Noe Venable returns to the bay area for a single show at Montalvo arts center, sharing the bill with My Brightest Diamond. They're incredible. More info on the shows page, or here: http://montalvoarts.org/events/brightest_diamond/

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Noe Venable's New York CD Release Concert for

The Summer Storm Journals

Featuring. . .

Dean Sharp (drums)
Todd Sickafoose (Bass)
Russ Johnson (Trumpet)
Jacob Lawson (Violin)
Greta Gertler (piano, vocals)
Payton MacDonald (Marimba)

In other words, virtually the entire cast of my new album, the Summer Storm Journals, all there, in one place, in one show, in one musical evening. This will in fact be the first time we've ever all been in one place, since the album was pieced together out of sessions recorded in so many different places. The show will be held in an old off Broadway Theater called the Zipper Factory. It's a quite a bit larger than our usual haunts, so we're hoping you'll come and bring everyone you know.

Opening the show will be the astonishing Payton MacDonald, doing a set of his solo marimba material. You've never heard marimba played like this... http://www.paytonmacdonald.com

More info on the shows page!

Noe Venable and Alan Lin will be performing live at the KPFA Crafts Fair in San Francisco this Sunday. The event runs from 10 - 6, our set will be at 5PM. See the shows page for details. Happy holidays!

Noe talks about the writing and recording of the Summer Storm Journals, organic produce, and the joys of live nature recording, and performs some of the songs live with violinist Alan Lin. The performance spanned two shows, hosted by Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson on Berkeley's own KPFA. You can hear the show, dated August 23rd, 2007, in their archives.

Noe's new album, The Summer Storm Journals is now available for purchase.

The first press regarding Noe's new album, the Summer Storm Journals, is a feature written by Derk Richardson for the San Francisco Chronicle. You can read the article on their website.

the CD is *finished* and off to the presses, and should be in our hands just in time for our San Francisco CD Release Show. It is called

The Summer Storm Journals

and we will celebrate its release with a show
Wednesday, August 22nd
at the Café du Nord, San Francisco

Also in the works are shows in Boston and New York, with the possibility of more west coast shows in December. If you know of a town or venue that we really must try to visit, please write us.

We'd love to make it happen, if we can.

Happy new year! We're in the studio putting the finishing touches on the new album. At the mixing helm is the remarkable Ken Rich, of Grand Street Recording. Grand Street is wonderful. Highly recommended to any New York musicians in search of a great place to work. More news on the new album soon!

A Japan-based label, ELM, has licensed Noe's most recent album, The World is Bound By Secret Knots. This means that there is now another version of the album in circulation. The Japanese Secret Knots includes three bonus tracks, all of which are songs that have not yet been released in any recorded form. The songs are "Pontito", "After the Bars Have Closed", and "Fisherman". More about these three songs, and the Japanese release, in the "thoughts" section. The Japanese version will be available for purchase on this website shortly...

Noe sang a duet with Julian Summerhill on his beautiful new release, "The Hologram Cowboys Lay Down with their Horses." The duet is called "Heart Gone Missing." You can hear the song at CD Baby.