NASHVILLE, Tenn (Top40 Charts) An exciting year for Raul Malo is about to wrap up. He began the year touring behind his Sinners & Saints release, which brought the Florida native and current Nashville resident into the studio with
Texas musicians he's come to know (Ray Benson,
Texas Tornados, the Trishas). The year ended with a major announcement about the Grammy Award-winning Mavericks — for whom he was frontman — reuniting at the Stagecoach Festival in April 2012 following a nine-year hiatus.
But before 2012 winds to a close, Malo will travel the East Coast and Midwest with his annual Holiday Tour, accompanied by a full band. The 14-city tour will take him to such cities as Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago, Wilmington, Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor, St. Louis and Kansas City, as well as many smaller towns.
As the alt-country Mavericks did, Malo has pushed beyond musical borders. Sinners & Saints was rooted in his life-long connection to Latin music, but infused with his wide-ranging love of country, blues, jazz and vintage rock 'n' roll.
Malo has been the recipient of much favorable press. The
Detroit Free Press hailed his "tenor voice capable of Orbisonesque grandeur." The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel noted, "His clear, beautiful voice puts him among the saints, but he's happy to be among all us sinners." And the indie-rock 'zine Blurt said: "With the voice he owns, Malo doesn't have to show off. He merely has to paint the musical pictures in his head, and the effect will be lovely."
Holiday Tour dates:
Wed., Nov. 30 DANVILLE, KY Norton Center for the Arts
Thurs., Dec. 1 PITTSBURGH, PA Club Café
Fri., Dec. 2 BAY SHORE, NY Boulton Center
Sat., Dec. 3 THOMASTON, CT Opera House
Sun., Dec. 4 BROWNFIELD, ME Stone Mountain Arts Center
Tues., Dec. 6 BALTIMORE, MD Baltimore Sound Stage
Wed., Dec. 7 ALEXANDRIA, VA (WASHINGTON, DC) The Birchmere
Thurs., Dec 8 WILMINGTON, DE World Café Live at the Queen
Fri., Dec. 9 BETHLEHEM, PA Godfrey Daniels
Sat., Dec. 10 WAYNE, NJ
William Patterson University
Mon., Dec. 12 ANN ARBOR, MI The Ark
Tues., Dec. 13 EVANSTON/CHICAGO, IL SPACE
Thurs., Dec. 15 ST. LOUIS, MO Blueberry Hill
Fri., Dec. 16 KANSAS CITY, MO Knuckleheads
