Kevin Morby Publicizes This Is a Pageant With Jessica Pratt, Youth Lagoon, Makaya McCraven, and Extra

Kevin Morby has introduced a brand new one-day music competition that he curated. This Is a Pageant, whose title is a nod to Morby’s 2022 album This Is a {Photograph}, is introduced by Noise Pop and set to happen on the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz, California. The competition will function stay units by Jessica Pratt, Youth Lagoon, Makaya McCraven, Ben Kweller, and Blackstarkids, with Morby himself slated to headline. Try the poster beneath.

“Getting requested to host a competition may be very surreal. It looks like a dream through which you’re making an attempt to rationalize how all of those completely different individuals out of your life are one way or the other in the identical place on the similar time,” stated Morby in a press launch. “Within the case of my competition, it’s an absolute dream come true: 5 of my favourite artists spanning the final twenty years of my life all acting at an amphitheater that might be MC’d by my favourite podcast, How Lengthy Gone. Come watch myself, Jessica Pratt, Youth Lagoon, Ben Kweller, Makaya Mccraven, and Blackstarkids share the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz this October—which is to essentially say—come be in my dream!”

Final 12 months, Morby launched Extra Images (A Continuum), a companion piece to This Is a {Photograph}, that includes new variations of songs from that LP. He additionally rolled out Music From Montana Story, his soundtrack contributions to Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s movie of the identical identify starring Haley Lu Richardson and Owen Teague.

Examine Morby’s Singing Noticed at No. 34 in “The 50 Greatest Albums of 2016.”