During a packed stand at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee last night, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon told the home state crowd that the show would be the Bon-tourage’s last as a full band for an “indefinite” period of time or at least “until next year.” The performance capped a lenghty tour as well as big day for the Eau Claire native as Vernon was in town to act as honorary chair of AIDS Walk Wisconsin on Milwaukee’s lakefront, where he also performed an acoustic mini-set. The Vernon-obsessed shouldn’t bum too hard, though: in addition to jokingly promising to return with at “at least three more songs,” the meantime still promises the live collaboration by Vernon and his “guitar mentor” Chris Rosenau—both of newly christened experimental post-folk collective Volcano Choir—at the New York Guitar Festival on January 21st. They’ll be live scoring Simon Kimock and Buster Keaton’s Cops at the Kaufman Center, an outing for which you can still grab tickets to here.
October 12th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
There is a god.
-G.