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Devotchka played KEXP, Fontana's & the Big Apple Circus --- (CMJ pics, video & streaming audio)

photos by Chris La Putt

Devotchka @ Big Apple Circus
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Depending on the realtor, the New York outpost of Alex Calderwood’s Ace Hotel is either located in NoChe (short for North Chelsea) or NoMad (for North of Madison Square Park), but regular people just think of the area as a place to buy knockoff handbags. Inside the hotel it’s a different scene, like some dreamy Epcot Center version of the Pacific Northwest, especially on this Friday afternoon, when Colin Meloy, the frontman of the Portland-based Decemberists, began tuning up for a solo show, sponsored by KEXP, the great Seattle radio station that moved into the lobby of the hotel for three days during CMJ. “I’m so glad this pocket of Portland is here,” Meloy said of the hotel, which was founded in Seattle but is now headquartered in Stumptown. “Now I feel safe in New York.” His set… was prefaced by 15 minutes of lovely droning gibberish from Nick Urata’s gypsy punk band DeVotchKa. -[New York Times]

The KEXP show at Ace Hotel was the lone date for Colin Meloy during CMJ (videos HERE), but other artists who played the Ace Hotel that day (Glasser and Devotchka) were busy at CMJ this year (though Glasser played one less than planned).

On 10/22 in particular, Devotchka first played the KEXP bash (LISTEN TO IT AT KEXP’S SITE), Fontana’s, and then the BrooklynVegan Day Party at Public Assembly to a packed house (thanks again) – all before 6pm.

But the band’s big and most-official CMJ show came the next day, Saturday (10/23), under the Big Apple Circus big top at Damrosch Park. That’s where the band headlined a unique show with Spirit Family Reunion and Angus & Julia Stone, complete with aerialists and other circus performers. It was part of the “Sideshow” series, though so far the “series” is only that one show.

Pictures from Friday at Fontana’s and the Saturday Big Apple Circus show are in this post, and they continue, with some circus show videos, below…

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Devotchka – Pirate Pirate Showcase CMJ – Fontana's
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How it Ends” by DeVotchka – LIVE at The Big Top (CMJ 2010)

DeVotchKa – Sideshows – 23 Oct 2010

DeVotchKa + incredible acrobat at SIDESHOWS in the Big Top at Damrosch Park