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Woodward Theater Presents:
Event: CRAIG FINN w/ KATY KIRBY
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Times: 6 doors, 7 show
Venue: MOTR Pub | 1345 Main St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 | motrpub.com
Admission: starting at $30 advance, partially seated
ALL AGES
Info: https://www.woodwardtheater.com/shows/craig-finn
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/
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From Craig Finn:
"I’m thrilled to announce that I will be doing two solo tours this fall: Europe & the UK in September, followed by a run of dates in the USA in November.
This is an extension of the This is What It Looks Like tour I did earlier this year. I loved that tour so much I wanted to keep it going, update the show, and bring it to some new places. The shows will feature songs from my solo catalog as well as the stories behind them. I’ll also be debuting some new songs that I’m very excited to share.
The US dates in November hit some places I haven’t been in a while, and I’m really looking forward to bringing these special shows Stateside."
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About Craig Finn:
Craig A. Finn is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as the frontman of the American indie rock band The Hold Steady, with whom he has recorded nine studio albums. Prior to forming The Hold Steady, Finn was the frontman of Lifter Puller.
Described by Pitchfork as "a born storyteller who's chosen rock as his medium," Finn has released five solo albums : Clear Heart Full Eyes (2012), Faith in the Future (2015), We All Want the Same Things (2017), I Need a New War (2019) and A Legacy of Rentals (2022).
Finn began hosting his own podcast, That's How I Remember It, in 2022. In the podcast he examines the relationship between memory and creativity through interviews with other artists.
CHECK OUT this official music video for “God In Chicago”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZt4JRKtN0
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About Katy Kirby:
Let’s face it: There’s no such thing as “real life”. There is only experience and the negotiations we undertake in order to share it with other people. On her second album Blue Raspberry, the New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headlong into the artifice of intimacy: the glitter smeared across eyelid creases, the smiles switched on with an electric buzz, the synthetic rose scent all over someone who’s made herself smell nice just for you. An exegesis of Kirby’s first queer relationship, Blue Raspberry traces the crescendo and collapse of new love, savoring each gleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way.
Originally from Spicewood, Texas, Kirby was living in Nashville when she started writing Blue Raspberry’s title track, the first of the album’s songs to take shape. “‘Blue Raspberry’ is the oldest song on the record. I began to write it a month or so before I realized, I think I’m queer,” she says. “There’s a tradition of yearning in country love songs. I like the male yearning songs better, usually. I started writing ‘Blue Raspberry,’ and I was thinking about, if I was in love with a woman, what would I love about her? Especially if she was someone that I couldn’t touch, but that I was pining for. What would I be caught on? And I thought that I would probably be particularly charmed by the choices she made on how to look after she woke up in the morning. I thought about tackiness, and the ways that’s a dirty word. That’s where the title comes from—loving someone for those choices, for the artificiality.”
CHECK OUT this official music video for “Traffic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKYBGhMRbw
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MORE ABOUT:
CRAIG FINN:
https://craigfinn.net/
https://facebook.com/CraigSteady
https://instagram.com/steadycraig/
KATY KIRBY:
https://www.instagram.com/katykirbs
https://www.facebook.com/katykatykirbykirby/
https://katykirbyon.bandcamp.com/album/blue-raspberry-deluxe