TUESDAY 12TH JUNE

Gruff Rhys will embark on his second investigative concert tour in August. The first, that was documented by Dylan Goch for their award winning feature film Separado! saw Rhys playing detective and singing at shows as he searched for his long lost guitar playing, poncho wearing uncle, Rene Griffiths through South America.

For the latest tour Rhys will follow the trail and search for the grave of his extremely great uncle Don Juan Evans* who left Wales and his life as a farm hand in 1792 to search for a mythical tribe of abandoned Welsh speaking Native Americans.
Tired and broke, he eventually died out of his mind at 29 in a disease ridden New Orleans having left a trail of chaos through the USA.

Initially landing in Baltimore, he left Pennsylvania in 1794 and walked into the wilderness with $1.75 in his pocket, wrestled river monsters in the Mississippi, hunted Bison with the Omaha tribe, defected to the Spanish in St Louis, discovered imaginary volcanos in Missouri, annexed North Dakota from the British, and created the map that Lewis and Clarke used to go west.

The shows will be documented by Goch again and will be featured in their presently untitled second feature film, album and book project.

Rhys urges any one with any clues to Evans' burial place or any imaginary volcanos, wandering tribes of Welsh Speakers or river reptiles out there to come to the shows where they can be interviewed by Rhys for the movie and help out with his investigations. The general public also most welcome.

A second leg will be added taking in North and South Dakota in a few months time. Also look out for some unscheduled appearances in August in some pretty random yet highly significant locations.

*Born as John Evans, he transformed himself in a Bowie style re-invention in Spanish controlled St Louis, defecting to Spain and becoming Don Juan Evans.

Gruff

Thu-July-05 Exeter
Fri-July-06 Royal Festival Hall with Cate Le Bon and Y Niwl **performing Hotel Shampoo in full**

Join the Investigative Concert Tour!

Thu-Aug-02 New Haven, CT Yale University Beineke Library
Sat-Aug-04 Baltimore, MD Golden West Caf
Sun-Aug-05 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Tue-Aug-07 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe
Thu-Aug-09 Cincinnati, OH CAC Black Box Theatre at Contemporary Arts Center
Sun-Aug-12 St. Louis, MO Contemporary Art Museum
Tues-Aug-14 Omaha, NE Slowdown Jr.
Thu-Aug-16 Columbia, MO Les Bourgeois Vineyards
Sat-Aug-18 Memphis, TN Hi-Tone
Wed-Aug-22 New Orleans, LA One-Eyed Jacks

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