A great night for L.A.’s Friendly House, plus Louisville Orchestra this Saturday..
We’d like to thank everyone who made it out to the Troubadour in West Hollywood Wednesday night for our charity benefit for L.A.’s Friendly House. It was a crazy, fun night dedicated to recognizing and supporting one of the oldest treatment centers in the country for women recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. Thanks to those of who you who bought tickets and participated in the silent auction, we were able to help raise $40,000 for the organization. We had an amazing night and hope you did, too.
The night also featured our friends Aushua, who played an awesome set. We urge you all to check out their music.
This Saturday, January 30th, we’ll be playing a special concert with the Louisville Orchestra at the beautiful Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, as part of their BB&T Strings Attached series. We’ve been busy these past couple of weeks adapting our songs for an orchestral performance, and we can’t wait to perform them. We hope you can join us.
Also on the bill are Tucson’s own Calexico.
For info, click HERE.
For tickets, click HERE.
We miss you, we love you, we find ourselves using our time off to learn new skills like French and riding motorcycles around L.A…
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My wife and I are travelling from North Carolina to see the Louisville show. Can’t wait – we’ll be driving through snow the whole way!
Don’t cancel because of weather – PLEASE ! 🙂
Hey!!! we got here this afternoon, (fm CO via OH) excited! YAH!! sort a like night before christmas waiting for santa!! waiting for tomorrow night!! hope MAGIC MOMENT is in set list. it’s cold yah, but no big deal!! wish you all the best!
damn, why is the US so far from Europe?
they should make recordings, like a dvd or something, from that performance with the orchestra, I’m sure a lot of people would buy it and love it and cherish it (I would ^^)
Last night, I took my 12-year old son to the Louisville show. It was his first “rock” concert. We really enjoyed ourselves. The orchestra with the band worked really well. The arrranger deserves a lot of credit for her/his efforts. Also, Calexico was really, really good.
Drove down from Chicago for the concert – this was an amazing event and probably one of the best concerts I have ever attended. Both bands sounded awesome with the orchestra and I hope that someday these performances released.
Thanks for making the stop in Louisville and putting on such a great show with the LO. Just a great night that has lots of people still buzzing.
Safe travels!
What a show! One of the best I’ve seen. My wife and I drove from Westerville, OH. The sound with the orchestra was like a firework show for the ears. amazing stuff. Thanks for putting on such a great experience for us.
I talked with the Louisville Orchestra and the conductor today and both say that no recording was made of the concert, which completely sucks. Something that awesome should be released for all to enjoy. The one thing I can’t figure out is if they had a video feed for the giant TVs by the stage, why doesn’t something remain on tape? It’s not like they couldn’t have taped that feed.
We drove over 400 miles to see the band and it was worth every mile driving through the snow. It takes a lot of guts for a band to play with 65 very talented and classically trained musicians and TATE pulled it off. Calexico was tremendous as well. Their singer is the real deal.
Had drinks with the the band after the show and they truly are down to earth, humble and genuinely nice people – especially Darren. Really sweet guy. Their manager, Pete Galli, is a great guy who truly loves what he does and thinks TATE walks on water – they do!! Mikel, one of these shows I hope to be able to articulate why you appeal to an old guy like me 🙂
What a beautiful performance with the LO! If it was recorded, I’d buy it. I wanted to bring my children, but was worried about the f word-I loved that you changed it for the show. Too bad it’s on the CD-my kids cannot listen to it. Otherwise you’d have four up and coming new fans! Very classy performance-you all are great!
folks,
The show from the sony disney theatre in LA is going to be released sometime in april–similiar format to the louisville concert. Hope that helps wet the appetite a bit.
regards, scott
will that recording also be released in europe?
if so:
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you !!
Oh man i can’t believe that i missed you guys in los angeles.. i’ve been dying trying to go to one of your concerts.. no luck thus far.. maybe next time.. =(
Scott-
Thanks for the GREAT news. I’ve been kicking myself all week that I didn’t break the house rules and record the whole show with the Louisville Orchestra. I managed to capture about 3 minutes of Innocence on video and have been listening to it multiple times every day.
Does anyone know if TATE is playing Bonnaroo this year? Calexico is and I was hoping TATE would be too.
Loved the Louisville show. The last time I saw a rock band with an orchestra was Emerson Lake and Palmer many years ago. We drove down from Cincinnati. TATE played here a few months ago at the Mad Hatter – small venue with just a couple hundred people. Two very different, but equally amazing experiences.
Drove down from Indy for the Louisville show, and SO GLAD I did. You all were terrific. Really enjoyable evening. Thanks!
My husband and I missed your show in St. Pete so when we found out you were playing in Louisville we made arrangements to be there. Absolutely wonderful. Have to say I’m glad I missed St. Pete because watching you play with the Orchestra was amazing. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to and I have been to many. Thank you!!!!