New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Devendra Banhart has announced a twenty-three city North American tour for autumn 2019, beginning October 15 in Ventura, CA and continuing through December 8 in Philadelphia, with stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Brooklyn, and Washington, DC, among others (full schedule below). This will be his first tour of North
America since 2017 and will feature
Black Belt Eagle Scout as support on many dates.
For the upcoming tour, Banhart has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold (excluding Austin) will go to World Central Kitchen (WCK), an organization founded by Chef José Andrés to fight hunger around the world. WCK has served more than eight million meals to victims of natural disasters and humanitarian crises, including Hurricane
Maria in Puerto Rico, California wildfires, Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, and more. WCK is currently responding to the crisis on the Colombia-Venezuelan border and has served more than 350,000 meals to date. For more information, please visit wck.org.
Banhart, who also is an accomplished visual artist and poet, has been involved in several other projects this spring: A book of his ink drawings entitled Vanishing Wave, created in response to his travels in Japan shortly after the Tohoku earthquake, was released in April, published by Anteism Books. That same month, his first book of poetry, Weeping Gang, Bliss Void, Yab Yum, was published by Featherproof Books. An LP of various musicians' demos that Banhart curated, Fragments du Monde Flottant, was released in March, and a limited-edition collaboration with Brooklyn clothing designer Alex Crane, Almas, featuring Banhart's drawings on Crane's linens, launched in April.
DEVENDRA BANHART ON TOUR:
Oct 15 The Majestic Ventura Theater Ventura, CA
Oct 16 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
Oct 18 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR
Oct 19 Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
Oct 20 WOW Hall Eugene, OR
Oct 22 The UC Theatre Berkeley, CA
Oct 24 The Theatre at Ace Hotel Los Angeles, CA
Oct 25 The Yost Theater Santa Ana, CA
Oct 26 The Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
Oct 27 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
Oct 30 Boulder Theater Boulder, CO
Nov 1 The Slowdown Omaha, NE
Nov 2 Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
Nov 3 Thalia Hall Chicago, IL
Nov 5 The Hi Tone Memphis, TN
Nov 7 Levitation Festival Austin, TX
Nov 30 Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
Dec 1 Danforth
Music Hall Toronto, ON
Dec 3 The Olympia Montreal, QC
Dec 4 The Wilbur Boston, MA
Dec 5 Brooklyn Steel Brooklyn, NY
Dec 7 9:30 Club Washington, DC
Dec 8 Union
Transfer Philadelphia, PA
