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Thumbscrew performs at Cornelia Street Café tomorrow night!! (Saturday June 20, 9pm & 10:30pm sets)

Mary Halvorson (guitar), Michael Formanek (bass) & Tomas Fujiwara (drums). This will be our send-off show before embarking on a two-week residency at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, PA. We will be writing and recording a new record there. Links and details below!! http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/downstairs/Performances.asp?sdate=6/20/2015&from_cal=0 http://cityofasylum.org/event/workshop-thumbscrew/ http://cityofasylum.org/event/concert-thumbscrew/ photo by Peter Gannushkin

Secret Keeper (Stephan Crump & Mary Halvorson) record release tour part one begins tomorrow in Amherst, MA! We will be performing material from our new album, Emerge, on Intakt Records. Tour details below. Photo by Reuben Radding.

Tuesday, March 31st @ Amherst College, Converse Hall (Amherst, MA)

Wednesday, April 1st @ Wesleyan University, Earth House (Middletown, CT)

Thursday, April 2nd @ Bop Shop (Rochester, NY)

Friday, April 3rd @ 80 Gladstone (Toronto, Ontario)

Saturday, April 4th @ Constellation (Chicago, IL)

Monday, April 6th @ Purdue University North Central (Westville, IN) 12pm

Monday, April 6th @ Purdue University (Hammond, IN) 7pm

Tuesday, April 7th @ City of Asylum (Pittsburgh, PA)

Thumbscrew US/ Canadian Tour starts tomorrow at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.... followed by performances in Edmonton, Vancouver and Seattle! Here are the details:

Thumbscrew (Mary Halvorson- guitar, Michael Formanek- bass & Tomas Fujiwara- drums) February 4: Bucknell Hall at Bucknell University. Lewisburg, PA. 8PM http://www.bucknell.edu/Jazz February 6: The Yardbird Suite. Edmonton, AB, Canada. 8PM http://www.yardbirdsuite.com/2015-02-06.htm February 7: Ironworks. Vancouver, BC, Canada. 8PM http://www.coastaljazz.ca/artist/thumbscrew February 8: Poncho Concert Hall at Cornish College of The Arts, Kerry Hall. Seattle, WA. 8PM http://www.cornish.edu/calendar/event/cornish_presents_thumbscrew/

photo of Thumbscrew by Peter Gannushkin/ downtownmusic.net

Terri Hron's Portrait Collection, tonight at Shapeshifter Lab, 8pm!

The return of the Out Louds Thursday night at Barbes! with Ben Goldberg and Tomas Fujiwara. 8pm.

This Saturday I will do a solo guitar set as part of the Snugs Concert Series year-end party. In Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring cocktails and oysters, and the Lucky Chops Brass Band. Hope to see you.

Mary Halvorson Quintet: European Tour starts Thursday in Frankfurt!

Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet), Jon Irabagon (alto saxophone), Mary Halvorson (guitar), John Hébert (bass) & Ches Smith (drums)

Thursday, October 23rd @ Jazzfestival Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)

Friday, October 24th @ Umea Jazzfestival (Umea, Sweden)

Saturday, October 25th @ Dinamo (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Sunday, October 26th @ Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival (Cormons, Italy)

Tuesday, October 28th @ Serbia Kosztolanyi Dezso Theater (Subotica, Serbia)

Wednesday, October 29th @ Porgy & Bess (Vienna, Austria)

Thumbscrew performs tonight at the debut of the New Revolution Arts concert series in Brooklyn!

Thumbscrew is: Mary Halvorson (guitar), Michael Formanek (bass) & Tomas Fujiwara (drums)

New Revolution Arts is a new concert series spearheaded by Cisco Bradley of JazzRightNow.com. This inaugural event/ house concert also coincides with Cisco's birthday... happy birthday, Cicso! Details below.

New Revolution Arts (7 Stanhope Street, Bushwick-Brooklyn)

Festivities at 7 pm

Music at 8:30 pm

ADMISSION IS FREE!!

Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House: European Tour starts tomorrow in Köln, Germany! with Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Kris Davis (piano), Mary Halvorson (guitar), John Hébert (bass) & Tom Rainey (drums)

Tuesday, September 16th @ Stadtgarten (Köln, Germany)

Wednesday, September 17th @ Fasching (Stockholm, Sweden)

Thursday, September 18th @ Victoria, Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo, Norway)

Friday, September 19th @ Nefertiti (Göteborg, Sweden)

Saturday, September 20th @ JazzHouse (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Sunday, September 21st @ Jazz in Leer (Leer, Germany)

Monday, September 22nd @ Café Wilhelmina (Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Tuesday, September 23rd @ De Singer (Rijkevorsel, Belgium)

Wednesday, September 24th @ Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Thursday, September 25th @ Jazzcase Dommelhof (Neerpelt, Belgium)

Friday, September 26th @ Förderverein Jazz Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)

Saturday, September 27th @ Birdland Neuburg (Neuberg, Germany)

Tomorrow night at Barbès... debut of The Out Louds!

My solo guitar tour opening for King Buzzo starts tomorrow in Boston!

I will be opening 7 of Buzz's shows from Boston to Baltimore. His new solo acoustic record is amazing and I could not be more excited. Here are some details:

Thursday, July 10th @ Brighton Music Hall (Allston, MA) Friday, July 11th @ The Met (Pawtucket, RI) Saturday, July 12th @ The Ballroom at the Outer Space (Hamden, CT) Sunday, July 13 @ Santos Party House (New York, NY) Monday, July 14th @ The Wick (Brooklyn, NY) Tuesday, July 15th @ Underground Arts (Philadelphia, PA) Thursday, July 17th @ Ottobar (Baltimore, MD)

Thumbscrew California tour starts tomorrow!

Mary Halvorson (guitar) Michael Formanek (bass) & Tomas Fujiwara (drums)

Tuesday, June 17th @ The Blue Whale (Los Angeles, CA)

Thursday, June 19th @ Duende (Oakland, CA) w/ special guest James Fei

Friday, June 20th @ Duende (Oakland, CA)

Saturday, June 21st @ Duende (Oakland, CA) w/ special guest Ben Goldberg

Sunday, June 22nd @ Duende (Oakland, CA)

Monday, June 23rd @ Luna’s Café (Sacramento, CA)

Wednesday, June 25th @ Kuumbwa (Santa Cruz, CA)

(Drawing of Thumbscrew by Michael Formanek)

New solo guitar project... performances in March, April, May

As some of you know, I've been working on solo guitar music for the past couple years. I will be recording an album in the fall for 2015 release on Firehouse 12 records, and I have booked some performances in preparation for the recording. I will be doing interpretations of music by Noel Ackchote, Annette Peacock, Roscoe Mitchell, Ornette Coleman, Tomas Fujiwara, Chris Lightcap and Duke Ellington to name a few. Details on the 1st 3 performances are below.

Sunday, March 30th @ Ze Couch (266 St. Marks Ave, Apt 4, Brooklyn) 7:45pm Mary Halvorson solo guitar followed by: Darius Jones (saxophone) & Emilie Lesbros (voice); Flin van Hemmen & Carlos Costa (drums)

Thursday, April 10th @ The Firehouse Space (246 Frost Street, Brooklyn) 8pm Mary Halvorson solo guitar followed by Lisa Mezzacappa’s Ensemble Ouest: Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Miya Masaoka (koto) & Lisa Mezzacappa (bass)

Thursday, May 1st @ Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC) 6:45pm Mary Halvorson solo guitar opening for the Nels Cline singers

photo by Peter Gannushkin

Thumbscrew record release dates!

Thumbscrew (Tomas Fujiwara, Michael Formanek and I) will be doing a bunch of dates this year to promote our new record on Cuneiform, starting on Thursday in Baltimore... details below! Hope to see you if we pass through your town.

March 20th- Baltimore, MD @ Wind Up Space March 21st- New York, NY @ Cornelia Street Cafe March 22nd- Greenfield, MA @ Arts Block Cafe (Western Mass Jazz Shares)

April 12th- New Haven, CT @ Firehouse 12

April 19th- Philadelphia, PA @ Center City Jazz Festival

May 22nd- Warsaw, Poland @ Polish Radio Concert Hall May 24th- Prague, Czech Republic @ Agharta Jazz Centrum May 26th- Innsbruck, Austria @ Verein Verbale/ The Early Bird May 27th- Schwaz, Austria @ Eremitage May 28th- Villach, Austria May 30th- Vienna, Austria @ Porgy and Bess May 31st- Bielefeld, Germany

June 17th- Los Angeles, CA @ The Blue Whale June 19th-22nd- Oakland, CA @ Duende June 23rd- Sacramento, CA @ Luna's Cafe June 25th- Santa Cruz, CA @ Kuumbwa

September 11th- Ann Arbor, Michigan September 12th- St. Louis, Missouri September 13th- Chicago, IL

**more details on fall dates soon! **photo by Peter Gannushkin.

Thanks for reading. Mary

Holiday photos from my trip to Boston

house bridge

frost

bass and sullinger

amtrak 01

mobil

bridgeport

banana / harmony

amtrak 02

amtrak 03

amtrak 04

amtrak 05

Very excited to finally record the band Reverse Blue tomorrow! with Chris Speed, Eivind Opsvik and Tomas Fujiwara. For a future release on Relative Pitch Records... stay tuned!

Expired Pumpkins (all spotted on my block in Brooklyn).

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