The Amazing
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines
World Tour 2009

photo by Michael Verlinden

UPCOMING SHOWS:

MAY 20 - 8:30 PM
JOHNNY D'S - BENEFIT FOR WUMB
many acts, one night, one cause
17 Holland St (Davis Square), Somerville, MA
http://www.johnnyds.com/

MAY 23 - 4-7 PM
BHIP HARP JAM - JOHNNY D'S
Open Harmonica jam sponsored by the Boston Harmonica Innovation Project.
With the BHIP backup band of Troy Gonyea, Reed Butler, and Billy Mac!
17 Holland St (Davis Square), Somerville, MA
http://www.johnnyds.com/

May 23 - 9 PM
Annie will appear as a special guest at Mr. Nick's Northeast Harmonica Showdown
Capitol Center for the Arts
Concord, NH

JUNE 6 - 8 PM
CAFFE LENA
Saratoga Springs, NY
www.caffelena.org

JUNE 7 - 1 & 3:30 PM
GUITAR AND HARP WORKSHOPS NYC
1 PM - Country Blues Guitar - Styles of the Masters
3:30 PM - Int/Adv Harmonica
21st Street between 5th and 6th Ave's, New York, NY
Email secondfiddles@gmail.com for information

JUNE 20 - PM
JOE'S JAZZ & BLUES FEST
Somerville, MA

JUNE 25 9 PM
JALOPY
315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY 718.395.3214
www.jalopy.biz
This is the coolest club ever - hovering over the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in the Red Hook neighborhood, it's a spacious, lovingly decorated theatre with dark walls, a cooler full of beer, and musical instruments everywhere. We may never leave!

JUNE 27 8 PM
AMAZING THINGS ARTS CENTER
Framingham, MA
3 PM - Guitar and Harmonica Workshops - go to website for details
http://www.amazingthings.org/

JULY 23
SALTONSTALL PARK
Watertown, MA
Outdoor concert with our great band: Reed Butler, Chris Rival, Billy Mac

JULY 24
CHAN'S
Woonsocket, RI
www.chansegrollsandjazz.com

JULY 28
JOHNNY D'S
17 Holland St (Davis Square), Somerville, MA
http://www.johnnyds.com/

AUGUST 5
MUSIKFEST
Bethlehem, PA

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines have available dates in the following regions in 2009:

Northeastern US – anytime
Mid-Atlantic states – anytime
Southeastern US – January / February 2010
South Central US – January / February 2010
Midwest – October 2009
Texas – October 2009
Southwest – make us an offer!
California – make us an offer!
UK & Europe – ditto

HOW TO CONTACT: send us a message via myspace or, even better, our website contact form: www.paulandannie.com/content/contact.php

If you would like to hear Paul & Annie perform on A Prairie Home Companion again, click this link to send an email to the show's producers

PREVIOUS WORK:

NATIONAL TV & RADIO APPEARANCES

Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC TV)
(as part of J Band) 1996 & 1999
Arthur "A Word From Us Kids" (PBS TV) December 2003
A Prarie Home Companion (MPR radio) 1995 & 2004
Mountain Stage (WV Public Radio) 2003
NPR Radio Features: Here & Now, The World

A SAMPLING OF FESTIVALS PLAYED

Merelefest • Wheatland Festival • Swannanoa Gathering • King Biscuit Blues Festival • Smithsonian Folklife Festival • Mississippi Valley Blues Festival • Gloucester Blues Festival (UK) • Kansas City Jazz & Blues Fest • National Blues Festival (UK) • Moulin Blues Festival • Ole Blues Festival • Poconos Blues Festival • Savannah Folk Festival • Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival • Mountain Stage • Boston Folk Festival • Notodden Blues Festival • North Atlantic Folk Festival • Edmonton Labatts Blues Fest • Edinburgh International Jazz & Blues Fest • Guinness Temple Bar Blues Fest • Big Bear Rhythm & Food Fest • Luxembourg Blues Festival • Ottawa Blues Festival • Herndon Blues Festival • Silver City Blues Festival • Queen City Blues Festival • Riverwalk • Great British R&B Fest • Augusta Heritage Festival • Taste of the Blue Ridge Fest • Cool Blues & Microbrews Fest • KCBS Acoustic Blues Festival • Harvest Acoustic Blues Fest • Midwinter Blues Festival • Chenango Blues Festival • River Blues Festival • Fire on the Mountain • Skoebustel Blues Festival • Kalamazoo Blues Festival • Buckeye Harmonica Convention • Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Fest • Cognac Blues Festival

A SAMPLING OF CLUB & CONCERT VENUES PLAYED

Bushnell Theatre - Hartford, CT
The Barns At Wolf Trap(as part of J Band) Vienna, VA
Keswick Theatre - Philadelphia, PA
Merrill Auditorium - Portland, ME
Kitty C. Hart Theatre at the Egg - Albany, NY
Jorgenson Auditorium - Storrs, CT
Capitol Center for the Arts - Concord, NH
Lowell Auditorium - Lowell, MA
Ellington Theatre - Lynchburg, VA
The Orpheum Theatre - Memphis, TN
Westbury Music Fair - Westbury, NY
The Paradise - Boston, MA
Yoshi's - Oakland, CA
Jazzhaus - Freiburg, Germany
Godfrey Daniels - Bethlehem, PA
BamBoo Room - Lake Worth, FL
House of Blues - Cambridge, MA
The Bitter End - New York, NY
Caffe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY
Club Passim - Cambridge, MA
Catamount Arts Center - St. Johnsbury, VT
The Freight & Salvage - Berkeley, CA
The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA
Irving Plaza - New York, NY
Crossroads Cafe- Antwerp, Belgium
Oupeye Castle - Oupeye, Belgium
Aladdin Theatre - Portland, OR
Jersey Arts Centre - Jersey, UK
Plaza Palomino - Tucson, AZ
Frick Fine Arts Center - Pittsburgh, PA

PAUL RISHELL AND ANNIE RAINES HAVE OPENED FOR: Ray Charles, Little Feat, Asleep at the Wheel, Susan Tedeschi, Leon Russell, John Hammond, Dr. John, and John Sebastian.