Pokey debuts on Dave
The song is off their latest full-length release, "Pokey LaFarge" on Third Man Records.
LaFarge and band are currently on the East Coast stretch of their tour, performing tonight at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live.
Tour dates are:
July 17- Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live
July 19- Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall
July 20- Boston, MA - Great Scott
July 23- Burlington, VT - Signal Kitchen
July 24- Montreal, QC - Petit Campus
July 25- Ottawa, ON - TBD
July 26- Toronto, ON - Horsehoe Tavern
July 27-28- Guelph, ON - Hillside Music Festival
July 30- Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark
July 31- Grand Rapids, MI - WYCE
July 31- Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme
Aug. 1- Kalamazoo, MI - Old Dog Tavern
Aug. 3- Madison, WI - Memorial Union Terrace
Aug.
Aug. - Hamilton, OH - RviersEdge Amphitheatre
Aug.
Sept. - Henderson, KY - Audubon Mill Park
Aug. 10- Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
Aug. 16- Biddinghuize, Netherlands - Lowlands
Aug. 17- Kiewit, Belgium - Pukkelpop
Aug. 18- Frankfurt, Germany - TBD
Aug. 19- Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland - Musikfestwochen
Aug. 21- Gronigen, Netherlands - Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival
Aug. 22-25- Tonder, Denmark - Tonder Festival
Aug. 29- Brighton, UK - TBD
Aug. 30- Oxford, UK - O2 Academy Oxford
Aug. 31- Dorset, UK - End Of The Road Festival
Sept. 2- Dundalk, Ireland - The Spirit Store
Sept. 3- Cork, Ireland - Crane Lake Theatre
Sept. 4- Tipperary, Ireland - Clonmel World Music
Sept. 5- Kilkenny, Ireland - Cleere's Theatre
Sept. 12- Charleston, IL - Dvorak Concert Hall @ Doudna Fine Arts Festival
Sept. 13- Indianapolis, IN - Deluxe @ Old National Centre
Sept. 14- Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion
Sept. 18- Nashville, TN - The Cannery
Sept. 19- Nashville, TN - Americana Music Association
Sept. 20- Marietta, OH - Valley Gem Sternwheeler
Sept. 21-22- Bristol, VA - Bristol Rhythm & Roots
Sept. 23- Harrisburg, PA - The Abbey Bar @ Appalachian Brewing Co.
Sept. 24- Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater
Nov. 14- Anspachlaan, Brussels - Ancienne Belgique
More news for Pokey LaFarge
- 02/13/24: LaFarge lines up "Rumba Country"
- 09/09/21: LaFarge delays album one month, cites manufacturing issues
- 08/17/21: LaFarge blossoms with new set
- 04/09/20: Anderson, Maddie & Tae, LaFarge release new CDs
- 01/22/20: LaFarge announces new album on new label
- 05/19/17: Rascal Flatts, Pokey LaFarge release new sounds
- 06/28/13: Lafarge, McPherson record Oklahoma benefit single
CD reviews for Pokey LaFarge
A retro feel exists on Pokey LaFarge's "In the Blossom of Their Shade" with its pleasing mix of folk, blues, jazz and country. Composed largely while LaFarge was isolated in Austin when the pandemic hit, the Illinois native endeavored to convey a mostly positive outlook. This is best exemplified in the bluesy "Fine To Me", reminiscent of Tony Joe White's "Polk Salad Annie" and Dale Hawkins' "Suzie Q" in which LaFarge credits his mate with ...
Pokey La Farge is best described as a musical archivist in every sense of the term. He and his band were described by one source as "artfully dodgy ambassadors for old-time music, presenting and representing the glories of hot swing, early jazz and ragtime blues" who have "made riverboat chic cool again," and indeed, they live up to that description. They recreate the kind of aural imagery that takes their listeners back in time to an earlier era of decades past when ...
A good many musical artists are looking for a hot new trend to champion, but Pokey LaFarge's only interest from the beginning of his career has been to bring a fresh perspective to folk, blues and soul with a swingy, jazzy, poppy undercurrent. Over the past decade and a half, LaFarge's sound and the
band that helps him create it has evolved at a pace that reinforces the childhood nickname that he has adopted as his stage persona. That shouldn't be construed as a criticism; LaFarge ...
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