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For Immediate Release

July 16, 2024


CRAIG FINN ANNOUNCES KATY KIRBY

AS SUPPORT FOR US DATES OF

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: SOLO SONGS & STORIES


US RUN BEGINS NOVEMBER 6 IN NORTHAMPTON, MA

Photo Credit: Craig Finn

Craig Finn is excited to announce folk-rock singer/songwriter Katy Kirby (solo) as a special guest on his upcoming fall U.S. run of This Is What It Looks Like: Solo Songs & Stories, The shows begin November 6 in Northampton, MA. Kirby will appear on all dates except for Baltimore, St. Louis and NY. She has been critically and culturally acclaimed for her sophomore LP, Blue Raspberry, out this past January on ANTI-. She's known for her silvery tones, and clever, loquacious approach to vulnerable, revealing subjects. The complete itinerary is below. For complete details and ticket information, please visit craigfinn.net/tour.



CRAIG FINN

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: SOLO SONGS & STORIES 2024


SEPTEMBER

6 – Dublin, Ireland – Whelan’s *

7 – Liverpool, UK – District *

8 – Nottingham, UK – Bodega *

10 – Brighton, UK – Dust *

11 – Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach *

12 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall *

14 – Odense, Denmark – Nashville Nights International Songwriters Festival @

Magasinet *

16 – Hamburg, Germany – Nochtspeicher *

17 – Berlin, Germany – Prachtwerk *

19 – Cologne, Germany – Artheater *


* w/ special guest Kathleen Edwards


NOVEMBER

6 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall +

7 – Arundel, ME – Vinegar Hill Music Theatre +

8 – Fairfield, CT – StageOne +

9 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge

10 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live +

12– Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark +

14 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern +

15 – Madison, WI – The Bur Oak +

16 – St. Paul, MN – Fitzgerald Theater +

18 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway

19 – Louisville, KY – The Whirling Tiger +

20 – Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theater +

22 – Washington, DC – Miracle Theatre +

23 – Baltimore, MD – Club 603 (Two Shows)


+ w/ special guest Katy Kirby (solo)


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Photo Credit: Lee Allen / Download Hi-Res Image

ABOUT CRAIG FINN:

Craig Finn is a Minnesota-bred singer-songwriter based in New York City, best known as the singer of The Hold Steady. Finn spent the ’90s leading Minneapolis indie band Lifter Puller, which released three albums and an EP. After relocating to New York, he joined with Lifter Puller member Tad Kubler to form The Hold Steady in 2003. The Hold Steady quickly achieved critical acclaim and a worldwide fanbase with their unique pairing of dense lyrical narratives with big rock guitars. The Hold Steady’s ninth album, The Price Of Progress, was released in March 2023, commemorating the band’s 20th anniversary.


Finn released his first solo album in 2012 followed by three additional solo LPs – 2015’s Faith in the Future, 2017’s We All Want The Same Things, and 2019's I Need a New War – which together coalesced into a sign-of-the-times musical trilogy. Finn’s debut book, a collection of his song lyrics entitled I Can’t Keep Saying Thank You was also released in 2019. All These Perfect Crosses, a double album collecting B-sides and outtakes, was released in 2021 accompanied by a limited-edition graphic novel.


Finn’s fifth solo album, A Legacy of Rentals, was released in May 2022 to great fanfare. “The writing remains the main attraction in Finn’s work,” declared Pitchfork, “and both as a storyteller and a rock songwriter, he has never sounded more in control. From the beginning, he had a gift for meticulous, vivid world-building, and his wordplay has gotten tighter as his subjects have come down to earth.”


Finn’s podcast series, That’s How I Remember It, debuted in 2021 and was followed by two additional seasons. Co-produced and distributed by Talkhouse, the podcast series examines the connection between memory and creativity. Each episode features a discussion between Finn and one creator – including musicians, authors, filmmakers, and more – about the role memory plays in their art. These exclusive conversations reveal the different ways each creator synthesizes their remembered life experience to tell stories about themselves and the world we live in.


ABOUT KATY KIRBY:

On her second album Blue Raspberry, out this past January, the New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headlong into the artifice of intimacy: the glitter smeared across eyelid creases, the smiles switched on with an electric buzz, the synthetic rose scent all over someone who's made herself smell nice just for you. An exegesis of Kirby's first queer relationship, Blue Raspberry traces the crescendo and collapse of new love, savoring each gleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way.


Originally from Spicewood, Texas, Kirby was living in Nashville when she started writing Blue Raspberry's title track, the first of the album's songs to take shape. "'Blue Raspberry' is the oldest song on the record. I began to write it a month or so before I realized, I think I’m queer," she says. "There’s a tradition of yearning in country love songs. I like the male yearning songs better, usually. I started writing 'Blue Raspberry,' and I was thinking about, if I was in love with a woman, what would I love about her? Especially if she was someone that I couldn’t touch, but that I was pining for. What would I be caught on? And I thought that I would probably be particularly charmed by the choices she made on how to look after she woke up in the morning. I thought about tackiness, and the ways that’s a dirty word. That’s where the title comes from -- loving someone for those choices, for the artificiality."


Blue Raspberry follows Kirby’s acclaimed debut album Cool Dry Place, which was also recorded in Nashville and released in February of 2021. While the songs on that record unfold amidst Kirby finding her voice, Blue Raspberry is a polished and confident sophomore effort that deepens the questions that bubbled through Cool Dry Place about how people can reach each other despite all the hazard zones where human connection caves in. 


CONNECT WITH CRAIG FINN:

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