Now that we’ve been back home for a little while and caught up on our sleep, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who made this tour possible. And to everyone who came out to see us play and made us feel so supported! To Joshua Marcus who made Providence happen and played such a beautiful set (and shared his cookie with me!). Sarrin and all the housemates who put on the best house show ever for us in Boston. My friend Alison for letting us stay with her (and visit with her amazing bird Matilda). The Keene Music Festival and Kevin for taking such incredible care of us in Keene, putting up with all our amps, and feeding us the most delicious stuffed portobello mushrooms! Julie Adamo’s amazing Dead Letter for playing with us in Boston and Easthampton and being my alt-country star twin. Liz for making us so welcome at the Platinum Pony. And of course the Redfields, Elana’s family in New Hampshire, for letting the band descend on your house! I love my band so much. Thank you for making music with me, Tami, Elana, and Braque! More pictures on Facebook…
xoxo,
karen
Bringing queer country to New England!
Hello again, friends! Just wanted to share our New England tour details with you. Can’t believe it’s already time for us to hit the road next week. Please help us get the queer country word out!Thursday, August 20th: Providence, RI
9:00 pm at Aurora, 276 Westminter St
With Joshua Marcus, Last Family on Earth, and DJ Erik Ymerica
Friday, August 21st: Boston, MA
7:00 pm House Party at 45 Orchardhill Road, Jamaica Plain, $5-$20 sliding scale
With Dead Letter
7:00 pm at the Sumner Knight Chapel in the Woodland NED Cemetery on Chapel Drive, $10 suggested donation
With Earth Colony
7:00 pm at The Platinum Pony, 30 Cottage St, $3
With Deadbelly featuring Stacia Gray and Dead Letter
And then once we get home, I promise to get back to work on putting together some great queer country shows for you this fall!
xoxo,
karen
This Saturday at Hank’s Saloon
Hello dear country music lovers. The Sorrows have a great show coming up this Saturday night at Hank’s Saloon. It’s an alt-country showcase with Drina Seay and Butcher’s Blind. New York Music Daily just listed it as “one of the year’s best Americana triplebills.” Fanciness! AND it’s free!
WHERE: Hank’s Saloon, 46 3rd Ave & Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
WHEN: Show starts at 9:00, we’re on at 10:00
DOOR: Free!
RSVP: facebook.com/events/121705698169038/
Hope you can make it!
xoxo,
karen
New England, We’re Heading Your Way!
We’re heading out on a small New England tour this August! Will you help us spread the word?
Thursday, August 20th, Providence, RI
https://www.facebook.com/events/392480044296357/
Friday, August 21st, Boston, MA
https://www.facebook.com/events/1632688163668735/
Saturday, August 22nd, Keene, NH: https://www.facebook.com/events/1385066271792968/
Sunday, August 23rd, Easthampton, MA:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1031732113514079/
Surprise Queer Country Summer Love on Tuesday the 28th!
Just when you thought we were taking the summer off, surprise! We are back for a special show! Come see Karen & the Sorrows at the summer edition of the Queer Country Monthly.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 28th, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave, at the corner of Bergen St, Brooklyn
DOOR: $5 but no one ever turned away for lack of funds
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1461865007442153/
Branded has a wheelchair accessible entrance and bathroom. Also, there is always a bucket of free candy. In case you like free candy.
Hope you can make it!
xoxo,
karen
This Sunday at C’mon Everybody
Hello friends! We’ve got a show this Sunday and we sure would love to see you. We’ve been busy polishing some new songs, claiming bro country themes like pickup trucks and rugged dependability for our own queer agenda. And we’re playing with one of our favorite bands in town, Jus Post Bellum, so it’s gonna be a great night.
WHEN: Sunday, June 14th, 7:30 pm (we’re on first, so don’t come too late or you’ll miss us!)
WHERE: C’mon Everybody, 325 Franklin Ave, Bed Stuy, Brooklyn
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1729864340570186/
Our drummer Tami is away for the summer (Tami, we miss you!), so we’re keeping shows to a minimum right now until we head out for a small east coast tour in August. But we’re very lucky to have Nancy Polstein from Girls on Grass (among many other fabulous bands) filling in for us on drums this Sunday. So if you’ve been meaning to come to a show lately, this is the one!
April Queer Country Monthly this Saturday!
Hello dear cowpeople and happy spring! The Queer Country Monthly is coming up this Saturday, April 18th, and this will be the last one in our limited run (at least for now), so you don’t want to miss it!
Also, you don’t want to miss it because we have a super-special line-up: Eli Conley is here on tour, plus DK & the Joy Machine with dulcimer amazingness, AJ Lewis & Friends with banjo amazingness, and your faithful host Karen & The Sorrows have some new songs to share with you. So come join us down at Branded Saloon!
WHEN: Saturday, April 18th, 8:00 pm (This month the Sorrows are on last, so remember to take your disco nap so you can stay up late with us!)
WHERE: Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave, at the corner of Bergen St, Brooklyn
DOOR: $5 but no one ever turned away for lack of funds
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/433835840109652/
Branded has a wheelchair accessible entrance and bathroom. Also, there is always a bucket of free candy. In case you like free candy.
Read more about the bands below and hope you can join at Branded Saloon!
xoxo,
karen
Eli Conley (www.karenandthesorrows.com)
The Names of Things, the debut album from Brooklyn queer country band Karen & the Sorrows, is full of “haunting pedal steel work and unvarnished heartbreak.” (Bust Magazine) Voted one of the FAR chart’s best debut albums of 2014, the record is “some of the best alt-country being made. Twang-drenched drown-your-sorrows music about bad relationships, abandoned lovers and endless heartbreak. In other words, pure country.” (Billings Gazette) New York Music Daily writes, “Country keeps evolving and Karen & the Sorrows are taking it to a place it’s never been before, a good and creepy one.” And F**k Yeah, Queer Music says, “They write loss and heartbreak, and goddamn are they good at it.” The Sorrows are also hard at work hosting shows like the Queer Country Monthly and helping to build new queer country community for people who love country music even if country music doesn’t always love them back.
March Queer Country Monthly This Saturday!
Hello again, everybody! Just a reminder that we have a fabulous Queer Country Monthly coming up this Saturday that you don’t wanna miss. We’ve teamed up with music blog Adobe & Teardrops for a special fundraiser. So come join The Paisley Fields, Small Talk, and your host Karen & the Sorrows for a night of queer country in support of FIERCE. Adobe & Teardrops has also put together a great compilation CD to benefit FIERCE–check it out at adobeandteardrops.bandcamp.com. As usual, it’s $5 at the door, but if you donate $10 or more, we’ll give you a download code for the album too!
FIERCE builds the leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of color in New York City through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media. They are dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice movement leaders who are dedicated to ending all forms of oppression. If you can’t come to the show, you can still support FIERCE with a donation at https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/551356.
WHEN: Saturday, March 21st, 8:00 pm–The Sorrows are opening, so if you want to catch us, make sure to come at 8:00!
WHERE: Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave, at the corner of Bergen St, Brooklyn
DOOR: $5 but no one ever turned away for lack of funds
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1417227195239061
Branded Saloon has a wheelchair accessible entrance and bathroom. Also, there is always a bucket of free candy for people who like candy.
And save the date for the last QCM in our limited-run series: April 18th with Eli Conley and DK & the Joy Machine. Hope you can make it this Saturday!
xoxo,
karen
Country + Rockabilly + Bowling + Booze on March 14th
We’ve got a pretty great show coming up next weekend, on Saturday, March 14th. And it will include BOWLING.
We’ll be at The Gutter in Williamsburg with an amazing line-up: one of our favorite bands in town, Tatters & Rags, who play honky-tonk with a post-punk edge, and the new band Girls on Grass, featuring the super-talented Barbara Endes of the Weal and the Woe.
WHEN: Saturday, March 14, show starts at 9:00, we’re on at 11:00
WHERE: The Gutter, 200 N. 14th St bet. Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg, closest trains: L to Bedford or G to Nassau
COVER: $7
RSVP and more info: facebook.com/events/389697757875916
In preparation for this important event, I will also be tweeting some of my favorite Big Lebowski clips all week. So make yourself a White Russian, polish up your bowling ball, and get ready for an epic show!
httpv://youtu.be/z92bykaeV4o
And then save the date for Saturday, March 21st. We’re teaming up with music blog Adobe & Teardrops for a special Queer Country Monthly fundraiser for FIERCE with the Paisley Fields and Small Talk. Hope you can make it!
xoxo,
karen
The Queer Country Monthly Returns This Saturday!
Dearest cowpeople, the Queer Country Monthly is back! But it’s only for a limited run, so don’t let the cold keep you home. Bundle up instead and come join us at Branded Saloon next Saturday, February 28th. Our ridiculously talented friends from North Carolina, Humble Tripe, will be here, plus the amazing Julia Read, and your old faithful host, Karen & the Sorrows, have a few new songs to play for you.
WHEN: Saturday, February 28th, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave,
at the corner of Bergen St, Brooklyn
Branded has a wheelchair accessible entrance and bathroom.
DOOR: $5 but no one ever turned away for lack of funds
RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/415630168612308
Also, featuring the return of the bucket of free candy. In case you like free candy.
And save the dates for the rest of the QCM’s limited run: March 21st, together with Adobe & Teardrops, we’re having a special fundraiser for FIERCE with the Paisley Fields and Small Talk. April 18th we’ve got Eli Conley on tour from California and DK & the Joy Machine.
Plus, on March 14th, the Sorrows will be at Gutter in Williamsburg (country music plus bowling!) with Tatters & Rags and Girls on Grass. We’d love to see you!
xoxo,
karen