Lilli Lewis has announced four New Orleans dates for her fall tour schedule that begins on September 29 and ends on December 1. The tour coincides with her upcoming record release entitled All Is Forgiven on Righteous Babe Records slated for December 1, 2023. A singer, songwriter and pianist, Lilli Lewis populates her music with country-and folk-style songs as well as spirituals and splashes of funk and rhythm and blues.
Local dates are October 13 at Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival in Lafayette Square Park at 5:30 p.m. The event is free to the public. Following that performance she will appear at The Coven’s Season of the Witch at d.b.a at 7:00 p.m. October 20 is the Abita Fall Fest 2023 at the Abita Springs Trailhead Museum at 7 p.m. October 22 is the Loose Cattle Stampede, Part 2 at the Broadside at 3 p.m. Tickets will be available on her website.
Supporting Lilli Lewis on piano and vocals for the October 13 and October 20 dates are Wade Hymel on drums, Dr. Jimbo Walsh on bass, Ole Oddlokken on sax, Ryan Murray on percussion. Ross Hoppe on organ and special guest Zakkary Garner on guitar will join her for the Lafayette Park show. Solo dates are d.b.a on October 13 and the Broadside on October 22.
All Is Forgiven is a journey of self-awareness and forgiveness. The album opens with “Sin Eater,” featuring the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s Kirk Joseph on sousaphone with an insert from her great grandfather author and storyteller, Dr. William J. Faulkner. “Happy Enough” was co-written with Lewis’s wife, Liz Hogan, and is about unequivocal joy. The track “Just One Ride” was written for her cousin Willie Spence, American Idol runner-up in 2022, who was tragically killed in car accident a few days after the song was demoed. The album also includes a song in French, translated by Jamaican-born classical choral composer, Craig Bloomfield. The album also has some swamp blues and rock songs. y.”
Of the title track, Lewis muses, ”You don’t write an album called All Is Forgiven, unless you have plenty to forgive. These songs have been guiding me toward gentler truths.”
Recent album releases include The Henderson Sessions, We Belong, and the award-winning Americana, that received an Album of the Year award from OffBeat. Additional awards and accolades include a Spirit Folk Award from the Folk Alliance and playing four sets at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, as well as opening multiple shows for The Indigo Girls this spring.
Tickets are available here.
Lewis’s tour schedule is as follows
Tour Schedule:
Sept. 29 Bluffton, SC at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Low Country
Oct. 1 Wilmington, NC-Live at Ted’s
Oct. 5 Lewes, DE at The Listening Booth
Oct. 6 Bethlehem, PA at Geoffrey Daniels
Oct. 8 Portsmouth, NH at The Music Hall, The Lounge
Oct. 12 Saratoga Springs, NY at Caffé Lena,
Oct. 13 New Orleans, Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival in Lafayette Square Park (5:30 p.m.)
Oct. 13 New Orleans, LA at d.b.a., 7pm (solo)
Oct. 14 Beachwood, OH at Church of the Good Shepherd
Oct. 15 Louisville, KY at The Monarch Music & Arts Community
Oct. 20 Abita Springs, LA at Abita Springs Trailhead Museum
Oct. 22 New Orleans, Loose Cattle Stampede, Part 2 at The Broadside
Nov. 2 Pensacola, FL at Pensacola Museum of Commerce
Nov. 11 Minneapolis, MN at Cedar Cultural Center *
Nov. 12 Hayward, WI at The Park Center *
Nov. 15 St. Louis, MO at City Winery *
Nov. 16 Chicago, IL at City Winery *
Nov. 17 Peninsula, OH, at G.A.R. Hall *
Nov. 18 Ann Arbor, MI at The Ark
Nov. 20 Lexington, KY at The Lyric Opera House and The WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Dec. 1 La Grange, TX at The Bugle Boy
*Solo dates supporting Dar Williams
