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Circles Around The Sun keyboardist Adam MacDougall at the Turf Club last March. The band returns to St. Paul, Minn., March 15, part of a tour that also hits cities in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. Photo by Javier Serna

Circles Around The Sun kicks off 9-show Midwest tour March 8 in Cleveland

February 18, 2023 in blog post

I’ll never forget the first time I saw this band play in person — a Phish after party in Chicago, following the Saturday show of Phish’s 2017 Northerly Island run. Casal had a way of stretching out an idea in such a tasteful and exploratory way, and the band used its spacey, soul-driven instrumentals to express emotions with notes instead of words.

Billy Strings shows up at Denver after party, shreds

February 07, 2023 in blog post, live events

After his Saturday night show (the third and final show of a three-night run at 1st Bank Center), Billy showed up unannounced at Knew Conscious, an intimate 450-person music venue/art gallery/club to sit in with a lineup billed with guitarist Ross James (Terrapin Family Band) and banjoist Andy Thorn of Leftover Salmon and their Electric Dead Grass project featuring bass player Garrett Sayers (The Motet) and drummer Mark Levy (Circles Around the Sun). They jammed until about 4 in the morning — the stuff of my dreams.