STG Presents Stornoway and Owl City

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

Stornoway
Special Guest: Sea of Bees
Date: May 31, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: Triple Door (All Ages)
Price: $15.00 not including applicable fees
Seating: Reserved
On Sale: Friday, April 1 @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available at the Triple Door box office, online at TheTripleDoor.net, or by calling (206) 838-4333. More info can be found at STGPresents.org.

Beachcomber's Windowsill is an album that has taken more than five years to make; a labour of love that includes over a hundred different instruments, the chimes of a Dutch church bell, one Morse Code message and the sound of several carrots being chopped. It is an album that features as many bedrooms as there are songs, as well as ruminations on the computer age, ornithology and first love. More importantly, it is an album of extraordinary beauty, that is by turns fiery and wistful and exuberant, and that marks out Stornoway as Britain's most talented young band. Earlier this year Stornoway signed to 4AD. "For a long time we thought we might release the album ourselves," says Brian Briggs. "Because that's what we've done with our early EPs. But we realised that to do that would mean spending our lives basically running our own record label." The band's principal fear was that in signing to a record label they might lose some of their control over their material. "When we started to talk with labels most of them said 'We want you to re-record the album and do it in a studio...'" he explains. Thankfully, 4AD were keen that the majority of the songs should be left as they were, recorded on Ouin's 8-Track (affectionately known as Mrs 802) in college bedrooms, garages and community centres, at a time when as Briggs puts it, "we felt quite free and had lots of time." "If you listen closely," he adds, "you can hear stuff like various bandmembers muttering, lots of hiss and funny little details that you would normally clean up if you were in a studio. There's something about the recordings as they are which has maybe more character and more soul to them. And we're proud that actually these are things that we made ourselves without any outside help."

Owl City
Special Guests: Mat Kearney & Unwed Sailor
Date: Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:00pm
Venue: Paramount Theatre (All Ages)
Price: $25.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission (Flat Floor) & Reserved Seating (in Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, April 1 @ noon
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

In November 2009, Owl City's Adam Young, a native and longtime resident of Owatonna, Minnesota (pop. 25,000), who had made his very first airplane journey only a year prior at age 22, found himself standing on the Great Wall of China. "I called my mom on my cell phone at 2 a.m. Minnesota time and said, 'You'll never believe where I am right now!'" Young recalls with a laugh. "I'm this shy kid from nowhere. My family didn't have a lot of money to take vacations, so for me to have that kind of experience was surreal." It was just one of many extraordinary moments this unassuming 24-year-old Midwesterner would have over the past 18 months thanks to the blockbuster success of Owl City's major-label debut album - the lush, lovingly created Ocean Eyes, which was released by Universal Republic Records in July 2009. Filled with whimsical melodies and blissful beats that Young conjured up alone in the basement of his parents' home in Owatonna, Ocean Eyes topped the Billboard Rock, Alternative, and Dance/Electronic charts and was certified gold or platinum in nine countries, including platinum in the U.S. The album spawned the quadruple-platinum first single "Fireflies," which was a No. 1 smash hit in 24 countries including the U.S. (where it hit the top spot twice), and sold more than four million downloads. Its eye-popping success has made Owl City an international phenomenon, selling nearly 12 million tracks worldwide and amassing an impressive touring record, including support stints with Maroon 5 and John Mayer, and sold-out headlining tours in which Young, backed by a five-piece band, performed for besotted fans in the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

ABOUT STG:
STG is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that operates the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle, Washington. Our mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping these two landmark venues alive and vibrant. STG presents a variety of shows from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and Jazz or comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at both historic theatres in Seattle and at venues throughout Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.

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