USA Unfathomable Spring Tour (SuXbySuxWest)
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MARCH
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Fri 13 Athens at house show
Sat 14 Cincinnati at Cyde Central
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Sun 15 Bloomington, IN at Root Cellar
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Mon 16 Columbia, MO at Little Berlin
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Tues 17 KCMO/ AK TBA
Wed 18 Oklahoma City at Bad Granny’s
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Thurs 19 Denton, TX at Panhandle House
Fri 20, Dallas at Darcy’s place
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Sat 21 Austin for pre- SUXBY house show
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Sun 22 Austin at SUXBY
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Mon 23 Houston at notsuoH
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Tues 24 NOLA Sunset ritual at end of world/ blue nile
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Wed 25 NOLA at Allways Lounge
Thurs 26 Birmingham at Mono
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Fri 27 Nashville at Queen Street Artists collective
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Sat 28 Chattanooga early show with fire artists,
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late show at Ziggy’s TBA
Sun 29 Knoxville early at Big Asses Fest
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Sun 29 Asheville at House
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Mon 30 Greensboro at Hellraiser House
Tues 31 Chapel Hill at The Cave
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APRIL
Wed 1 Richmond at The Circle
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Thurs 2 Baltimore/ Philadelphia
Fri 3 Philadelphia/ Baltimore/ NJ at TBA (help)
Sat 4 NYC at house show (early)
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Sat 4 NYC at Dixon Place (evening)
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Sun 5 Staten Island potluck (early)
Sun 5 NJ (late) TBA
Improvisation Media
Most of my music is notated, and I also usually have sheet music on my merchandise table. But I also give free improvisation performances, usually alongside compositions but also in improvised solo and group sets.
Brooklyn: instant composition with Mara Mayer, Valerie Kuehne:
(violin and multiple instruments)
http://music.joelmellin.com/track/dapple-grey
Pittsburgh: improvisation with improv trio Pariah Dog:
Rotterdam: solo acoustic improvisation at Wolfart Gallery
West Virginia: improvisation at voice of the valley noise rally
(solo electric violin with foot percussion)
Dallas, Texas: improvised accompaniment to poem by Christopher Dawood George:
(violin)
Pittsburgh: improvisation with Marc Edwards:
(violin)
Lowell, MA: free improvisation at X-Fest
(violin, trumpet, circuit-bent electronics, performance art)
Auris Apothecary and web update
Auris Apothecary’s AAX-100 release included several tracks of my sold-out cassette/ score release on digital/ magnetic/ print media. Also, my website was re-designed by Auris Apothecary founder (DASdrones).
International Coven of Dangerous Violinistry Volume II SUCCESSFUL
Thanks to all of the rad people who supported me, the grand DIY documentation/ album release/ European tour/ collaboration project has been successful! European tour dates are now being booked, with dates confirmed in Rennes, Marseilles, Nantes, Angers, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, and a growing route encompassing nearly a dozen countries. You can keep up with the booking progress here.
Above is the design by Grey Aria studios for my International Coven of Dangerous Violinistry t-shirt, edition of 36 t-shirts.
Tour Tape Demo on Soundcloud
The demo from Joey’s 2015 US Tour Tape (edition of 36 copies) has been ripped from the cassette itself onto Soundcloud. Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/sayatlast