Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), photo by kairu via flickr,
Phil Elverum has announced 12 2023 tour dates for his Mount Eerie project. He shared the news in a Substack post, writing that the newly scheduled shows will contain “[t]ons of new songs from an in-progress album. He also added that Mount Eerie will be touring as a duo this time around, though it’s unclear who the group’s other half will be as of yet.
The show openers will be Karl Blau and Country Gravel, Emily Sprague, and Goodtime John for one gig each, and Elverum’s May 9 show at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music will include “an evening of song and conversation,” including a talk with Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway. The following date — May 28 at Brussels, Belgium’s l’Ancienne Belgique — will be a series of discussions and film screenings celebrating of the late filmmaker Harry Everett Smith’s 100th birthday. (Mount Eerie will play a show in the same location the next night.)
On New Year's Eve 2022, Elverum contributed a rare Mount Eerie loosie title “Huge Fire” to the Tokyo label 7 e.p.’s end-of-year compilation record, COLORS. The track was named a Song You Need.
Mount Eerie 2023 tour dates
May 5 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sanctuary *
May 6 - Brooklyn, NY - Pioneer Works (Long Play Festival)
May 7 - Round Top, NY - Glen Falls House ^
May 9 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
May 28 - Brussels, Belgium - l’Ancienne Belgique
May 29 - Brussels, Belgium - l’Ancienne Belgique
May 31 - Genk, Belgium - Sint-Albertus
June 1 - Cologne, Germany - Urania Theatre
June 10 - Cork, Ireland - Seanie Buttons
June 11 - Dublin, Ireland - Whelan’s ~
June 13 - London, England - Grand Junction
June 15 - Helsinki, Finland - Temppeliaukio Church
June 22 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Poesiens Hus
* w/ Karl Blau and Country Gravel
^ w/ Emily Sprague instrumental
~ w/ Goodtime John
