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It’s A Keren Ann World
She’s traveling so extensively, she could perhaps pick up another career as a diplomat for her home country of France.
Having recently played a gig with Lou Reed at New York’s Howl Festival, Ann will take a quick trip up the West Coast from August 31 to September 5. The tour, from San Diego to Seattle, will culminate with an appearance at the Bumbershoot Festival.
She heads back to Europe September 11 to play the FĂȘte de l’HumanitĂ© in Paris. She’ll play several shows in major U.K. cities from September 15-19 before heading to Israel (the nation of her birth) for three shows in Tel Aviv.
Ann will travel back to France for shows throughout the end of September and the first two weeks of October. Shows in Western Europe will follow with one in Vienna, Austria, October 17 and several shows in Germany.
Before her tour of the Pacific Rim, Ann will play the San Francisco Jazz Festival October 29. Come November, she’ll play a show in Seoul, South Korea, and then travel to Japan for shows in Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo.
Before the month ends, Ann heads back to the states for November shows in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Keren Ann (whose full name is Keren Ann Zeidel) starting gaining recognition in the States when she released her third full-length album (and her first one in English), Not Going Anywhere, in August of last year on Blue Note Metro, an imprint of Blue Note Records.
She continued to flourish after releasing Nolita this past Spring, prompting critics to respond with descriptions that inevitably recalled smoke-filled nightclubs and half-closed eyes.
Keren Ann’s jazzy sound continues to garner recognition in the States.
She will also be releasing a new E.P. on iTunes taken from a recent appearance on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic.”
Her song “Greatest You Can Find” was recently remixed by hip-hop wizards The Roots and will appear on a forthcoming single.