They are not ready for shows on the moon. In fact, outernationally actually means within the United States, but this experience is far more intellectual than geographic for Thievery Corporation. For six carefully selected live dates this summer, dubbed the Outernational Music Tour, the band will serve not only as performers but curators in this educational music endeavor.
Assembling an extremely worldly bunch for the occasion, Thievery Corporation have invited Brazilian artists Seu Jorge and Bebel Gilberto, Argentinean soul musician Federico Aubele, and Venezuelan funk band Los Amigos Invisibles to play alongside well-known favorites TV On The Radio, Ladytron, and Gnarls Barkley. Indie rock and world music colliding? How disgustingly bohemian. But with the expert international electronic purveyors of Thievery Corporation playing tastemaker and host, it sounds crazy, but it just might work.
With a broader endgame than eclectic musical flavor, the tour will also feature representatives from the United Nations World Food Programme to support the "global outlook" of the concert series. The World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian group, will aim to raise the awareness of concertgoers about the global hunger crisis and, of course, get their celebrity partners in Thievery Corporation on the cover of Time magazine.
Do your part:
06.20.08 - Greek Theatre - San Francisco CA (with Bebel Gilberto, Los Amigos Invisibles and Federico Aubele)
06.21.08 - Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino - Las Vegas NV (with Gnarls Barkley and Bebel Gilberto)
06.22.08 - Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles CA (with Bebel Gilberto, Los Amigos Invisibles and Federico Aubele)
06.24.08 - Stubb's BBQ - Austin TX (with Ocote Soul Sounds)
06.26.08 - SummerStage - New York NY (with Bebel Gilberto, Turntables on the Hudson and Federico Aubele)
06.28.08 - Merriweather Pavilion - Washington DC (with TV on the Radio, Ladytron, Turntables on the Hudson and Federico Aubele)
