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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Georgia">M. Ward Announces Brooklyn Prospect Park Show August 7<sup>th</sup> with Special
Guests Yo La Tengo, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Late Show With David Letterman</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">
Appearance For May 11th<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">Fresh from a blistering set at this past weekend’s Coachella Festival, Portland-based troubadour
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">M Ward</b> has announced a very special New York City show at
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell</b> on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
August 7<sup>th</sup></b>. This <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Celebrate Brooklyn</b> benefit will feature a special guest opening performance by New Jersey’s local heroes
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Yo La Tengo</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">Tickets are on sale Friday 20<sup>th</sup> April at noon :
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/performing-arts">http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/performing-arts</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">M Ward
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">is currently on tour of the US and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
</b>will has added a stop at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> CBS’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
Late Show With David Letterman</i> </b>on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> May 11<sup>th</sup>.</b> Tune in at 11.35/ 10.35 central.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">M Ward</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia"> released his critically acclaimed
seventh solo album <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">A Wasteland Companion</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
</i>(Merge)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> </i>on April 10<sup>th</sup>.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Watch Ward and his band bring the magic to Conan O’Brien’s studio last week:
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://teamcoco.com/video/m-ward-primitive-girl">http://teamcoco.com/video/m-ward-primitive-girl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#262626"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">…Ward's
songs are at their best, and at their most enduring, when his songwriting bears the weight of mistakes made and life lived<i>.</i>” -
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">NPR</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">“Ward
sheds his old-blues-man tics for a soul-folk croon – and the guitars, as usual, are sublime” –
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Rolling Stone<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Upcoming Tour Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">(Newly added dates in
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">bold</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">April 16
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>San Diego, CA @ Belly Up **SOLD OUT**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">April 17<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom **SOLD OUT**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">April 18<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Flagstaff, AZ @ The Orpheum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">April 20<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Indio, CA @ Coachella **SOLD OUT**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 5<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Portland, ME @ State Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 6<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 7<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>New Haven, CT @ Toads Place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 8<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Boston, MA @ House of Blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 11<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>New York, NY @ Webster Hall ** SOLD OUT** /<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Late Show With David Letterman</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 12<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Philadelphia, PA @Union Transfer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 13<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club **SOLD OUT**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 15<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Durham, NC @ Duke Performances at Page Auditorium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 16<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 17<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 22<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia">May 24<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Aug 7<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park Bandshell #<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Jonathan Richman supports 4/11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">fIREHOSE supports 4/12,
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">4/16</span>-4/18<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Lee Ranaldo Band supports 5/5-5/22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"># with Yo La Tengo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://mwardmusic.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://mwardmusic.com/</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mwardmusic"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.facebook.com/mwardmusic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Twitter: @mwardtweeting</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia">For more information, contact Chloe Walsh (<a href="mailto:chloe@pressherepublicity.com)/">chloe@pressherepublicity.com)/</a>
Carina Contreras (<a href="mailto:carina@pressherepublicity.com">carina@pressherepublicity.com</a>) 212 246 2640<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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