom               Denver, CO%
March 12                          Vilar PAC                                  Beaver Creek, CO

April 1-3                            Winter Wondergrass                Palisades Tahoe CA
April 6                               Union Stage                             Washington, DC #
April 7                               Ardmore Music Hall                  Ardmore, PA #
April 8                               The Bowery Ballroom               New York, NY #
April 9                               Brighton Music Hall                  Allston, MA #

May 26-29                        Rooster Walk                           Martinsville, VA

June 10                            Hog Farm Hideaway                Laytonville, CA
June 23                            Blue Ox Music Festival            Eau Claire, WI

July 8-10                          Levitate                                    Marshfield, MA
July 21-24                        Northwest String Summit         North Plains, OR

August 23                         The Siren                                 Morro Bay, CA*
August 24                         Harlow’s                                   Sacramento, CA*
August 25                         Crystal Bay Casino                  Crystal Bay, NV*
August 26                         The Independent                     San Francisco, CA*
August 27                         The Lodge Room                     Los Angeles, CA*
August 28                         The Casbah                             San Diego, CA*

 % with The Record Company and DJ Sleepy
# with Tommy Alexander
* with Goodnight, Texas

Fruition is happy to mark the release date for their first ever live album, “Live, Vol. 1” which is out today.  Originally timed to release around the band’s January California tour, “Live, Vol. 1” was pushed back when Covid forced the band to move their California run back to August. The band’s next two shows are at the Mission Ballroom in Denver, with support from The Record Company, and DJ Sleepy, and Beaver Creek’s Vilar PAC which will host an evening with the band.

The featured single for today’s release is “Lonesome Prayer (Live At The Visual Arts Collective, Boise, ID” the studio version of which originally appeared on 2018’s Tucker Martine produced Watching It All Fall Apart”.  Written by lead guitarist and vocalist Jay Cobb Anderson, he explains ““Endings can come with a great deal of resentment and anger, or with a sigh of relief. Usually there's a little bit of both if we're honest. But when it's all said and done, all we want for anyone that we love is for them to be happy. Even if it's without us in their lives.”

The album and single release are accompanied by a video edited by bassist Jeff Leonard which can be viewed HERE. The album is up on all DSPs now https://smarturl.it/Fruition_LiveVol1

Drummer and Mixing Engineer Tyler Thompson shares "This album is a recording of a show at Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID on February 10th, 2019. It was the end of a long tour, so we were definitely firing on all cylinders. Luckily, we didn't even know the show was being recorded to multitrack, so the energy couldn't be more honest and rowdy. It was so fun going back through these live tracks that it makes us feel there may be many more live albums in future.”

2022 will see the band visit cities they last played on 2020’s “Wild As The Night, Broken At the Break of Day” album release tour. A mix of headline shows and festivals are filling out their calendar, with several more festivals due to announce in the coming weeks.

First up is a massive headline show at Denver’s Mission Ballroom where The Record Company, and DJ Sleepy will support. After a return to Winter Wondergrass where the band will play the mainstage, and headline a late night show with Brothers Comatose, they will fly east to perform for fans in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia’s Ardmore outskirts, NYC and Boston with support from good friend Tommy Alexander. Festival season begins in earnest with stops at Rooster Walk, Hog Farm Hideaway, Blue Ox, Levitate and the final Northwest String Summit before returning to clubs for the re-scheduled club dates in California.

Upcoming Shows

March 11                      The Mission Ballroom                 Denver, CO%
March 12                      Vilar PAC                                    Beaver Creek, CO

April 1-3                        Winter Wondergrass                  Palisades Tahoe CA
April 6                           Union Stage                                Washington, DC #
April 7                           Ardmore Music Hall                      Ardmore, PA #
April 8                           The Bowery Ballroom                   New York, NY #
April 9                           Brighton Music Hall                      Allston, MA #

April 23                        Hillfest                                         Eden, UT

May 26-29                    Rooster Walk                                Martinsville, VA

June 10                        Hog Farm Hideaway                    Laytonville, CA
June 23                        Blue Ox Music Festival                 Eau Claire, WI

July 8-10                      Levitate                                         Marshfield, MA
July 21-24                    Northwest String Summit             North Plains, OR

August 23                     The Siren                                      Morro Bay, CA*
August 24                     Harlow’s                                        Sacramento, CA*
August 25                     Crystal Bay Casino                       Crystal Bay, NV*
August 26                     The Independent                          San Francisco, CA*
August 27                     The Lodge Room                          Los Angeles, CA*
August 28                     The Casbah                                  San Diego, CA*

% with The Record Company and DJ Sleepy
# with Tommy Alexander
* with Goodnight, Texas

On the heels of two big weekends at Northwest String Summit, and Sawtooth Valley Gathering, Fruition is pleased to announce their return to Colorado this fall.
The band will be joined by Mama Magnolia at the Belly Up Aspen on September 29th, and by Heavy Diamond Ring (featuring former members of Paper BIrd) at the Boulder Theater on September 30th. The weekend will wrap up with an evening with Fruition at the Lariat in Buena Vista on October 1st.

The band followed up their pre-pandemic album “Wild As the Night, Broken At The Break Of Day” with a digital only live album release “Live - Vol. 1” (recorded in 2019 at the Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID) and is currently writing new material for an upcoming release.

July has been incredibly busy, with the band ending the month playing two festivals that have been staples of their career thus far. Last weekend marked the final Northwest String Summit, a home town festival that saw the band grow from guerilla campground sets, to late nights and then multiple mainstage slots over the last 13 years. The weekend was filled with regular side projects and collaborative one time only sets with friends. The highlight had to be the heartfelt Mainstage set on Thursday night. A tender yet electric display of the bands material, the 90 minute set stretched from some of the oldest to newest songs in their catalog, with epic sing alongs and a set closing cover of Crosby, Stills and Nashʻs “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”.

Watch Fruition perform “The Meaning” from the final Northwest String Summit

This past weekend was spent at the Sawtooth Valley Gathering, a festival in Stanley Idaho which featured two headlining Fruition sets and even more side projects and sit ins with old and new friends. The Friday night set included their 2014 album “Just One Of Them Nights” played in itʻs entirety on itʻs 9th anniversary.  Saturday included most of “Wild As The Night, Broken At The Break Of Day”, several song debuts, plus sit ins from Anna Moss of Handmade Moments, Lebo of ALO, Anthony DaCosta of Lindsay Lou, Sean Mclean, Sean Badders, Megan Martinez, Liz Chibucos, Tyrone Hendrix, Lisa Sanders and Brown Sugar, Jimmy Russell  and Sydney Nash (of TK & The Holy Know-Nothings). Nash also filled in on bass for Fruition in June when bassist Jeff Leonard was out on Paternity leave.  

Speaking of fill ins, July started with a 4 show Northeast run which wrapped up with Fruition playing a raging set at Levitate. After that set  bassist Jeff Leonard was called on to fill in for the festival closing Jack Johnson set and 4 more shows with Johnson in July.  Drummer Tyler Thompson was brought in to fill in for the final 3 Jack shows, while Johnsonʻs band members recovered from Covid.

Next up for the band this month is a hometown headline show at Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island in Portland, OR with special guests Rainbow Girls, and a run through California with Goodnight, Texas that was rescheduled from the start of the pandemic, and for a second time due to a January bout with Covid for the entire band.

Tickets for all newly announced shows will be available at www.fruitionband.com by 10 am MT on Friday

Upcoming Tour Dates

August 18        Topaz Farm        Sauvie Island, OR #
August 23        The Siren        Morro Bay, CA &
August 24        Harlowʻs            Sacramento, CA &
August 25        Crystal Bay Club    Crystal Bay, NV &
August 26        The Independent    San Francisco, CA &
August 27        Lodge Room        Highland Park, CA &
August 28        Casbah            San Diego, CA &
September 29        Belly Up Aspen    Aspen, CO *
September 30        Boulder Theater    Boulder, CO ^
October 1        The Lariat        Buena Vista, CO
February 6-12        Jam Cruise 19        Miami, FL

The Fruition family is due to get a little bit larger this year. Drummer Tyler Thompson and his wife Samantha are expecting a new baby this November, and bassist Jeff Leonard and his partner Amelia had a baby daughter earlier this year. With both looking to take some extra paternity time this winter, Fruition’s 3 singers and primary songwriters - Jay Cobb Anderson, Kellen Asebroek and Mimi Naja - will be playing a series of mostly acoustic trio shows in November and December.

The 5 piece band’s sound is a distinct, harmony driven blend of Americana that’s always been motivated by the desire to serve the song. For these 10 mostly acoustic shows, the songs will be placed even more front and center with stripped back accompaniment by guitar, piano and mandolin.  Each night will feature some of the band’s most beloved songs and the stories behind them at some listening rooms built to highlight the songwriter.

The 10 date tour will take them through City Winery venues in DC, Philadelphia, NYC and Boston, and Fairfield’s Stage One in November. December will see the trio visit intimate listening rooms in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Boise and Salt Lake City. With the full band off the road from Mid October till early 2023, they will forgo their normal New Year’s Eve shows. The full band’s last 4 shows of the year will include a 3 day run in Colorado at the end of the month, and Monterey, CA’s Rebels and Renegades Festival.

The band recently released pro shot footage of their set from this summer’s Levitate Festival which was hosted outside of Boston on their Youtube page and fans can watch it in its entirety here:  https://youtu.be/2IRPbTz3Vy0

Upcoming Full Band Tour Dates

9/29/2022    Aspen, CO            The Belly Up *
9/30/2022    Boulder, CO            The Boulder Theater #
10/1/2022    Buena Vista, CO        The Lariat
10/16/2022    Monterey, CA            Rebels and Renegades Festival
2/6-12/2023    Miami, FL            JamCruise

** Newly Announced Trio Shows**

11/16/2022    Washington, DC        City Winery
11/17/2022     Philadelphia, PA         City Winery
11/18/2022     New York, NY             City Winery
11/19/2022      Fairfield, CT             StageOne
11/20/2022     Boston, MA            City Winery
12/6/2022      Seattle, WA              Tractor Tavern
12/7/2022    Olympia, WA            Capitol Theater
12/8/2022    Portland, OR            Aladdin Theater
12/10/2022    Boise, ID             The Lounge At The End Of The Universe
12/11/2022    Salt Lake City, UT        The State Room

 * with Mama Magnolia
# with  Heavy Diamond Ring (featuring former members of Paper BIrd)

Fruition is pleased to announce their first headline shows of 2023, which will mark the return to the stage of the full 5 piece band. They will be taking over Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and The Other Side for a two night celebration of the venue’s 20th anniversary on January 27th and 28th.  The 5 piece, known for their distinctive harmony driven blend of Americana,  will be joined by an amazing lineup of their musical friends.  On both nights, Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman (Trey Anastasio Band)  will be artists-at-large. Late nights will feature The Texas Gentlemen on Friday, and Dave Watts (of the Motet’s) Birthday set “Zepp is Funk” tribute set that will include members of The Motet, SCI, TAB, JJ Grey & Mofro and Andy Frasco & The U.N.   Also featured across the two night run are TK & The Holy Know-Nothings, Handmade Moments, Rainbow Girls, Mama Magnolia, and John R. Miller (both nights).  Tickets for both shows are onsale to the general public on Friday at 10 am MT.

Prior to the end of the year are 11 special semi-acoustic trio shows featuring singers Jay Cobb Anderson, Kellen Asebroek and Mimi Naja while bassist Jeff Leonard and drummer Tyler Thompson enjoy their respective paternity leaves.  Fruition is a band that has always been motivated by the desire to serve the song. For these 11 mostly acoustic shows, the songs will be placed even more front and center with stripped back accompaniment by guitar, piano and mandolin.  Each night will feature some of the band’s most beloved songs and the stories behind them at some listening rooms built to highlight the songwriter.  The 11 date tour will take them through City Winery venues in DC, Philadelphia, NYC and Boston, and Fairfield’s Stage One in November. December will see the trio visit intimate listening rooms in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Boise and Salt Lake City.  One more west coast show will be announced next week.  Tickets for all shows can be found at https://www.fruitionband.com

The band also recently announced a first ever pressing of their classic album “Just One Of Them Nights”, which features a few of their biggest songs including “Mountain Annie” which has racked up almost 10 million streams. It will be released at retail on December 9th, and be available for sale at shows as soon as possible.  Pre-orders for the 180g translucent green first pressing are available now at : https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/fruition

Upcoming Tour Dates

** Trio Shows**

11/16/2022    Washington, DC        City Winery
11/17/2022     Philadelphia, PA         City Winery
11/18/2022     New York, NY             City Winery
11/19/2022      Fairfield, CT             StageOne
11/20/2022     Boston, MA            City Winery
12/6/2022      Seattle, WA              Tractor Tavern
12/7/2022    Olympia, WA            Capitol Theater
12/8/2022    Portland, OR            Aladdin Theater
12/9/2022    TBA                    TBA
12/10/2022    Boise, ID             The Lounge At The End Of The Universe
12/11/2022    Salt Lake City, UT        The State Room*

** Full Band **

01/27/2023    Denver, CO            Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and Other Side
01/28/2023    Denver, CO            Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and Other Side
2/6-12/2023    Miami, FL            JamCruise

 * with Pixie (Solo) of Pixie and the Partygrass Boys
@ w/ Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman, The Texas Gentlemen, TK & The Holy Know Nothings, Rainbow Girls and John R Miller
# w/ Jennifer Hartwick and Natalie Cressman (artists-at-large) , Dave Watts’ Zepp is Funk (featuring members of the Motet, TAB, SCI, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Andy Frasco & The U.N.) Handmade Moments, Mama Magnolia and John R Miller.

California’s ALO is elated to announce their 16th annual Tour d’Amour, a west coast jaunt that takes them through their home state as well as Nevada, Oregon and Washington.  Next year’s tour will see them return to some of their favorite rooms on the west coast, where they’ll be joined by special guest Rainbow Girls on most dates, with Hot Buttered Rum and Orgone joining them in Nevada, and Ron Artis II joining them at San Francisco’s historic Fillmore.

ALO formed over 20 years ago on the UC Santa Barbara campus, but Bay Area natives Zach Gill (keys/vocals), Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar/vocals), and Steve Adams (bass/vocals) have been playing together since their early teens. The most recent member Ezra Lipp (drums/vocals) has been in the band full-time since Tour d'Amour XII in 2018. The band has built a beloved catalog of thoughtful material, with echoes of classic California pop/psych-rock (Grateful Dead, Doobie Brothers) and dance-party/jam (Talking Heads, James Brown, Steely Dan). Members of the band have played with Jack Johnson, Phil Lesh, Nicki Bluhm, Brett Dennen, Steve Kimock, Sean Hayes and dozens more. Since 2005, the band has recorded for Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records, and has been working on new music.

The band will be celebrating its 25th anniversary and expects to hit the road more than usual next year.

Tickets for all dates will go on sale today at 10 am local time at www.alomusic.com exccept for The Fillmore which was announced and went on sale in late November.

Tour Dates

March 10th    Crystal Bay, NV    The Crystal Bay Club/Crown Room  *
March 11th    Crystal Bay, NV    The Crystal Bay Club/Crown Room **
March 12th    Grass Valley, CA    Center For The Arts  w/ special guest
March 15th    Carmel, CA         Folktale Winery #
March 16th    Santa Barbara, CA    Soho #
March 17th    Venice, CA        The Venice West #
March 18th    Solana Beach, CA    Belly Up #
March 25th    San Francisco, CA    Fillmore ##
March 31st    Portland, OR        Doug Fir #
April 1st        Seattle, WA        Nectar Lounge #

* W/ Hot Buttered Rum
** W/ Orgone
# W/ Rainbow Girls
## W/ Ron Artis II

Fruition’s full lineup is returning to the road in 2023. While the three singers hit the road for select dates in late 2022, Drummer Tyler Thompson and his wife Samantha welcomed a new baby in November, and bassist Jeff Leonard and his partner Amelia had a baby daughter earlier in the year. With both ready to return to the road, the band is happy to announce new dates to bring them back to the Southeast in March.

The five-piece band’s sound is a distinct, harmony-driven blend of Americana motivated by the desire to serve the song. Trio tour stops in November and December saw Jay Cobb Anderson, Kellen Asebroek and Mimi Naja debut over 15 new songs, rearrangements of fan favorites, and some bustouts from their earliest records.

The five date tour follows a two night stand in Denver, and an appearance on JamCruise. Kicking off with an evening with the band at Pensacola State College’s Lyceum series, the band will then be joined for four shows by guitarist Anthony da Costa (Sarah Jarosz, Joy Williams, Molly Tuttle) who will be touring in support of his new record I Should Call My Mother.

The band will be hitting the studio later this year to begin work on a new album.

Upcoming Tour Dates

1/27/2023    Denver, CO        Cervantes Ballroom and Otherside*
1/28/2023    Denver, CO        Cervantes Ballroom and Otherside**
2/6-12/2023    Miami, FL        JamCruise
3/6/2023        Pensacola, FL        Pensacola State College Lyceum Series
3/8/2023        Jacksonville, FL        Intuition Ale #
3/9/2023        Atlanta, GA        Terminal West #
3/10/2023    Nashville, TN        3rd & Lindsley #
3/11/2023    Asheville, NC        Asheville Music Hall #

 * with Texas Gentleman, TK & The Holy Know Nothings, Rainbow Girls and John R Miller plus Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman
** with Handmade Moments, Dave Watts’ Zepp is Funk, Mama Magnolia and John R Miller plus Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman
# with Anthony da Costa

Fruition is happy to announce their 2023 summer tour which includes some of their favorite festivals and clubs in the West. After returning from Iceland this weekend (where they will support Greensky Bluegrass), they will appear at several festivals like Sawtooth Valley Gathering and High Sierra which will feature multiple days and sets. . The band will then support Caamp on two shows, before  embarking on a run through Colorado and Montana where they will be supported by bands like Banshee Tree, MAITA and more to be announced. Summer will wrap up with appearances on marquee events like Americanafest in Nashville, Cascade Equinox in Redmond, OR, and Baygrass in Annapolis, MD.

The five-piece band’s sound is a distinct, harmony-driven blend of Americana motivated by the desire to serve the song. 2 stops (River Wondergrass, and Musica Sojourn)  will feature appearances by the Trio of singers Jay Cobb Anderson, Kellen Asebroek and Mimi Naja. The band will be hitting the studio later this year to begin work on a new album and fans should expect to hear a wealth of new material debut at these shows.

Upcoming Tour Dates (newly announced shows in bold)

6/3-5/2023 - Reykjavik - Eldborg Concert Hall, Harpa*
6/23-24/2023 - Stanley, ID - Sawtooth Valley Gathering

7/1-2/2023 - Quincy, CA - High Sierra Music Festival
7/16/2023 - Park City, UT - Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater (SOLD OUT)**
7/17/2023 - Vail, CO - Gerald R Ford Amphitheater (SOLD OUT)**
7/19/2023 - Buena Vista, CO - The Lawn at the Surf Hotel #

8/16/2023 - Columbia Falls, MT - The Coop
8/17/2023 - Livingston, MT - Pine Creek Lodge
8/18/2023 - Great Falls, MT - The Newberry
8/19/2023 - Billings, MT - Pub Station @
8/22/2023 - Teton Village, WY - Mangy Moose
8/24/2023 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up (Aspen) %
8/25/2023 - Bellvue, CO - Mishawaka Amphitheatre +
8/26/2023 - Nederland, CO - The Caribou Room #
8/29/2023 - Vail, CO - Hot Summer Nights #

9/2-5/2023 - Lodore, CO - River Wondergrass (Trio Only)
9/20/2023 - Nashville, TN - Americanafest
9/22/2023 - Redmond, OR - Cascade Equinox Festival

10/1/2023 - Annapolis, MD - Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival
            10/9-15/2023 - Porto, Portugal - Musical Sojourn (Trio Only)

* supporting Greensky Bluegrass
** supporting CAAMP
# An Evening With
@ with MAITA
+ with Banshee Tree

On the heels of performing at Cascade Equinox Festival in Bend, OR this past September, Fruition has announced their first full band shows in Portland and Seattle since August of 2022.

The Americana band’s earliest roots were busking in the streets of Portland, working their way up from guerilla sets in the campgrounds of Northwest String Summit to multiple prime mainstage slots, touring with acts like Caamp, The Wood Brothers, and Jack Johnson and appearing on festival stages and classic venues around the country including several appearances at the famed Red Rocks. Along the way, they’ve played nearly every venue in Portland over their 14-year career, and rung in the new year frequently in the Pacific Northwest. This year, the band will mark the turn to 2024 with a 4 show run through Bellingham, Seattle, and Portland, with very special guests Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. In Portland, the band will return to the beloved Wonder Ballroom, a venue that has become a second home to Fruition. The two-night run will feature a 2 set New Year’s Eve show joined on stage by Farnell Newton’s Rose City Horns. In Seattle, they’ll make their first appearance at Neumos and will return to Bellingham for the first time since 2016.

Immediately after releasing January 2020’s “Broken At the Break of Day” (which brought the band their biggest success at AAA and Americana radio to date, and their biggest headline show ever at Denver’s 3900 seat Mission Ballroom) the band was forced with the rest of the world to take an abrupt break from touring. As the pandemic began to ease up, the band returned to touring with new perspective and intention, a couple of newborn babies and a few marriages happily in tow. With 2024 on the horizon, the band has been writing and recording new material, with an eye toward releasing multiple records in the next 18 months.

After the New Year’s run, the band will decamp to a studio with Tucker Martine, with whom they recorded 2018’s presciently titled “Watching It All Fall Apart”.

All four shows will be supported by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, a band that stalks/walks the line between vulnerable and menacing. Sarah's voice is strong and uneasy; country classic but with a contemporary, earthy tension. Portland royalty and acclaimed trumpeter Farnell Newton (Jill Scott, Bootsy Collins) will bring his "Rose City Horns" to Fruition’s 2 NYE sets, adding a rich layer to Fruition's distinguished harmony-driven Americana sound.

Tickets for all newly announced shows will be available at http://www.fruitionband.com by 10 am PT on FridayUpcoming

Tour Dates

November 1        Thunderbird Cafe    Pittsburgh, PA*
December 28        Wild Buffalo        Bellingham, WA ^
December 29        Neumos            Seattle, WA ^
December 30        Wonder Ballroom    Portland, OR ^
December 31        Wonder Ballroom    Portland, OR #

Today, California rock band ALO announce the 17th iteration of their annual Tour d’Amour.  After a highly successful run last year in support of their recent studio album “Silver Saturdays”, the band is returning to some of their favorite venues.  The run of shows will begin with a two-night stand in Seattle, a stop at Portland’s Folk Fest, a southern California weekend, a central California trio of shows, and ending w/ a special Bay area weekend in Santa Cruz and San Francisco.   Pacific Northwest duo Sway Wild will support most shows, with the band being joined by the Hot Buttered Rum duo on one of the nights in Seattle, and fan favorite Steve Poltz in San Francisco.

The band has 4 shows remaining in 2023, with stops in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, and Baja Mexico! The band celebrated a California “Halloweekend” with stops in Felton, Ventura and San Juan Capistrano. Audio from those shows should appear on Nugs.net soon.

Last year’s Tour D'Amour received rave reviews from long-time tastemakers like JamBase, Glide Magazine, Santa Barbara Independent and many more. Of the band's Santa Barbara, CA show in March of 2023, Santa Barbara Independent wrote, "ALO can still deliver the fun, especially for a nostalgic crowd whose connections to the band are longstanding and deep-rooted...They hit SOhO with a vengeance." The publication concluded, "The entire show was well worth staying up late for.” Glide Magazine praised the March 25 show at the historic Fillmore in San Francisco, CA, stating, "ALO took the stage with their signature positivity and the first song of the set, 'Make It Back Home' from their new release 'Silver Saturdays' hit the spot just right. Everything was on point, tight, and practiced as ever."

Silver Saturdays, the band's bright ninth full-length album celebrates an ongoing journey that began in Saratoga, California in the late eighties when Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar/vocals), Zach Gill (keyboards/vocals) and Steve Adams (bass/vocals) met in grade school. It stands out as the first full-length studio release featuring drummer/vocalist Ezra Lipp—a fixture in the Northern California creative scene where he cut his teeth with the likes of Phil Lesh, Sean Hayes and countless others. Meanwhile, the title nods to the band’s recent penchant for silver attire at their Saturday shows, which became a costume theme amongst their fan base and an acknowledgment of their silver “25th” anniversary. Recorded at Sun Machine studio—nestled in the hills of northern Marin County, CA—the album is a fully collaborative effort written by the band and co-produced alongside longtime engineer David Simon Baker. For Gill, Lebo, Adams and Lipp the session was both a return to their roots and a new beginning ­– a chance to reconnect and immerse themselves in the creative process. The result is ten new original songs, recorded mostly live, that pay direct homage to the journey and the artistic process and further refine ALO’s singular and self-ascribed “jam-pop” genre—which Lebo fondly describes as “human music for humans.”

Tickets for existing dates are available now, and tickets for the added dates go on sale this Friday, November 3rd  at 10 AM PST via alomusic.com/#tour.

Upcoming Shows
November 2nd, 2023    Fox Theatre        Boulder, CO*
November 3rd, 2023    Cervantes        Denver, CO^
November 4th, 2023    Commonwealth    Salt Lake City, UT #
December 1st, 2023    Baja, Mexico        Bajaja Festival

January 11th, 2024        Nectar Lounge    Seattle, WA +
January 12th, 2024        Nectar Lounge    Seattle, WA @
January 13th, 2024        Crystal Ballroom    Portland, OR
January 25th, 2024        Venice West        Venice, CA @
January 26th, 2024        Belly Up            Solana Beach, CA @
January 27th, 2024        Soho            Santa Barbara, CA @
February 1st, 2024        The Big Room        Chico, CA @
February 2nd, 2024        Center For The Arts    Grass Valley, CA @
February 3rd, 2024        Crown Room        Crystal Bay, NV
February 9th, 2024        Moe’s Alley        Santa Cruz, CA^
February 10th, 2024    The Fillmore        San Francisco, CA =

* with Clay Street Unit
^ An Evening With
# with Meander Cat (featuring ALO alum Dave Brogan)
+ with Hot Buttered Rum duo
@ with Sway Wild
= with Steve Poltz

Clay Street Unit, the Denver-based sextet, release their cover of The Last Revel’s tune, “Engine Trouble” today on all platforms. The track was recorded at Mighty Fine Productions in Denver, CO, produced by Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters, mixed by Sean Sullivan (Sturgill Simpson, Molly Tuttle) and mastered by Anna Frick at ally sound. Earlier this year, the band recorded a brand new album with Pandolfi at the helm and chose this long time live staple to get dialed in to the studio. While the song wonʻt be on the upcoming record, the results were too good not to release. Their debut full length album will be released later this year.

The band is rooted deep in homegrown southern Country/Folk and branches into the bluegrass sound that’s heard throughout the Appalachian hills. With just a 4 track self released EP out until today, the band is making considerable strides in their career on the strength of powerful songs and an undeniable live show. Clay Street Unit’s touring calendar is filling up with multiple notable festivals including WinterWonderGrass in Steamboat and Tahoe, Blue Ox, Rooster Walk, Beaufort, The Caverns Sessions in Pelham, TN and more tour dates soon to be announced.

Their first show of the year is tomorrow at Mission Ballroom, opening for The Infamous Stringdusters along with Lindsay Lou. Fans can expect a few sit-ins, given the recent studio collaborations.

Upcoming Shows

Jan 27, 2024 - Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO

March 1-3, 2024  - WinterWonderGrass - Steamboat, CO

March 21, 2024 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL

March 22, 2024 - The Caverns Sessions - Pelham, TN

April 5-7, 2024 - WinterWonderGrass Tahoe - Olympic Valley, CA

April 18, 2024 - Palisade Bluegrass Bash - Palisade, CO

May 17 - Beaufort Music Festival - Beaufort, NC

May 23, 2024 - Rooster Walk - Martinsville, VA

June 27-29, 2024 - Blue Ox Music Festival - Eau Claire, WI

After ringing in a new year with a 4 show run in Washington State and Portland, OR, Fruition is pleased to announce their first headline shows of 2024. The Hard To Make Money Tour will see the band visit venues in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, California and Arizona.  The band has been hard at work writing and recording new music for future release, with some of those new songs finding their way into setlists for these newly announced shows.

The first of the new songs is out everywhere today. “Hard To Make Money” (Listen Here), the namesake track of the upcoming tour written by Jay Cobb Anderson  features lyrics that touch on the feeling that for most, itʻs just hard to get by while others have more than they might need.  “yeah some folks take it, some work to make it, and some folks just got good luck/but the poor stay needy while rich stay greedy and they never seem to give a buck/and it’s hard to make money these days “

"There’s too much not-enough going round, and that’s all we seem to get. The American dream’s been sentenced to death by the powers that be. Bees make honey and it never goes bad. Man makes money and it’s never gets better. And it’s hard to make money these days." - Jay Cobb Anderson

Fruitionʻs March dates will feature opener Willy Tea Taylor, who is touring in support of his latest album The Great Western Hangover which features appearances from Fruitionʻs Jay Cobb Anderson on guitar, and production work from Fruition drummer Tyler Thompson.

Support for May shows will be announced soon.

Fruition's three-part harmonies and impromptu performances captivated crowds on street corners and in campgrounds in the Pacific Northwest initially, but their remarkable 15-year journey has seen them emerge as a singular force in the world of Americana on some of the nation's biggest stages. Channeling the delicate, playful, and honest focus on songcraft and vocal harmony of groups like the Beatles and CSNY, the band continues to create timeless and genuine folk, roots, and rock 'n roll.

Distinguished by three accomplished songwriters and a rhythm section that serves each song with a finely tuned attention to detail and aesthetic, Fruition manages to consistently release a body of work that is both uniquely their own and instantly familiar.

Tickets for all newly announced shows will be available at http://www.fruitionband.com 10am PT on Friday, February 9th.

Upcoming Tour Dates:

March 13 - Cleveland, OH | Music Box*

March 14 - Ferndale, MI | Magic Bag*

March 15 - Grand Rapids, MI | Midtown*

March 16 - Three Oaks, MI | The Acorn*

March 18 - Evanston, IL | SPACE*

March 19 - Bloomington, IN | Buskirk Chumley*

March 21 - Stoughton, WI | Stoughton Opera House*

March 22 - Bloomington, IL | Castle Theatre*

March 23 - Iowa City, IA | WIldwood Saloon*

March 24 - Minneapolis, MN | Parkway Theater*

April 24 - El Sargento, MX | Baja Wondergrass

*with Willy Tea Taylor

Newly Announced Shows:

May 14 - Eugene, OR | WOW Hall

May 15 - Arcata, CA | Humboldt Brews

May 17 - Placerville, CA | Golden Road Gathering

May 18 - Felton, CA | Felton Music Hall

May 19 - Menlo Park, CA | The Guild Theatre

May 22 - Morro Bay, CA | The Siren

May 23 - San Diego, CA | The Casbah

May 24 - Phoenix, AZ | Valley Bar

May 25 - Pioneertown, CA | Pappy & Harriet’s

Fruition is releasing their 2nd new single of the year today with “Feeling Weird,” following up the February track “Hard To Make Money.” The Hard To Make Money Tour kicks off next week with the band visiting venues in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota, After a short break for a festival in Mexico in April, the band will return to the road in May to visit Oregon, California, and Arizona, which now includes a newly announced show in Mariposa, CA.  The band has been hard at work writing and recording new music over the past year, with some of those new songs finding their way into setlists for these upcoming shows.

The second of the new songs is out everywhere today and can be heard here.

Songwriter and lead vocalist on the single Kellen Asebroek offers:

"ʻFeeling Weirdʻ is a bit of a Fruition deep-cut. We've had it in our back pocket for over a decade now and I think the lyrical content kinda reflects that; a youthful mix of silliness and melancholy. Born literally from a hungover van-ride after a long night of partying, back in the days where we would sleep on the floors and couches of whoever was brave enough to host a whole pack of road-dogs.

Even though on the surface the song says ʻwoe is meʻ, it also has *just* enough emotional maturity to recognize that the problems and troubles I was experiencing were of my own doing - and that it would be my own responsibility to course-correct them. Lastly, I styled this tune to be a nod to the great comical-yet-heartbroken tradition of folk songwriters like John Prine and John Hartford. Because after all, life has a tendency to often be comically heartbreaking, doesn't it?”

Fruitionʻs March dates feature opener Willy Tea Taylor, who is touring in support of his latest album The Great Western Hangover which features appearances from Fruitionʻs Jay Cobb Anderson on vocal harmonies, and production work from Fruition drummer Tyler Thompson.

In addition to the newly announced show at Mariposaʻs Grove House, support for May shows will be announced soon.

Fruition's three-part harmonies and impromptu performances captivated crowds on street corners and in campgrounds in the Pacific Northwest initially, but their remarkable 15-year journey has seen them emerge as a singular force in the world of Americana on some of the nation's biggest stages. Channeling the delicate, playful, and honest focus on songcraft and vocal harmony of groups like the Beatles and CSNY, the band continues to create timeless and genuine folk, roots, and rock 'n roll.

Distinguished by three accomplished songwriters and a rhythm section that serves each song with a finely tuned attention to detail and aesthetic, Fruition manages to consistently release a body of work that is both uniquely their own and instantly familiar.

Tickets for all shows are available now at http://www.fruitionband.com

Upcoming Tour Dates:

March 13 - Cleveland, OH | Music Box*

March 14 - Ferndale, MI | Magic Bag*

March 15 - Grand Rapids, MI | Midtown* **SOLD OUT**

March 16 - Three Oaks, MI | The Acorn*

March 18 - Evanston, IL | SPACE*

March 19 - Bloomington, IN | Buskirk Chumley*

March 21 - Stoughton, WI | Stoughton Opera House*

March 22 - Bloomington, IL | Castle Theatre*

March 23 - Iowa City, IA | WIldwood Saloon*

March 24 - Minneapolis, MN | Parkway Theater*

April 24 - El Sargento, MX | Baja Wondergrass

*with Willy Tea Taylor

May 14 - Eugene, OR | WOW Hall

May 15 - Arcata, CA | Humboldt Brews

May 17 - Placerville, CA | Golden Road Gathering

May 18 - Felton, CA | Felton Music Hall

May 19 - Menlo Park, CA | The Guild Theatre

May 20 - Mariposa, CA | The Grove House

May 22 - Morro Bay, CA | The Siren

May 23 - San Diego, CA | The Casbah

May 24 - Phoenix, AZ | Valley Bar

May 25 - Pioneertown, CA | Pappy & Harriet’s