after two years of playing mainly within the Boston-area environs, we are HITTING THE ROAD. The Road Awakening Tour brings us out into the wilderness beyond the Massachusetts border.  here’s the when & where:

specific info about each show is to the right ————————>

OR by clicking SHOWS above, at the top of this page

(details for some shows are still being worked out, but will be updated, so visit often.)

we are so very excited at this opportunity to play for so many new folks, as well as those in areas we have not visited for some time now.  we need YOUR HELP to SPREAD THE WOR D about these shows ~ if you would like to help, email: info@jaggery.org with the subject header: Road Awakener (that would be you).

& guess what else: we will have T-shirts.

see you somewhere in the East Coast area trés soon!

we are eagerly anticipating our next Boston show, which is taking place on Saturday, May 19th at the beautiful all-ages, grand-piano toting venue, Cafe 939.  Heather Christian & the Arbornauts (NYC) will open the night ~ they had us all shocked and drooling when they played with us at a private event in March.  Heather is part blues musician, part pixie, part old lady and she “howls like a werewolf with a voice made of molasses.” (Variety Magazine).   Her dream-hymnals are a staple at esteemed venues in New York like Joe’s Pub and LaMama.  You really do not want to miss her set, so get ye to the show early.  Sarah Rabdau also joins the bill, with her new side project, Foolish Ida.  Inspired by Sarah’s favorite children’s book, “Outside Over There” by Maurice Sendak, the Foolish Ida song cycle is composed of tales suggesting how the main character ~ Ida ~ might have grown up after being forever changed by the events from Sendak’s book.  Swirling piano, strings, organ, and layers of voices paint a picture of possibilities about a young woman wracked with familial responsibilities, love, and doubt.  Jaggery’s set tonight features Jonah Sacks on cello, and a handful of brand new songs with which we’ll be testing the waters before we hit the road for a short tour in June.  This show is gonna be dreamy and delicious so hope you can make it!

tickets here

Image: Stian Berg Larsen

Some of you may know of the Org performance party events Singer Mali has been producing at Cloud Club, in Boston, over the last four years.  These are generally “themed” evenings of local (and sometimes beyond) music, story-telling, art, film, performance art, dance, and community.  Occasionally Org moves beyond the intimate environs of Cloud Club and takes up space at the club-theater Oberon, in Cambridge, MA.  Org: Intoxication is the third Org to be held at Oberon, on the heels of Org: Murder Ballads, and Org: Asylum.  The show is Friday, April 20th, at 8pm.

Singer Mali will be musically MC-ing the night, joined by her long-time collaborater (who also happens to be her brother), Raky Sastri ~ of You Won’t and NoHow On.  The two formed what eventually became the Jaggery you know of today, in 2001, under the name The Throes.  Raky, though no longer the primary Jaggery drummer, continues to appear on Jaggery albums and sometimes at live shows.  However, this show will be the first actual Throes “reunion” in over a decade!

An assortment of musicians, dancers, magic-makers, filmmakers, and other artists will be riffing on the theme of inebriation for this one, seeking to “exhilarate and stupefy as if by liquor”. Enter the hookah bar of your imagination, and be prepared to get into an altered state via music, dance, film, magic, and more.

Info and Tickets HERE

A few of us will be coming out of winter hibernation to play at the second annual [Songs of] Winter recital, hosted by Brian King of What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?, this year, at the esteemed Club Passim in Harvarcd Square, Cambridge.  Mali, Rachel, and Tony ~ with Nate Greenslit on drums ~ will perform an assortment of wintry covers and originals.  Adv tickets here: http://bit.ly/w4FznO

hope to see YOU