Afie making friends in the Malmo airport.
“Introducing Sam Younis, a Greek/Swedish fire fighter I met in the Malmo airport. He’s also got a wicked version of Africa by Toto on YouTube.” -Afie
“Barchords” out now. Get it from the Brushfire Store or itunes.
Our semi-regular tour update:
Bahamas is in Europe visiting Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam and London. GO, he’s amazing. https://bahamasmusic.net/
G. Love & Special Sauce are wrapping up their winter tour with stops in Des Moines, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Chicago https://philadelphonic.com/tour
Matt Costa has just started his national tour which stops almost everywhere. This week: San Diego, LA (Sold Out), San Luis Obispo, SF, Sacramento. Next Week: Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, Bellingham, Salt Lake, Denver https://mattcosta.com/tour/
ALO will be playing dates next month in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore , NYC, Syracuse and Philly with Ryan Montbleau Band , Some Kind of Jam fest in PA, and Boston with Fruition https://alomusic.com/
Neil Halstead has just announced May dates in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Oslo plus a show with Mark Kozelek on May 13 in London. The dates should be added to his site today. https://www.neilhalstead.com/tour
Now Showing “I Got You Babe”. Shot in Cuba. No Yoga instructors were injured in the making of this video.
Watch Afie perform “Your Sweet Touch” on a Toronto bus with a few of his closest friends.
Check the Fall Tour Dates to see if he comes through your town.
When he’s not on tour, Afie Jurvanen (aka Bahamas) visits his extended family in northern Ontario every Sunday. A camera crew followed him there one such Sunday back in February in hopes of conducting an interview and learning more about his new album “Barchords”. The interview wasn’t much of a success. Instead they watched him and his mother cook and eat all day, light whole trees on fire, and speak a whole lot of Finnish.
Jurvanen, on his mother : “I didn’t grow up in a particularly musical family, but my mother was and still is constantly creating. I think being around her curiosity and seemingly endless energy is definitely contagious and inspiring. I hope I can remain as interested and excited about discovery and exploration through music as she is with everything else.”
If you are wondering “What’s up With all the Finnish?”: Although he lives in Toronto and sings in English, Afie grew up immersed in Finnish cuisine and culture. His mother was Miss Finland in 1973. He has a Finnish passport. None of this has much to do with the album, but it turned out to be an interesting and very personal look into his life outside of his music.
Directed & Edited by Scott Kaija & Ryan Gassi