Prolific experimental musician Thollem McDonas has announced his Electric Confluence Tour 2019 with a variety of tour dates that will see the artist/musician traveling and performing in the US and Canada from July thru December of this year. Featuring solo and ensemble performances, the tour will also see Thollem and visual partner ACVilla developing a multimedia project called The Now Of Us that will include murals, short films, and collaborative music. Below, you can read the Electric Confluence Tour press release and check out all Thollem’s upcoming live dates. While you’re at it, don’t miss Live Eye Tv’s 2018 interview with Thollem McDonas.
Thollem’s Electric Confluence Tour 2019:
Thollem McDonas is touring the United States and Canada from July 11th – Dec. 22nd, playing a variety of concerts as well as developing a multimedia experience of the U.S. through murals and collaborative music.
The shows vary: Electric Confluence is the main project of this tour, a solo electric, and very eclectic, project bringing together all of his varied sonic influences and inspirations. Thollem will also be playing solo piano concerts, freely improvised concerts with great local musicians as well as 13 Billion Years To Tomorrow, which is his more abstract/extreme solo electric approach. Along the tour, he will be presenting The Now Of US, a multimedia work-in-progress, with collaborator and video artist ACVilla. Divided into thirds by two video/audio recording residencies: Bellingham (Lookout Arts Quarry) and Gary (Calumet Arts), the tour culminates with a NYC concert to celebrate 3 albums of Thollem’s in trio with Nels Cline, William Parker, Michael Wimberly, Carmina Escobar and Milo Tamez on ESP-disk and Relative Pitch respectively.
Thollem’s Electric Confluence Tour
July 11th – December 22nd
U.S. and Canada
Part 1: Unite The Families
July 11th
Littleglobe (Santa Fe, NM)
The Now Of US
Plus Thollem’s Everywhere Quintet
with Carlos Santistevan, Chris Jonas,
Tiffany DeFoe, and Rosie Hutchinson
July 12th
Mudshark Studios (Flagstaff, AR)
Recording with Owen Davis, Rob Wallace and other musicians associated with the Interference Series
July 13th
Cardiff Giant Tattoo (Phoenix, AZ)
13 Billion Years To Tomorrow
plus James Fella/Seth Kasselman and Confirmation Bias
July 14th – 16th
The Harrison House (Joshua Tree, CA)
Residency
July 16th
The Harrison House (Joshua Tree, CA)
Solo Piano: Facing West To The East
July 17th
Santa Monica Library Auditorium (Santa Monica, CA)
Duo with Alex Cline
July 18th
Valsamis Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Recording Thollem’s Everywhere Quintet with Peter Valsamis, Carmina Escobar, and Orlando Greenhill
July 19th
Betalevel (Los Angeles, CA)
Duo with Carmina Escobar and video by Martha Colburn
July 20th
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts (Ojai, CA)
Meeting At The Parting Place and 13 Billion Years To Tomorrow
plus duo with Emily Hay
July 21st
Bluewhale (Los Angeles, CA)
Quartet with Alex Cline, ?Steuart Liebig, and Miller Wren
July 25th
Piano Kitchen (Santa Barbara, CA)
Solo Piano and trio with Emily Hay and James Connolly
July 26th
Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Santa Cruz, CA)
Meeting At The Parting Place And Electric Confluence
July 27th
Works/San José (San José, CA)
Silver Ochre’s The Now Of US plus presentation by Erin Salazar and short solo electric set
July 29th
KFJC Radio with Max Level (2:00 – 6:00pm)
Electric Confluence
July 31st
KSCU Radio with Peter Colclasure (11:00 – 13:00)
Electric Confluence
July 31st
Art Boutiki (San José, CA)
Electric Confluence plus Lisa Dewey & John Testani
August 1st
Center For New Music (San Francisco, CA)
Thollem with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet
August 2nd
The Sanctuary (Arcata, CA)
Silver Ochre’s The Now Of US and Thollem’s Everywhere Quintet
August 3rd
The Sanctuary (Arcata, CA)
Electric Confluence
August 8th
Frog Farm (Takilma, OR)
Electric Confluence
August 9th
The Graveyard (Salem, OR)
Electric Confluence plus Marc and The Horsejerks
August 10th
Turn! Turn! Turn! (Portland, OR)
Memorial concert for André St James and benefit for Bravo Youth Orchestras with Tim DuRoche and a revolving who’s who of Portland musicians
August 15th
Turn! Turn! Turn! (Portland, OR)
Electric Confluence Plus Michael Stirling singing Classical Indian Ragas with Pablo Lambias Carter (Tabla) and Lucy Stirling (Tambura)
August 16th
Octapas Cafe (Olympia, WA)
Electric Confluence
August 17th
The Wayward Series at The Chapel (Seattle, WA)
Trio with Amy Denio and Samantha Boshnack
August 19th – 25th
Residency with the Lookout Arts Quarry (Bellingham, WA)
Developing a new work
August 19th
Alternative Library (Bellingham, WA)
Featured Poet for Poetrynight
August 23rd
Alternative Library (Bellingham, WA)
Electric Confluence
Part 2:
September 4th
Kirks’ Grocery (Billings, MT)
Electric Confluence
September 6th
Caravan (North Platte, NE)
Electric Confluence
September 7th
OutrSpaces (Omaha, NE)
Electric Confluence
September 8th
House Concert and M &M’s (Indianola, IA)
13 Billion Years To Tomorrow
September 10th
Rozz-Tox (Rock Island, IL)
Electric Confluence
September 12th
Blu Room (Dubuque, IA)
Electric Confluence
September 13th
Audio For The Arts (Madison, WI)
Solo Piano and with TBA
September 14th
The Hungry Brain (Chicago, IL)
Trio with Matthew Lux and Avreeayl Ra
September 15th
Sugar Maple (Milwaukee, WI)
Electric Confluence
September 18th – 20th
Lincoln Calling Festival Experimental Music Showcase (Lincoln, NE)
13 Billion Years To Tomorrow
September 24th
MiniBar (Kansas City, MO)
Electric Confluence with Brian Steever and TBA
September 25th (Noon – 2:00 MST)
Uncontrollable Urge on KDHX (St. Louis, MO)
Electric Confluence
September 26th
FOAM (St. Louis, MO)
Electric Confluence
September 27th
FMRL Presents Proper Sake (Nashville, TN)
Electric Confluence plus Tim Barnes and Zizia
September 29th
The Palace Theater (Chattanooga, TN)
Electric Confluence
October 3rd
Chapel of Philip St Neri (Louisville, KY)
Electric Confluence
October 4th
Fuse Factory (Columbus, OH)
Thollem’s Everywhere Quintet
and The Now Of US
October 11th
State Street Pub (Indianapolis, IN)
Electric Confluence
October 18th
University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
Electric Confluence
October 19th
U of I (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
Silver Ochre’s The Now Of US plus Thollem’s Everywhere Quintet with The Improviser’s Exchange
October 20th – November 6th
Calumet Residency (Gary, IN)
Silver Ochre’s The Now Of US
Part 3:
Nov. 7th
Kerrytown Concert Hall (Ann Arbor, MI)
Trio with Abigail Alwin and Piotr Michalowski
Nov. 11th – 16th
Trinosophes (Detroit, MI)
Variety of projects with local artists
Nov. 17th
Robinwood Concert House
13 Billion Years To Tomorrow
Nov. 28th
Array Music (Toronto, CA)
Project TBA
Nov. 29th
AvantGarde Bar (Ottawa, CA)
Electric Confluence plus tba
Nov. 30th
Resonance Cafe (Montreal, CA)
Electric Confluence plus tba
Dec. 17th
Recording Studio (NY, NY)
Recording with Hafez Modirzadeh
December 19th
Red Room (Baltimore, MD)
Estamos Trio (Carmina Escobar and Milo Tamez)
December 20th
Fire Museum Presents at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA)
Estamos Trio (Carmina Escobar and Milo Tamez)
December 22nd
Barrio Artspace (New York, NY)
Triple album release concert with Estamos Trio (Carmina Escobar and Milo Tamez on Relative Pitch Records) and Radical Empathy Trio (Michael Wimberly and Nels Cline on ESP-disk) plus William Parker
2020
March/April
Rassegna di Nuova Musica (Macerata, Italy)
Solo Piano
April 6th – 27th
Uncool Residency (Poschiavo, Switzerland)
Silver Ochre’s Contextualizations
May
Sicilia Tour (Sicily, Italy)
Solo Piano and various collaborations through Curva Minore
*** 13 Billion Years To Tomorrow is an intensive sonic experience inspired by everything that’s ever happened and will. A solo performance with one instrument generating an infinite array of sounds and textures, the performance focuses the attention on the unfathomable scope of reality.
The Now Of US (NOUS) is Silver Ochre’s second multimedia experience of the U.S., following the duo’s 2016 48-state odyssey Who Are US. This time, the focus is on the immediacy of present-day America through murals and collaborative music. Thollem and video artist ACVilla will be traveling throughout the country once again gathering footage of murals and new recordings, creating short films that they will be presenting en route to inspire an additional outlet for dialogue. In this way, they hope to participate in the overall national discourse as we race our way towards the Presidential Elections.
