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Updated 22/05/23
Old
news
Bonnie Prince Billy:
11/07/23 Denver, CO, Soiled Dove
12/07/23 Denver, CO, Soiled Dove
13/07/23 Fort Collins, CO, The
Armory
14/07/23 Manitou Springs, CO,
Lulu's Downstairs
15/07/23 Basalt, CO, TACAW (The
Arts Campus at Willits) (above dates w/ Faun Fables)
07/09/23 Galveston, TX, The Old
Quarter
08/09/23 Galveston, TX, The Old
Quarter Galveston
09/09/23 Houston, TX, The Heights
Theater
11/09/23 Elgin, TX, Lightnin' Bar
12/09/23 Austin, TX, Parish
13/09/23 Austin, TX, Parish
14/09/23 Dallas, TX, The Texas
Theatre
15/09/23 San Antonio, TX,
Lonesome Rose
16/09/23 Marfa, TX, The Crowley
Theatre (above dates w/ Myriam Gendron)
26/09-01/10 Kingston, NY, Tubby's
Kiingston, Tubby's 5 Year
Anniversary Weekend
01/10/23 Montreal, Théâtre
Rialto (w/ Beyries for POP Montreal International Music Festival)
(check)
17/10/23 Tucson, AZ, 191 Toole
18/10/23 Phoenix, AZ, Musical
Instrument Museum
19/10/23 Flagstaff, AZ, Coconino
Center for the Arts
20/10/23 Albuquerque, NM, Fusion
708
21/10/23 Taos, NM, Taos Center for
the Arts
22/10/23 Santa Fe, NM, San Miguel
Chapel (above dates w/ Laurel Premo)
14/11/23 Pittsburgh, PA, 25
Carrick
19/11/23 Charlottesville, VA,
Jefferson Theatre
Old tourdates:
10/05/23 Victoria, Canada,
British Columbia, Capital Ballroom (w/ Patricia Wolf)
11/05/23 Vancouver, British
Columbia, St. James Community Square (w/ Patricia Wolf)
12/05/23 Bellingham, WA, The Wild
Buffalo (w/ Patricia Wolf)
13/05/23 Seattle, WA, Neptune
Theatre (w/ Patricia Wolf)
14/05/23 Portland, OR, Aladdin
Theater (w/ Patricia Wolf)
15/05/23 Portland, OR, Aladdin
Theater (w/ Michael Hurly)
Bonnie
Prince Billy and Jon Langford: Song For Song
11/03/23 Minneapolis, MN, The
Cedar Cultural Center (6.00 pm) (info)
11/03/23 Minneapolis, MN, The
Cedar Cultural Center (9.00 pm)
Bonnie Prince Billy
19-20/11/22 Chicago, IL,
Constellation, Letters to Santa
05/12/22
Nijmegen, Doornroosje
06/12/22 Amsterdam, Paradiso
07/12/22 Frankfurt, Zoom
08/12/22 Antwerpen, De Roma
09/12/22 London, Hackney Church
19/11/22 Louisville,
KY, Edenside Sanctuary (fundraiser for Story's
Lighthouse)
04/11/22
Urbana, IL, Channing Murray Foundation
05/11/22 Berwyn. IL, Fitzgerald's
(w. Jon Langford)
05/11/22 Berwyn. IL, Fitzgerald's
06/11/22 Indianapolis, IN,
Shelton Auditorium
23/10/22
Brooklyn, NY, Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn Folk Festival
14/09/22 San
Francisco, CA, The Chapel (w/ Kidi Band)
15/09/22 San
Francisco, CA, The Chapel (w/ Ari Micich)
16/09/22 Santa
Cruz, CA, Kuumbwa Jazz (w/ evicshen)
17/09/22 Paso
Robles, CA, Hubba Winery (w/ evicshen)
18/09/22 Big
Sur, CA, Henry Miller Library (w/ evicshen)
13/08/22
Woodstock, VT, Woodstock Town Hall Theatre w/ Footings and Empath
14/08/22 Keene, NH, Nova Arts w/
Footings and Myriam Gendron & Party of the Sun
15/08/22 Turners Falls, MA, The
Shea Theatre w/ Footings and A.P.I.E (Animal Piss is Everywhere)
17/08/22 Lowell, MA, Mill No. 5
w/ Footings and Charlie Chronopoulos
18/08/22 Kittery, ME, Black Birch
w/ Footings and Dead Gowns (solo), Modern Fools (solo)
19/08/22 Portland, ME, SPACE w/
Footings and Asa Irons
20/08/22 Cambridge MA, Brattle
Theatre
14/09/22 San Francisco, CA, The
Chapel
15/09/22 San Francisco, CA, The
Chapel
16/09/22 Santa Cruz, CA, Kuumbwa
Jazz
17/09/22 Paso Robles, CA, Hubba
Winery
18/09/22 Big Sur, CA, Henry
Miller Library
07/08/22 Louisville, KY, The
Whirling Tiger, Hymns for the Holler: A Concert for
Appalshop, Part 1
09/07/22
Saugatuck, MI, Ox-Bow School of Art for the Ox-Bow Benefit Summer
Concert
22/05/22
Chicago, IL, Thalia Hall - performance & conversation (info)
May 27-29 2022 North Adams, MA, Solid Sound Festival
•The new Bonnie Prince Billy album Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is available for pre-order now, check here, here and here. To be released August 11.
Check the various bundle options and look and listen to Bananas (22/05/23)
•Jaye
Jayle will
release his album Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down on July 14 through Pelagic Records. Bonnie Prince Billy sings along on When We
Are Dogs, more here (21/04/23)
•Thee
Conductor will release his
album Ennoia in November 2023. Bonnie Prince Billy sings on the album (21/04/23)
•To be released: a new Bonnie Prince Billy album: Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. The album will be presented April 20 at
the Speed Art Museum in Louisville.
This is a special evening of recorded music shared with the
public for the first time accompanied by visualizations
conceived, juxtaposed, and assembled by Ryan Daly (thanks
ray)(21/03/23)
•Released on February 3 and already sold out...: Palace Things 12" by Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney with Mdou Moctar (read here) (thanks ray)(15/02/23)
•Released January the 1st: Can You Hear Me? The Sing-Along Album by Cheyenne Mize
& Special Guests. One of the guests is Will Oldham singing along on I Love written by Tom T. Hall (thanks Martin)(10/01/23)
•Matt Kivel's album bend reality ~ like a wave is out now, check here for the digital version and for pre-orders the
physical version. Bonnie Prince Billy sings on 3 songs (15/10/22)
•Pre-orders of Shorty's Ark include a download card to access the unreleased
demo version of "Shorty's Ark," as performed by Matt
Sweeney (01/10/22)
The book is coming out April 21, 2023. It is a collaborative
effort between Will Oldham
and graphic artist Lori Damiano.
•Listen to a new song from the upcoming album of Matt Kivel: amagansett (feat. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) (24/09/22)
•Matt
Kivel will
release Bend
Reality - Like A Wave on limited edition LP. Bonnie Prince Billy sings along on three
songs, check here (04/09/22)
•First released through the Happy Hollerdays 2021 compilation, now available separately
from here: Outsider from the Ramones by Bonnie Prince Billy featuring Chris Scruggs, William
Tyler,
Pete Townsend and D.C. Berman
(12/08/22)
•Shorty's Ark, coming out April 2023: a book for young readers,
a collaborative effort between Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on the song by Oldham and Matt Sweeney
(thanks Charles)(31/07/22)
•Matt
Kivel and Bonnie Prince Billy sing a duet on Find Love,
buy here (thanks Léon)(31/07/22)
•Take a look to the video where Bonnie Prince Billy plays Home by Joan Shelley (05/07/22)
•Take a look to the video that comes with the Andrew Rhinehart & Bonnie Prince Billy cover of Friend
Of The Devil, start here (20/05/22)
•On May 6 at 10 am PST (18.00h GMT, 19.00h in Amsterdam) Antiquated Future will release two career spanning retrospective
cassettes of rare, alternate, or live versions of
Palace Music and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy songs (06/05/22)
•Just released: High & High & Mighty. A new album by Bonnie Prince Billy on Haha
Institute (03/05/22)
•Can You Hear Me? was developed by host Cheyenne Mize as an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in
Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity
College Dublin in 2019-2020.
Will Oldham and Cheyenne sing I Love in season 2, episode 2 of this podcast (15/04/22)
•Listen to Vish Khanna's Ep. #775, with Will Oldham & Lori Damiano
(21/05/23)
•Listen to a new song by Bonnie Prince Billy here
(21/05/23)
•Check the Talkhouse Podcast: Will Oldham
(Bonnie Prince Billy) with David Wax
(thanks ray)(07/05/23)
•February 9 had Will Oldham
talking to Keith
Waits on Louisville ARTxFM. Amongst other things talking about a
brand new album coming up in a few months and playing You May
Want To Stay (15/02/23)
•Night Of The Bastard, a movie by Eric Boccio has a brand new song by Bonnie Prince Billy: You May Want To Stay (15/02/23)
•Listen to Good To My Girls as performed by Bonnie Prince Billy (15/10/22)
•Listen to The Way as performed by Bonnie Prince Billy (09/10/22)
•Emmett
Kelly has produced Seance!
With Zabrecky. The album
comes out on In The Red records (01/10/22)
•Alan
Licht released a CD version
with remastered audio and updated artwork from the original
digital version of Three Chords and a Sword: Solo Cover
Versions 1988-2021
It has a cover of Stable Will (24/09/22)
•Listen to Brogan's Run Episode 8: Will Oldham
(thanks ray)(04/09/22)
•Listen to WRSI with Bonnie Prince Billy on Baby Jessica, Johnny Cash & shape-note
singing (thanks John)(19/08/22)
•Check out this Rig Rundown with Matt Sweeney
and Emmett
Kelly form Superwolves
(20/05/22)
•Check out this Essential Tremors podcast with Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy (03/05/22)