Carolina Chocolate Drops, during a summer tour stop in Colorado, sat down, or rather rode up the mountain for a Gondola Session in Aspen, performing "Trouble in Your Mind," off its 2010 Grammy Award-winning Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig, plus "Pretty Little Girl with the Blue Dress On." Watch them here. The band closes out the summer and kicks off its fall touring season with a special performance: at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on September 18 for the Nonesuch Records at BAM celebration of the label's 50th anniversary. Chocolate Drop Rhiannon Giddens joins label mates Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Sam Amidon, and Olivia Chaney for another concert in the series on September 20.
Carolina Chocolate Drops, during a summer tour stop in Colorado, sat down, or rather rode up the mountain for a Gondola Session in Aspen. The band performs "Trouble in Your Mind," as heard on its 2010 Grammy Award-winning Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig, plus the song "Pretty Little Girl with the Blue Dress On." You can watch both below.
The band closes out the summer and kicks off its fall touring season with a special performance: at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on September 18 as part of the weeks-long Nonesuch Records at BAM celebration of the label's 50th anniversary, which gets under way this week. Chocolate Drops founding member Rhiannon Giddens joins label mates Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Sam Amidon, and Olivia Chaney for another concert in the series on September 20.
See below for all of the Carolina Chocolate Drops' currently scheduled shows. For additional details and tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Nonesuch Records released its second album from the Carolina Chocolate Drops—the Grammy-nominated Leaving Eden—in 2012, following the 2011 EP with Luminescent Orchestrii and Genuine Negro Jig.
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS FALL TOUR
| Sep 18 | BAM Howard Gilman Opera House | Brooklyn, NY |
| Sep 19 | FreshGrass Festival | North Adams, MA |
| Sep 20 | BAM Howard Gilman Opera House* | Brooklyn, NY |
| Sep 25&26 | Stoughton Opera House | Stoughton, WI |
| Oct 9 | Musical Instrument Museum | Phoenix, AZ |
| Oct 10 | LA Bluegrass Situation, Theatre at Ace Hotel | Los Angeles, CA |
| Oct 11 | Rialto Theatre | Tucson, AZ |
| Oct 13 | The Kessler | Dallas, TX |
| Oct 14 | The Belmont | Austin, TX |
| Oct 15 | Presser Hall, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Belton, TX |
| Oct 17 | Harvest Music Festival | Ozark, AR |
| Oct 18 | The Blue Note | Columbia, MO |
| Oct 19 | Off Broadway | St. Louis, MO |
| Oct 21 | The Vogue | Indianapolis, IN |
| Oct 22&23 | The Clifton Center | Louisville, KY |
* Rhiannon Giddens w/Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney
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