Calexico w. Bowerbirds // 18+ Show

From Event details at PublicBroadcasting.net!: Biography by Robert Hick
www.allmusic.com

Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino, forged an eclectic identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture. Composer Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Westerns as well as Portuguese fado, Afro-Peruvian music, and '50s and '60s jazz, country, and surf music all factored into Calexico's music. Burns studied classical music at the University of California, Irvine, before starting his rock career, and Calexico formed after Burns met John Convertino in Los Angeles in 1990. At the time, Convertino had been playing with Howe Gelb's experimental 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 collecting instruments from the Chicago Store.

First, they worked with Tucson's neo-lounge combo Friends of Dean Martinez, playing marimba, cello, accordion, and vibraphone in addition to their usual work on bass, guitar, and drums. After a split with Friends of Dean Martinez founder Bill Elm in 1996, the duo began to get session work with Barbara Manning, Richard Buckner, Victoria Williams, Michael Hurley, Bill Janovitz, Vic Chesnutt, and Lisa Germano (as the trio OP8). Burns and Convertino also experimented on their own with their new instruments in a home recording studio in 1996, releasing their debut CD, Spoke, on Germany's Haus Musik Records. After signing with Quarterstick/Touch and Go Records in Chicago, they released The Black Light in 1998 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 Wenk, Volker Zander, and Jacob Valenzuela, as well as members of Mariachi Luz de Luna. In 2003, the band issued its most cohesive material to date with Feast of Wire. An EP of covers, Convict Pool, followed 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 that year and 2005 collaborating with artists such as Nancy Sinatra, Neko 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 Collateral, Calexico found time to record with producer J.D. Foster. The results were the band's 2006 album, Garden Ruin, Calexico's most song-oriented release to date.

Early in 2007, Calexico appeared at Lincoln Center as a part of the venue's American Songbook Series, and performed at New York's Beacon Theatre that fall as part of a Bob Dylan tribute. During that time, Burns and Convertino also worked on new material, working with some of the same musicians they collaborated with on Feast of Wire as well as Iron & Wine's Sam Beam. In summer 2008, one of 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.



From Event Details at Ticketmaster.com!:From Event Details at Ticketmaster.com!: Doors 8pm
Show 9:30pm
Tickets $17 in advance / $20 day of show
On Sale September 12

Calexico Official Site

Bowerbirds on MySpace

Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com or by calling 651-989-5151. You can also purchase tickets 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 dinner/beverage package seating is reserved seating along the rail in the mezzanine and at the rear of the main floor. These are the best seats in the house, offering unobstructed sight lines. Extra Gold seating is an extra $60.00 per mezzanine ticket or $30.00 per main floor ticket, 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 all the seats at your table. CALL (612) 338-8100 BETWEEN 11am & 5pm FOR MORE INFORMATION & AVAILABILITY. TICKETS ARE LIMITED.




From Event details at First-Avenue.com!: Featuring
CALEXICO

Casa De CalexicoWith Special Guests
BOWERBIRDS

Bowerbirds on Myspace