Ian Anderson solo tour 2009

England
MAY
3 London Barbican
Flutewise Live event
Box office - 020 7638 8891 and www.barbican.org.uk

SEP All Ian’s September UK dates on sale from April 9th and subject to confirmation)
15 Peterborough The Cresset 01733 265705
16 King’s Lynn Corn Exchange 01553 764864
17 Buxton Opera House 0845 1272190
18 Bridlington Spa Theatre 01262 678258
19 Lancaster Grand Theatre 01524 64695
21 Yeovil Octagon Theatre 01935 422 884
22 Cheltenham Town Hall 0844 576 2210
23 Aylesbury Civic Centre 01296 486009
24 Salisbury City Hall 01722 434434
28 Tunbridge Wells Assembley Hall 01892 530613
29 Worthing Pavilion Theatre 01903 206206

USA
OCT
6 Milwaukee Pabst Theater - tickets
7 Chicago Vic Theatre - tickets
9 Schenectady, NY Proctor’s Theatre - tickets
10 Worcester, MA Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts - tickets
11 Ledyard, CT Foxwoods Resort - MGM Grand - tickets
13 New York Beacon Theatre - tickets
15 Baltimore, MD Lyric Opera House - tickets
16 Glenside, PA Keswick Theater - tickets
17 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre - tickets
18 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre - available soon

NOV
3 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre - tickets
5 Anaheim, CA The Grove of Anaheim - tickets
6 Los Angeles The Wiltern - tickets
9 San Francisco The Warfield Theatre - tickets
13 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - available soon
14 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre - tickets

Neal Morse offered some details today via interview on the upcoming Transatlantic album, the band’s first in seven years. The full story will appear in Progression No. 57 (June). Here are a few tidbits:

* The album will be out on InsideOut/SPV before the end of the year.
* There likely will be a deluxe edition including DVD “making of” documentary footage.
* The album was recorded over two weeks earlier this month at Morse’s home studio; the band had been exchanging ideas long-distance since January.
* Morse said he got the notion of working with Transatlantic again about a year and a half ago, and that the 3RP three-fourths reunion gig was not the impetus, “although it was great seeing the guys again.”

Much more to come later.

IQ guitarist Mike Holmes today told Progression that Paul Cook has returned to play drums, replacing Andy Edwards. (Edwards’ girlfriend is expecting and he’s taking a year off, although Cook may stay on permanently — yet to be decided.)

Full details on this and other band matters — including somewhat surprising reflections by Holmes on Martin Orford’s departure — in the next issue of Progression issue No. 57, publishing in June. (The interview also will include vocalist Peter Nicholls.)

Jon Anderson is pleased to announce the first confirmed date of his “Have Guitar Will Travel” European Tour. More dates and details are expected in the near future.

Date: June 30, 2009
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Venue: Theatre Roma

http://www.jonanderson.com/news.html

LES CLAYPOOL Starts Summer Escapade

OF FUNGI AND FOE releasing on Vinyl on May 12th

HOLLYWOOD, CA (April 20, 2009) - Les Claypool will take over the northern hemisphere on his summer tour starting May 26th in Charlotte, NC. This is the 2nd leg of his year-long tour in support of his critically acclaimed latest masterpiece OF FUNGI AND FOE out now on Prawn Song Records.

Special collectors’ addition of “OF FUNGI AND FOE” will come out on vinyl May 12th. This is a MUST HAVE for all Les Claypool fans. This is a limited run so go to www.clubbastardo.com and get your copy~

OF FUNGI AND FOE is the expansion of material Claypool has recorded over the past few years for the video game “Mushroom Men” and the motion picture “Pig Hunt”. Being inspired by these 2 projects Claypool decided to keep creating and turn it into an album. The song Mushroom Men on this release is a more in depth version of the theme song from the video game. Additionally a jam session with Gogol Bordello’s charismatic front-man Eugene Hutz turned into the track “Bite Out Of Life”. The band is comprised of Les Claypool on bass/vocals, Paulo Baldi on Drums (Cake), Mike Dillon on Percussion (Ani Difranco), and Sam Bass on Cello (Deadweight).

LES CLAYPOOL SUMMER TOUR DATES:

May

23 Chilicothe, IL Summer Camp

24 Thornville, OH Hookahville

26 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre

27 Asheville, NC Orange Peel

28 Hilton Head, SC Shoreline Ballroom

30 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheater w/ Matisyahu

31 Orlando, FL House of Blues w/ Matisyahu

June

1 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Landing w/ Matisyahu

2 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle w/ Matisyahu

4 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall w/ Matisyahu

5 Ozark, AR Wakarusa

7 Dallas, TX The Palladium w/ Matisyahu

8 Houston, TX House of Blues w/ Matisyahu

9 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall w/ Matisyahu

11 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre

12 Tempe, AZ The Marquee

13 Ventura, CA Ventura Theatre

19 Sacramento, CA The Grove @ Radisson Hotel

20 San Francisco, CA The Warfield

21 Medford, OR Britt Pavilion

23 Boise, ID Knitting Factory

24 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory

25 Vancouver, BC Commodore

27 Edmonton, AB Event Center

28 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall

30 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings

July

1 Fargo, ND The Venue

4 Rothbury, MI Rothbury

5 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue

6 Nashville, TN War Memorial Auditorium

7 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theater

9 Norfolk, VA Norva

10 Masontown, WV All Good Fest

11 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance

12 Burlington, VT Higher Ground

17 Atlantic City, NJ House of Blues

For more information go to www.lesclaypool.com or www.myspace.com/thereallesclaypool

FRANK ZAPPA ALUMNI
in LOS ANGELES
Saturday,April 25th, 2009

*Napoleon Murphy Brock (with FZ 1974 - 1984)
vocals, tenor saxophone, flute, suavenicity, dancing(!)

*Roy Estrada (with FZ 1964 - 1984)
bass, pachuco falsettos, and operatic madness

*Don Preston (with FZ 1966 - 1974)
piano, keyboard synthesizers, electronics, vocals
with

Miroslav Tadic
electric guitar

Christopher Garcia
drumset, percussion, marimba, vocals
AKA
THE GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED IN LA
with very special guests
NOT YOUR FATHERS MOTHERS STRING QUARTET
Harry Scorzo - violin
Tim Weed - violin
Dan Weinstein - viola
April Guthrie - cello

in preparation for their Norwegian Tour April/May 2009

the only FZ alumni consistently performing the music of the maestro
since 2002
ANYTHING ELSE IS NOT AN ORIGINAL
www.thegrandmothers.com
or
myspace.com/GRANDEMOTHERSREINVENTED

April 25th, 2009
1 performance only
at
THE MUSIC RECITAL HALL
LA HARBOR COLLEGE
1111 Figueroa Place
Wilmington CA

TICKETS ARE $20.00
and payable at the door the night of the performance
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED
in NORWAY
TRONDHEIM
with the TRONDHEIM SOLOISTS
OLAVSHALLEN APRIL 29
with Trondheimsolistene

Venue’s website:
WEDNESDAY 29. APRIL APRIL Kl. 19.30 OLAVSHALLEN Time 19.30 OLAVSHALLEN N
The Grande Mothers & Trondheimsolistene.
The Grande Mothers & Trondheim Soloists.
An evening of symphonic rock in the spirit of Frank Zappa
http://www.olavshallen.no/olavshallen/ProductHandler.aspx?guid=1&CatID=10041&ContainerID=11849

http://www.nidarosbluesfestival.com/
http://www.trondheimsolistene.no/#concerts
Nidaros Bluesfestival, med Grande Mothers
The Grande Mothers vs. TrondheimSolistene. Nidaros Bluesfestival, Olavshallen 29. april 2009 kl 19.30.
Kjøp billetter her
Se innslag på NRK nett TV
Hjemmeside Nidaros Bluesfestival

Ticket agency Billettservice:
http://www.billettservice.no/html/evinfo.htmI?CNTX=8102036&l=NO&C=

Tickets on sale at:
Olavshallen Boxoffice tel (+47) 73994050
Billettservice tel (+47) 81533133
www.billettservice.no
www.olavshallen.no
Narvesen, 7Eleven, Posten.
OSLO
with the OSLO CAMERATA
SKIEN
PRIVATE EVENT
SOLD OUT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED
in GERMANY @ ZAPPANALLE
8/14/09
http://www.arf-society.de/indexpur.html

MORE INFO TO COME…………………….
and more to be seen at

for more fan and media reviews go to
www.thegrandmothers.com
or
myspace.com/GRANDEMOTHERSREINVENTED

VANCOUVER JAZZ FEST 2008
FAN REVIEW - 1 OF MANY

“I crawled out of the mountains to see this show after I heard Roy Estrada was going to be there (one of my all time fave bassists) - I didn’t know Don Preston was gonna be there also - it made my heart pump when I saw him walk on stage, I felt like a teenager again - his story about Frank’s friends and dinner consisting of steak and ice-cream, with steak again for desert, was great …

this was a real show for me, one of the top ten in my life - they played for a good three hours, superMEN all the lot of them … Napoleon’s energy - wow - jumping like a crab at the end, I can’t even do that and I’m 15 years younger at least (^%$!!)…

the playing was flawless, amazing guitar by Miroslav Tadic (really amazing) and Chris Garcia … geez I wish I could see them again … UN-BELIEVABLE, they played Frank’s music right // the Vancouver crowd was great too … god bless ROY !! I felt like crying the whole time …
amen”

Tinyfish revealed the cover artwork of their “One Night On Fire” DVD. It was designed by Jim Sanders, Tinyfish’s guitarist, who for his day job works as a graphic designer. Jim was also responsible for Tinyfish’s album artwork and designed the logo for Marillion’s fanclub ‘The Web’.

The DVD was recorded during the band’s appearance at the progressive rock festival, Progrock 2009, which took place in Katowice, Poland in mid February. It will feature a selection of the band’s best songs taken from their previous releases as well as of the tracks which will appear on their forthcoming album “The Big Red Spark”. The band is currently working on extra features for the DVD.

Metal Mind Productions will release “One Night On Fire” on 29th June in Europe and 11th August in USA (via MVD). DVD will be available in 3 formats: DVD, limited DVD+CD edition, including bonus audio CD with songs recorded during the gig at the theater, and a limited CD digipak. Full track listening to be confirmed soon.

Threshold performing live:

01 May 2009: De Pul, Uden, NL [+ Beyond The Labyrinth]
02 May 2009: Biebob, Vosselaar, BE [+ Beyond The Labyrinth / Quantum Fantay]
03 May 2009: De Kade, Zaandam, NL [+ Beyond The Labyrinth / Quantum Fantay]
08 May 2009: Rotherham Rocks, Rotherham, UK [+ Haze, Kyrbgrinder and more]
09 May 2009: House Of Progression @ The Peel, Kingston, UK [+ Kyrbgrinder]
10 May 2009: Mr Kyps, Poole, UK [+ Galahad]

Exclusively for Progression from Chris Flynn (a/k/aChris Ruetenik):

Art in America is active only in the sense that we are still writing music. My brother Dan (drums) and sister Shishonee (harp) live in Michigan and Jim and I live in Los Angeles. I would like nothing better than to put the original band back together again, but alas, I have been unable to do so.

The album was re-released and re-mastered last year by Renaissance Records in AZ (distributed by Koch) and is available at Amazon and other sites. It has 7 extra songs from the vaults.

I have many photos of the band either under our Art in America Facebook page, or even more at my personal Facebook page for Chris Ruetenik. Also new music at these sites:

www.IACmusic.com/artinamerica

www.myspace.com/artinamerica

Wishing you a wonderful spring and summer.

Liquid Tension Experiment: Mike Portnoy (drums), John Petrucci (guitar), Jordan Rudess (keyboards) along with Tony Levin (bass) are set to release a comprehensive 9-disc box set as a souvenir of the band’s 10th anniversary reunion tour.
The LTE Box Set is the ultimate souvenir of Liquid Tension Experiment’s 10th Anniversary Reunion Tour in 2008. Included in this deluxe package is both the NYC and LA shows in their entirety (on both CD and DVD), as well as the Liquid Trio Experiment 2 CD, and two items that are exclusive to this set and will not be available separately: Live In LA on Blu Ray DVD disc and a bonus CD of all of the improv jams from the other LTE 2008 shows, including NEARfest.
This Deluxe Box Set is a limited edition run and is sold on a first come first served basis. For more information and to preorder now, go to www.ytsejamrecords.com.