New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Nonesuch Records) Carolina Chocolate Drops close out the summer and kick off the fall touring season at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music tonight for the Nonesuch Records at BAM celebration of the label's 50th anniversary. (Rhiannon Giddens also joins label mates Kronos Quartet and others for another concert in the series on Saturday.) The band's US tour includes sets at the FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival in Massachusetts, the LA Bluegrass Situation, and stops in the West, Midwest, and South.
Carolina Chocolate Drops close out the summer and kick off the fall touring season with a special performance tonight: at the BAM
Howard Gilman Opera House as part of the weeks-long Nonesuch Records at BAM celebration of the label's 50th anniversary. Chocolate Drops founding member Rhiannon Giddens also joins label mates Kronos Quartet,
Natalie Merchant, Sam Amidon, and
Olivia Chaney for another concert in the series this Saturday,
September 20. The band's US tour includes sets at the FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival in Massachusetts, the LA Bluegrass Situation in Los Angeles, and stops in the West, Midwest, and South through October
See below for all of the Carolina Chocolate Drops' currently scheduled shows. For additional details and tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Nonesuch Records released its second album from the Carolina Chocolate Drops—the Grammy-nominated Leaving Eden—in 2012, following the 2011 EP with Luminescent Orchestrii and the Chocolate Drops' first Nonesuch release, the critically acclaimed Genuine Negro Jig, which won a Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy.
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS FALL TOUR
Sep 18 BAM
Howard Gilman Opera House Brooklyn, NY
Sep 19 FreshGrass Festival North Adams, MA
Sep 20 BAM
Howard Gilman Opera House* Brooklyn, NY
Sep 25&26 Stoughton Opera House Stoughton, WI
Oct 9 Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, AZ
Oct 10 LA Bluegrass Situation, Theatre at Ace Hotel Los Angeles, CA
Oct 11 Rialto Theatre Tucson, AZ
Oct 13 The Kessler Dallas, TX
Oct 14 The Belmont Austin, TX
Oct 15 Presser Hall, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Belton, TX
Oct 17 Harvest
Music Festival Ozark, AR
Oct 18 The Blue Note Columbia, MO
Oct 19 Off Broadway St. Louis, MO
Oct 21 The Vogue Indianapolis, IN
Oct 22&23 The Clifton Center Louisville, KY