Stephen Clair's grandfather was always singing from behind the wheel while occasionally opening the car door to spit. It was Grandpap who played young Stephen a Johnny Cash record when he was five years old, and that's everything Stephen remembers from his youth. Best known for his wry humor and guitar stylings, the Beacon, NY […]
HAYDEN PEDIGO: man, myth, master of disguise; un-picker, finger-picker, absurdist, perfectionist. An innovator of the instrumental genre, challenger of the stereotypical, son of a truck-stop preacher. His new album, 'I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away' is, Hayden reflects, not a straightforward solo guitar record, but in a sense “a micro-dose psychedelic album." Unafraid to […]
“Over the last couple of decades, East Nashville fixture Amelia White has built a folk-pop catalog that's as unfussy as it is consistent in quality, and full of insinuating hooks, slyly sleepy singing and lean, jangly backing. “Rhythm of The Rain," looks at the current political frenzy from a seasoned, bohemian remove.” Jewly Hight, NPR […]
A singer and songwriter from Westerly, Rhode Island, Zachary Alexander Cholewa started Number One Babe in 2020 as a vehicle for his indie folk & Americana twang after spending formative years writing and performing with garage rock band Sydney's Armour. His debut album, 2022's Ecstatic Function brought many jangly, raucous shows to the greater northeast, […]
A compact luxury convertible pulls into the roundabout in front of the Hotel Paradiso. A dapper gentleman kills the engine and pulls himself up onto the curb, cracking a thin but affable smile. He hands his keys to the valet, removing and dusting off his woven, off-white hat and closing his eyes for a moment […]
Dyan is the solo project of film composer, Alexis Dyan Marsh. Between scoring the TNT television series, Animal Kingdom, or composing for feature films (Jazzy, The Unknown Country, NextGen), Marsh started writing songs to fill in where directors wanted music with lyrics. Her first album, Looking For Knives, was the result of producing songs that […]
NICO SOFFIATO, Italian guitarist, composer and educator, currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. After receiving his Master’s degree in philosophy with a thesis on the ontology of music, he moved to Boston. There he attended Berklee College of Music, thanks to a Best Entering Talent Students scholarship, and graduated magna cum laude. At Berklee, he studied […]
GRAMMY Award-winning cellist Andrew Yee will be in residence at TOURISTS creating a new album of solo cello works by Bach and American cellist and composer Arthur Russell. Yee has been praised by Michael Kennedy of the London Telegraph as “spellbindingly virtuosic”. Trained at the Juilliard School, they are a founding member of the internationally […]
Vermont’s TROY MILLETTE is equal parts thoughtful and lively– a cocktail of rock, pop, folk, and americana music that grapples with love, loss, and the human experience. Millette’s emotive and relatable lyrics, as well as his energetic, banter-filled live performances have made him a staple of dives, clubs, theaters, and festivals across the northeast United […]
Effortlessly moving between unity and dissonance, voice and instrumentation, rhythm and melody, Lyle de Vitry seamlessly integrates the comfort of folk music with the spine-shivering emotional release and intentionality of classical compositions. In so doing, he manages to create a sound as dynamic and honest as the ocean’s eternally flowing tides or the planet’s ever-changing […]
JUDE BROTHERS is a folk derived singer-songwriter from Arkansas, with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful, calculated & relaxed, approachable & quirky. Their lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving, a practice in raw and shameless […]
TOURISTS is honored to be hosting electronic music legend DON SLEPIAN as he tours the US celebrating the 45th anniversary of his seminal record Sea of Bliss. A composer, performer, and music technologist, Slepian is revered as a pioneer in the ambient and new age music movement, blending classical influences with cutting-edge electronic techniques. From […]
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