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Updated 19/01/25
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Bonnie Prince Billy:
USA:
28/01/25 New York, Rough Trade
NYC - Bonnie
Prince Billy will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC at
6pm, for a live performance and signing in support of his new
album ‘The Purple Bird’
All dates with Dave Ferguson:
07/02/25 Santa Cruz, CA, Vet's
Hall
08/02/25 San Francisco, CA, Grace
Cathedral
09/02/25 Grass Valley, CA, Center
for the Arts
10/02/25 Sonoma, CA, Sebastiani
Theatre
12/02/25 Ojai, CA, Topa Bowl
14/02/25 Los Angeles, CA, Pico
Union Project
15/04/25 Lexington, KY, Recital
Hall at Singletary Center for the Arts (info)
Europe:
10/05/25 Leuven, Het Depot (info)
11/05/25
Antwerpen, Arenberg - De Grote (info)
12/05/25 Nijmegen, Doornroosje (info)
13/05/25 Amsterdam, Paradiso (info)
15/05/25 Kortrijk, Het Wilde
Westen (info)
17/05/25 Nantes, Stereolux
18/05/25 Paris, La Cigale
Old tourdates:
20/12/24 Louisville, KY,
Headliners -An
Evening of Louisville and Kentucky Music and Songs to benefit
Dare To Care with The Everybody Band, including Bonnie Prince
Billy and many others
UK:
01/12/24 London, Rough Trade East, instore (live
& signing)
USA
14/11/24 Louisville, KY, Bomhard
Theatre, Festival of Faiths - (look) (info)
Germany:
09/10/24 Karlsruhe, Tollhaus
10/10/24 Frankfurt, Zoom
11/10/24 Erlangen, Redoutensaal
12/10/24 Regensburg, Audimax
13/10/24 München, Kammerspiele
15/10/24 Essen, Lichtburg
16/10/24 Leipzig, Peterskirche
17/10/24 Hamburg, Kampnagel
18/10/24 Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Saal (info)
19/10/24 Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Saal (info)
USA:
21-22/09/24 Accord, NY, Arrowood
Farm Brewery, Woodsist Festival (info)
07-08/09/24 Evanston, IL, Dawes
Park, Evanston Folk Festival (info)
UK:
29/08/24 Salisbury, End Of The
Road Festival (info)
30/08/24 Manchester, New Century
Hall (info) (look at the gig)
31/08/24 Glasgow, Queen Margreat
Union (info)
01/09/24 Birmingham, Supersonic
Festival (info)
Ireland:
22/08/24 Clonakilty, DeBarras (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
23/08/24 Cork, The Everyman (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
24/08/24 Limerick, Dolan's
Warehouse (w/ Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
25/08/24 Galway, Roisin Dubh (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary) (photos)
26/08/24 Dublin, National Concert
Hall (w/ Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
27/08/24 Dublin, Whelan's (look and look)
26-28/07/24
Nelsonville, OH, Nelsonville Music Festival (info)
01-04/08/24 Portland, OR, Pickathon
(info) (check out In The
Wilderness)
25/07/24
Louisville, Headliners (info) (with Dave Howard, Dane
Waters, Sara Callaway, Jacob Duncan and Thomas Deakin)
Listen back from here
14/07/24
Lexington, KY, Kentucky Theatre, Harry Dean Stanton Fest
Will Oldham will join the This Must Be The Place screening and do a
Q&A before the screening to discuss his participation in the
film
Italy:
15/05/24 Torino, Spazio 211 (info) (video)
16/05/24 Milano, Santeria Toscana
31 (info)
17/05/24 Parma, Teatro Farmesee (info)
18/05/24 Padua, Anfiteatro Del
Venda (info)
19/05/24 Pesaro, Mengarden
21/05/24 Perugia, Auditorio San
Francesco al Prato
22/05/24 Roma, Monk - Sala Teatro
23/03/24 Knoxville, TN, Big Ears
Festival (info)(tickets)
18/01/24
Jacksonville, FL, Intuition Ale Works
19/01/24 St. Petersburg, FL, Side
Door (at The Palladium)
20/01/24 Orlando, FL, Pugh Theater
at DPAC (pictures)
21/01/24 Miami, FL, Miami
Folkways - Miami Beach Bandshell
•Here's the 3rd single of the new album: Downstream (feat. John Anderson), video by Michael Cullen (07/01/25)
•Here's the 2nd single of the new album: London May, video by Sai Selvarajan
(03/12/24)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy comes up with a
new album: The
Purple Bird. Recorded with David Ferguson. Pre-order here, here, here. To be released January 31.
Watch the first single of the album: Our Home (feat. Tim O'Brien)(23/10/24)
•Cardinals At My Window, is a compilation that has, next to the
other 136 contributions, a song by S.G. Goodman featuring Bonnie Prince
Billy (thanks
Jonathon)(10/10/24)
100% of proceeds split evenly between Community Foundation of
Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR),
and BeLoved Asheville.
•Finally to be seen, Burn To Shine 4: Louisville. Recorded November 27, 2005 with Paul & Will Oldham, Parlour, Magik Markers and others
(thanks Sascha)(09/10/24)
•Vague news, but it seems a new Bonnie Prince Billy album will appear in about 4 months or so
(13/09/24)
•High and High and Mighty by Bonnie Prince Billy is released on vinyl
through No Quarter (07/09/24)
•Listen to Liffeyside by Nuala Kennedy
& Eamon
O'Leary with Will Oldham singing along in the Liffeyside Chorus
(21/06/24)
•To be released May 31: Hear The Children Sing The Evidence by Bonnie Prince Billy, Nathan Salsburg
& Tyler Trotter. On No
Quarter (thanks
Leon)(25/04/24)
•Irish singer and flutist Nuala Kennedy and Dublin/New York singer and guitarist Eamon O’Leary have recently released their new song “Liffeyside.”
The track will be released on their their forthcoming album and
will have Will
Oldham singing along on it
(thanks ray)(15/03/24)
•First only to be seen in selected theatres, now available
to watch here: Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You by Ryan Daly & Will Oldham
(06/03/24)
•Check out the video for Big Man by Thee Conductor
w/ Bonnie
Prince Billy. From the
upcoming album Ennoia (07/02/24)
•Earlier only available as download, now Spirit Of A Ghost by Thee Conductor
is available on cassette. Featuring Bonnie Prince Billy on 2 songs (28/01/24)
•There's a interview with Bonnie Prince Billy in The Guardian, you can read here (thanks Charles)(19/01/25)
•On Januray 30 there's a listening party on Bandcamp.
Join Bonnie
Prince Billy for this party
on the eve of "The Purple Bird". Hear the record, chat with fellow fans and
BPB himself! (19/01/25)
•Check out two video where Will Oldham is playing New Pony by Bob Dylan and
Cherry by JJ Cale (thanks
John)(15/12/24)
•Listen to episode 99 of The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast
for Kids and Families.
Bone Wars
and The Ghost Town Rhyolite:
This episode features the narration talents of musician Will Oldham, also known as Bonnie Prince Billy. Will
tells the story of Rhyolite,
a town once founded in Death Valley after the discovery of gold
by Frank “Shorty” Harris. Today it is a ghost town
(thanks ray)(06/11/24)
•Will
Oldham on the building blocks of music (thanks ray)(29/08/24)
•Listen here to Bonnie Prince Billy's random playlist at the Freak Zone Playlist
(while it lasts) (thanks ray)(21/08/24)
•Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White
form new band The Hard Quartet, read about it here (thanks John)(20/07/24)
•If you're a member you can read The Aquarium Drunkard interview about the latest output covering Lungfish (thanks ray)(14/06/24)
•Listen to Will Oldham
at Big Ears Music Festival 2024 (thanks ray)(01/06/24)
•Will Oldham on Steve Albini (thanks ray)(17/05/24)
•Swimsuit released a coverversion of One With The Birds, check it out here (thanks Karl)(10/05/24)
•Listen to the Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive: Recorded in Kentucky (thanks Sascha)(07/02/24)
•Life Of The Record: for the 25th anniversary of the album
you can listen to the making of I See A Darkness by Bonnie “Prince” Billy - featuring Will Oldham (thanks ray)(28/01/24)
•Take a look a the film Green Man Festival 2005 with unreleased footage of Bonnie Prince Billy, Joanna Newsom and more. Read about it here (thanks Luca)(28/01/24)
•The Miami New Times has an interview: Bonnie "Prince" Billy Was Destined to Play at the Miami Beach
Bandshell (thanks ray)(28/01/24)
•Listen to a new Bonnie Prince Billy song, played live 18/01/24 in Jacksonville,
FL (thanks Luca)(28/01/24)
•Listen to the Meet Our Makers podcast, with Bonnie Prince Billy - Singing Life (thanks ray)(03/01/24)
•Listen to Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Will Oldham on the song that changed his life
(thanks ray)(24/11/23)
•Here are pictures of the gig from Jong Langford and Bonnie Prince Blly at Joe's Pub (thanks ray)(24/11/23)