TICKETS

$39 + fees
DAY OF SHOW: $44 + fees

Member pre-sale: Thurs, Apr 16, 10 am. Want pre-sale access? Become a Lensic member!
Public sale: Fri, Apr 17, 10 am

For online sales and support contact [email protected] or call 1-877-466-3404. 

In-person sales are available at the Lensic Box Office. 

VENUE INFO: SAN MIGUEL CHAPEL

SEATING: Yes
ALCOHOL: No
OUTSIDE FOOD/DRINK: No
PARKING: Street parking and parking in the Tourism Lot across from Old Santa Fe Trail from teh Capital Building (The Roundhouse)
ADA: Ask for accommodations 

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Bonnie Prince Billy

 
However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and the manner in which we refuse to surrender ourselves. Will Oldham’s new album, We Are Together Again, feels like an answer to these questions. In Oldham’s songs - and in the circle of others who’ve gathered beneath the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy on this endeavor - friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn’t to say that the record is a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, so much as that models defiance by remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon... I’m talking about Oldham’s record, to be sure, but I think the answers he suggests in We Are Together Again speak to the only meaningful choices any of us can make at this point in all of the agonizing everything.  

You can hear it in “Life Is Scary Horses,” when Oldham concedes, “The human times have come and gone.  We must accept our rule is done, though love is sown and will live on. Come to me, let me see your eyes once more before the winter comes again.” The song modulates from minor to major in tone, almost sunny. This could read as irony, but to my ear it’s something closer to grace. That’s the spirit running through We Are Together Again: not denial, but fragile endurance and thankfulness for the moments we have.