Seattle Theatre Group Presents Angus & Julia Stone, Sufjan Stevens et al. in Oct.

The Seattle Theatre Group (STG) will start to sell tickets for several concerts this week, including Angus & Julia Stone, Sufjan Stevens and Mumford & Sons. More details can be found on their website at www.stgpresents.org.

Angus & Julia Stone
Date: October 11, 2010 @ 9:00pm
Venue: The Crocodile (21+)
Price: $10.00 in advance, $12.00 day of show, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission
On sale date: Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 10am
Ticketing information: Online at TheCrocodile.com.

Having spent the last two years touring the world in support of their critically acclaimed debut - A Book Like This - Angus and Julia Stone return with their eagerly anticipated sophomore release Down The Way. On Down The Way they make their debut as producers, and develop their sound without losing the spirit of their debut. There's been a subtle shift in gear, evidence of a growing confidence - the music gravitates from sparse to rich and textured arrangements yet never loses it's etherealness and charm. Travelling has been an integral part of the Stone's musical story so its not surprising they opted to record in a number of diverse locations around the globe - an old sawmill on the river banks of Fowey, Cornwall, a studio in Brooklyn, a water tank in Coolangatta, their second home - London - and Queens in New York. Once again the duo share song-writing duties, their individual styles juxtaposing yet complimenting the other. Themes of lost love and yearning weave through Down The Way, which opens with the epic and rich tapestry of "Hold On".

Mumford & Sons
Special Guests: Mt Desolation, King Charles
Date: October 24, 2010 @ 7:30pm
Venue: Moore Theatre (All Ages)
Price: $20.50 not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission
On sale date: Friday, August 13, 2010 @ noon
Ticketing information: Online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Since they formed in December 2007, the members of Mumford & Sons have shared a common purpose: to make music that matters, without taking themselves too seriously. Four young men from West London in their early twenties, they have fire in their bellies, romance in their hearts, and rapture in their masterful, melancholy voices. They are staunch friends - Marcus Mumford, Country Winston, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane - who bring their music to us with the passion and pride of an old-fashioned, much-cherished, family business. They create a gutsy, old-time sound that marries the magic of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with the might of Kings Of Leon, and their incredible energy draws us in quickly to their circle of songs, to the warmth of their stories, and to their magical community of misty-eyed men.

Sufjan Stevens
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010 @ 8:00pm
Venue: Paramount Theatre (All Ages)
Price: $22.00 & $32.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: Reserved Seating
On sale date: Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 10am
Ticketing information: Online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

With planned performances at a number of large, elegant venues-including two nights at New York's fabled Beacon Theatre and a night at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles - Sufjan Stevens is set to hit the road for an extensive North American tour in fall 2010. The performances will feature fully realized versions of the songs initially debuted during a late 2009 tour of small clubs in which Stevens workshopped several works-in-progress. "In his new songs," The New York Times notes of one of Stevens' fall 2009 Brooklyn performances, "love leads him to improvisation, chaos and spasms of rhythm, all precisely dolloped out." Stevens will tour with his large ensemble performing alongside a full production including projections. Sufjan Stevens has released eight studio recordings since 2000 including the critically acclaimed Michigan and Illinois (the latter named the "Best Album of the Decade" by Paste); a 5-EP Christmas box set; Enjoy Your Rabbit, an instrumental electronic song cycle based on the animals of the Chinese Zodiac; and the aforementioned The BQE. Run Rabbit Run, a recording of Enjoy Your Rabbit rearranged for the Osso String Quartet, was released in 2009 via Asthmatic Kitty. Stevens has also collaborated with The Danielson Famile, Rosie Thomas, Denison Witmer, My Brightest Diamond and many others.