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Announcing Spring Tour 2025

Time for some good news Midnight North fans! It’s been nearly a year since we last toured outside the Bay Area, and we CAN’T WAIT to get back out there and play for you! This Spring, we’re dipping our toes back into the touring waters, visiting some of our favorite people and places on the East Coast – that means YOU and these amazing venues. Notice there’s a little extra breathing room between shows, and that’s on purpose! We’re giving ourselves time to rest, hydrate, and get ready to deliver the best show we can every single night. Let’s make this Midnight North tour one to remember 🔥

All tickets are on-sale this Friday at midnightnorth.com/#tour⬇️

• Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | Soundcheck Studios | Pembroke, MA •

• Friday, March 28, 2025 | Portland House of Music | Portland, ME •

• Sunday, March 30, 2025 | Stowe Cider | Stowe, VT •

• Wednesday, April 2, 2025 | StageOne at FTC | Fairfield, CT •

• Friday, April 4, 2025 | Levon Helm Studios | Woodstock, NY •

• Sunday, April 6, 2025 | The Hamilton Live | Washington, DC •

Spring Tour 2025 Poster
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Midnight North Christmas Songs

It’s that time of year! Last holiday season Midnight North released two Christmas songs! Recorded at The PineBox, we put out the beautiful “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and a fun rendition of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”. These tracks were featured on Americana Vibes album “Americana Christmas” alongside tracks by the The Infamous Stringdusters, The Sweet Lillies, and more!

Stream Midnight North’s rendition of these classics this Christmas season! 🎄🎄🎄

https://music.apple.com/us/album/have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-single/1720558067

https://music.apple.com/us/album/wonderful-christmastime-single/1720558022

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Grahame’s Christmas 7″ Vinyl EP

7" Vinyl EP

A holiday note from Grahame:

I am very honored to be asked to partner with the Nancy Langhorne Foundation to put out a 7″ vinyl EP of Christmas music in support of a wonderful cause. Earlier this year I went into my friend Damian Calcagne’s studio with most of my Grahame Lesh & Friends band (Damian, Justin Mazer, and Midnight North’s Nathan Graham) and we tracked three fantastic rock n roll Christmas songs for your listening pleasure. We called this 7 inch vinyl EP “A California Christmas” and it is available now exclusively on limited edition vinyl! There are just 500 copies, including a signed gold variant.

All proceeds will be donated to support free colon cancer screenings for the underserved in memory of my friend James Casey. Your purchase is a donation to The Nancy Langhorne Foundation. You will receive the records as a thank you gift.

A very happy holidays to all of you <3
– Grahame Lesh

https://www.1223records.com/product/grahame-lesh-a-california-christmas

The vinyl EP features 3 tracks:

Side A:
Christmas All Over Again – originally by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Side B:
All Alone On Christmas – originally performed by Darlene Love
Christmas Calling – originally by Norah Jones

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Lebo and Natalie Guest at our GAMH Show

We’re thrilled to announce some exciting guest musicians to our show this Saturday at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco!

Joining us for this special night are Bay Area legend Dan Lebowitz, who’ll bring his one-of-a-kind guitar magic, the amazing Natalie Cressman with her exquisite trombone skills and gorgeous vocals, and the brilliant Raffi Garabedian adding some soulful saxophone to the magic.

It’s going to be an unforgettable evening of music, and we can’t wait to see you there! 🎶✨

Tickets: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/midnight-north/616278…

Photos by Jamie Soja Photography and Jay Blakesberg Photography

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Announcing GAMH Nov 30th, 2024

First off, we are all so thankful for your well wishes for Elliott’s health these last months. It really has been a special thing to see the outpouring of support and love that has come her way as she recovers!

And now: we are so incredibly thrilled and grateful to be at a point where we can announce a new show! And not just any new show, but a big hometown blowout show at one of the most special venues in the world. Please join us on Saturday, November 30, 2024 in San Francisco at the magical Great American Music Hall!

We’re going to make Midnight North’s return to our favorite San Francisco stage an extra special one. Expect friends, guests, family, and more. We can’t wait to celebrate being back on stage with you all!

– Elliott, Nathan, Grahame, Connor, & TJ ❤️

Tickets go on-sale this Friday, August 16, at 10am PT. See you soon! https://wl.seetickets.us/event/midnight-north/616278…

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News Tomorrow & Some Recent Photos

We’re so thrilled to have some Midnight North news coming tomorrow! We were so happy to be back together playing a couple local festival shows a couple weeks back, our first Midnight North shows since Elliott’s health crisis and her recovery began. As that finishes up, we’re starting to make some plans for later this year, so we can’t wait to share this announcement tomorrow!

We’re all so thankful for your support this year, and we can’t wait to see you again soon – stay tuned!

Photo from our recent shows in Cloverdale by Brian Markovitz (Deadheadland) and from Felton by Denise Lamott

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We’re Back This Friday in Cloverdale, CA

We’re so thrilled to be back!! Our first Midnight North show in many months is THIS FRIDAY July 26 in Cloverdale CA – we’re rocking the Friday Night Live at the Plaza concert series (which is a FREE show) ❤️

Next Friday, August 2, we have another epic show: the Locomotion Festival at Roaring Camp in Felton CA with String Cheese Incident, Hot Buttered Rum, and more.

We’re excited to have 2 special guests joining us for these shows. On July 26 in Cloverdale we’ll be joined by Brian Lesh on guitar and maybe mandolin! And on August 2 in Felton we’ll be joined by the amazing Holly Bowling on keyboards.

These will be special Midnight North shows with some special people joining us – Bay Area, we hope you’re there too! We can’t wait to see you all, and eventually we’ll be back out to see all our favorite spots & people around the country too ✨

Photos by Sam Watson (#1) and Jeffery Bowling (#2)

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Update: Elliott’s Health & Some Festival Dates

Hey friends!

We wanted to share a small update on Elliott’s condition and our plans for the summer (and beyond). As you may have noticed, Elliott has been getting out and playing some music around the Bay Area, which has been so wonderful to see and experience! Having her join Grahame & Nathan at the “Grahame Lesh & Friends” show in Novato earlier this month was a special way to welcome her back to the stage. Since then she’s played a few shows and has a couple on the calendar (plus, a little birdie says to keep an eye on Phil’s Darkstarathon episodes for some EP content coming soon…)

As we shared on our last update a couple months back, her surgery went extremely well and she has been recovering very well. However, while she is still fully recovering, Midnight North won’t be playing any shows away from the Bay Area for a while.

With that in mind, we have 3 awesome festivals planned for this Summer.

The first is the Weiser River Music Fest in Weiser ID, coming up next week. We will be performing at the fest, but unfortunately Elliott will not be able to make the trip, so we will be once again be billed as Grahame Lesh & The North (shoutout Mazer for that band name).

The next 2 events are more local, and thus we are planning for the RETURN OF MIDNIGHT NORTH! On Friday, 7/26, we’ll be at Friday Night Live at the Plaza in Cloverdale, CA. This is a free concert series in downtown Cloverdale, and the perfect return to the stage for Midnight North!

Then the next Friday 8/2, we’ll be at String Cheese Incident’s Locomotion Festival at Roaring Camp in Felton! We love Roaring Camp, we love Felton, and we love SCI – what a perfect way to cap off Elliott’s return w/ MN.

We are very excited to get back onstage as a band & see you all again! Stay tuned – it may be late into 2024 & perhaps 2025 before we get back to any real touring, but we’re already looking forward to seeing our friends all over the country again.

As always, keep the healing love, prayers, and thoughts flowing! It’s working, but there is always more to be done ❤️

– Elliott, Grahame, Connor, TJ & Nathan

📸 by Sean Reiter from Elliott’s return to the stage w/ GLAF, May 5 at the Novato Hopmonk

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An Update for Our Fans & Friends

An update for our dear friends & fans,

We – and especially Elliott – are so thankful for your well wishes for her health these last few weeks. It really has been a special thing to see the outpouring of support and love that has come Elliott’s way as she recovers.

It was a bittersweet weekend last week with our friends the Mother Hips on the east coast. We made some wonderful music, but we missed Elliott so dearly and can’t wait until she is back onstage with us.

Since our last update Elliott underwent a complex surgery to remove the tumor, which was fortunately deemed quite successful. Of course, because of the intensity of the surgery her recovery will not be very fast, so it will be some time before Elliott is back on stage and even longer before she’s back on tour.

Because of that, we are unfortunately going to cancel our upcoming run in Colorado at eTown in Boulder, Cervantes in Denver, and the Lariat in Buena Vista (scheduled for March 28-30). Tickets will be refunded at the point of sale.

Our April shows in the Midwest will go ahead, but similar to last weekend we will be billing them as Grahame Lesh & The North (that’s our buddy Justin Mazer who always refers to us as “the North”). There is no Midnight North without Elliott, so we’ll be holding off on calling ourselves MN until Elliott is ready to lead us onstage ❤️

Stay tuned as we keep you updated beyond the spring, and keep the healing love, thoughts, and prayers flowing!

– Elliott, Nathan, Grahame, Connor, & TJ

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