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
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)
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
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!
Recently we learned that our dear Elliott Peck was diagnosed with a major health issue that will keep her away from the stage for a few months. Elliott has shared her experience in the post below. To do everything we can to support her in her recovery, we are sad to announce that we will not be performing as Midnight North until Elliott is once again healthy enough to join us on stage.
To that end, we will be cancelling next week’s 4 shows in New England – February 29 at Nectar’s in Burlington, March 1 at Putnam Place in Saratoga Springs, March 2 at Rockwood Boston, and March 3 at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth. Tickets will be refunded at the point of sale.
The 4 shows the following weekend (March 7-10 co-headlining with the Mother Hips) will become Grahame Lesh & Friends shows, with Grahame & the rest of MN doing our best to fill the air with musical healing energy. Those shows are March 7 at the Hamilton in Washington DC, March 8 at Brooklyn Bowl in New York, March 9 at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, and March 10 at Middle Ages Beer Hall in Syracuse.
We will have more information on the rest of our scheduled dates in the Spring in the coming days and weeks.
We appreciate you all for reading and thank you for your positive & healing thoughts, prayers, & support!
One year ago we were at SpaceCamp in Sonoma County with our amazing producer @amyhelmmusic and engineer @jasonreed finishing up the recordings that would become Diamonds in the Zodiac. We had special guest like our friends and fam @phillesh@jasoncrosbymusic come by, and some of these moments were captured by @francesco.echo.
We’re so proud at how this album turned out, and can’t wait to play all these songs for you on tour starting next week
2023! We made a record, put it out into the world, and made music at amazing places with amazing people. Thanks for coming on the journey with us! Here’s to a great 2024
by Sean Reiter from Elliott’s return to the stage w/ GLAF, May 5 at the Novato Hopmonk
