Andrew Vladeck

Coast to Coast

I’ve some shows in the next week where I’m unveiling some new songs and an advance copy of the new EP will be available.  Official release this spring!

Los Angelians: my first show in LA in moons! Show me how you do.

Jersey Cityites: coming to give you my love.   (New Yorkers: think of Jersey City as Brooklyn, except closer to many,  and cheaper, with some amazing restaurants. Not so scary.  NYC coming soon, promise.)

Rehearsal Video

Here’s a fun little clip from out rehearsal on Monday at Lauren and Pascal’s home.

AN ASIDE

This is one of those loopy weeks that seem happen a lot lately.  So many different things flying around.  On Friday I play the NYC “Metro Area”  with my ensemble (Lauren Balthrop and Marika Hughes).  (The NY Times just called to interview me about the venue!)  On Sunday I play a family show as The Rozz & Val Show at 92Y Tribeca—and then i fly to Sundance and play that night at a scene-ster party with The Honey Brothers.  Then fly to LA, play a benefit, and play a solo show at LA’s Bootleg Theater. All the while, I finish up the artwork on my new EP, and write more songs for the next record. A bit crushed, but good things one and all.

Posted on 01/19/11 at 11:22AM | Filed under: blognews

Europe, Days 1-4, Kind of…

a dream-like journey.  this blog post will be as disjointed and confusing as a dream, since it’s hard to keep up and to keep track of all the magic and write about it in a coherant manner.  will start off with a video shot in Vienna by Fairsoul Communications, two Vienna-based filmakers who I met with in a silver-lit platz near the venue, Verein.  Thanks Stuart Jolley and Gregory Kennedy-Salemi.  We had to scrap the first take because the church bells were shock-and-awe-wake-the-deadloud.  (btw, you can see more photos and up-to-date mini updates at Facebook Page and Profile).

Andrew Vladeck - Living The Dream from FairSoul-LIVE…ACT..BE on Vimeo.

4 shows down, 17 to go.  I can’t for the life of me believe it’s only been four days.  Four gloriously long, interesting, fun, soulful days.  I’ve already met and played for so many wonderful people, enjoyed meals and drinks and pretzels and funny sandwiches and pizza, driven through the gorgeous german and austrian countrysides…. the alps, the dolomites…

I can’t believe I have 5 times as many shows waiting for me. Awesome.  I’ve been trying to type this as we drive, the mountains covered in evergreens, the valleys filled with smokey clouds.  It’s intoxicating.  All of it.  There’s no way to do it justice in a blog - the amazing audiences, the kind people who have opened their venues and often their homes to us and have fed us coffee and eggs and pretzels in the morning and sent us on our way.

I’ve been thinking of my friend Abigail Chapin‘s status updates from her world touring.  Often she simply says one word - the name of the city.  Last week it was “Berlin.“  Or something like that.  They leave me hungry for details, but I can understand why now… it’s hard to describe, too much to say, not sure where to begin, and perhaps best left a mystery.

These days I never see the sunrise unless i fly a Red-Eye.  We started with a red eye to Frankfurt, and I played that night in Heidelberg.  At a fantastic venue run by anti-fascist activists, Our gracious host, Martin, fed us well and showed us around as we walked through the old part of town near the University and, of course, the castle.  They’re everywhere.  There was an interesting opening act, a german folk/punker, who sang every whiskey-laden song in english. But what a cool first night.  Students, activists, musicians, all sitting in a salon-style show.  People signed my mailing list in the best handwriting i’ve ever seen.

The landscape is lush and gorgeous, and reminds me of New York State, with the first signs of fall.  We’re zipping by in a TOTALLY SWEET black, diesel BMW stick shift car.  We had reseved a 2-cylander sardine can called a “Twingo,“ but then the rental place only had this stealth bomber of a vehicle left.  Wiebke, the svengali and partner-in-crime of this tour, is at the wheel..  we cruise at 140kph, on the autobahn, cars are FLYING past us.  each time it happens it takes my breath away.  WOW.

Did a fun interview with the biggest radio station in Bavaria, on3radio with Christina Wolf.  I got to DJ songs by a bunch of my heroes and influences, including songs by The Honey Brothers and Balthop, Alabama.

The night after our second show we drove from nurnberg to munich, as a delightful new friend graciously put us up, and in the morning fed us eggs and bavarian pretzels.  She takes the prize.  There will be payback in Bklyn bagels and genuine Nova lox.  Played an incredibly special venue in Vienna that was run by a delightful Austrian named Dominik along with at least 4 of his five siblings, and their cute dog, Vespa.  I love Vienna, stately, yet somehow quaint.  I shared the bill with this fantastic expat American named Andy Fite, who lives in Stockholm with his wife and children.

Next stop Italy.  Never really know what to expect next - it’s hard to imagine the changes that await on the other side of the alps… [next morning] Well a wonderful show awaited at Sartrea in Vincenza, brought by Albe and Enri of Occasional Disaster Booking.  Local favorites Roulette Hi Fi joined the bill - and we kicked it off with a backstage family-style pizza party.  A DREAM COME TRUE!!!

Posted on 09/18/10 at 06:15AM | Filed under: blognews | 2 Comments

European Tour Begins Sept 14!

Europe, y’all. How bout that? My record, THE WHEEL, was picked up in Europe and they’re bringing me over to play shows from Rome to Amsterdam. Hereby announcing my very first Tour de l’Europe.

If you have friends in any of the below cities, please tell them!  If you could send them to my website, and post/share the Facebook listing, that’d be RAD!

Kind friend, with THE WHEEL set to roll across Europe, now is the perfect time to get your own copy! (You can also find me on Pandora and Jango!)

Top not-secret! I’ve been recording a new record with new songs and a new ensemble - I’m so excited about it I can hardly stand it. It feels like I’m bringing it all back home - that is, it feels right. Ya know?  The new EP will be released during CMJ in October in NYC.

Stay cool,
Andrew
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www.andrewvladeck.com

(Note: New York Farewell Shows: 8/13 Museum of American Folk Art; 8/31 Rockwood Music Hall)

THE WHEEL 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR

09-14-2010 8pm Heidelberg, Germany - Café Gegendruck
Fischergasse 2, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.gegendruck.de, Free!

09-15-2010 8pm Nürnberg, Germany - Pegnitzbühne
Silberstr. 9, 90427 Nürnberg, Germany http://www.pegnitzbuehne.de 49-911-329024
Tix EUR 8 (Advance EUR 7, Member EUR 6)

09-16-2010 8pm Wien, Austria - Verein 08 w/ Andy Fite & Agnes Heginger
Piaristengasse 60, 1080 Wien, Austria http://www.verein08.at 43-676-3935141, Free!

09-17-2010 9pm Vicenza, Italy - Bar Sartea Sartea’s Freakshow w/ Roulottehifi
Corso SS Felice e Fortunato, 36100 Vicenza (VI), Italy http://www.sartea.it 39-04-44563725, Free!

09-18-2010 11pm Seregno, Italy - Arci Tambourine
Via Carlo Tenca 16, Seregno (MI), Italy http://www.tambourine.it 39-03339 85 43 404

09-19-2010 6pm Montebelluna, Italy - Osteria da Tocchetto
Via Risorgimento 27, Montebelluna (TV), Italy, Free!

09-20-2010 Roma, Italy - Conte Staccio
Via di Monte Testaccio, 65, 00153 Roma, Italy http://www.myspace.com/contestaccio
39-06 57289712, Free!

09-21-2010 10pm Arceto di Scandiano, Italy - La Salumeria del Rock
Via per Rubiera n. 36/a, 42019 Arceto di Scandiano (RE), Italy http://www.lasalumeriadelrock.com
39-0522-989989, Free!

09-22-2010 10pm Chemnitz, Germany - Exil Café im Schauspielhaus
Ziechestr. 28, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany http://www.exilcafe.de 49-371-4009024, Free!

09-23-2010 9pm Zittau, Germany - Café Emil
Mandauer Berg 13, 02763 Zittau, Germany http://www.emil-zittau.de 49-3583-510537, Tix EUR 5

09-24-2010 9pm Leipzig, Germany - Moritzbastei
Universitätsstraße 9, 04109 Leipzig, Germany http://www.moritzbastei.de 49-341-702590, Tix EUR 7

09-25-2010 8pm Frankfurt, Germany - Yellowstage
Westerbachstraße 47, 60489 Frankfurt, Germany http://www.yellowstage.de 49-69-97840266, Tix EUR 10

09-26-2010 7.30pm Berlin, Germany - Art:Gerecht
Jungstr. 14, 10247 Berlin, Germany http://www.art-gerecht-berlin.de 49-30-47019141, Tix EUR 5

09-28-2010 8pm Köln, Germany - Die Wohngemeinschaft Spielraum Songs To Sing
Richard-Wagner-Str. 39, 50674 Köln, Germany http://www.die-wohngemeinschaft.net 49-221-39757718, Tix EUR 6

09-30-2010 4-5pm Live on Air at Amsterdam FM
http://www.amsterdamfm.nl

10-01-2010 9pm Den Haag, Netherlands -Paardcafé
Prinsegracht 10, 2512 GA Den Haag, Netherlands, http://www.paardcafe.nl 32-70-3601838, Free!

10-03-2010 8pm Amsterdam, Netherlands - Café de Doelen
Kloveniersburgwal 125, 1011 KC Amsterdam, Netherlands 31-20 6249023, Free!

Posted on 07/09/10 at 10:24AM | Filed under: news

Summer in the City, Europe in the Fall

Hope your summers are going swimmingly, be it water or whiskey or both.

It’s an honor to be asked to play The American Folk Art Museum this Friday Night. We’re performing in a diorama with little strings attached to levers and pulleys. Next to the early-modern mid-century matchbox sculpture. Or not. But either way, it will be aweseome.

This won’t be permanent exhibition, because I leave for EUROPE next month for THE WHEEL TOUR (End Up/Sonic Rendezvous). Tell yer friends and charter your Learjet early.   If you’re not on my mailing list, you can sign up using the form to the right and receive the title track to the album I’m touring!   Would love to have you!

Lastly, I’ll be posting new videos weekly until the tour, of new songs and traditional folk songs, that were recorded up at my family homestead upstate (yes, city-born, country-raised). Friend and/or Fan me on Facebook and you’ll see em pop up, or just check back on my website.

The Fond Farewell NYC Show is Tuesday 8/31, 9PM at the majestic Rockwood Music Hall. Be sure to come a early for the dance lesson or to make sure you get in.

Enough! Now go splash around or something!

Andrew
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Facebook, Pandora, Jango

Friday, August 13th, 2010, 6:30PM
Museum of American Folk Art
Free museum admission from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
45 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

New York Farewell Show
Tuesday, August 31, 9pm
Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen Street (between Houston and Stanton) 10002
with Lauren Balthrop, Jason Lawrence, and Colette Alexander

Posted on 08/10/10 at 10:13AM | Filed under: news

In with The New

New season, New York City, New EP, New Tourdates, new pair of shoes.

This has been the longest stretch I’ve mostly been in NYC in ages, though I haven’t seen much of it, nor much of you, as I’ve been ensconsed in studios and rehearsals.  But good things are coming!   I’ve been biking all over NYC with my guitar on my back, getting things done.  There’s one stretch of road near the BQE where I always hear a Mockingbird singing.  But the mockingbird is singing the car alarm medley that we city folk know all too well.  It’s amazing that to some birds, the car alarm is like a Top 40 hit that it can’t help but repeat.  The world just gets weirder, I suppose.

First off, I’m playing New York City Wednesday, June 30, 10PM at the esteemed Rockwood Music Hall.  Send your NYC friends my way, it’s a huge hall.  I’ll be playing a bunch of new songs that I’m in the midst of recording for a new EP.  Photos below.  I’m SO psyched!  I’ve got some great players on it: Lauren Balthrop, Colette Alexander, Jason Lawrence - to start with.  Thanks to The Honey Brothers, we have a great new studio that I’m learing to use, and can’t wait until “the boys are back in town” later this summer!

While I’ve been setting up camp in my new home in Brooklyn, I’ve made frequent jaunts out of town and appearances in.  I played an impromptu concert with Lauren Balthrop on the penthouse floor of the Chelsea Hotel.  I can check that gig of life’s To Do List.  I’ve played in Boston (with Bhi Bhiman), in Philly (with my former nemesis turned good friend Julian Velard - I’ll tell you that story sometime!), and even in Indiana (the Indy 500) with The Honey Brothers (DC on July 4 with THB!).  Shows/tour with Balthrop, Alabama coming up too. I also had the honor of MC-ing the birthday extraveganza concert of Mr. Paul Brill, where I was fortunate to be accompanied by Threeds and Matt Ray.   I’m happy for my great piano playing friend Bill Malchow to have moved to New Orleans - good luck Billy Boy, we’ll miss ya!   And The Rozz & Val Show has free family concerts all over NYC this summer. 

But MOST of all, I can hardly contain myself to not release the European Tourdates yet!   I can’t wait [ :.).. tears of joy].  Suffice it to say I start in Italy and end in The Netherlands.   Thank you Here We Go Agency.

and I promise I’ll have a new video up soon. i’m fired.  really.  this time i mean it.

Andrew 

Photos:  AV in studio; Colette Alexander on cello; Lauren Balthrop on Piano; Misha Volf on Producer; Indy 500 with THB; Rozz Nash-Coulon from The Rozz & Val Show; Julian Velard in Philadelphia; 2 dragons outside a building.

Posted on 06/23/10 at 10:55AM | Filed under: news

New Song - Video Posted from NYC Show - Philadelphia Next Week

Andrew here.  Was a pleasure to play Rockwood Music Hall last week with all new songs and a totally new lineup!   Great way to start out the year and work up the new record.

Philadelphia on May 7 with Julian Velard. Spread the word!

Will announce European Dates soon - promise!

More reviews throughout Europe for The Wheel.  Be sure to hear what they’re talking about!!!

Posted on 04/27/10 at 02:51PM | Filed under: news | 1 Comments

Europe Releases The Wheel (March 5),  SXSW, Northeast Shows

The Wheel album will be distributed in Europe starting March 5 via Sonic Rendezvous (Benelux),  Cargo Records (Germany/Austria/Switzerland), and Sugar and Spice (France)  So for all you out there, you can ask for The Wheel at your favorite record store, or go to their websites.

Thanks to the good reviews coming in from Europe (thanks Here We Go).  This interview just published from the UK.  This just in from Germany.

The shows in New Orleans, Biloxi and Bossier City were great - we even got to see Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson play in Bossier and the Hot 8 Brass Band in New Orleans.   

SXSW is ON.  CT is on.  NYC is on.  More shows to be announced.

Mostly, I’m focusing on writing new songs for a new EP- heading into the studio in early Spring!

Vladeck

Posted on 02/02/10 at 04:14PM | Filed under: news

Pandora / Upcoming Shows / Video Tribute Series!

Just launched: Andrew Vladeck Radio on Pandora - check out the station!

Shows booked for later in January, with a NYC residency coming later this winter, and other good things.

I’m starting an “Influences Video Series“ to pay homage to my favorite folk songs of all time.  I’ll post them to my YouTube Channel (subscribe!) and on my Free Weekly Podcast (subscribe here or on iTunes)!

More reviews in from Europe for  The Wheel - excited to the sojourn there later this year thanks to Here We Go Agency!

Side projects galore!  In addition to the Andrew Vladeck Show, things are brewing with The Honey Brothers; Balthrop, Alabama; and The Rozz & Val Show.

Honey Brothers finish record with Malcolm Burn, and tour the southland in February.

Posted on 01/06/10 at 01:08AM | Filed under: news

Interview on MSN Canada & Other News

MSN Canada posted this lovely interview - with French subtitles.  

Andrew is featured in the current issue of Pulse Magazine:  “strolling at his own speed across the country from one gig to the next.  With rust-colored hair and a thoughtful, deliberate choice of words, he beckons you closer.  He wants to tell you a story and he’s going to let his amped-up banjo do most of the talking…“ More.

The US Tour Finale - Philly on 11/11 with The White Buffalo.

Posted on 10/06/09 at 05:56PM | Filed under: news

Reviews Galore (And good ones too!)

Andrew’s touring in support of The Wheel is going great (Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, AM-NY, Grimygoods).  And In Europe they’re calling Andrew a “poëtische woordengoochelaar” (Rootstime)!

Andrew’s band The Honey Brothers has been garnering lovely reviews for their festival shows - Wanderlust Festival (New Music Exchange), All Points West (MTV),  Osheaga (Montreal Gazette), with a preview for Bumbershoot and West Coast Tour (NO DEPRESSION). 

Andrew was able to catch up with his band of neighbors Balthrop, Alabama out in California on their epic cross country tour (Portland Mercury, Albuquerque Alibi) in support of similarly epic “Subway Songs / Cowboy Songs.“

In between all this Andrew recorded a quick live record/video of my current show with the uber-talented Dawn Landes at Saltlands in Brooklyn.  Look out for the release of several videos and etc this fall in conjunction with Fall US Tourdates.

Lastly, just a note to check out the new podcast feature - the RSS feed is on the right side of this page.  It’s up on itunes and you subsribe as you would with any podcasts.  Andrew will be updating it often (weekly?), with various curious things.

Posted on 08/19/09 at 12:39PM | Filed under: news | 1 Comments

Tornado Tracks

Cherry blossoms swept up in a dust devil - I walk through a pink tornado and voila: it’s springtime for Brooklyn.  A Mockingbird on an antennae above Fulton Street  confuses and delights with the Mr. Softee song.  Huh, nature’s got talent.   My neighbor’s dog Vu (for Velvet Underground) walks me down the street as cups of coffee walk art students up.

I just got hold of my new record: “The Wheel.“  Blessed springtime: newness, fresh air - progress in various forms, intoxicating and inescapable.  With thanks to my artist friends, musical and visual, and my mates at End Up Records. 

Dates are filling in for the Record Release tour, where I hope to see you.   My record is available 6/6.  The hometown release headlines the Mercury Lounge 7/7.  Read all about it at this website.

And summer shapes up with fun festival gigs - big ones, all over the country (countries?  Canada too)!  With my band of brothers: The Honey Brothers.   And i hope to cross path with my dear collective folk explosion, Balthrop, Alabama. 

I was so caught up I didn’t write you for ages with tales of wondrous musical moments: the Vaudville-esque night which i got to host, playing old-time banjo, where backstage had the privilege of helping a burlesque dancer into her monkey suit - this happened regularly along the Bowery 100 years ago.  Good people, The Wheel is coming full circle in all it’s wondrous ways.  Many of them GOOD.  Check it out.

Posted on 05/14/09 at 11:29PM | Filed under: blognews

Awesome New Holiday Album!

Andrew is both an artist on End Up Records and a member of labelmates amazing folk collective Balthrop, Alabama, in which he is known as ‘Cotton Tyler Guin.‘  

 “A Very Balthrop Christmas” is a collection of brand new holiday classics with your friends and neighbors from Balthrop, Alabama and End Up Records.  All proceeds go to benefit End Up Records, a not-for-profit music collective based in Brooklyn.  AVAILABLE TODAY!

The New Yorker talks about the Balthrop, Alabama Holiday show happening and features Andrew’s song, “the funny and practical “Chrisma-Hanu-Kwanza-Rama-Krishna.‘“

Posted on 12/13/08 at 06:14AM | Filed under: news