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Snowbound

I carefully planned a southern tour for February in the hope that as soon as I got below the Mason-Dixon line, New England would just be ravaged by blizzards for the duration of my trip so that I could arrive back to find winter receding and spring bursting forth. It was my most cunning and ingenious plan ever, and it completely failed. Throughout the month, Massachusetts had an unusual string of cloudless, gorgeous days with temperatures in the 60s-70s and I got snowed on in Virginia. And to add insult to injury, I somehow managed to arrive back just in time for the first real snowstorm of the season up here.

The tour was brilliant though. I can’t thank you all enough for coming out and supporting me in these new locations, and I’m glad to have made so many new mid-Atlantic and southern friends along the way. I had a great time wandering down the coast, and as usual it was lots of fun to crash around North Carolina and Tennessee with Saint Anyway at the bottom of the trip. I’ll be joining them again in Minnesota at the end of April, and I’m eagerly looking forward to it.

I’m local in March, however, and will be playing a cluster of shows up here in the next couple weeks. I’m doing a set in Shelburne Falls at the one-of-a-kind Mocha Maya’s on Sunday, and shows in Vermont and New York City next week. I’m also being featured in a completely outrageous local showcase run by a group called RAW: Boston, and will be playing alongside various other local musicians, artists, fashion designers, filmmakers, and more in a sort of artistic circus being held on March 8th. The event is ticketed, but one ticket gets you in for the whole insane thing. Please come! For one thing, I am required to sell a certain number of tickets by March 5th, so I’ll really appreciate your help even if you’re not sure you can make it. Here’s the link: http://www.rawartists.org/boston/stimulus/?artistid=48787.

Hope to see you on the 8th, Boston. But many thanks to the rest of the east coast for a great February!

New Site and Winter Tour

Happy 2012, and welcome to the new, sleeker, and more colorful bencosgrove.com. Zach Arnold, who originally designed the site, has been toiling for weeks to figure out ways to make these pages better, and I’m very pleased at the results: everything is tan! There’s an accordion! There’s a store! There’s a ghostly forest at the top of the site! The performance page is easier to navigate! There is a mailing list which I encourage you to join!

For those who don’t remember the old version, this place used to look like a tundra:

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Good job, Zach.

Some other good news: yesterday I played the first show of this winter’s northeastern mini-tour, which is sending me through several cool places in NYC, Boston, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and more. For details, click on that accordion I mentioned, and please swing by for a show if it looks like I’ll coming through your city.

Thanks for all your company and support in 2011, everybody.
Happy New Year, and hope to see many of you soon.
Ben

Back East

I’ll be wrapping up the tour this Friday (10/21) with a show in Manhattan at a great theater in midtown called the Tank. It’s been a great thrill playing all over the country, and if you live in or near New York, I’d love to have you join me on Friday to cap it all off! If you think you can make it, the Tank is on the eighth floor of 151 W. 46th St, and the show starts at 9:30.

After that, I’ll be heading up to Boston, back in the land of reasonably-sized states. Keep watching this space for more performance announcements and other news. I’ll be touring the east coast with Saint Anyway again in a couple of weeks (and I’ve just started recording backing parts for their new record, which will be done this winter and already sounds fantastic), and am hoping to line things up in New England for the weeks after that. Thanks again for all your support on this last tour — whether you came out to a show, bought a T-shirt, put me up, fed me, or anything, I really appreciate it and couldn’t have done this without you. Hope to try it again soon!