ExteTonight k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang will kick off an extensive 60-city North American tour with a sold-out show at the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Next Monday, June 20, they will perform at New York City's Beacon Theatre. The run, which will feature special guests the Belle Brigade, the Secret Sisters and Teddy Thompson, will include an August 16 show at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles and an October 3 show at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the historic home of the Grand Ole Opry. See below for itinerary or visit www.kdlang.com .
"We're trying to play venues that are conducive to dancing and spontaneous outbursts," said lang, who has won four GRAMMY® awards and eight Juno awards. "I wanted to focus on outdoor venues and folk festivals, particularly the Canadian folk festivals."
"After a weekend of dozens of performances across the broad spectrum of everything related to country, lang's performance provided an eminently satisfying conclusion," said the Los Angeles Times of her set at the 2011 Stagecoach Festival in Coachella. "lang is a beaming and ebullient figure tonight, easing her spectacular and pitch-perfect voice into every corner of 'Miss Chatelaine' and winning a standing ovation for an understated yet mesmerising reading of Cohen's 'Hallelujah,'" noted The Guardian in a four-star review of a recent show at London's Royal Festival Hall. "Her sultry throb of a vocal is desire incarnate on 'I Confess' and the sublime sigh of 'A Sleep with No Dreaming.'"
The tour is lang's first with her new band, the Siss Boom Bang, which the Los Angeles Times likened to The Band and Wilco, adding: "[they] back lang with a delightfully ramshackle playfulness...The give and play of emotion is like a game of tug of war; the rope breaks, and everyone winds up in a laughing pile of limbs and bodies."
After the North American leg concludes in October, lang and the Siss Boom Bang-comprising Joe Pisapia (a multi-instrumentalist who co-produced Sing it Loud with lang and serves as musical director), Daniel Clarke (keyboards), Fred Eltringham (drums/percussion), Joshua Grange (baritone guitar, dobro), and Lex Price (bass)-will embark on an Australian tour.
Sing it Loud was named "Album of the Week" by Sydney's Daily Telegraph, which hailed it as "back-to-basics lang recorded as a band, mostly in one take, just like the old days: raw and immediate." "Lang's distinctive voice glides across octaves and over sway-inducting guitar melodies, proving on bluesy folk numbers like 'The Water's Edge' and 'Sugar Buzz' that her sound is as honeyed and hypnotic as ever," said Parade while the New York Daily News awarded it four stars, noting that lead single"I Confess" "sounds strikingly like something ripped from Roy Orbison's back pages, a pop aria rippling with echo, bolero drums and a vocal that ricochets around the speakers." Chuck Arnold picked "Sugar Buzz" for his People playlist, observing: "the lush-voiced lang captures the sweetest of surrenders." "k.d. lang's big, sultry voice harks back to a bygone era, when pop and country singers knew how to linger over a song's melody," said The New York Times' Jon Pareles.
Sing it Loud is lang's first studio album since 2008's Watershed and her first record made entirely with a band of her own since her early albums with the Reclines. In 2010, lang marked the 25th anniversary of her recording debut with Recollection, a career retrospective.She has won four GRAMMY® awards, eight Juno Awards, a BRIT, an AMA, a VMA, and four awards from GLAAD. In 1996, lang received Canada's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada. She has appeared alongside such musical luminaries as Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Loretta Lynn, and Tony Bennett. lang has also contributed to numerous soundtracks, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Happy Feet, and has appeared in such films as Salmonberries, The Black Dahlia, and Eye of the Beholder.
k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang - Confirmed Tour Dates
6/16 Rochester, NY Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre
6/17 Toronto, ON Luminato Festival
6/18 London, ON The Grand Theatre
6/20 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
6/22 Carmel, IN Carmel -The Center for the Performing Arts
6/23 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Festival
6/25 Ottawa, ON Ottawa International Jazz Festival
6/27 Montreal, QC Montreal Jazz Festival
6/29 Kettering, OH Fraze Pavilion
6/30 Grand Rapids, MI Meijer Gardens Amphitheatre
7/1 Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor Summer Festival
7/3 Highmount, NY Belleayre Music Festival
7/4 Binghamton, NY Anderson Center for the Performing Arts
7/6 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap/The Filene Center
7/8 Winnipeg, MB Winnipeg Folk Festival
7/9 Cohasset, MA South Shore Music Circus
7/10 Hyannis, MA Cape Cod Melody Tent
7/12 Portsmouth, NH The Music Hall
7/14 Baltimore, MD Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
7/15 Boone, NC Appalachian Summer Festival
7/23 Calgary, AB Calgary Folk Music Festival
7/24 Kelowna, BC Kelowna Community Theatre
7/25 Spokane, WA Martin Woldson Theatre @ Fox
7/27 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
7/29 Redding, CA Cascade Theatre
7/30 Oakville, CA Robert Mondavi Winery
7/31 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery
8/2 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden
8/3 Boulder, CO Chatauqua Auditorium
8/4 Denver, CO Denver Botanic Gardens
8/6 Regina, SK 2011 Regina Folk Festival
8/7 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Folk Festival
8/9 Bellingham, WA Mount Baker Theatre
8/10 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
8/12 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
8/13 Burnaby, BC Burnaby Blues & Roots Festival
8/16 Los Angeles, CA John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
9/15 Fairbanks, AK Hering Auditorium
9/16 Anchorage, AK Atwood Concert Hall
9/17 Anchorage, AK Atwood Concert Hall
9/27 Buffalo, NY Center for the Arts
9/29 Philadelphia, PA Verizon Hall
9/30 York, PA Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
10/1 Newport News, VA Ferguson Center for the Arts
10/3 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
10/5 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
10/7 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
10/8 West Palm Beach, FL Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
10/11 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symphony Center
10/12 Austin, TX Paramount Theatre
10/14 Santa Fe, NM Lensic Performing Arts Center
10/15 Tucson, AZ Centennial Hall
10/16 Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center
10/18 Chico, CA Laxson Auditorium
10/19 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
10/20 Davis, CA Jackson Hall - Mondavi Performing Arts Center
10/23 Palm Desert, CA McCallum Theatre
10/24 San Diego, CA Balboa Theatre
