Arborea's March Tour 2014 & SXSW Photo Album

Photos from our recent US tour and showcases at SXSW 2014. SXSW 2014 Photos by Heather Ubiles and Travis Gallagher, Tour Photos by Shanti Curran and Buck Curran.

Arborea's Tour March 2014 (& SXSW)

Arborea is heading out on tour March 1st playing shows in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, to Austin Texas for SXSW, and back to the East Coast for shows in Maryland, Washington DC, New York City, and Connecticut. There are some Amazing shows lined up with very Special Guests. We hope to meet lots of new people along the way and also looking forward to seeing old friends:

March
Arborea's March 2014 tour (& SXSW):
1 Schlow Library/State College, PA (w/Daniel Bachman & Alexander Turnquist)
4 Nightlight/Chapel Hill, NC (w/Jesse Wooten and Skylar Gudasz)
5 Mothlight/Asheville, NC (w/Halli and Ryan of River Whyless)
7 The Well Coffeehouse/Nashville, TN (w/The Rushings)
9 Standpipe Cafe/Lufkin, TX
10 Mezamiz Coffee House/Abilene, TX (w/Hopeful Heroines)
13 Charm School Vintage SXSW/Austin, TX (w/New Bums, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Jerry DeCicca, Jess Williamson)
14 St David's Bethell Hall Official SXSW Showcase/Austin, TX
18 Fifth Dimension/Baltimore, MD (w/Marian McLaughlin & Early Universe)
19 The Dunes/Washington D.C. (w/Marian McLaughlin & Janel and Anthony)
20 Rigby Mansion/Philadelphia, PA (w/Gardner Sheppard duo and Jesse Sparhawk)
21 Joe's Pub/NYC (with Cassandra Jenkins & Anders Griffen)
22 AcousticMusic.Org Presents/Guilford, CT
28 One Longfellow Square/Portland, ME (w/Christopher Paul Stelling)

Paco De Lucia

The Great Paco De Lucia has unexpectedly passed away. Honor his Life...Share his Music and Amazing Artistry!

Arborea at Augustos Bridge, Narni Italy

Arborea @ Augustos Bridge, Narni, Italy October 2013 On tour with LABOULE...

SXSW 2014

Along with our Official SXSW Showcase at St David's Bethell Hall on Friday, March 14th @ 9:30pm….Arborea will be a part of an Un-official showcase presented by Strange Victory Touring on March 13th @ Charm School Vintage 1 to 5pm. We'll see you in Texas!

All Roads Lead To SXSW

Our latest video for 'After the Flood Only Love Remains' is now up on SXSW's Official Youtube Channel. We'll be posting our venue and performance time soon. We're looking forward to heading to Austin soon…it's been an incredibly cold challenging Winter and we're looking forward to Southern latitudes and meeting new people, seeing good friends, and hearing lots of great music.

Happy New Year….Welcome 2014

Ok people listen up. It's been an intense year for many of us, we've struggled and learned and we are not the same people we were a few years ago! The energies of today and tonight are intense and they are building into a huge release of all that has held us back in past times. There is still darkness and always will be but now the light shines forth stronger than ever. Take tonight to fully realize who your are, your power to manifest change and to move forward into the age of light and life. Mindfully keep your balance, joyfully spread love and acceptance and make glorious plans for this new year because we can tell you unequivocally that it's going to be an amazing one. We're very very blessed to know you all in this time and place. HAPPY NEW YEAR… ~Shanti and Buck (December 31st)

LABOULE 'Bouzouki e balene'

LABOULE "Bouzouki e balene" from Public Image Unlimited on Vimeo.
'Bouzouki e balene' from the new album Refugio by LABOULE. It was a pleasure to tour with Paolo Novellino (aka LOUBOULE) in Italy this past October. His new album Refugio is a beautiful musical portrait worth discovering…and one of our favorite albums of 2013.

'Then Play On' - Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac (2013 Reissue)

'Before the Beginning' from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac 1969 album 'Then Play On'. 2013 saw the reissue of this album in a 'deluxe edition'. It's an absolutely Beautiful album!  As well, textura recently asked us to list our favorite album for their 'Year End' 2013 Artist Picks and 'Then Play On' was at the top of our list!

Arborea's 'Fortress of the Sun' - AllMusic's Favorite Folk Albums of 2013

Merry Xmas Everyone! We're very happy to announce that Arborea's latest album 'Fortress of the Sun' made AllMusic's Favorite Folk Albums of 2013 along with some other great albums released this year by Alasdair Roberts, Alela Diane, Richard Thompson, Alessi's Ark, Sam Amidon, Peter Walker, Martin Simpson, and others.

Arborea Live in Paris, Le Cargo Session #536

'When I Was On Horseback' 'Daughters of Man' 'Cherry Tree Carol'

Arborea's Le Cargo session #536 in Paris, France April 2013. Performing 'When I Was On Horseback', 'Daughters of Man', and 'Cherry Tree Carol' from the latest album 'Fortress of the Sun'. 'Daughter's of Man' was recently featured on Acoustic Guitar Magazine's 'Sunday Showcase'

Arborea's 'Fortress of the Sun' makes 'Best Of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll'

 more great news to share…'Fortress of the Sun' makes Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll. Thanks to everybody who supported this album…
http://echoesblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/best-of-echoes-2013-listener-poll/

Arborea's 'Fortress of the Sun' - AllMusic's Favorite Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2013

We're happy to announce that Arborea's latest album 'Fortress of the Sun' made AllMusic's Favorite Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2013

Cherry Tree Carol by Arborea

Here's our arrangement of the Cherry Tree Carol.  One of the oldest known traditional songs related to Christmas, dating back to the 15th Century. The song appears on our latest album Fortress of the Sun

Song Of The Day KEXP - Arborea

We're happy to announce that our song 'Daughters of Man', from our latest release 'Fortress of the Sun', is 'Song of the Day' @ KEXP/Seattle. The song is also featured on the 'Afternoon Show' with Kevin Cole at KEXP 90.3 FM/Seattle and as part of the Daily KEXP Podcast 'Where The Music Matters'.
http://blog.kexp.org/2013/12/11/song-of-the-day-arborea-daughters-of-man/

Celebrating Jack Rose

Celebrating the music and missing our friend Jack Rose Today and everyday! Thanks to Jesse Sheppard for making the wonderful documentary The Things We Used To Do while Jack was still in the World...Let his music Shine On!

Arborea makes the lineup for SXSW 2014

The 2014 SXSW Music Festival Artist Announcement - Round Two has posted and Arborea has been added to the lineup along with Gary Numan, Mirah, and The Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger.

Arborea's 4th album 'Red Planet' now on Bandcamp and iTunes

Our 4th album Red Planet is now available on Arborea's Bandcamp. Red Planet' is also available on iTunes, Amazon, emusic, etc as we restructure some things.

Acoustic Guitar Magazine 'Best Albums of 2013': Arborea - Fortress of the Sun

 Our album made Acoustic Guitar Magazine's 'Best Albums of 2013' as listed by editor Amber von Nagel. Thanks so much to Anders Griffen , Michael Krapovicky , Greg Boardman for lending their drum, bass, and string talents to a couple of the songs, to our daughter for taking the cover photo, and to all those out there who helped support this record and to the folks at ESP-Disk'. Shanti and I have worked extremely hard all year...writing, recording, and touring like mad and we have so much to be Thankful for!

Arborea Daytrotter Session 2013

Arborea has a new Daytrotter Session available...recorded this Summer on July 12th in Davenport, IA with engineer Patrick Stolley.