Sufjan Stevens Tours North America

Sufjan Stevens is set to hit the road for an extensive North American tour in fall 2010. The performances will feature fully realized versions of the songs initially debuted during a late 2009 tour of small clubs in which Stevens workshopped several works-in-progress. 

Sufjan Stevens has released eight studio recordings since 2000 including the critically acclaimed Michigan and Illinois (the latter named the "Best Album of the Decade" by Paste); a 5-EP Christmas box set; Enjoy Your Rabbit, an instrumental electronic song cycle based on the animals of the Chinese Zodiac; and the aforementioned The BQE. Run Rabbit Run, a recording of Enjoy Your Rabbit rearranged for the Osso String Quartet, was released in 2009 via Asthmatic Kitty. Stevens has also collaborated with The Danielson Famile, Rosie Thomas, Denison Witmer, My Brightest Diamond and many others.

Steven will perform at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music on November 10.

Tickets for Sufjan Stevens go on sale Friday, August 13 at 10am. All seats are available for $35 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.)

Sufjan Stevens is set to start his fall tour almost a year after releasing his latest LP, The BQE, a fusion of indie folk, experimental rock, and instrumental rock written, composed and mixed by Sufjan himself. The BQE (fully named the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) came nine years after his debut A Sun Came.