Blind Pilot Live at the Linen

Music from Stanley presents folk-poppers Blind Pilot Live at the Linen Nov. 30

Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames will open

Portland folk-pop favorites Blind Pilot will perform Live at the Linen at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District. All ages. Beer and wine (I.D. required). Tickets are $10 advance or $12 day of show. Advance tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct 29, and are available at the Record Exchange or brownpapertickets.com.

Most recently visiting Boise to open for Josh Ritter, Blind Pilot returns in a headlining role as a six-piece band, a far cry from its beginning as a duo that toured the West Coast on bicycles (twice), becoming national media darlings in the process.

Since those first bicycle-driven tours, Blind Pilot has had one of its singles be chosen as the iTunes Single of the Week (“Go On, Say It”), and the band’s most recent release, 3 Rounds and a Sound, hit No. 13 on the Billboard Top Digital Albums chart and has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition. 

Paste magazine says Blind Pilot “sounds a lot like what James Mercer of The Shins would sound like if he recorded a solo acoustic album. And there are trumpets, lots of trumpets. It’s quite wonderful.” Allmusic.com says Blind Pilot “strikes a balance between mellow folk and West Coast indie pop.” New York Post calls the band’s music “ethereal.” For more information, visit blindpilotmusic.com.

Opening for Blind Pilot are Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames. Veirs will be releasing her seventh full-length album, July Flame, in January 2010. Jim James of My Morning Jacket — who guests on the album — says “Laura's like the queen bee and my ear is her hive; she nests and makes honey in the hairs of my cochlea.” For more information, visit lauraveirs.com.

For more information on the Linen Building and Live at the Linen concert series, contact David Hale at 208.385.0111 or info@thelinenbuilding.com. Visit thelinenbuilding.com and interact with the Linen Building on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

ABOUT THE LINEN BUILDING: Built in 1910 and originally known as the American Laundry Building, the Linen Building Event Center has been transformed into an architecturally unique special events center and art gallery. The two-story facility houses three distinct music venues: a 350-capacity concert hall in a retrofitted warehouse space; an intimate, 150-capacity upstairs performance space; and a 1,500-capacity open-air performance space in the epicenter of Downtown Boise’s Linen District.