RESCHEDULED: PETER MULVEY with SistaStrings

416 Cedar Avenue South,Minneapolis MN 55454

09 March, 2021

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RESCHEDULED: PETER MULVEY with SistaStrings Presented by The Cedar and The Warming House ALL AGES Peter Mulvey SistaStrings Peter will share the stage with SistaStrings, a violin and cello sister duo, performing songs they recorded live together at Cafe Carpe. Peter Mulvey's show at The Cedar has been rescheduled to Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. Doors open at 7:00pm and the show will start at 7:30pm. Please note that there has been a program change and Peter will no longer be performing "The Trouble with Poets" 20th Anniversary show. Instead, Peter will be joined by SistaStrings, a Milwaukee-based string duo with whom he recorded a live album earlier this year. SistaStrings will open the show and perform as part of Peter's band. All tickets purchased for September 12th or the original date of March 18th, 2020 will be honored for the new date of Tuesday, March 9, 2021. To request a refund or for more information, please contact The Cedar's box office at [email protected] or 612-338-2674 ext 0. For The Cedar's statement on COVID-19, click here. About Peter Mulvey with Sistastrings: Live At The Cafe Carpe This record is about a band that found each other and also found a home. It’s about a couple of magic nights SistaStrings and I spent, crammed into the back of a listening room called the Cafe Carpe — jammed full of people, joyfully playing the songs we’d learned over our few years of becoming an ensemble, all happily unaware that the world was already changing, that because of the pandemic already underway the entire world of listening rooms and intimate live audiences was about to disappear for who-knows how long. I started playing at the Cafe Carpe when I was a kid. At the time, I thought it was the coolest little venue I’d ever seen. After thirty years of international travel I realize that it’s one of the most soulful, deep listening rooms in the world. I’ve developed a reverence for the place, a camaraderie with the characters who work there. I’ve slept in their home above the venue (it’s an old brick building on the Rock River in the small Midwestern city of Fort Atkinson) countless times. I’ve come to love the people and the room, to curate a tiny winter festival there, to visit even when I’m not playing a gig. I’ve bonded with artists who were a generation older than me, played countless song-swaps with my peers, and begun mentoring the next generation. I met my fellow Milwaukeeans SistaStrings a few years back, and we clicked instantly, and began playing together with my old friend, the drummer Nathan Kilen. The sound immediately made sense: Chauntee and Monique play with tremendous intuition, technical ability, and (impossible to teach) spaciousness. They never bump into each other, or into me. They’re utterly deft with harmony and space. And Nathan’s tiny drum kit, which he developed so he could travel with me on my bicycle tours, rounds the quartet out perfectly. My acoustic guitar holds down the low end, Nathan and I become the rhythm section, Chauntee and Monique become the harmonic architecture, and all I have to do is ride the wave and deliver the songs. For their parts, Chauntee and Monique had this to say about the album: “Playing with this group of musicians feels like linking up with my favorite cousins. The love and respect we have for each other definitely affects how we interact with each other musically. The time spent on this project was surrounded in love, laughter, and wanting to bring our best to the listener.” — Chauntee Ross “WOW! I am still astonished at how much work we did in such a short amount of time! I couldn't imagine this experience with a different group of individuals. The vibes continue to flow while the love continues to grow. looking forward to sharing this music with the world and looking forward to creating more music with my forever family.” — Monique Ross The Carpe embraced SistaStrings immediately: the audience sensed, correctly, that they were encountering a national treasure. Nathan and I feel the same. As grizzled, mid-career veterans, there is nothing that revitalizes your love of music like playing night after night with virtuosos who are hungry and playful and just keep getting better. The songs on this record are the strongest things we could come up with — a few of my older tunes, a few of my newer co-writes, some unreleased tunes, and then of course Woody Guthrie, Iron and Wine, the Jayhawks, Daniel Johnston. About Peter Mulvey In 2000, Peter Mulvey released “The Trouble With Poets”, the first collection of songs co-written with guitarist/composer/producer David Goodrich. The record became an instant fan favorite, and Mulvey and Goodrich embarked on nearly a decade of touring and writing as a duo, with Mulvey’s acoustic guitar and urgent baritone perfectly complemented by Goodrich’s rich, atmospheric improvisations. The record is a tour de force in song craft and innovation, with electric guitar and mandolin framing the rhythm section of Mike Piehl on drums and Lou Ulrich on bass. The eleven songs represent a deepening and strengthening of Mulvey’s writing. His collaboration with Goodrich established the vividness in his music for years to come. Now, twenty years later, Mulvey is taking this record back on the road to accompany its re-issue on CD and a first-ever vinyl edition. He’ll be performing across his usual haunts in North America, playing the record in its entirety, as well as songs from the dozen (!) records he has released since. Goodrich will join him on as many dates as possible. The two have remained fast friends, both during their years with Redbird, and as occasional collaborators, while Goodrich stayed busy producing and touring with Chris Smither and many others, and Mulvey kept up his restless, perpetual creative output. These shows will be a celebration of two decades of collaboration between two tireless servants of the muse, as well as a shout-out to the audiences that kept this whole road-dog show humming along. Peter Mulvey performing courtesy of Paste Magazine’s YouTube channel. SistaStrings performing "Lift Every Voice" at Silver City Studios courtesy of Silver City Studios’ YouTube channel. Peter Mulvey SistaStrings