As posted by the straw haired PR machine on another site:
"Kurt Michaels is pleased to announce two upcoming performances,
opening for The Syn on their 2009 American tour.

Michaels will play at Shank Hall in Milwaukee, Monday, May 11 and at
Martyr’s in Chicago on Tuesday, May 12.

The performances will mark a departure of sorts from the fourth
dimensional guitar approach that Michaels has utilized over the past
several years in his improvisational ambient appearances. While
soundscapes will remain a part of the performances, both shows will
feature several songs from his forthcoming CD tentatively titled
Soaring Back to Earth. Didn’t Get to Say Goodbye, a tribute to
Michaels’ brother Fred, will be among the new compositions played.
These are written more in the traditional singer-songwriter vein, but
with the ambient backdrops that one has come to expect from his music.

Joining Michaels onstage in both Milwaukee and Chicago will be his
usual partner in crime, keyboardist Jim Gully. The Martyr’s
performance, however, will have the added luxury of Michaels’ full
band, which will also appear on the forthcoming CD.

“I’m looking forward to taking some of the new material out for a test drive in a live setting," Michaels said.

Both shows start at 8 p.m. Tickets for Milwaukee are $20. Martyr’s
tickets are $17 in advance, $20 at the door.

Shank Hall is located at 1434 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202,
414-276-7288. http://www.shankhall.com.

Martyr’s is located at 3855 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL,
773-404-4494. http://www.martyrslive.com.

Howdy doody my friends.....I think it's time to emerge from my winter hibernation. Did ya miss me?

They say a criminal always returns to the scene of a crime, and predictably I am returning to McFoster's Natural Kind Cafe in Omaha NE on Friday April 24th for a dinner set from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

For those of you following along, I played there last Halloween. While I'm not from Omaha, I have to figure McFosters is *the* destination if you are looking for good healthy food served up with a "feels like home to me" backdrop of 60s style "peace, love & and understanding". The meal I was served was absolutely amazing and the desserts are to die for! I will be doing my part to add to the ambience with my self described "fourth dimensional" guitar meanderings. If this works for you, then this is where you want to be when I hit town on Friday April 24th....no excuses! I will be playing a few of the songs that will likely wind up on my next cd (recording currently underway) and I have been known to accomodate a request or two, especially when they are written on the back of paper currency of a respectful and appropriate denomination.

Here's the vital info regarding that:

Friday April 24th, 2009
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McFosters Natural Kind Cafe
302 S 38th St.
Omaha, NE
402-345-7477
http://www.mcfosters.com

Check out the description taken from their website:

"McFoster's is a vegetarian restaurant that also serves free range chicken dishes and fresh seafood. All of our foods are free of refined flour or sugars. Our soups are made with vegetable stock. We use organic eggs only in our carrot cake and Thousand Island dressing. All menu items are available for take out. We offer a 10% discount if you bring in your own takeout container. Approximately 50% of our food is organically grown. We use organic produce from local grocers whenever possible. McFoster's recycles all it's waste glass, tin, paper, aluminum and plastic."

Looking forward to hooking back up with some of the friends I made last time around. For those of you that thought I stunk, this should serve as adequate warning!   ;)

See you there?

~ Kurt
www.myspace.com/kurtmichaels1
www.abstractlogix.com/mymusic/kurtmichaels

 

Hello again....having survived my trip to Omaha, where I must say I had an outstanding time with the folks at McFosters. Made some new friends....and the food was OUTSTANDING !!! Thanks to LaVern for making it all happen....I look forward to getting back there sometime soon!

Next up: The spinning wheel of fortune landed on the city of Cleveland this time around and soooooo......the next stop of the "Kurt Michaels - Shameless Self Promotion 2008 Tour of the Existential United States" will take me to the shores of Lake Erie, where I foist my "4th dimensional guitar meanderings" on a room full (hopefully) of unsuspecting Clevelanders:

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Latitude 41n
5712 Detroit Ave.


Cleveland OH 44102
216-961-0000

The show starts at 7:30 pm EST.....stop in and do say hello if you are in the area.



The holidays are coming up, and if you are looking for the perfect gift for that special someone, what could say it better than a cd with pictures of cows at sunset on the cover, and some of the most otherworldly guitar playing I can muster up on the cd inside? Buy now and you'll receive the plastic shrink wrap at no extra charge !!!

For anyone interested in supporting this project and obtaining a copy of "Outer Worlds" operators are standing by at:

www. abstractlogix.com/mymusic/kurtmichaels

Time to go make the donuts.....See you there?

~ Kurt

www. myspace.com/kurtmichaels1

For anyone interested, I've just posted an mp3 of one of the tracks from my set at the City Skies Festival in Atlanta a few weeks back. You can listen to the stream and/or download if you like. It's called "Alone Again" for the simple reason that Jims feed into the board apparently was dead....mine was the only signal that got recorded. It's a shame that Jim's accompaniment didn't make it onto this recording, but even without it, I thought it worth posting. For those interested in hearing some of the things that the Godin can do, all the synth pads and patches are being triggered by the guitar in real time, using both my hands and feet to mix them in and out.

Here's the link:

http://www.supload.com/listen?s=1I4XI1N99YH6

Enjoy !!!

~ Kurt

www.myspace.com/kurtmichaels1

Casting my fate to the wind, the next stop of the "Kurt Michaels Ultimate Ho - Shameless Self Promotion" Fall Tour of 2008 comes to the Cattle Capital of the Free World....beautiful Omaha, Nebraska where no cow is safe unless it resides on my cd cover! Ironically the venue in question is a vegetarian restaurant. I will be helping them to celebrate Halloween on Friday October 31st, with a dinnertime set starting at 6:00 pm.
Here's the vital info regarding that:

Friday October 31st, 2008
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

McFosters Natural Kind Cafe
302 S 38th St.

Omaha, NE

402-345-7477

http://www. mcfosters. com/

Hopefully I won't scare the patrons of this place too much. It sounds like a cool place to play. Check out the description taken from their website....

"McFoster's is a vegetarian restaurant that also serves free range chicken dishes and fresh seafood. All of our foods are free of refined flour or sugars. Our soups are made with vegetable stock. We use organic eggs only in our carrot cake and Thousand Island dressing. All menu items are available for take out. We offer a 10% discount if you bring in your own takeout container. Approximately 50% of our food is organically grown. We use organic produce from local grocers whenever possible. McFoster's recycles all it's waste glass, tin, paper, aluminum and plastic.
"

So should I rent a costume for this gig? TBC says I'm scary enough without one....

See you there?

~ Kurt

www. myspace. com/kurtmichaels1

Shamelessness knows no bounds as I take my ambient/electronic 4th dimensional guitar playing act on the road once again to the BBQ capital of the world: Kansas City, MO !!!

(Don't tell anyone, but the real reason I set this up was because I was jonesing to get back to Jack Stacks for a serious pork binge...)

Anyway, I'm doing a solo lunchtime set at Eljays River Market Coffeehouse located in the historic River Market District near the Missouri River and Kansas River.

Here's the details:

Date: Friday, October 17th, 2008
Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm CST
cover: FREE!!!

Eljay River Market Coffeehouse
412 B Delaware St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
816-472-5552

www.eljays.com

Now I get to lean on Peggy, Brent & Chef Golf to help me scare up some warm bodies to fill the place up with to make it look like I have a following !!!

(There's no business like show business......)

See you there?

~ Kurt

www.myspace.com/kurtmichaels1

The next stop on the 2008 "Outer Worlds" Shameless Self Promotion
Tour of America takes Jim and I to the Atlanta area this Saturday
October 4th to perform at the City Skies Festival!

The City Skies concert series is the home to many of the regions
finest experimental electronic music artists. There's a full
schedule of acts that will be performing. I'm going on at 2 pm EST.
Here's the full schedule:

12noon- Sensitive Chaos (GA)
1pm- One Cut Kill (AL)
2pm- Kurt Michaels (IL)
3pm- Broken Symmetry (GA)
4pm- Jam session

7pm- Andrew Weathers (NC)
8pm- Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel (GA)
9pm- Indigovox (GA)
10pm- citizen Green (GA)
11pm- Jam session

Tickets are $10 donation

More info can be found at www.cityskies.com

For those of you that are gonna be in the Atlanta area this weekend
and can can make it, here's where it's gonna happen:

Kavarna
707 East Lake Drive
Decatur, GA 30030
404-371-1113

For those of you who are not gonna be in the area, but would like to
listen in, my set will be streamed over at StillStream.com My set
begins promptly at 2pm EST and we will be including one of the new
vocal songs I'm working on for my next cd. It's a pretty easy site
to navigate and they do an excellent job on the stream.

As always. if you'd like to support the project "Outer Worlds" is
available for purchase at:

www.abstractlogix.com/mymusic/kurtmichaels

I don't think I'll run into any suicidal deer while flying the
friendly skies down there, but keep your fingers crossed for me. Let
me know what you think of the stream.........

In the meantime, have a great weekend and we'll be back at you again
sometime soon!

Regards,

Kurt

www.myspace.com/kurtmichaels1

Howdy....it's just me again.

Tomorow Jim and I hit the road to make the trek down to Kingsport TN to participate in Electro-Music 2008....this will mark my 3rd performance at this wonderful event!

Electro-Music 2008 is a three day conference/music festival to be held at the Renaissance Center in Kingsport,Tennessee, August 14 - 16, 2008. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts. My performance (accompanied as always by Jim Gully ..boards) will be on Saturday August 16th at 4:00 pm EST

Three of the songs on my MySpace page were recorded last year at Electro-Music 2007: Duh Duh Dumber, Maximum Minimal & Act 1a. This year we plan on debuting some new vocal material as part of our set and look forward to sharing it with you!

Besides myself there will many other artists performing, jam sessions, seminars and workshops scheduled throughout the three day festival....a veritable cornucopia of the electronic music world that is rapidly becoming the premier event of the EM world.

Venue:

Renaissance Center
1200 East Center Street
Kingsport, TN 37660

(423) 392-8414

Here's a link to the Electro-Music 2008 webpage with all the pertinent details:

http://event.electro-music.com/

Hope to see you there !!!

Regards,

~ Kurt

For those of you who have been following along, these last few years have been spent establishing myself as an artist performing and recording soundscapes. While I have no intention of abandoning that, wanderlust has started to kick in, and I am now in the process of developing some new music for my next cd that will be taking me in another direction with the music.

We're going to retain as much of the ethereal aspect of the music that we have established with our previous work and adding to it a singer/songwriter element. Additionally we will be expanding the format to include a full rhythm section with background vox and all the other bells and whistles one would associate with a through composed and produced pieceof music.

As has been my pattern in the past, I'm gonna share this process with you and let you see how a piece of music develops. Today I posted a stripped down raw demo of a piece of music I recently wrote for my brother who passed away earlier this year called "Didn't Get To Say Goodbye". I'd like to think the final recorded version will evolve considerably  over the coming months. For now, I'm willing to share, warts and all, the beginnings of what I hope will be a piece of music that lives up to the feelings and emotions that inspired it. I hope you enjoy it....

~ Kurt