Calexico’s song Minas de Cobre was featured in the most recent episode of HBO’s The Sopranos! Check your local listings for re-airings of the show.
May 15th, 2007
April 24th, 2007
Summer/Fall 2008 Tour Dates Announced
Calexico announce their upcoming tour dates for 2008!
20 June – Southside Festival
22 June – Hurricane Festival
5 July – Comerica City Fest – Detroit, MI
6 July – The Mod Club – Toronto, ON
7 July – Le National – Montreal, QUE
9 July – Ottawa Blues Festival – Ottawa, ON
11 July – Winnipeg Folk Festival – Winnipeg, MB
27 July – Robert Hawkins Amphitheatre – Reno, NV
3 August – Newport Folk Festival – Newport, RI
10 September – Tripod – Dublin, Ireland
11 September – Queens Hall – Edinburgh, UK
12 September – Carling Academy – Oxford, UK
13 September – Leadmill – Sheffield, UK
14 September – End Of The Road Festival – Dorset, UK
25 September – World Music Festival 2008 – Chicago, IL
11 October – Forum – London, UK
April 7th, 2007
Calexico Concert – May 23rd – Tucson, Arizona
Calexico
Mariachi Luz de Luna
Salvador Duran
Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School
Friday, May 23rd
Rialto Theatre
Tucson, Arizona
A benefit for Mariachi Aztlán and their trip to Washington DC on July 4 to represent Arizona in the National Independence Day Parade.
Advance tickets at Rialto Box Office or see links below.
$15 advance : $17 day of : $10 students
7pm doors, 8pm showtime
Ticket Links
Limited Reserved Balcony Seating Here
General Admission Floor Here
April 6th, 2007
Jazzfest!
Jazz fest is coming. Just spoke with writer and pianist, Noah Bonaparte Pias from the Gambit Weekly who was filling me in on the massive party that is Jazz fest. I counted 11 stages on the Jazz and Heritage website and was pleased to see a wide diversity of talent and music. Love the fact that it all started in 1970 when Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington among others were returning to the city of New Orleans. I think everyone should return this city to pay respect and continue the most rare and richest treasures our country has to offer, music for the soul.
-Joey Burns
March 20th, 2007
Calexico go to New Orleans for Jazzfest and a show at Republic
Friday, April 27th
Republic
828 S. Peters
New Orleans
republicnola.com
Saturday, April 28th
New Orleans
Jazz & Heritage Festival
nojazzfest.com
March 19th, 2007
Salvador Duran CD available!
Salvador Duran -Solo Pasion
$16 US & Canada
$19 Worldwide
Available for a limited time in the Calexico store!
Born in Sonora, Mexico, musician and artist Salvador Duran has performed and toured with Calexico and was featured on ‘In The Reins’ EP with Iron & Wine.
Solo Pasion is Salvador’s first album and contains 14 tracks including some of his favorite classic Mexican and Latin American songs.
March 11th, 2007
Calexico ‘Javelina’ T-Shirt
Hey Ladies!
The Calexico Store has a limited quantity of Javelina shirts now available in size SMALL.
Calexico “Javelina” T-shirt
100% cotton, American Apparel
Womens style
Available in Small ONLY!
$20 US & Canada
$24 Worldwide
February 19th, 2007
Goin’ To The South Pacific
Today we embark on our second trip to New Zealand and Australia as Calexico. Gearing up for the long flight and friends have suggested all sorts of remedies for dealing with the jetlag and over-extended body crumple of being in a bucket seat. I will try them all and hope for the best.
I hear the first two shows, Wellington and Auckland, are almost sold out which is good news. Last time we played there was around 2003 when we released Feast of Wire and I remember the enthusiasm was especially noticeable from the shows. I remember the green hills and windy beaches of Wellington and the good friends we hung out with. I wonder if we will see fellow musicians, David Kilgour (The Clean), Robert Scott (The Bats) from Dunedin or Professor Graeme Downes (The Verlaines) and the lovely Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs) in Auckland.
John Convertino and I first toured New Zealand in 1997 with singer songwriter Barbara Manning where we played with the previously listed musicians and made an album altogether titled In New Zealand (The Communion Label). Barbara was so well planned that we got to enjoy many a sightseeing adventure including the Waitomo Glow Worm Caves, the Kiwi Birdlife Park and the gorgeous coastline of Dunedin where we sampled the world famous Hokey Pokey ice cream (pronounced huggy puggy).
We will be thinking of Barbara and our european lighting engineer, James Murray, who was born and raised in Auckland. He is a huge fan of the All Blacks Rugby Team and their warm-up ritual Maori war dance called the Haka. Go James!
After New Zealand we head to Australia where I will be searching for some of those famous “Musk” flavored LifeSavers I heard about on today’s radio program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. Great gift to bring back home.
-Joey Burns
February 17th, 2007
Australia & New Zealand Tour Dates
If you come from the land down-under –
don’t miss Calexico!
February 2nd, 2007
Calexico on Late Night with Conan O’Brien – Feb 6
In all of the preparations for leaving for NY this week we were asked yesterday if we could play Late Night with Conan O’Brien on February 6th prior to our Lincoln Center show on February 8th. We are all fans of the show and looking forward to hanging out a few extra days in NY. Thanks Conan! Paul Niehaus has performed on the show twice before with Lambchop and Vic Chesnutt recalling his meeting Larry King and Tim Robbins. Checking the NBC schedule it looks like we’ll be sharing the green room with Dr. Phil and the other mystery guest. I am thinking of writing out some horns parts for the Max Weinberg 7 and invite them to play with us. For sure Brooklyn’s virtuosic multi instrumental Rob Burger will be joining us on organ and we will try our best to coerce Conan to unwield his Fender Sratocaster. This is the first time we will be playing the show, Jim Pitt the talent and booking agent for the show has asked a few times in the past but our touring schedule has always prevented the opportunity. With a more open schedule this year we are all honored to be asked and to take part in one of our favorite late night TV shows.
-Joey Burns