Chicago venue The Hideout is taking their Inauguration celebration to Washington, DC's Black Cat. Headlining the event is Andrew Bird, who was the subject of a major profile in Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
The Big Shoulders Inauguration Ball
This celebration of citizen politics, independent music and Windy City civic pride will take place on the eve of the presidential inauguration, right here at DC's own Black Cat.
The Big Shoulders Ball represents a culmination of activities by the Hideout and Interchange during the 2008 election cycle. Interchange volunteers registered more than 1,500 voters at the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Hideout Block Party. The Hideout hosted fundraisers for Barack Obama and weekend GOTV carpools to Wisconsin and Indiana.
Hideout co-owner Tim Tuten is ecstatic about the ball. "Since the first Interchange Festival on the street in front of the Hideout in 2004, we have dreamed of the day that we could all celebrate a new direction for our country," Tuten says. "Of course we never dreamed that the person leading that movement would be a local guy from right here in Chicago. Our city's musicians, artists, writers and volunteers were part of the first wave of this ground-breaking campaign. They are the heart of our club's community. There was no way that we could miss this historic event."
The "The Big Shoulders Inauguration Ball" will feature Andrew Bird w/ Tortoise, Ted Leo, Waco Brothers, Eleventh Dream Day, Jon Langford, Sally Timms, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Ken Vandermark, Freakwater, Icy Demons and Judson Claiborne
Andrew Bird is also touring the U.S. starting after the inauguration, including a date at New York's Carnegie Hall. Tour dates after the jump....
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ANDREW BIRD TOUR DATES
Sun 01/25/09 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of The Living Arts
Wed 01/28/09 New York, NY Carnegie Hall
Fri 01/30/09 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
Tue 02/03/09 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Wed 02/04/09 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Fri 02/06/09 Orlando, FL The Plaza Theatre
Sat 02/07/09 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
Thu 02/12/09 Austin, TX Paramount Theatre
Fri 02/13/09 Albuquerque, NM Historic El Rey Theater
Sat 02/14/09 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
Sun 02/15/09 San Diego, CA SOMA San Diego
Wed 02/18/09 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Thu 02/19/09 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
Fri 02/20/09 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
Sat 02/21/09 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
Mon 02/23/09 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
Tue 02/24/09 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House
Wed 02/25/09 Murray, UT Murray Theater
Thu 02/26/09 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
Fri 02/27/09 Omaha, NE Slowdown
Sun 03/15/09 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Mon 03/16/09 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
Tue 03/17/09 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
Sat 03/21/09 Houston, TX House Of Blues
Sun 03/22/09 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Mon 03/23/09 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
Fri 04/03/09 Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sat 04/04/09 Montreal, QC Le National
Sun 04/05/09 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground
Tue 04/07/09 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall
Fri 04/10/09 Chicago, IL Civic Opera House
Sat 04/11/09 Minneapolis, MN The State Theatre
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