Our new album, Keepers, drops on October 11, and we’ve got the whole band touring together for a month to support the release! Check out the poster below to see cities and dates. For more info, check out the “Shows” page.
Shows
Spring festival season
It’s April, and that means it’s festival season! We’ll be playing several festivals in Florida (and a Folk Alliance conference in Tennessee) over the next two months, beginning with the Safety Harbor Songfest today, Friday, April 5th, and finishing with the Florida Folk Festival at the end of May. We’ve also got a bunch of smaller venue gigs dotting the calendar over the next eight weeks, so take a peek at the ‘Shows’ page for specifics! Festival season: April 5…Read More
“This Side” making (radio)waves
Throughout the past three weeks, as the tour has wound its way up the eastern seaboard, “This Side of the Glass” has also been making its way onto radio playlists throughout the US and Europe. Earlier this year the album was recognized as a top Americana release by George Graham at WVIA (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre), and now it’s getting spins on non-commercial, public, and college radio stations all over. Chances are good that we’re on the air on a station near you;…Read More
“This Side of the Glass” Release Tour
Here’s a full accounting of our March album release tour schedule! This is going to be a special run of shows for us, as we’ll be joined by Sebastian Green on drums, Sam Whedon on guitar, and Alex Rees on keyboards. As a six-piece band, we’re hoping to present the lush arrangements and dynamic variety that we tried to capture on the record. This will be a unique Currys performance experience, so check out the list below and come see…Read More
A new year, a new album…
The calendar turns, and a new year begins. This is gonna be an exciting year for The Currys as we release and support “This Side of the Glass.” By now, all Kickstarter supporters should have received your rewards, except for the cover songs and house concerts, which we are just now starting to work on. (Kickstarters, let us know if you’re missing your goodies!) For the album release tour we’re putting together a six-piece band, including Currys regulars Sebastian Green…Read More
Holiday toy drive for Port St Joe
‘Tis the season, and we’re now preparing for our annual “Christmas with The Currys” holiday tour! We’ve got seven dates scheduled in Florida over the two weeks leading up to the holidays, and we’d love to see you at one or more of them! Check the list below and head to our “Shows” page for more details. In the spirit of giving, we’ll be collecting toy donations at all our of shows between now and Christmas. We are partnering with…Read More
Heading west… (of here)
Spring has turned to summer! April and May saw us touring all around our old haunts in Florida, including stops at Rock By The Sea, a charity music festival in the Panhandle, and the Florida Folk Festival, a weekend showcasing the songwriting of Florida artists and honoring the oeuvres of Florida legends. Those two events are among our favorites for their incredible communities of musicians and music appreciators, and we’re thrilled to be included every year. With the rains of…Read More
Summertime
Travel for the summer has commenced! We’ve started our month-and-a-half long jaunt around the country, which will see us play weddings and house shows and concerts from Florida to Michigan to New Hampshire. Many of the gigs over the month of June are private events, with public gigs sprinkled throughout. Some of the bigger shows are listed below; check out the “Shows” page for more details. Hope to see you out there! June 10 | Pickens Hall | Heuvelton, NY June…Read More
Back from the Boat!
Photo above shows Jimmy reading aloud to Sebastian on a private island in Belize. That’s right–Jimmy can read. Hello, everyone! Long time, no talk! We’ve had a very busy February thus far, and I fell down on the job of keeping the blog updated. Mea culpa. Here’s a quick recap of the past few weeks: We spent the weekend before Valentine’s Day on the high seas with thirty other bands and 2,500 of the most enthusiastic music appreciators we’ve ever…Read More
Songwriting with a fury
If you’ve made it out to a Currys show in the past couple months, you no doubt have heard about the winter songwriting challenge and online concert series that we have planned. Here are the basics: We spent almost all of 2016 on the road supporting the release of West of Here. Performing and traveling was a blast, but it didn’t leave us with much time to write and develop new material. For the last few months of last year, we were pining for…Read More