THE BELLE BRIGADE ANNOUNCE FALL TOUR DATES

THE BELLE BRIGADE ANNOUNCE FALL TOUR DATES CRITICALLY HERALDED SIBLING-FRONTED BAND HITS THE ROAD IN OCTOBER WITH GROUPE LOVE, FOLLOWED BY DATES WITH BLITZEN TRAPPER AND DAWES AUGUST 4, 2011 - Burbank, CA - Having just wrapped a summer-long tour with k.d. lang, Los Angeles' The Belle Brigade have announced that they will hit the road this fall for a series of dates with Groupe Love, followed by a tour with Blitzen Trapper and Dawes. Please see below for more details. Fronted by siblings Barbara and Ethan Gruska, and backed by their talented band (bassist Keith Karmen, keyboardist, electric guitarist Ben Cassorla, electric guitarist Harlan Silverman and drummer Mike Green), The Belle Brigade are touring in support of their self-titled debut album, which has been critically praised by Spin, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Nylon, and the LA Weekly. The group has performed on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! and TBS's Conan, bringing their "winsome SoCal folk-rock and big, sunny Americana-infused pop songs" (as Nylon put it) to a national television audience. Watch clips of their performances, as well as the video for their first single "Losers," athttp://www.thebellebrigade.com/. Inspired by Barbara and Ethan's love for Fleetwood Mac, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, and Stevie Wonder, The Belle Brigade's debut album is chock-full of artfully arranged, freewheeling songs that brim with breezy, California melodies and bracing pop harmonies, fueled by the driving rhythms Barbara plays on drums. A longtime fixture on the Los Angeles music scene, Barbara is a sought-after live drummer who toured with Inara George and Jenny Lewis before she picked up a guitar and formed the band with her singer-songwriter younger brother Ethan two years ago. Raised in a musical family (their father is songwriter/composer Jay Gruska and their maternal grandfather is renowned film composer John Williams), Barbara and Ethan have a strong familial chemistry, which, along with their obvious songwriting gifts, has resulted in one of the most thrilling debut albums of the year. The Belle Brigade's fall tour dates are as follows: 08/28/11 Los Angeles, CA Sunset Junction Street Fair 09/01/11 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion 09/02/11 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre 09/17/11 Austin, TX Austin City Limits With Groupe Love: 10/05 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater 10/06 Madison, WI The Frequency 10/11 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge 10/13 Atlanta, GA Masquerade - Purgatory Stage 10/17 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks 10/20 Austin, TX Emo's Alternative Lounge 10/21 Dallas, TX The Prophet Bar 10/22 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's With Blitzen Trapper and Dawes: 10/27 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts 10/28 Boston, MA Royale Nightclub 10/30 Toronto, ON The Opera House 11/01 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom & Tavern 11/02 Grand Rapids, MI Calvin College Fine Arts Center 11/03 Chicago, IL Metro 11/05 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall 11/07 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre 11/10 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre 11/11 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market 11/13 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre 11/15 San Francisco, CA Fillmore For more about The Belle Brigade, visit: http://www.thebellebrigade.com/ www.myspace.com/thebellebrigade http://twitter.com/thebellebrigade http://www.facebook.com/TheBelleBrigade