BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calexico w. Bowerbirds // 18+ Show in Minneapolis at Fine Line Music Cafe - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081122T200000 DTSTAMP:20081115T064926Z SUMMARY:Calexico w. Bowerbirds // 18+ Show DESCRIPTION:From Event details at PublicBroadcasting.net!: Biography by Robert Hick www.allmusic.comCalexico\, a Tucson collective of music ians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino\, forged an eclecti c identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture. Composer Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Westerns as well as Portuguese fado\, Afr o-Peruvian music\, and '50s and '60s jazz\, country\, and surf music a ll factored into Calexico's music. Burns studied classical music at th e University of California\, Irvine\, before starting his rock career\ , and Calexico formed after Burns met John Convertino in Los Angeles i n 1990. At the time\, Convertino had been playing with Howe Gelb's exp erimental rock group Giant Sand after serving as their upright bassist for a European tour. Burns and Convertino found their voice as a duo during a Giant Sand break\, moved to Tucson in 1994\, and began collec ting instruments from the Chicago Store. First\, they worked with Tucs on's neo-lounge combo Friends of Dean Martinez\, playing marimba\, cel lo\, accordion\, and vibraphone in addition to their usual work on bas s\, guitar\, and drums. After a split with Friends of Dean Martinez fo under Bill Elm in 1996\, the duo began to get session work with Barbar a Manning\, Richard Buckner\, Victoria Williams\, Michael Hurley\, Bil l Janovitz\, Vic Chesnutt\, and Lisa Germano (as the trio OP8). Burns and Convertino also experimented on their own with their new instrumen ts in a home recording studio in 1996\, releasing their debut CD\, Spo ke\, on Germany's Haus Musik Records. After signing with Quarterstick/ Touch and Go Records in Chicago\, they released The Black Light in 199 8 and The Hot Rail in 2000.For their 2001 EP Even My Sure Things Fall Through\, Calexico enlisted the support of soon-to-be members Martin W enk\, Volker Zander\, and Jacob Valenzuela\, as well as members of Mar iachi Luz de Luna. In 2003\, the band issued its most cohesive materia l to date with Feast of Wire. An EP of covers\, Convict Pool\, followe d a year later. The concert DVD World Drifts In: Live at the Barbican London was also released in 2004\, and the group spent the rest of tha t year and 2005 collaborating with artists such as Nancy Sinatra\, Nek o Case\, Laura Cantrell\, and Iron & Wine's Sam Beam\, with whom they recorded In the Reins. Along with touring with Iron & Wine in support of that album and appearing in a cameo in Michael Mann's film Collater al\, Calexico found time to record with producer J.D. Foster. The resu lts were the band's 2006 album\, Garden Ruin\, Calexico's most song-or iented release to date. Early in 2007\, Calexico appeared at Lincoln C enter as a part of the venue's American Songbook Series\, and performe d at New York's Beacon Theatre that fall as part of a Bob Dylan tribut e. During that time\, Burns and Convertino also worked on new material \, working with some of the same musicians they collaborated with on F east of Wire as well as Iron & Wine's Sam Beam. In summer 2008\, one o f Calexico's new songs\, "Crystal Frontier\," was beamed into space as wake-up music for the astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery. That fall\, Carried to Dust arrived. \n\nFrom Event Details at Ticketmaste r.com!:From Event Details at Ticketmaster.com!: Doors 8pm Show 9:30pm Tickets $17 in advance / $20 day of show On Sale September 12Calexico Official SiteBowerbirds on MySpace Tickets can be purchased through Ti cketmaster.com or by calling 651-989-5151. You can also purchase ticke ts in person at the Fine Line box office M-F between the hours of 11am and 11pm. **X-GOLD TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS SHOW. Extra Gold d inner/beverage package seating is reserved seating along the rail in t he mezzanine and at the rear of the main floor. These are the best sea ts in the house\, offering unobstructed sight lines. Extra Gold seatin g is an extra $60.00 per mezzanine ticket or $30.00 per main floor tic ket\, and the $60.00 or $30.00 can be applied to anything on the menu except tax or gratuity. Tables hold four people. Please note that you may be seated with other people at your table if you do not purchase a ll the seats at your table. CALL (612) 338-8100 BETWEEN 11am & 5pm FOR MORE INFORMATION & AVAILABILITY. TICKETS ARE LIMITED. \nFrom Event de tails at First-Avenue.com!: Featuring CALEXICO Casa De CalexicoWith Sp ecial Guests BOWERBIRDS Bowerbirds on Myspace LOCATION:Fine Line Music Cafe @ 318 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, M innesota 55401 United States SEQUENCE:1226731766 UID:E0-001-017329656-4 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-017329656-4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR