On Friday An Acoustic Cafe Evening Tour was a top story. Here is the recap: This year's an Acoustic Café evening tour will feature Northampton lit/pop darling and multi-instrumentalist Erin McKeown, award-winning Nashville Americana-folk artist Mary Gauthier (Feb 13-17 only) and Austin-based multi-instrumentalist Carrie Rodriguez."We're thrilled to have Carrie and Erin returning to the Acoustic Cafe Evening Tour," said Rob Reinhart, producer and host of the syndicated radio program Acoustic Café. "And Mary Gauthier has been a guest on the show many times over the years, so we're honored to have her lending her talents to the tour in 2011. These artists represent precisely what Acoustic Cafe is all about!"
Erin McKeown spent 2010 touring in support of her latest release Hundreds of Lions, her first album of original songs since 2005's We Will Become Like Birds. The year also marked a decade since the release of her critically acclaimed debut Distillation on Signature Sounds. In September, Erin embarked on the "Distillation 10th Anniversary Tour." A constant on the road, she regularly holds down a rigorous tour schedule of 200 shows a year.
Acclaim has followed Mary Gauthier on every step of her remarkable journey. Her breakthrough album, Mercy Now (2005) was continuously "discovered" and lauded for the two years following its release, earning mentions on a score of year end "best of" lists. Since its 2010 release, Gauthier's sixth album, The Foundling has garnered widespread critical acclaim and has been called "electrifying" by The Los Angeles Times, "a stunning new concept album" by The Boston Globe. - more on this story
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