Circles Around The Sun
To Headline Fundraiser Concert & Grateful Dead Celebration
w/ Wavy Gravy at Ardmore Music Hall 5/31
Circles Around The Sun head out on their most extensive US Tour to date in support of their new double album, Let It Wander, out now on Rhino Records. Comprised by guitarist Neal Casal and keyboardist Adam MacDougall (bandmates in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood) along with bassist Dan Horne (Jonathan Wilson, Grateful Shred) and drummer Mark Levy (We Dream Dawn, Bonfire Dub), Circles Around The Sun will headline The Ardmore Music Hall in Ardmore, PA on Friday, May 31. With the band's individual members busier than ever due to participation in other projects, the performance is a rare opportunity to experience the band live.
Initially, Circles Around the Sun (CATS) was only supposed to record a handful of Grateful Dead-influenced instrumentals to be played during the set breaks at the Dead's "Fare Thee Well" concerts in 2015. But the response was so positive, and the band was having so much fun making music together, that they all agreed to keep it going.
Let It Wander signals a new beginning for the band as they move beyond their original musical mandate of evoking the spirit of the Dead and fully embrace their own personality. "More than anything, what you hear on this album is a band growing into its own sound," Casal says.
Initially, Circles Around the Sun (CATS) was only supposed to record a handful of Grateful Dead-influenced instrumentals to be played during the set breaks at the Dead's "Fare Thee Well" concerts in 2015. But the response was so positive, and the band was having so much fun making music together, that they all agreed to keep it going.
Let It Wander signals a new beginning for the band as they move beyond their original musical mandate of evoking the spirit of the Dead and fully embrace their own personality. "More than anything, what you hear on this album is a band growing into its own sound," Casal says.
The songs on Let It Wander are focused and filled with imaginative musical turns. Horne and Levy form a veritable groove machine that knows intuitively when to tighten up and when to stretch out. They expand and collapse the rhythmic pocket around Casal and MacDougall, who pass melodies back and forth in an elaborate game of musical tag as they take turns adding color and shade from a seemingly endless kaleidoscope of cosmic sounds (Hear and share the album's first single, "Immovable Object").
Among the album's highlights is "One For Chuck" featuring a surprise cameo by Chuck D. The charismatic leader of legendary hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy happened to stop by the studio while the band was listening to a song they'd just recorded. He raved to the band how much he loved the music, so they asked him to record an intro. He obliged, and they dedicated the song to him (Hear and share "One For Chuck" video here).
$39 General Admission - $129 VIP
For Tickets and info: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1839600
Among the album's highlights is "One For Chuck" featuring a surprise cameo by Chuck D. The charismatic leader of legendary hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy happened to stop by the studio while the band was listening to a song they'd just recorded. He raved to the band how much he loved the music, so they asked him to record an intro. He obliged, and they dedicated the song to him (Hear and share "One For Chuck" video here).
$39 General Admission - $129 VIP
For Tickets and info: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1839600
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