Evelyn Evelyn, Amanda Palmer's new project with Seattle musician/busker Jason Webley, NYC composer Sxip Shirey and other artists know for their vaudevillian and just general wacky ways. They'll be hitting the road this April, May and June. The show travels Europe and North America, and includes a six-night run at NYC's Lucille Lortel Theatre from June 8-13. Ticket info coming soon.

The album is co-produced by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley, and is out now in a bunch of different packages (including an 11 million dollar offer to travel the world from Himalayas and Antarctica to Western Massachusetts). The concept behind the project is that the two Evelyns are a ("fictional"?) pair of conjoined twins.

EVELYN and EVELYN NEVILLE are a songwriting duo performing original compositions on piano, ukulele, guitar and accordion. The sisters are parapagus tripus dibrachius twins, sharing three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts and a single liver.

Born September 11, 1985 on a small farm on the Kansas-Colorado border, the Evelyns have traveled the greater part of North America performing with "Dillard & Fullerton's Illusive Traveling Show". Their unique musical style is inspired by their many eclectic influences - from 80's music to showtunes, Joy Division to the Andrews Sisters.

The sisters currently reside in Walla Walla, Washington. They are fluent in chicken and their favorite colors are purple and yellow.

The record's extensive list of guests and all tour dates (with details on how to hook the touring band of 5 people up with lodging and food) are below...

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Photos and words by Dese'Rae Stage

Amanda Palmer played an involuntarily short show at Sound Fix in Brooklyn on Friday (September 19). Aside from the slew of technical difficulties she had to contend with, the show was shut down due to yet another noise complaint. It was an intimate show with a lot of audience interaction. She played "Ampersand," "The Point of it All," a new song she wrote recently in London tentatively titled "Dear Old House" (the first ukulele-based non-Radiohead song she's ever performed, I believe), and "Icarus" with Jason Webley, who also worked on side project Evelyn Evelyn with her. in town from Seattle, Jason plays his own NYC show Monday night (9/22) at Parkside Lounge, and Amanda will be back in NYC on 11/21 at Webster Hall.

More Sound Fix photos below...

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Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) - Jan 2007 (Todd Owyoung)

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