Aoife O’Donovan and Anaïs Mitchell Offer An Impassioned Reminder to Vote In Crucial Election Year on New Single “Over The Finish Line”
O’Donovan’s Forthcoming Solo Album ‘All My Friends’ due out March 22nd via Yep Roc Records
Special Album Release Events Announced in Los Angeles (March 12), New York City (March 25), and Nashville (March 29)
Press kit HERE
March 7, 2024: “Once in a lifetime the power is ours, but we’d rather stare at our phones,” Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan sings on the first verse of her new single “Over The Finish Line.” Written by O’Donovan shortly after the murder of George Floyd, “Over The Finish Line” reflects on the state of the country and reminds listeners of our civic duty to vote and fight for positive change. The poignant, wistful track features Luke Reynolds on pedal steel and Tony and Grammy-Award winning musician Anaïs Mitchell, marking one of Mitchell’s first releases since the well-received opening of Hadestown in London’s West End.
Listen to “Over The Finish Line (featuring Anaïs Mitchell)” here: https://ffm.to/allmyfriendsalbum
Watch the visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1lkM5urRw
Aoife O’Donovan’s new solo album All My Friends is inspired by the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. O’Donovan infuses the experiences of the Suffragettes, who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment and paved the way for their daughters, with her own experiences as a modern woman who wants to build a future for her own daughter. The project - O’Donovan’s first self-produced album - features a number of special guests including Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, Alan Hampton, Griffin Goldsmith and more. Most of the songs on the album grew out of two commissions O’Donovan took on - from the Orlando Philharmonic where she now lives, and the FreshGrass Festival in her native Massachusetts. Following performances with both institutions, O’Donovan continued to explore the themes that would become All My Friends in full. Listen to the title track “All My Friends” HERE.
Throughout the month of March, O’Donovan will host intimate album release events in Los Angeles, New York City, and Nashville:
Los Angeles (Santa Monica) - March 12th / 7:30PM
An Evening Listening To The New Album ‘All My Friends,’ presented by The Bluegrass Situation
Location: McCabes Guitar Shop
New York City (Manhattan) - March 25th / 7:30PM
A New York Evening with Aoife O’Donovan, moderated by Rosanne Cash, presented by The Grammy Museum and The Americana Music Association
Location: The Greene Space - 44 Charlton St, New York, NY 10014
Nashville (East Nashville) - March 29th / 7:00PM
‘All My Friends’ Album Release Show with Hawktail
Location: American Legion Post 82
Additionally, O’Donovan will tour the globe throughout 2024, with performances at Big Ears Festival (featuring the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra), FreshGrass Bentonville, and The Grand Ole Opry (March 27), plus her previously-announced Barbican Hall debut in London is confirmed for June 18, with Eric Jacobsen conducting the Guildhall Session Orchestra and Music Centre London Session Choir. O’Donovan has also curated a new festival called “Light In The Eastern Sky,” taking place on June 1 in Norfolk, VA, presented by Virginia Arts Festival and featuring O’Donovan and Virginia-based artists Yasmin Williams and The Wildmans. Full list of 2024 tour dates (including several shows with instrumental acoustic ensemble Hawktail) below and via https://www.aoifeodonovan.com/#tourDates.
Pre-order / Pre-save All My Friends HERE.
Aoife O’Donovan 2024 Tour Dates
March 12, 2024 - Santa Monica, CA - McCabe’s Guitar Shop
March 24, 2024 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears !
March 25, 2024 - New York, NY - The Greene Space (presented by the GRAMMY Museum)
March 27, 2024 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry
March 29, 2024 - Nashville, TN - American Legion Post 82 %
March 30, 2024 - Denver, CO - Newman Center for the Performing Arts %
May 17, 2024 - Bentonville, AR - FreshGrass Bentonville
May 23, 2024 - Healdsburg, CA - Little Saint %
May 24, 2024 - Menlo Park, CA - The Guild Theatre %
May 25, 2024 - Grass Valley, CA - Strawberry Music Festival %
June 1, 2024 - Norfolk, VA - Light in the Eastern Sky (presented by Virginia Arts Festival)
June 7, 2024 - Charleston, SC - Spoleto Festival #
June 12, 2024 - Bristol, UK - St. George’s Bristol
June 15, 2024 - Egeskov Castle, DK - Heartland Festival
June 18, 2024 - London, UK - Barbican Hall
July 25-28, 2024 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Folk Festival
August 15-18, 2024 - Manchester, VT - Green Mountain Bluegrass Festival %^
! performing with the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra
% performing with Hawktail
# performing with members of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra
~ performing with Guildhall Session Orchestra and Music Centre London Session Choir
^ performing with Crooked Still
About Aoife O’Donovan
Deemed “a vocalist of unerring instinct” by the New York Times, GRAMMY Award-winning artist Aoife O’Donovan operates in a thrilling musical world beyond genre. She has released three critically-acclaimed and boundary-blurring solo albums including her most recent record, 2022’s boldly orchestrated and literarily crafted Age Of Apathy, which earned three GRAMMY nominations and was named “a moving self-portrait” by NPR. Folk Alliance International named the song “B61” their 2022 Song Of The Year. In addition to appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS Saturday Morning, Kelly Clarkson and PBS Newshour, Pitchfork said O’Donovan “taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell.” Following the release of Age of Apathy, O’Donovan also recorded and toured behind a full album reinterpretation of Bruce Springsteen’s landmark Nebraska album, with performances at Newport Folk Festival, Tønder Festival, and more.
A savvy and generous collaborator, Aoife is one third of the group I’m With Her with bandmates Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz. The trio’s debut album See You Around was hailed as “willfully open-hearted” by NPR Music. I’m With Her earned an Americana Music Association Award in 2019 for Duo/Group of the Year, and a Grammy-award in 2020 for Best American Roots Song.
O’Donovan spent the preceding decade as co-founder and front woman of the string band, Crooked Still and is the featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions — the group with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. She has appeared as a featured vocalist with over a dozen symphonies including the National Symphony Orchestra, written for Alison Krauss and spent a decade as a regular contributor to the radio variety shows “Live From Here” and “A Prairie Home Companion.”
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