Brianna Lane

Check details by clicking “on the road”.  See you out there!

MARCH

12…Sheboygan, WI…Paradigm Coffe & Music (beautiful new location)

13-17…driving my car and riding my bike to New York

18…Ithaca, NY…The Shop

20…Portland, ME…North Star…Red Curtain Music Series

22…Brattleboro, VT…Weathervane

25…New York, NY…Banjo Jim’s

26…Greenbelt, MD…New Deal Cafe

APRIL

2…Asheville, NC…House Concert

3…Atlanta, GA…Eddie’s Attic…opening for Girlyman!

16…Marshfield, WI…Vox Music Series with Blake Thomas!

17…Minneapolis, MN…331 Welcome Home Show

stay tuned.

Recently the Twin Cities Women’s Choir invited me to join them for their winter concert.  Not as a choir member but as a special guest!  I was wonderfully challenged to write a song for the group’s 100 plus voices.  A little song called “Sparrow” eeked it’s way into the world and came to life during the first rehearsal that I had with the women.  I’m so excited to be performing with them on Saturday, February 6th.

I love winter.  It is, however, and unrequited love and a bit hard on this poor little heart of mine.  It’s white and icy around here and I’ve been spending an abundance of time outside skiing, snowshoeing, boarding, and building quinzee huts with kids and friends.  The freeze hasn’t let up in days, neither has the sweet silence of the season.  My warmth is found inside over a cup of cocoa, learning new tunes on the banjo, and watching Lost, while knitting like a crazy person.  I’ve had very few shows this season but the ones I’ve had were incredible and have also given me warmth.

Many friends called me up after I opened for David Rawlings and Gillian Welch to check in on how the show went.  I stayed pretty silent after that night, unsure why at first, I didn’t check in with anyone.  It took some time for it all to sink in.  I battled with the juxtaposition of “they’re just people like me and you” and “holy shit, these guys are really famous.  I used to cover Gillian’s songs all the time…still do!”  I was shy in their presence in the green room at the Cedar, as they and their band seemed to move and dance as one unit while doing simple tasks such as putting their instruments in their cases and making phone calls back home.  They played an incredible show!  A beautiful mix of David’s songs, Gillian’s songs, songs with the entire band, and songs just as a duo.  I was lost in their performance and paused during “Miss Ohio” or was it when David sang “To Be Young” (a Rawlings/Adams co-write), I closed my eyes and threw my gratitude up and out there into the ether somewhat like a grand prayer- I was a part of this!  How do I even begin to talk about that feeling, that gratitude and that amazement?    To tell my friends that the show went really well would be accurate but lacking in complete truth…the show was astounding!  To be a part of such magic was incredible.  I worry, however, about putting too much weight on this one opportunity.  I am grateful for something much bigger than being a part of that one night…I am grateful that night happened for many and happens all the time in other places besides the Cedar.  I’m grateful that we have the ability to be moved by something so simple and wonderful as good music and good company.

Wednesday, December 9th 7:30

Cedar Cultural Center

Minneapolis, MN

opening for the David Rawlings Machine, including Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show!

More details click here

Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), at Cedar outlets (Electric Fetus, Depth of Field, Irish on Grand, Homestead Pickin’ Parlor), or order online at Ticketweb
$20 advance, $22 day of show

Hey y’all -

I’ve been talking about this forever but now the time has come!  We leave tomorrow, bright and early, from Milwaukee for the Long Haul Bike Tour.  The talented and adventuresome Peter Mulvey headlines this tour and I’ll be opening all the shows.  showdates and milage are listed below.  Peter has a parlor sized guitar on the back of his bike and I’ve got my banjo in my saddle bag…we’re set.

I’ll be audio-blogging from the trip daily or maybe more than once a day.  No written blogs since I won’t be carrying a laptop.  But I’ll update my site when I can.  I’ll post cell-phone pictures to my Facebook regularly as well. In fact, I’ve already posted some pics already from my training rides and my writing time at the cabin in Sheboygan.

Follow along:

~ audio blog… http://howwastheshow.blogspot.com/

check the side-bar for past blogs

~ facebook for pics… www.facebook.com

~ check out the charity… www.bolderoptions.org

a portion of all my CD sales will be going directly to Bolder Options

~ be in touch, ask questions, send the love… briannalanemusic@gmail.com

THE LONG HAUL BIKE TOUR (w/ mileage to show) ::

Peter Mulvey & Brianna Lane to pedal and perform

joined by three fellow cyclists

Wed, Sept 9:  Wealthy Theatre 1130 Wealthy SE, Grand Rapids, MI =40 miles

8:00 PM ~ $10-$16 ~ 616-459-4788 ~ All Ages

Thu, Sept 10:  The Strutt 773 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI =50 miles

9:00 PM ~ $10 ~ 269-492-7200 ~ 21+

Fri, Sept 11:  The Creole Gallery 1218 Turner St., Lansing, MI =76miles

$12 ~ stpconcerts@gmail.com ~ All Ages

Sat, Sept 12:  The Ark 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI  =65miles

8:00 PM ~ $14 ~ 734-761-1451 ~ All Ages

Tue, Sept 15:  The Ninth Ward/Babeville 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY =305 miles

8:00 PM ~ $8 ~ 888-223-6000 ~ All Ages

Fri, Sept 18:  Nifkin Lounge SUNY-Marshall Hall, Syracuse, NY =152miles

7:00 PM ~ open to SUNY campus community only

Sun, Sept 20:  Caffe Lena 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY =141miles

7:00 PM ~ $14 mbr/$16ga ~ 800-838-3006 ~ All Ages

Thu, Sept 24:  Lizard Lounge 1667 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA =171miles

8:00 PM ~ $15adv/$18dr ~ 617-547-0759 ~ All Ages

Fri, Sept 25:  Club Passim 47 Palmer St., Cambridge, MA

7:00 & 10:00 PM ~ $18mbr/$20ga ~ 617-492-7679 ~ All Ages

Sat, Sept 26:  Iron Horse Music Hall 20 Center St., Northampton, MA = 101miles

7:00 PM ~ $14adv/$17dr ~ 413-586-8686 ~ All Ages