Randomly checking my Bands in town app, what do I see? Heather is performing in April in Berkeley, CA! This is a dream come true. Bucket List! Freight and Salvage is the venue. Yes, US Heather fans...this is real. Yyyyyeeeeessssss!!!!

While this is indeed exciting news, I'd wait for official confirmation before making travel plans: Bandsintown is a GREAT app, a wonderful resource, but also notoriously inaccurate. Anybody can submit "upcoming tour information" to it - I could add a John Lennon solo gig in Fargo, North Dakota for next month if I wanted.

I also noticed Bandsintown indicates Heather will be playing at a place called Jammin Java in Vienna, VA on April 2, 2016.

Her first North American tour in what, 300 years, and she booked a couple of coffee houses?

I am hopeful that this information is true and that additional North American dates will be added and confirmed, but I am pessimistic about it.

http://www.bandsintown.com/HeatherNova
http://www.ticketfly.com/search/?q=heather+nova

Mar 30, 2016 Eddie's Attic Decatur, GA
Apr 02, 2016 Jammin Java Vienna, VA
Apr 19, 2016 Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Berkeley, CA

Eddie's Attic:
http://eddiesattic.com/
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/997431-heather-nova-decatur/

Jammin Java:
http://jamminjava.com/event/994745-heather-nova-vienna/
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/994745-heather-nova-vienna/

Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse:
http://www.freightandsalvage.org/heather-nova
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/998295-heather-nova-berkeley/

Oh wow!!! It looks like it's legit!!! FANTASTIC!!!

http://www.songkick.com/artists/66953-heather-nova/calendar

Wednesday 06 April 2016, The Cutting Room, New York, NY, US
(not yet on venues' homepage)

Saturday 09 April 2016, The Lovin' Cup, Rochester, NY, US
https://lovincup.com/happenings/details.php?id=2289

It looks like all tickets will go on sale on Friday!

I did also find:

April 21 2016, The Hotel Café, Los Angeles CA
https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=4394

Amazing!!!

I will definitely be at the DC show and very likely the NYC one as well. Thinking about also going to the Atlanta show.

Prior commitment means I won't be at the Rochester show. Also won't be at the West Coast ones.

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I wonder if Mishka will open for her? He's played at least one of these venues before. None of the sites mention him, though.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

The Hotel Cafe is TINY. I've seen a lot of shows there, from my good ol' days of living in LA. But nobody as special to me as Heather, not even close. I saw Rachael Yamagata there, and that was great, but not even close to approaching how much I love Heather.

My first-ever Heather concert in a super intimate place, one that I love and miss in a city that I love and miss very much, OMG. I will think I've died and gone to Heaven, and I don't even believe in Heaven. Holy moly I'm excited!!!

Seriously, TINY: https://47006bd19c074195238a-b0b757299 ... 1ebd85daa0.jpg?1376591828

Not to be greedy, but, COME ON MORE WEST COAST DATES!!! :D

You can be greedy!

I'm still hoping for a Silver Spring date.

Portland would be a good fit for her, I'd think. So maybe she'll add a date there.

I'm hopeful for a few midwest shows . . . St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City. So far it looks like the one in Georgia is the closest to home (and I will go to the one in Georgia if that's as close as she gets) but I'm selfishly hoping for a five hour drive or less!

There's a ten day gap between Rochester and Berkeley - I could see room for a Midwest show in between. Seattle or Portland wouldn't surprise me either.

It would make sense to have some shows across the US as they make their way from east to west. I hope you get your wish, Clouseau! If we're wishing, I guess we can all wish for our home cities. :D

As Heather is half-Canadian, I'm pretty sure she will have some Canadian dates, too.

Today Heather confirmed the tour!

Two very similar postings on Facebook:

"Thrilled to announce a confirmed US TOUR in April 2016!! Stay tuned while I figure out how to list all the dates with links using my iPhone (currently on tour bus in Europe so operating without a computer) So happy to be returning to the States with my music. Thanks to all of you who have promised to be there! Xx"

"Thrilled to announce a confirmed US TOUR in April 2016!! Stay tuned while I figure out how to upload all the dates/ticket info using my iPhone (currently on tour bus in Europe without a computer) So happy to be going back to the States. Thanks to all of who have promised to be there! Xx"

https://www.facebook.com/HeatherNovaOfficial/

Although she mentions only April, I think this included the March dates.

No Canada?

I actually searched for Toronto dates cause I had the same thought.

I'd guess it's quite possible she's leaving time to visit the U.S. with her son or for a private concert or two from her Pledge campaign. Given the size of the venues, I don't think she's going to make the same kind of living off of these concerts like she does in Europe. Probably this is more about visiting America, promoting herself a bit here, and giving back to U.S. fans. The ticket prices, I'll note, are extremely affordable.

Note: I have zero inside information and I could be wrong.

I'm so excited. 40 more minutes until I can make my first-ever Heather Nova concert ticket purchase! I became a fan in the last century! Sounds crazy, but it's true! This is an amazing day for me.

I'm actually sick, I came down with a cold. My head hurts, my throat is very sore, my nose is running, my eyes are watery, I sneeze and cough. I'm physically miserable. But I'm so emotionally happy that it doesn't even bother me to be sick. I'm at work, sick, but happy as can be!!! (And doing no work-- I really can't!) EEEEEEEEEE! Squeeeeee!

Sorry you're sick, but I'm happy for you!

Alas, after you buy tickets, you'll have to wait five and a half months for the shows.

We're now like all those teens on Twitter who go crazy about Justin Bieber concerts.

(Except Heather's actually good. )

When you're as deprived as we have been, just having the tickets will be a joy! After waiting about a million years for a show, I can wait five more months for it to happen. Just the fact that it will happen will keep me going.

Now, when you're as deprAved as we are, then you're like a teenager Justin Beiber fan.

Now you've given me the idea to start tweeting my excitement. Except I never tweet anything, so I guess no one will see it. Ha. I wonder if I have followers on Twitter? Probably only my husband, who also never uses Twitter. Well, this is a good time to start, right?

Help! Help! You all post so much I can barely read everything so fast!

The USA folks are going crazy today! And rightfully so!!! <3 IT'S FINALLY OUR TURN! :D

I have friends in Cambridge but I don't think I can make that date. Ah well.

Robin! Portland!

Thanks Bernd keep it comming, I am up to eight shows

I at least got my hometown wish. Here's hoping for Silver Springs and St. Louis!

ALL DATES:

https://www.facebook.com/HeatherNovaOf ... 704790/10153758224884791/

Heather's list on facebook:

Wed, Mar 30, 2016 Eddie's Attic, Decatur (Atlanta), GA (USA)
Thu, Mar 31, 2016 The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN (USA)
Sat, Apr 2, 2016 Jammin Java, Vienna, VA (USA)
Mon, Apr 4, 2016 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD (USA)
Tue, Apr 5, 2016 Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Wed, Apr 6, 2016 The Cutting Room, New York City, NY (USA)
Thu, Apr 7, 2016 Club Passim, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Fri, Apr 8, 2016 The Linda, Albany, NY (USA)
Sat, Apr 9, 2016 The Lovin' Cup, Rochester, NY (USA)
Sun, Apr 10, 2016 Hugh's Room, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Mon, Apr 11, 2016 The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI (USA)
Tue, Apr 12, 2016 S.P.A.C.E., Evanston, IL (USA)
Fri, Apr 15, 2016 Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, OR (USA)
Sat, Apr 16, 2016 The Triple Door, Seattle, WA (USA)
Sun, Apr 17, 2016 The Railway Club, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA (USA)
Thu, Apr 21, 2016 The Hotel Café, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Well, I now have tickets to her shows on the 15th, 16th, 19th and 21st.

Amazing. And she replied to me on Facebook and liked my comments. I feel like a silly little fan girl. But oh well, I guess that's what I am.

I wonder if there will be supporting acts on the US tour?

Looks like some of these don't have tickets on sale yet?

I'll probably go to Nashville and Annapolis but I don't think tickets are available yet for either.

Please do make videos, pictures, and write reports!

We'll do the best we can.

If someone told me Heather was going to do 17 shows in North America next year I would have laughed. This tour list is even more extensive and ambitious than any of my fake ones over the years.

I'll get to five, maybe six of these. She'll probably do all the cool stuff in the second half of the tour. Oh well.

I believe I've checked all the dates now. Tickets are on sale and the events are announced on the venue websites for all but three shows - Nashville, Annapolis, and Albany. Strange that these shows aren't announced yet when all fourteen others are.

It will all be cool, Cassander!

But just to be sure, come out to Portland and see the NW shows with us. You can stay at my house with my crazy family. They love visitors! They are weekend shows after all. :)

If you're serious, I might just take you up on that, Robin!

I have since found out that there's probably nothing to worry about with Bluebird since those shows don't go on sale until a week before the concert. I can't explain Ram's Head (Annapolis) not being on sale though.

Totally serious.

Quote:
Annapolis is announced now:
http://www.ramsheadonstage.com/event/ ... 11-heather-nova-annapolis

I found Vancouver only on Twitter, not on the venue's homepage.
https://twitter.com/RailwayClub/status/663810919361847296

Only Nashville and Albany are still missing. Nashville probably because ticket sales start just one week before. For Albany, I don't know.

Is it possible that there will be at least one HNN member at every concert? That would be great!