Rachel Harrington: News

Opening for Steve Azar at the Triple Door in Seattle. Steve had a #2 hit on the country charts in 2001 and is making a return to his gritty, barebones roots - a show not to miss! www.steveazar.com
NW Pickathon coming up on the 13th - this is the Northwest's premier Americana festival. Sharing the stage with The Be Good Tanyas, Jolie Holland, Po' Girl, Danny Barnes, Tracy Grammer, and many others! www.pickathon.com

Opening for Eliza Gilkyson www.elizagilkyson.com at the Tractor in Seattle on July 12, and then on August 2, opening there for The Believers www.thebelieversusa.com!

(I'm just back from my first visit to the Kate Wolf Memorial Folk Festival. Spent the three-day weekend camping, listening to great music, and meeting some wonderful new folks. If you've never been, you should go next year - it was totally amazing! http://www.katewolf.com/festival/index.htm)

Opening for Jim Lauderdale www.jimlauderdale.com on May 19 at the Sunset in Ballard.

Working on the new website . . . in progress.

Halloween Leaves spent 13 weeks on the Americana chart (AMA) in the US in 2004!!

And Rachel got a very favorable mention in the recent Rolling Stone (Germany) for her work on Markus Rill's newest CD. Check out the review page . . .

Touring in Europe . . .

Rachel's been booked on her first European tour ever. She'll be playing the prestigious Hillbilly Guesthouse festival in Neusuedende/Germany on October 23. In November she'll be playing select solo and duo dates, and in December she'll play a short tour of Germany culminating in a big country-rockin' New Year's eve bash on the island of Usedom.

::august 2004:: Lots of new shows being added for both August and September before Rachel returns to Europe for the fall. She plans to be back in the great northwest in January. Stay tuned for details. Halloween Leaves is now available at Tower Records, at Sonic Boom Records, and at Easy Street Records!

Much thanks to Chad Hinman for the invitation to play the Tractor. What a great time we all had!! And thanks to everyone who came out to see the show!


::july 2004:: Rachel is currently in Europe. Several new shows have been scheduled in the northwest for late summer, including a performance at the legendary Tractor Tavern on Thursday, July 29 with fellow alt-country artists Chad Hinman <www.chadhinman.com> and the Kitchen Syncopators <www.kitchensyncopators.com> . Hope to see you there!


::june 2004:: Three great new reviews from Texas Troubadours, Rootstown, and Altcountry.nl. Thank you!!


::march 2004:: Halloween Leaves is receiving airplay at radio stations in Belgium, Germany and the US. Special thanks to Ray Pieters, Gerd Stassen, and Dan Herman.

Click here to vote for Rachel as often as once per day from February 27 through March 26 for Rachel to receive a "Gem of the Week" spotlight for new artists on Radio Crystal Blue!


::february 2004:: Two outstanding reviews of Halloween Leaves on the media page from Ronald Vos at Ron's Alt Country and from Benny Metten at Ctrl.Alt.Country - Thank you both! Rachel provided backup vocals on a record released this month from Clay Bartlett <www.claybartlett.com> called "Fixin' to Break Down." Read more about this upstart here. Rachel has been accepted as a Performing Member of the esteemed women's independent music collective Indiegrrl www.indiegrrl.com.


::january 2004:: Rachel's short story, "Emptyroom," will be published in the Fall, 2004 issue of the Raven Chronicles, which will be available at independent book sellers in the northwest, or you can order it online at www.ravenchronicles.org

::december 2003:: rachelharrington.net officially launches.


::november 2003:: 4 song demo completed. The self produced CD includes "My Morphine" by Gillian Welch, "Hickory Wind" by Gram Parsons, Rachel's own "Halloween Leaves" and Otis Redding classic "That's How Strong My Love Is."