Summer 2016 Tour Dates

GREETINGS – I’m headed outta town this coming week for a stretch of North American dates which will include solo performances and collaborations w/ Tashi Dorji, Mette Rasmussen and Muyassar Kurdi.

The tour kicks off this Friday with a solo hit at one of my favorite tour hangs, Knoxville’s Pilot Light. See below for dates and details…

I’ve also included some July dates with Tashi & Thom Nguyen where I will appear in a trio version of MANAS in both Lafayette and Chicago at the first-ever Astral Spirits’ Festival. For night two of the fest I’ll be joining Dave Rempis, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Jason Adasiewicz…

Lastly, Skyler Rowe and I will hit the road for three Midwestern dates immediately following Astral Spirits Fest for a first-round meeting of percussion duos…

Lots of firsts…see ya somewhere? – Tyler

Solo

June 10th @ The Pilot Light (106 E. Jackson St.), Knoxville, TN

Duo w/ Tashi Dorji

June 12th @ The Nightlight Bar & Club (405 W. Rosemary St.), Chapel Hill, NC
June 13th @ Union Arts D.C. (411 New York Ave.), Washington, D.C.
June 14th @ Trans-Pecos (915 Wyckoff Ave.), Ridgewood, Queens, NY
June 15th @ Old Bear Dens, Franklin Park Zoo, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Trio w/ Tashi Dorji & Mette Rasmussen

June 18th @ Array Space (155 Walnut Ave.), Toronto, ON
June 19th @ Workers Arts & Heritage Centre (51 Stuart St.), Hamilton, ON
June 20th @ Black Squirrel Books & Café (1073 Bank St.), Ottawa, ON

Duo w/ Muyassar Kurdi

June 21st @ Tarot Society (4 Charles Pl.), Brooklyn, NY

Manas trio (w/ Tashi Dorji & Thom Nguyen)

July 22nd @ The Spot Tavern (409 S. 4th St.), Lafayette, IN
July 23rd @ The Hungry Brain (2319 W. Belmont Ave.), Chicago, IL

Quartet w/ Dave Rempis, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Jason Adasiewicz

July 24th @ The Hungry Brain (2319 W. Belmont Ave.), Chicago, IL

Duo w/ Skyler Rowe

July 25th @ The Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia Ave.), Chicago, IL
July 26th @ Torn Light (406 Fairfield Ave.), Bellevue, KY
July 27th @ The Blockhouse (205 S. College Ave.), Bloomington, IN

June 4, 2016   [permalink]   Astral Spirits, Astral Spirits Festival, Canada, Dave Rempis, Duo, East Coast, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Jason Adasiewicz, Live, Manas, Mette Rasmussen, Muyassar Kurdi, North America, Quartet, Skyler Rowe, Solo, Tashi Dorji, Thom Nguyen, tour, Trio

Tashi Dorji / Tyler Damon duo preview…

Tashi Dorji and I have a lot to look forward to this year. While I can’t yet share all of those details, here’s a studio track from a forthcoming release that we hope gets you as excited for the future as we are:

February 13, 2016   [permalink]   Astral Spirits, Duo, Family Vineyard, News, Recording, Tashi Dorji

Yoke 01-03 reviewed in Vital Weekly

Frans de Waard recently reviewed Yoke releases 01-03 (my solo debut “Softened Skull,” as well as both collaborations with Darin Gray) at Vital Weekly, an e-mail magazine (formerly print zine) that’s been active as long as I’ve been drawing breath.

Check out the full review at VITAL WEEKLY 1011

December 20, 2015   [permalink]   Darin Gray, For Four, Frans de Waard, Oninbo, Press, Reviews, Softened Skull, Solo, Vital Weekly, Yoke

Back from tour / affirmation / years end…

Damon/Gray/ Lorenz trio @ The Comet, Cincinnati, OH. Photo by Pete Fosco.

I’m a little late posting this but I wanted to share a little tour wrap-up in the wake of the TD/DG – “For Four” mini tour. In order of appearance, a HUGE thank you to:

Rachel Maudlin, Joe Estivill and the Player’s Pub, Rick Brown and Che Chen (75 Dollar Bill), Jim Manion and WFHB, Eric Weddle, Jon Lorenz, Zohair Hussain, Pete Fosco, Tina and Jack Damon, James, Leah and Virgil Toth, Robert Beatty, Ross Compton, Carey Balch, Will Fist, Valerie Kuehne, Give Thanks, Nate Fleckenstein, Chris Davis and Portland Brew South, William Tyler, Tim Barnes and Dreamland, Keenan Lawler, John Dawson, and anyone/everyone who came out to a show, share a bill, played a trio with us, provided a comfortable night’s rest, bought something from our table, gave us records or shared a kind word. More than all others, though, I must give thanks to my duo partner and great friend Darin Gray for his incredible support and focus, his ceaselessly inventive and exciting playing and, especially, for his devotion to helping those around him feel like the golden human beings that he insists we are. I had a beautiful, rewarding tour experience – THANK YOU…

Additionally, I played a duo show w/ John Dawson as Open Sex the day after tour w/ Darin ended so I got bonus hangs w/ Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, Sedcairn Archives and the beautiful people of Indianapolis’ State Street Pub. John and I will be back there on December 19th playing with Lech – come on out (additionally, another Lech show is happening in Bloomington w/ St. Louie’s Lumpy & The Dumpers on Thursday the 17th…)

November 29, 2015   [permalink]   Darin Gray, Open Sex, Thee Open Sex, tour