The tour pairing tuneful and sensitive Swedish troubadour Loney Dear with sensitive and tuneful Chicagoan troubadour Andrew Bird has made its way to the west coast, stopping last night at Los Angeles's Orpheum Theatre. Bringing these two together makes for an inspired bill, and Emil (Loney) Svanagen's certainly benefited from playing his bedroom pop to a crowd like Bird's. (An a cappella song last night was met with pindrop silence, and the set a partial standing ovation.) But the sold-out crowd came for Andrew, who had done "Fitz and Dizzyspells" for Leno the night before and capped off his LA stay by receiving a marriage proposal last night. Just comes with the territory. Relive it via these photos by Andrew Youssef, or by taking a listen to the Andrew/Dear show at the 9:30 Club in D.C. streaming over at NPR.
Still a bunch of Bird dates through the spring, some with Loney:
02/19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore*
02/20 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore*
02/21 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater*
02/23 - Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theater*
02/24 - Boise, ID @ The Knitting Factory*
02/25 - Murray, UT @ Murray Theater*
02/26 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre*
02/27 - Omaha, NE @ Slowdown*
02/28 - Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Place*
03/15 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
03/16 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
03/17 - Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
03/21 - Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
03/22 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
03/23 - Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Oxford
04/02 - Cleveland, OH @ Allen Theatre, Playhouse Square
* w/ Loney Dear
