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Fall 2010 New Tour Dates After a few quiet, hot summer months at home, we will return to the road this fall for select dates. Starting at Hopscotch, our hometown music festival, we will drive our ramshackle tour van around a bit in the balmier days of early fall.
TOUR DATES
Summer 2010 Hunkering down For an example of some of the activities we will be partaking in this summer, please watch our video for Northern Lights shot late last summer on Ten Mile Lake in Minnesota by the talented Matt Amato.
We are playing the first annual Hopscotch Festival held in Downtown Raleigh from Sept. 9th-11th. Terribly good bands coming to play this one, including, somehow, Public Enemy and Broken Social Scene. We get to play with Richard Buckner, Sharon Van Etten, and our new local hero (we have several) Ryan Gustafson. Very Fun.
Winter 2009 Lots of tours, new video and online shop
This year has been extremely busy and fun, with almost nonstop touring in support of our new album, Upper Air, including two European tours, and a bunch of North American tours, and we are now home for the holidays, before heading out again in early 2010, for a string of dates with Julie Doiron and Sharon Van Etten supporting.
On one of our tours we also made a stop at the desk of one of our favorite National Public Radio hosts (of All Songs Considered), Bob Boilen, to do a Tiny Desk Concert, which resulted in some cool videos you can see here.
summer 2009 New music from us to you
We have a new album coming out titled, "Upper Air," that will be arriving in stores on the July 7th. We are quite fond of playing these songs and will be coming to your town very soon. We are leaving the day before it is released on a very long tour across the United States with one of our favorite bands, MEGAFAUN. In fact, Brad Cook from MEGAFAUN is playing Upright with us as well as Mr. Mark Paulson again to play that fiddle and do a little drumming.
spring 2009 We haven't even played a show yet and look at how much fun!One of our recent personal favorites, Matt Damron (featured above center), is now a Bowerbird. He is playing drums with us and he is great. Bowerbirds are in a traffic jam about to play our first show of a short midwest tour. Tonight we play in Madison, Wisconsin. In the future we are coming out with a new album and so we will be testing some new songs out and seeing how they sit with all of you. We can't tell you when the album is actually coming out because we promised we wouldn't. But, we are proud of the songs and most importantly enjoy playing them especially with Matt.
We have several more tours in the near future. Nothing is totally confirmed yet but soon they will be. Here's how it's going to go down:
winter 2009
WKNC Double Barrel Benefit 6This will be our first show in forevz. We have been recording and otherwise fumbling around the world. But, we're back and we're totally stoked. Our good friends Wes and Mickey will be playing with the Bowerbirds, so that means drums and Upright Bass. Seriously though, check out Wes's new music HERE. He is my oldest friend and we've been playing music together since elementry school after meeting in preschool (adorable pictures to come). The show will start at 9pm and be at the pour house in Raleigh with Lonnie Walker, Lost in the Trees, Schooner and then Bowerbirds. Please come and support stuff. spring 2008
La Blogotheque, un concert a importer avec le BowerbirdsWhile in New York last fall, we recorded some take away shows with the director, Vincent Moon, who is one of the fabulous. here are four videos for four songs of ours recently posted to LA BLOGOTHEQUE website. We walk around in une boutique de bonbon, ride in the rear a van, stand on a street corner, and walk the streets all in the lower east side. It was a pleasure to work with Vincent Moon. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Making thingsIt's spring and babies are being born everywhere. The airstream is shining silver and is at times more like an oven than a home. We have field mice, which is wonderful. They give us a strong sense of community while we go about our daily activites which include, but are not limited to, making things.New songs are coming out of the green earth and fortifing their stalks with the sun and the rain and strong coffee from the mocha pot. Beth has a new print (featured above). We are planning tours here and there and will announce them as soon as we can. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Danger at Sea', sinkingWe have decided that as soon as 'Hymns for a Dark Horse' is re-released on Dead Oceans we will quit sewing together our first EP, 'Danger at Sea', and selling it online or maybe we will sew a few more together and just sell those, which ever comes first, I guess. It is difficult to keep up with the sewing and either way, all good things do come to an end. If you want 'Danger at Sea', you can still order it from us for a limited time (look for link above and to the left). winter 2008Bowerbirds sign to Dead Oceans, get awards, stay warm! Even though the nighttime temperature *inside* the airstream dropped 20 degrees below freezing this week, we remain warm and happy, because of all these nice things: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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fall 2007Tours with John Vanderslice and Mountain Goats, plus we're playing at CMJ!
 Photos by Charlie Laskowski We played these shows: It was great playing and hanging out with the bands, and we got to do some nice camping along the way. Hopefully soon we will get around to posting some pictures from our tour adventures, which included hot tubbing at night with a raccoon. Now we're home for a week before we head out to New York, in mid-October, to play two shows at CMJ, a music festival held in NYC, where we're playing two showcases, including one at the Knitting Factory. See flyer below. (Get tix at: www.ticketweb.com. Or go to our shows page for more info.
And then we go out again with the Mountain Goats for a Midwest tour from late October through mid-November! See the shows page for details.
And some sad news: Bowerbirds leave Burly Time RecordsAfter some recent things that have happened with our label, we have decided that we need to leave Burly Time. For now, we will continue releasing our e.p. and l.p. ourselves, and you can still buy them from the links at left, in stores, or at our shows.
spring 2007Hymns for a Dark Horse available now!
You can either buy the actual CD by clicking on that little CD at below left, you can buy it from your local indie record store (or get them to order it, through Revolver), or you can buy the digital files at Other Music. Cover art for the CD is made by Eric Amling, and the inside booklet has drawings by our own Beth Tacular. Beth and Eric also just had an art show together at Wootini Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC. Also, the new Venus is out and they reviewed our cd. We think that's great. Our mini tour has come to a close, which is sad, but it was great to play nightly with the Rosebuds. Our show at the Bowery Ballroom was almost too fun.
Burly Time CD release party!
So, we are releasing this cd with our burly wing mates, Burly Time Records on May 4th at 305 South, a music venue in Durham, NC. You might know the place as the Untidy Museum (it is also a consignment store / extravaganza) or you might not know it all, mouse yourself here or drive here. This will be a dual cd relese show with our label mate Horseback. He's brilliant and infectious and makes me want to drive a Cutlass Cruiser down an old gravel road outside my hometown in Iowa with my best friends. There are also a few other acts that we are hoping will want to come join us. Sets by:
CDs available for pre-order online now!For non-local fans who can't wait to hear the new album, we've got Bowerbirds' Hymns for a Dark Horse and out label mate, Horseback's Impale Golden Horn for pre-order on the Burly Time shop page . The CDs will be mailed out right after the CD Release Party on May 4, so you'll get them a couple months before they hit stores nationwide. Lucky you!
Bowerbirds go on mini-tour with the RosebudsFrom May 18th to the 24th, Bowerbirds hit the road with Kelly, Ivan and friends for a few shows in Asheville, NC, Washington, DC, Philly and New York! More info on the shows page.
Oh yes, look, new song our mp3 player.
summer 2006
 They have hiked up Bear Mountain near Boulder, Colorado.
They have slept under a full moon in White Sands, New Mexico.
They have met wonderful folks in Tucson, AZ and sung their tiny little songs there.
They have travelled north from southern CA all the way to Bellingham, WA watching the giant burning sun set over the ocean each night.
They have taken their red eyed mini-van across the Cascades of Washington, across the Rockies of Utah and Wyoming and wound up in Northern, MN.
They even made it to New York City, where they have been eating lots of delicious food.
Life has been good and free, and, although the duo has some shows scheduled in New York, it will soon be time to nest again. Their wings are slighty battered and in need of some repair. Soon, the birds will be drinking cocktails with their friends on the silky sands of North Carolina. Click here to see where the birds are playing in the near future. |
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We just got back from a five-week tour with 
So, our new full length is available for pre-order (Look to your left and down a little bit). We've moved some of the songs around on our mp3 player so
everyone can figure out what's going on. 
We want everyone to know that Mark plays much more than just a bit part in our band. He plays the violin, piano, the bass drum, and now fills crevases that we could not have before imagined
being filled with his feet and synthesizers! Oh yes, and he recorded our new album. He is a sweet man and is invaluable. Other things that Mark can do: He plays in another band named Ticonderoga, builds furniture, paints on canvas, restores houses, climbs on rocks, runs triathalons, does yoga, is a great cook, knows about wine (he is a waiter), seems to invent new words (that acctually exist, but hardly anyone knows about, not even Beth), etc. 
Horseback and the Bowerbirds have the CDs. Burly Time is bringing the party. You can just bring yourselfs and a guest, maybe, and maybe some cash to buy our cd. We're putting out a cd on May 4th for all the triangulartors. It will be called, "Hymns for a Dark Horse." The cover art will be pieced together by
an amazing collage artist, 
The Bowerbirds have been travelling all summer long, foraging around for shows here and there.
They started in Raleigh, NC in late April and travelled west, and all around for the last couple months.