New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rachael & Vilray - the duo of singer/songwriter Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) and guitarist/singer/songwriter Vilray - bring music from their latest album, I Love a Love Song!, released earlier this year on Nonesuch Records, to the US West Coast and Midwest this fall and winter, beginning in California with two nights at Blue Note Napa, December 15 and 16, and a concert at The Troubadour in West Hollywood on December 18. The shows continue in February 2024 with four dates in Colorado and stops in Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Minneapolis. See below for details and visit top40-charts.com
I Love a Love Song! is the second album from Rachael & Vilray, following their 2019 self-titled debut, and features eleven new songs written by Vilray plus the 1930s classic "Goodnight My Love" written by Mack
Gordon and Harry Revel. The album was produced, engineered, and mixed by Dan Knobler and features arrangements from Jacob Zimmerman. Rachael & Vilray's music's "easy-swinging mini-big-band arrangement is as cozy as it is sophisticated," says the New York Times.
Rachael Price and Vilray began performing together in 2015, although they first met in 2003 as students at the New England Conservatory of Music. Vilray formed a couple of bands with Price's soon-to-be bandmates in Lake Street Dive. Price recalls he had a nimble mind and quick wit when it came to lyrics. It was more than a decade later that Price and Vilray began to collaborate. She had been on the road much of each year with
Lake Street Dive and he had been developing his own solo act, centered around just voice and guitar.
RACHAEL & VILRAY ON TOUR:
Dec 15&16 Blue Note Napa Napa, CA
Dec 18 Troubadour West Hollywood, CA
Feb 1 Boulder Theater Boulder, CO
Feb 2 Vilar Performing Arts Center Beaver Creek, CO
Feb 3 Strings
Music Pavilion Steamboat Springs, CO
Feb 4 Aggie Theatre Fort Collins, CO
Feb 13 St. Cecilia
Music Center Grand Rapids, MI
Feb 14 Thalia Hall Chicago, IL
Feb 15 Dakota Minneapolis, MN.
