Mandolin Orange Follows 2013 NPR Top 10 Folk & Americana Album With 'Such Jubilee' Out May 5 on Yep Roc

Mandolin Orange aka Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz will release 'Such Jubilee' on May 5 via Yep Roc. The album follows 2013's 'This Side of Jordan,' which was named one of NPR's Top 10 Folk and Americana Albums and saw the North Carolina duo perform at festivals from Newport Folk to Pickathon. 'Such Jubliee,' written over the course of a year spent on the road, is about home, both the place and the idea. Some days it's a safe, warm, loving refuge from the world outside. Other days it's cold and empty and too quiet. Either way, it's always waiting for you at the end of the road. Listen to lead track "Old Ties And Companions" that NPR Music calls "short, simple and sweet...full of graceful ease" here

The pair makes music that WNYC describes as being "laced with bluegrass, country and folk...often wistful and contemplative without being somber, and always firmly grounded in the south." Magnet calls the duo's music "magnificent" while American Songwriter insists they draw on an "unfakeable intimacy that bonds simpatico musicians like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings."

Marlin and Frantz recorded the ten original songs live, sitting face to face at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC. This setup captured the undeniable chemistry of their live performances. All ten songs were written by Marlin and address a range of topics, from finding comfort in relationships on the harmony-filled "Little Worlds," to society's rejection of gun reform in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting on "Blue Ruin," to a ghostly adaptation of Virginia folklore on the elegiac "Jump Mountain Blues."

Mandolin Orange has shared the stage with Rosanne Cash, Willie Watson, and The Wood Brothers. They will embark on a national headlining tour on May 1st including performances at both City Winery in Nashville and NYC alongside festival appearances at Delfest and Nelsonville Music Festival. Full list of tour dates below. Tickets on-sale Friday, February 27 at mandolinorange.com.

'Such Jubilee' tracklist:
1. Old Ties and Companions
2. Settles Down
3. Little Worlds
4. Rounder
5. From Now On
6. Jump Mountain Blues
7. That Wrecking Ball
8. Blue Ruin
9. Daylight
10. Of Which There Is No Like

Mandolin Orange US Tour Dates:
2/26 - Flagstaff, AZ - The Green Room +
2/27 - Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room (SOLD OUT) +
2/28 - Park City, UT - O.P. Rockwell (SOLD OUT) +
3/1 - Colorado Springs, CO - Stargazers Theatre +
3/5 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre (SOLD OUT) +
3/14 - St. Augustine, FL - Natural Life Music Festival
3/17-3/20 - Austin, TX - SXSW
5/1 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
5/2 - Chapel Hill, NC - Memorial Hall
5/3 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
5/5 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
5/6 - Nashville, TN - City Winery
5/8 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
5/9 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark
5/12 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
5/15 - Washington, DC - The Hamilton
5/16 - Chesterfield, VA - Carbon Leaf's Ragtime Carnival
5/17 - New York, NY - City Winery
5/19 - Northampton, MA - Parlor Room @ Signature Sounds
5/21 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
5/22 - Lexington, VA - Lime Klin Theater
5/23 & 5/24 - Cumberland, MD - DelFest
5/26 - Covington, KY - Madison Live
5/27 - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
5/28 - Indianapolis, IN - The Hi-Fi
5/29 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Music Festival
5/30 - Madison, WI - The Frequency
5/31 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
6/4 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
6/5 - Pagosa Springs, CO - Pagosa Folk n' Bluegrass Festival
6/6 - Buena Vista, CO - Sweet Roots Festival
6/9 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
6/10 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
6/12 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
6/13 - Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe
6/16 - Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge
6/19 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Jr.
7/10 - Mount Solon, VA - Red Wing Roots Music Festival

+ Supporting Gregory Alan Isakov

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