Sturgill Simpson is set to appear on a panel at the 2019 Comic-Con in San Diego. The Grammy-winning songwriter will discuss his involvement in the new Japanese anime filmSound & Fury, a project that mixes American rock music with the colorful Japanese animation style.
Slated for Saturday, July 20th, the panel unites Simpson withAfro Samuraicreator Takashi Okazaki andBatman Ninjadirector Junpei Mizusaki, the filmmakers behindSound & Fury. The first trailer for the movie will be screened during the panel.
On the eve of the release of one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the year,Tanya Tucker will play the first of three intimate shows in celebration ofWhile I’m Livin’, the outlaw-country legend’s first LP of all-new material in 17 years.
Tucker will take the stage of Nashville’s historic Exit/In on August 22nd, with subsequent performances slated for September 17th at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, presented by SiriusXM, and October 16th at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.
source: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tanya-tucker-tour-new-album-while-im-living-856333/
Grammy-winning performer Brandi Carlile has added a trio of special Nashville performances to her tour schedule, with three shows at the historic Ryman Auditorium set for January 2020. Joining the “Party of One” singer for these shows will be Kim Richey (January 14th) Lucie Silvas (January 15th), and, on January 16th, Natalie Hemby, who recently joined Carlile, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires in the side project the Highwomen. The supergroup, a female counterpart to the Highwaymen, was Shires’ response to the lack of female artists being represented at country radio.