After a year long absence from the New York stage, My Brightest Diamond will be headlining a show at Bowery Ballroom on January 22nd. Shara had so much fun on the short European tour this last December that she, together with drummer Brian Wolfe and bassist Nathan Lithgow, decided to keep the glow alive by playing in New York and adding Butoh dancing and clowns for fun.

We hope you will join us to celebrate the limited physical release of the Shark Remixes collection. The hand numbered and signed Shark Remixes will be available at the show on the 22nd, or online on January 26th.  *If you are afraid of balloons, this is a warning that there will LOTS of balloons at this show.

Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street (between Chrystie and Bowery)
New York, NY 10002-2804
(212) 533-2111

tickets are $15 in advance, or $17 at the door

For those of you in the Minneapolis area, Shara will be collaborating with with Clogs on February 19th and 20th at The Southern Theater.

This video for their song “All the wine”, directed by Ryan Foregger is rad!

Here is my uncle Donald Ryan and my cousin Barron performing at Barron’s senior recital. Wow, I should have kept taking lessons from my uncle for a lot longer.

The 6 demo recordings will be available for download on December 12th at Asthmatic Kitty. Happy Christmas!

The Long Count

In an inspired collision of creative worlds, three inexhaustibly original artists—brothers Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner of indie rock band The National and omnivorous visual art phenomenon Matthew Ritchie—combine talents to create a song-filled myth about the beginning of time. A feast of images, instrumentals, and songs thick with primordial mystery, The Long Count pairs Ritchie’s protean forms with a twelve-piece orchestra and the Dessners’ gothic mix of electric and orchestral sounds. Shara sings the roles of the Heart of the Sea, the Seven Macaw & the Mother of Light with performances on September 11th at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Champaign, Illinois & then later at BAM in Brooklyn, NY on Oct 28, 30 & 31. Other guest vocalists include Kim and Kelley Deal (The Breeders), and Matt Berninger (The National) to round out the line-up in this visionary collaboration between music and art.

Shara will sing some of her old MBD jams, accompanied by her pile of instruments, at 8:45pm on September 17th at the Krannert Center in Champaign, Illinois as part of the Pygmalion Music Festival.

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Shara will be performing in her role of The Queen with The Decemberists this fall.  This is it!  The final lap!  The final spell and blast of furious “repaaaaids!!” that will be heard throughout the Americas! As Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond) and Shara say, this has been a delightful experience of magic, friendship & bliss. In our hearts we will be D’s fo-evuh.