Training season has begun and Leslie is running lamps around her amps, getting ready for this announcement.

Feist will be playing two shows as part of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics celebration in British Columbia. O Canada.

In skiing circles (moguls?), Whistler/Blackcomb is considered one of the World's top ski resorts. No wonder that it is the host venue for several 2010 Olympic and Paralympics events. A brand new venue has been built in Whistler Village, a building called the Whistler Celebration Plaza, and Feist will be performing a FREE, all ages show on Februrary 16th. This show will be outdoors, so look for an Olympics-sized stage heater or Feist's head atop a big puffy coat.

On February 17th, a day known to some as Alberta Day, Feist will be playing The Orpheum. Years ago, some time in Calgary and in the year 1988, thousands of kids were running around a field making beautiful shapes, like crop circles but Olympic, for the vantage of cameras above. Little Leslie Allison Feist was one of those runners, and if you see the photo attached, you might catch just a glimpse of the 1234 video to come years later.

But the good news is that you don't have to practice for months and months like Leslie did, or jump through six coloured hoops, to see Feist at the Olympics. You just have to keep reading.

Here is the ticket information for the second performance at The Orpheum. Tickets go on sale October 30th.

Ticket provider: Tickets.com or 1-800-TICKETS
Prices: $49.50, $42.50, $37.50 + service charges

If you live in Vancouver, ZULU Records will be selling tickets, also beginning October 30th.

Gonzales—friend, figaro and figurative frère to Feist—is crossing the pond. Fresh from breaking the Guinness World Record for persistent performance (27 hours, 3 minutes, 44 seconds), Gonzo will deliver his choppiest chops to North America on the cusp of Autumn.

If you're scanning for a cheat sheet, or simple summation, this might help frame his portrait: Gonzales collaborates with many musicians like Feist, Peaches, Jamie Lidell and Mocky. I've added one of my favourite videos below.

Here are his dates. Stay tuned for SURPRISE guests and SURPRISE audience.

LOS ANGELES • SEP. 23 • Henry Fonda Theatre — with the Together Ensemble, presented in PianoVision
NYC • SEP. 25 • TWO SHOWS • Joe's Pub — featuring Jamie Lidell, Piano Talk Show, presented in PianoVision
MONTREAL • SEP. 26 • eXcentris Theatre — Piano Talk Show
TORONTO • SEP. 30 • The Mod Club — Piano Talk Show with surprise guests

The day after Letterman (hereafter known as "A.L."), Feist and Wilco performed on NPR's World Café. This performance airs today, and if you click here, you can find your local station and its schedule by scrolling to "Find a Program Broadcast Time". Later today, the audio may also be available on the NPR website here.

Outside of the U.S., you can listen online to WXPN's stream (Monday-Friday, 2pm-4pm EST) by clicking here.

If you build it, they will come. Leslie and Jeff Tweedy threw their pitch (ba-dum-tahhh) at a baseball diamond on Coney Island on Monday, before filming on Letterman a day or so later. Animal lovers saw Ed from Grizzly Bear sing at one of these shows, but not the other. Is he in the video below?

Here is one of a handful of photos from the Feist and Wilco recording session at Wilco's Loft. See Zoran Orlic's other pictures here.

To see a rendition of this image in flickering, animated colour—not in a recording studio, but on a TV stage—watch David Letterman tonight.

On Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, Feist will be joining Wilco on David Letterman to sing their song, You and I. If you scroll down one post, you can see first-hand (unless, somehow you can see second-hand?), the first stages of Jeff and Leslie's newfound stage-sharing stage.

Leslie played a song on Letterman almost two years ago. It was a different song altogether—an assumption you've (no doubt) already made from years of viewing television programming—but yet a point I still choose to make, mostly so I can semi-surreptitiously link to the old video.

Wilco played The Wiltern on Friday night and Leslie joined them on stage for their lilting duet-duel, You and I. This is the first time L. Feist and J. Tweedy have sung this song since they gathered around the recording studio campfire. Instead of twigs and marshmallows, instead of smoke and mirrors, in this video they are using microphones and stage lights.

Today is the day the new Wilco album gets downloaded to your record shelves.

Kevin Drew's short film The Water, starring Feist and Cillian Murphy, is winning awards all over the world. It's on tour.

The Water won Best Cinematography for a Canadian Short at the Worldwide Short Film Festival (Miroslaw Baszak) and another award at the Houston Film Festival. The Water was also just selected for presentation at the Portable Film Festival in Australia.

Watch it here .

Honey, Honey, the Feist video featuring the work of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (and directed by the lovely and inimitable Anthony Seck), is screening at The Los Angeles Film Festival on both Saturday, June 20th (7pm) and Sunday, June 28th (5pm).

You can purchase tickets for a screening here. You can buy tickets to Los Angeles everywhere.