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Yuka Honda turning 50 -- Floored by Four w/ Mike Watt & her spouse Nels Cline playing 2nd gig ever, Cibo Matto show too

Floored by Four @ Summerstage (more by Paul Bachmann)
Floord by Floor
Floord by Floor

The December 6th show at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC:

  • is a 50th birthday party for Cibo Matto‘s Yuka Honda who used to be married to Dougie Bowne who she has a long history of playing music with, used to date Sean Lennon who she frequently collaborates with, and who is now engaged or married to guitar wizard Nels Cline of Wilco (Wikipedia says their wedding was scheduled for late November in Japan, so if that’s true, congratulations to them!)
  • will feature a live performance by Floored by Four aka Mike Watt, Dougie Bowne, Yuka C. Honda, and Nels Cline. It will be their 2nd live show ever which means their first must have been that Summerstage show with M Ward
  • will feature a Nels Cline solo set “+ friendly jamming after 10:30pm”
  • will include a set titled “Yuka & Miho cover Cibo Matto” which I assume means a Cibo Matto show, but without any of Yuka and Cibo’s other band members?

Whatever it is, the show is sure to be a good one. Tickets are still on sale.

Nels Cline will also be back at the same NYC venue on February 26th for “The Nels Cline Singers and ROVA perform ‘The Celestial Septet’“. Tickets are on sale for that too. All Nels dates below.

Will Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Yuka Honda, and/or Dougie Bowne play with Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s this week? I don’t know, but it would be pretty cool.

Will Nels Cline’s Wilco bandmate Jeff Tweedy play with Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s this week? Very likely.

Will Sean Lennon show up and play at all at LPR on 12/6? Maybe? Will Yuka Honda play with Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl aka The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger at Rockwood Music Hall on January 8th? Maybe?

Can Yuka Honda, Dougie Bowne, Sean Lennon, and Nels Cline all be in the same room and everything be completely normal? Apparently?

Oh, and speaking of turning 50, don’t forget tickets to Henry Rollinsupcoming shows at Joe’s Pub go on sale Friday at noon.

Enjoy some birthday cake, with all Nels Cline tour dates, below…


NELS CLINE TOUR DATES

12/02 Minneapolis, MN | Walker Arts Center
Jenny Scheinman’s Mischief & Mayhem (Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Todd Sickafoose, Jim Black)
8PM

12/05 Los Angeles, CA | Royce Hall
Alice Coltrane Tribute
Feat. Pharoah Sanders, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter & more
7PM

12/06 NYC | Le Poisson Rouge
Floored by Four (Mike Watt, Dougie Bowne, Yuka C. Honda, NC), Yuka & Miho cover Cibo Matto, Nels Cline, solo
(+ friendly jamming after 10:30pm)
8PM (18+)

2011

01/07 Fairfield, CT | Fairfield Theater Company : Stage One
Stained Raidiance (Nels Cline & Norton Wisdom)
7:30PM

01/08 NYC | Winter Jazzfest
Stained Raidiance (Nels Cline & Norton Wisdom)

01/09 Freehold, NJ | Concerts In The Studio
Stained Raidiance (Nels Cline & Norton Wisdom)
5PM

01/29 Seattle, WA | Is That Jazz? Festival
The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda
9PM

01/30 Portland, OR | Doug Fir Lounge
The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda
9PM

02/02 Arcata, CA | Arcata Playhouse
The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda
9PM

02/03 San Francisco, CA | The Independent
The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda
8PM

02/04 Santa Cruz, CA | Don Quixote’s International Music Hall
The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda
8PM

02/05 Los Angeles, CA | Getty Center (Harold M. Williams Auditorium)
The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda
7:30PM

02/22 Philadelphia, PA | The International House (produced by Ars Nova)
Celestial Septet (Rova Sax Quartet + Nels Cline)

02/24 Amherst, MA | University of Mass. Bowker Auditorium (produced by Magic Triangle Series)
Celestial Septet (Rova Sax Quartet + Nels Cline)

02/25 Boston, MA | ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art)
Celestial Septet (Rova Sax Quartet + Nels Cline)

02/26 NYC | Le Poisson Rouge
Celestial Septet (Rova Sax Quartet + Nels Cline)

04/15 Oakland, CA | Paramount Theater
Scott Amendola, Nels Cline, Trevor Dunn w/ the Oakland East Bay Symphony
(*Premiere of Scott’s commissioned piece “Fade To Orange”)