NPR.org, August 28, 2008 - Mason Jennings left high school in Pittsburgh when he was 16. He wound up in his current home near Minneapolis, where he’s released six full-length albums and started a family.

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At the 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Mason Jennings was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine.  They show some of his live performance at Bonnaroo cut with interview segments…. Enjoy!

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Check out these two live performances aired on Fuel TV’s “The Daily Habit”

“Fighter Girl”

“Soldier Boy”

I hope you are having a great summer. I have been having so much fun and have been traveling a lot. I have been in 4 continents in the last year and hope to make it 5 before too long. I am so excited for the Fall U.S. tour and to bring a lot of the new songs to the stage for the first time.

I am also really excited to have the new website up and running. The bus I am sitting in is actually a restaurant by the side of a gravel road in southern Chile. If the picture had audio, you could hear the sound of a grill sizzling and popping behind the camera as some wonderful sandwiches were being cooked up.

Randomly: Some great books I just read: The Shadow Of The Wind by Zafon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.

And….My cousin asked me last week what my definition of religion is.

Hmmmm…Off the top of my head it is: “A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.”

I’m curious what other people’s definitions are?

Can’t wait to see you guys out there on the road!

Thanks!!!

Mason

Minneapolis, Minnesota

8/13/08

Mason is gearing up for a series of headlining tour dates that include two nights at Bowery Ballroom in NYC, Chicago’s House of Blues, and a performance at DC’s 9:30 club. Label mate and ALO front man, Zach Gill will open all dates starting September 30th to support his July 29th solo release of Zach Gill’s Stuff. 

Sept 13 - Ventura, CA - Ventura Hillsides Music Festival
Sept 19 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
Sept 20 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theater
Sept 27 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits - Zilker Park
Sept 29 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
Sept 30 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
Oct 1 - Washington D.C - 9:30 Club
Oct 2 - New York, NY - Bower Ballroom
Oct 3 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
Oct 4 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
Oct 5 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
Oct 7 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Showcase
Oct 8 - Montreal, QUE - Les Saints
Oct 9 - Toronto, ONT - Mod Club
Oct 10 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews’s Hall
Oct 11 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
Oct 14 - Bloomington, IN - Bluebird Nightclub
Oct 15 - Champaign, IL - Canopy Club
Oct 18 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre

In The Ever has settled in with the hearts of fans and critics alike, landing three and a half stars out of four in American Songwriter and also sliding Jennings into a “Breaking Artist” feature on Rolling Stone.com. Later this summer, Jennings will perform his own version of the song, “Sea Friends” on the hit Nickelodeon show, Yo Gabba Gabba.

Mason recently had two songs featured in the movie and soundtrack for the Bob Dylan film, “I’m Not There.” He also has a song in the upcoming film Ghost Town, staring Rickey Gervais, Tea Leoni, and Greg Kinnear.