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Two unrelated PacNW tour updates…

Erin McKeown is hitting the West Coast on her upcoming Distillation Anniversary Tour and the annual Earshot Jazz Fest in Seattle just put out its 2010 program…

Erin McKeown Distillation Anniversary Tour 2010

• OCT 8* One Longfellow Square Portland, ME
• OCT 9* Iron Horse Northampton, MA
• OCT 17* Highline Ballroom New York, NY
• OCT 20* Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
• OCT 22* Rex Theatre Pittsburgh, PA
• OCT 23* IOTA Arlington, VA
• OCT 24* World Café Live Philadelphia, PA
  *with Distillation producer Dave Chalfant
• NOV 6 Someday Lounge, Portland, OR
• NOV 8 Triple Door Seattle, WA
• NOV 11 Largo at the Coronet Los Angeles, CA
• NOV 14 Cafe DuNord San Francisco, CA

The Earshot Jazz Festival’s official program is over at: http://earshot.org/Publication/pub/10october.pdf.  Or you can check out just the schedule over at http://earshot.org/Festival/schedule.html.  Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Vagabond Opera, Toshi Reagon, Dave Peck, Ornette Coleman (film), Brian Blade, Ziggurat Quartet (mulltiple shows), DJ Spooky, Eugene Chadbourne, and more… sounds like a great three week line-up.

I hope to hit Erin’s Portland (Oregon) show… I saw her this past spring, and she puts on a great show.  Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to any of the Earshot shows this time.  Damn the 5-6 hour drive.  Now, if they can get John Zorn back in 2011… I’m there!

~Dan – np: Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz