Europe Tour ?

Much as I would love for this to happen, I have kinda resigned myself to the thought that it is very unlikely to happen this year.

Hopefully LU can get the new album out later on this year and come over during next year to promote it.

i’d love a first ever south american tour. is there even a remote possibility of that happening?

thanks for your reply, mr. overby.

i don’t have a clue about the work behind pulling together an international tour, but i gather that it’s not an easy task. you said something about a “right opportunity”, but i can’t imagine what exactly that entails, i wonder if it’s essencial to get someone, a music promoter (is that the right term?) here to start the arrangements? i don’t understand this stuff, but i realize it’s not entirely up to you guys and appreciate the fact that lucinda’s open to the possibility and willing to do it.

i can’t say much about the demand, but i think it’s safe to assume that gigs in south america’s largest cities (especially rio & são paulo, brazil, buenos aires, argentina, and santiago, chile) usually don’t go unnoticed, most of them end up sold out. i was just in são paulo, where i attended some gigs. i never in my life would have guessed that gigs from a newcomer folk band from scotland like trembling bells or john pizzarelli would eventually sold out, but they did. joanna newsom came to são paulo (over 20-million people inhabits the city + a large expat community) in 2007 (touring her YS album), and while i don’t think it was sold out, it attracted a massive amount of fans and newcomers alike. i think the same thing would happen to lucinda. once the show is promoted, people that never heard her before will listen to her songs and things will hopefully work out.

i was pretty much confident in a SA tour after last year’s first ever spanish tour, but this only because it brought lucinda closer to a latin-speaking country. now this seems a pretty silly reason, but i wholeheartedly believe that gigs in brazil/chile/argentina would attract a considerable crowd.

i love girl from ipanema, it’s the unofficial hymm of rio and perhaps of the beginnings of the 60s throughout brazil, before the military dictatorship. sometimes, when i caught myself wondering about a gig here i remember that lucinda included “eclipse”, a particularly hidden jewel from the joão gilberto catalogue (probably because it’s a cover song sung in spanish), in her artist’s choice compilation. it’s like, she knows who he is! ok, of course he is famous worldwide, but she once heard this song performed by a brazilian singer-songwriter and that song stucked in her head ever since. it’s silly, i know. and now that i’m aware of this girl from ipanema trivia, i’ll wonder that lucinda at least once in her life wondered about the beaches of rio…