Birds of Chicago w/ The Hills & The Rivers

21+ / Doors at 8pm / $10 in advance / $12 day-of-show

"Some of the finest poetry and roots melodies you'll hear in this lifetime" – No Depression

"The combination of JT's sweetly fractured blue eyed soul voice and Allison Russell's silver and gold tone is a thing of sheer beauty. This is no manufactured thing-it's real hair on the back of the neck standing up stuff. This is more or less perfect Americana." – Americana UK

Birds of Chicago is a collective built around JT Nero ( of JT and The Clouds, Chicago, USA) and Allison Russell ( of Po'Girl, Montreal, Canada) — they are constant vagabonds touring almost 11 months last year in support of their debut, self-titled album. Their brand of rock and roll poetry can be a little hard to categorize, for people that insist on categorizing… their voices are undoubtedly the centerpiece, while the band pressure cooks country, soul, blues in a way that forces some people to reach for extra hyphens in their description… they used to use the phrase "rock n roll" to describe this American mash up — Birds of Chicago still do.

Nero and Russell are most at home on the road – pick almost any night in the next two years and you can bet they will be in some festival, theater, pub, VFW hall, roller rink (they wish) or living room dovetailing their voices, singing their songs of hope, despair, love…. and electric seahorses. And honey bee apocalypses. And ice cream. It's familiar and strange stuff – the everyday and the magical. Come see 'em, they won't be hard to find.