Hey friends & fam,

Just a quick note to say I’m about to embark on an epic tour with a bunch of very exciting projects. It’ll be a long, mostly Canadian summer.

I’m truly “honored and humbled” to play three shows in Vermont, with William Parker’s Sutras Ensemble featuring Hamid Drake, Kyoko Kitamura, Morley Shanti-Kamen, Lisa Sokolov and Andrea Wolper. William is a one-of-a-kind, once-in-a-generation (if you’re lucky) musician and human being, and it is always life changing to make music with him.

From Vermont I’ll head up to our northerly neighbors for two shows in Canada with Matt Evans in a new duo called Neti-Neti at the Suoni per il Popolo festival in Montreal and Tone Festival in Toronto. After that, bouncing around the region with Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl at Ottawa Jazz Festival and Toronto, then onto Vancouver for a residency at Western Front in a duo with Darius Jones called Angels & Demons. While in Vancouver, I’ll play and do some workshops with the Coastal Jazz Festival, with our old collaborator Julia Ulehla. In July, Darius and I will head to my home state of California, to spread Sun Ra’s message across the Golden State.

Please note the Berkeley show is SOLD OUT!

See you out there!

Go Dubs,

Amirtha