Suzanne Langille and Loren Connors celebrate their October birthdays — and the forth-coming release of the Suzanne Langille Songbook 2xCD (Family Vineyard / Feeding Tube) with a night of friends and collaborators. including Alan Licht, Angela Jaeger, Alessandra Novaga, Andrew Burnes, Bill Nace, Byron Coley, Daniel Carter, David Daniell, John Kolodij, Jane Hesser, Laura Ortman, Lin Culbertson, Neel Murgai, Ras Moshe Burnett, Tom Carter, Tom Surgal, Gabriel Martinez, Ronnie Yates, and William Hooker.

Friday Oct. 4 event at Artists Space, NYC will also include a tribute to guitarist Dean Roberts, who had planned to travel from Lisbon to be part of this event but recently passed away. Performance produced by Blank Forms.

It’s finally happening, Loren Connors in Chicago, again.

It was November 1996 the last time Loren was in Chicago for the Yttrium festival organized by Table of the Elements. John Fahey, Tony Conrad, Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino and others shared the Empty Bottle stage over three nights.

Fahey left us is 2001, but his paintings hang with Loren's art for the gallery show I Listen to the Worn Out Rain at Soccer Club Club. It opens Aug. 30 with a 7 p.m. reception — Loren plays solo and with Michael Vallera. The show continues through Oct. 4.

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Acclaimed guitar duo Loren Connors and Alan Licht celebrate their 30-year collaboration in 2023 with the release of their eighth album — At The Top Of The Stairs —and a series of performances. The duo will hold a two-night residence at Café OTO in London on May 5 and 6.

The album is available on streaming applications April 29, followed by LP release on June 9. 

Loren Connors' fantastic "A Coming to Shore" gallery exhibit is now open at Blank Forms through March 25 at the Brooklyn gallery. Seven recent large- and small-scale works are on display. 

"Much like his guitar playing, Connors’s visual works are always slowly transforming: when he runs out of canvas space, the artist paints over 'finished' pieces and starts again, this ritualistic layering contributing to what Aki Onda has described as their 'mystical quality.' Diagnosed with Parkinsons in 1991, Connors’s strength and range of movement are in decline, yet he paints every afternoon, committed to visualizing the intangible. The works on view 'have the feeling of horizon, but not all of them depict horizons,' Connors has said. With gestural swathes of black, gray, yellow, and green, the paintings in 'A Coming to Shore' limn boundaries, the spaces between what is 'beneath, behind, above, below, and within' which have occupied Connors for nearly half a century." — Blank Forms