Sufjan Steven's Fall Tour Stop at the Academy of Music, November 10th
AUGUST 11, 2010
SUFJAN STEVENS TOURS
NORTH AMERICA
And
Makes His Way to the Academy
of Music, November 10th
“There’s no one like [Stevens] in modern
music.”—The Wall Street Journal
Sufjan Stevens is set to hit the road for an extensive
North American tour in fall 2010. The performances will feature fully realized
versions of the songs initially debuted during a late 2009 tour of small clubs
in which Stevens workshopped several works-in-progress. “In his new songs,” The New York Times notes of one of
Stevens’ fall 2009 Brooklyn performances,
“love leads him to improvisation, chaos and spasms of rhythm, all precisely
dolloped out.” Stevens will tour with his large ensemble performing alongside a
full production including projections.
Sufjan Stevens has released eight studio recordings since 2000
including the critically acclaimed Michigan and
Illinois
(the latter named the “Best Album of the Decade” by Paste); a 5-EP Christmas box set; Enjoy Your Rabbit, an instrumental electronic song cycle based on
the animals of the Chinese Zodiac; and the aforementioned The BQE. Run Rabbit Run,
a recording of Enjoy Your Rabbit
rearranged for the Osso String Quartet, was released in 2009 via Asthmatic
Kitty. Stevens has also collaborated with The Danielson Famile, Rosie Thomas,
Denison Witmer, My Brightest Diamond and many others.
Tickets for Sufjan Stevens go on sale Friday, August 13 at 10am.
All seats are available for $35 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center
box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings.
(Additional fees may apply.)
Sufjan Stevens is
set to start his fall tour almost a year after releasing his latest LP, The BQE, a fusion of indie folk,
experimental rock, and instrumental rock written, composed and mixed by Sufjan
himself. The BQE (fully named the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) came nine
years after his debut A Sun Came.
Sponsors
The Kimmel Center’s 2010-11 Season
is sponsored by Citi.
The 2010-2011 Broadway Season is presented
by the Kimmel
Center in association
with the Shubert Organization, and is sponsored by
Citi.
The 2010-2011 Broadway Season is supported
by Verizon.
Free in the Plaza programming and
subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10
are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access
Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.
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ten-year, $100 million investment in preparing children for success in school
and life. Funding gives support to the Kimmel Center's early childhood program "Bop and
Swing," an arts program for children 1-5 years old, designed to promote an
appreciation for American culture.
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