CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT

An Evening with

RAY LAMONTAGNE

The Ouroboros Tour 2016  

July 27  

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RAY LAMONTAGNE ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF MY MORNING JACKET AS TOURING BAND ON  UPCOMING 2016 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR  NEW ALBUM OUROBOROS SET FOR RELEASE MARCH 4TH   PRE‐ORDER ALBUM ON AMAZON AND RECEIVE EARLY ACCESS TO TICKETS  Album and First Single, “Hey, No Pressure” #1 on Amazon’s Digital Best‐Sellers Charts
(New York, New York) – Grammy Award winner Ray LaMontagne announces Bassist Tom Blankenship, drummer  Patrick Hallahan, guitarist Carl Broemel and keyboardist Bo Koster (My Morning Jacket) as the touring band for  his upcoming 2016 North American Tour.  The band will join Ray on the 45 city tour will start in Cincinnati, OH on  June 10th and culminate in Dallas, TX on September 24th.  
Ray stated, “I am very pleased to announce that the band for the upcoming “Ouroboros” Summer Tour will be  Tommy Blankenship, Carl Broemel, Bo Koster, and Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket.      We’ve been throwing this idea around for quite a few years now, and the stars have finally aligned. There has  been such positive spiritual energy flowing throughout this entire project. From that first restless nights sleep  when the album made itself clear to me, to the recording of the Album at La La Land Studio with Jim, to getting a  call out of the blue ten months later that the Jacket boys wanted to back it up on the road.      There is some serious mojo surrounding this record and I think it’s going to be a very, very special run of shows”
Fans who pre‐order any version of Ouroboros from Amazon now through 11:59 PM PT on February 11th will  receive an exclusive pre‐sale code for early access to tickets for the upcoming tour. Those who received a code  will be able to exclusively purchase tickets until 9:59 AM ET on March 3rd.  Tickets to the general public will go on  sale beginning March 4th. For more details on the tour, please visit www.RayLaMontagne.com.     Ray will be touring in support of his sixth studio album, Ouroboros which will be available on March 4th via RCA  Records.    Ouroboros was produced by Ray and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The album was written by LaMontagne  and features first single, “Hey, No Pressure”. Click here to listen to “Hey, No Pressure.”  NPR’s All Songs  Considered called the track an “inspired new song,” stamped the album “incredible” and lauded that Ray “has  continued to push himself in different directions.” Both the album and “Hey, No Pressure” are sitting at #1 on  Amazon’s digital best‐sellers  charts. 
Ray LaMontagne has released 5 studio albums (Trouble, Till The Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain, God Willin’  & the Creek Don’t Rise and Supernova) and sold out numerous tours across the US.  Ray’s 2010 album God  Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise won the Grammy for Best Folk Album and was nominated in the coveted Song of  The Year category for “Beg Steal or Borrow”.  Ray’s last single, “Supernova” off the album of the same name  became one of Ray’s fastest growing singles at AAA radio, with the song rocketing into the top 5 within two  weeks of impact.  

 My Morning Jacket's 7th studio album The Waterfall received a 2016 Grammy Nomination for Best Alternative music  Album.
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MY MORNING JACKET

with special guest Hippo Campus  

August 12

 

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Waterfall via ATO Records/Capitol Records. This release will mark the band’s first on Capitol Records. Recorded in Stinson Beach CA, The Waterfall is the follow-up to the GRAMMY®-nominated Circuital, which was ranked among 2011’s best albums by publications such as Rolling Stone, Paste, MOJO, and Uncut.  Today, the Louisville quintet reveal the new album’s cover art, full track list, and the lead single, “Big Decisions”, as well as launch a pre-order for the new album via its official website, iTunes and Amazon. Fans who preorder The Waterfall will receive an instant download of "Big Decisions,” which is available for streaming today via VEVO, Spotify, and all other digital services.   My Morning Jacket also announce an extensive United States tour in support of the new album, which will see them headline Governors Ball and Bonnaroo before embarking on a nationwide headlining tour in mid-May, followed by dates in Europe. Fan club pre-sale will be going live on March 9 and the tickets will be available for general sale on March 13. (See full list of tour dates below).

My Morning Jacket arrived at Northern California’s Stinson Beach in late 2013 thinking only about making an album. The band was not prepared to be seduced. But within a couple of days, Jim James, Tom Blankenship, Patrick Hallahan, Carl Broemel and Bo Koster were in love with Panoramic House, a studio perched on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The natural beauty of the surrounding landscape, located only about a half hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge, combined with the almost mystical serenity flooded them with a charged sense of possibilities. “For me, every record has the spirit of where we made it,” explains singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter Jim James. “Stinson Beach was so psychedelic and focused. It was almost like we lived on our own little moon out there. It feels like you’re up in the sky.”

On the new release there are moments that reach back to early albums such as 2001’s At Dawn and 2003’s It Still Moves, the record that gave the band a much broader audience. But the experimentation that marked 2004’s Z, 2008’s Evil Urges and James’ 2013 solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God is clearly in effect. The Waterfall sounds like history and decades colliding, like a record made by fervent music fans in search of that tingle up the spine. Inveterate music geeks will hear echoes of vintage rock and pop as MMJ continues to honor its influences without aping any of them; The Waterfall sounds like nothing else but also warmly familiar.  “That’s kind of the sound of this record, and my life, the sound of the page turning and not being sure what’s coming next,” said James.  “The freedom we went into this record with took a lot of the pressure off, as far as what to do and how to do it,” Hallahan added. “The mantra was anything goes, no stone unturned, it’ll be done when it’s done.” 

The band recorded The Waterfall by teaming up again with producer/engineer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, Neko Case), who also worked with My Morning Jacket on Circuital. In addition to the Stinson Beach sessions, they recorded at Martine’s Portland, OR studio Flora and at Ratterman’s La La Land studio in Louisville.  But in the end, it all circled back to Stinson Beach.  “Out of all the places we’ve recorded, I think that place might have informed the record on a spiritual level more than any other,” adds Koster. “If you listen to ‘Like A River,’ it just sounds like Stinson Beach.” The Waterfall is the latest in a career-spanning string of success beginning with the band’s 1999 debut album The Tennessee Fire and including 2008's Evil Urges and 2011's Circuital which each received GRAMMY ® nominations - the latter debuting at #5 on the Billboard 200 chart.

The Waterfall - Track Listing 

 Believe (Nobody Knows)

 Compound Fracture Like A River In Its Infancy (The Waterfall) 

Get The Point Spring (Among the Living) 

Thin Line Big Decisions Tropics (Erase Traces) 

Only Memories Remain