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Andrew Bird Offers All Healthcare Workers Complimentary Passes to Gezelligheid Live-Stream This Sunday, Dec 13th

Learn More About His Annual Holiday Concert in New Behind the Scenes Piece

Holiday Album HARK! Delivers "Beauty & A Mood of Distanced Coziness" (The New Yorker)

Watch Andrew Bird Perform John Prine's "Souvenirs"

 

 

 

This Sunday, December 13th, Andrew Bird reprises his annual Gezelligheid holiday concert as a live-streamed performance from the great outdoors of Ojai, CA. Since 2009, the events have typically been hosted at Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church, helping attendees to endure the seasonal darkness through a bright communal experience. As previewed in this week's issue of The New Yorker, the virtual edition will begin around sunset, delivering views of orange groves, oak trees, mountains and the signature spinning horn that will send his violin bouncing across the scenery.

While the winter remains a test of individual and collective strength, more fans than ever have the chance to attend this year's Gezelligheid, and Andrew is now offering all healthcare workers complimentary passes as a thank you for their tireless work. To redeem a ticket, regardless of location, healthcare workers can email a photo of themselves in scrubs or at their place of work to GezelligheidAB@gmail.com by 12pm EST this Friday.

Find more information here: https://found.ee/BirdGezellStream

Uncover the history of Gezelligheid in a behind the scenes piece Andrew has shared today: https://found.ee/BirdGezellBTS

Following the Gezelligheid live-stream at 7pm EST this Sunday, the show will be available to view on-demand all month, and each ticket comes with an archive of the 2013 edition from Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian.

Although much of the Gezelligheid set will be focused on instrumental violin pieces, viewers can expect to hear some material from Andrew Bird's 2020 holiday album, HARK!, "which, like this year's concert, offers beauty, and a mood of distanced coziness" (The New Yorker).

Watch Bird's brand new performance of John Prine's "Souvenirs," an homage to the great American songwriter whom we lost this year and one of the songs included on HARK!https://found.ee/AB_SouvenirsLiveVideo 

Alongside his choice of Christmastime classics, HARK! also includes originals like "Alabaster," "Night's Falling" and the COVID-inspired "Christmas in April," which The A.V. Club just named one of the best Christmas songs of the past decade.

This winter's physical pressing of HARK! sold out so quickly that pre-orders are now available for 2021, featuring art and ornaments designed by Andrew's mother, Beth Bird.

 

Praise for HARK!

"Andrew Bird made a Christmas album for the rest of us"

Billboard

 

"The musical gift that keeps on giving...poignant and rich"

AV Club

 

"The perfect way to soundtrack our current feeling"

V Magazine

 

"Bittersweet, and while it boasts a charming self-referential quality, [Christmas in April] doesn't lay on the particulars of the pandemic too thick, allowing the song to sit more in the rich tradition of lonely holiday tunes"

Rolling Stone

 

"'When will we know if we can meet under the mistletoe?' Birds asks with a sobering melancholy in his voice, echoing our very same anxieties and fears as the global health crisis stretches into fall and winter"

Consequence of Sound

 

"Christmas in April" Lyrics

I wanted to hold you and keep you with me this year

You're my darling and I want you near

I wanted to whisper sweet words of comfort in your ear

No more sorrow and no more fear

 

Oh my love

When will we know

When we meet under the mistletoe

 

Yeah, I'm writing a song about christmas in April this year

So I'm not sure what to think about that

And I'm hoping these words don't ring so hollow when you hear me say

 

Merry Christmas and happy new year

 

Fits and starts

Upset apple carts

Conspiring to keep us apart

 

May the autumn winds blow away all our fears

 

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