Notices by Shannon Curtis (shannoncurtis@mastodon.social)

These are the faces of a couple of people whose hearts are SO READY to see you, to hug you, to sing and dance with you, and to wrap ourselves up in MAXIMUM JOY with you … and we’re heading out to start doing all of that, all over the USA, NEXT WEEK. 🎵🚙💨

We’ve designed this 80s kids tour to be a refuge of JOY in the midst of this wildly uncertain time we’re all living in. And I don’t know about you, but I *need* it. 🖤

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Here's where we're going; let’s make plans!
APR 09 #Portland OR
APR 11 #Guerneville CA
APR 12 #Sacramento CA
APR 18 #SanDiego CA
APR 19 #LosAngeles CA
APR 23 #Austin TX
APR 24 #Houston TX
APR 29 #WinstonSalem NC
MAY 03 #Phoenixville PA
MAY 10 #Burlington VT
MAY 15 #Minneapolis MN
MAY 16 #StLouis MO
MAY 18 #CedarRapids IA
May 20 #KansasCity MO
MAY 22 #DesMoines IA
MAY 23 #Omaha NE
MAY 27 #Denver CO
MAY 30 #Boise ID
MAY 31 #BakerCity OR
JUN 06 #Spokane WA
JUN 12 #Seattle WA
JUN 19 #Oakland CA

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If you'd like to come but a ticket purchase is a barrier, please let me or @hilljam know, and we can find you Ticket Angels tickets; we want the room full of friends, and all our shows are need-blind.

And if you’d like to *be* a Ticket Angel for someone else, please message us about that, too! 🫶🏻

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Please come join us for an experience of joyful refuge, cathartic celebration, and wholehearted belonging in a warm community of like-minded friends, wrapped up in synth-driven sounds and a neon-colored bow. ⚡️🕺

If you can, get your tickets today! 🎟️ at https://shannoncurtis.net/tour
Invite a handful of friends to join you! This is the *ultimate* dress-up besties night out.

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So, how sweaty *do* you get in rehearsal, Shannon? 😅 80s kids tour starts in TWO WEEKS, y’all! Do you have your tickets? ⚡️🕺🏽

—> https://shannoncurtis.net/tour

#music #80s #80smusic #synthpop

I've been hearing from a lot of people who are participating in today's National Economic Blackout. (We are, too! The people have power, and it's time we use it 💪🏻)

Using our spending power to support local businesses, creators, and artists today is 100% in the spirit of this collective action.

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So instead of making an online purchase from a corporation, might I suggest getting yourself some concert tickets to see your friendly neighborhood independent artists on their tour this spring? ✅

We guarantee that no billionaire will profit from your ticket purchase. 🥸

Get your tickets for the 80s kids tour today! 🎟️ THANK YOU!! LOVE YOU!! Power to the people. 🖤

https://shannoncurtis.net/tour

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— not to mention the minutiae, the mind-numbing rote tasks, and the constant treadmill of work in running a creative *business*.

I felt so SEEN listening to him speak! (Plus I adore him, so, that was nice 🥰) And he gives some lovely encouragement to keep going, despite it all, because it's important.

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I say "another" because it's been like that around here for ... months? With a brief break at the holidays, and when I was in the hospital last fall, we've been go-go-go-going, nonstop, for months. 🏃♂️

A friend posted a story by Dan Levy in which he talks about how on socials, it looks like art just ... appears! Fully formed! Packaged and ready to go, without any of the (actual, real) struggle, roadblocks, and persistence in the art-making itself — 

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Why was I up until 2 last night? 🤔

Well, if you know me well, you know that seeing that hour is typical around here — late nights suit us and our work. (Also, I think I was probably a cat in a previous life 🐈⬛)

But even so, as I was finally showering and getting ready for bed (in the wee hours!) last night, I realized that we had worked (another!) 12-hour day. 😅

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So ... can I ask you for a simple favor? If you a) already know about our upcoming tour (🎉), and you b) are planning to come to a show near you (⚡️), will you think of 4 friends who you think would enjoy this experience with you and text them *right now* to ask them to come with you? 👯

And then ... will you go get your tickets today? 🎟️ (Early ticket sales help us so, so, so much, I can't underscore it enough! Thank you!) You can find links to all 21 shows (so far!) at https://shannoncurtis.net/tour

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But actually cutting through the noise — of social media, of people's understandably busy lives, of tapped-out attention spans, of democracy straining under the weight of a fascistic takeover (😬) — to simply let people know about the opportunities we're busy creating for us all to share in some JOY with each other on our tour this spring ... it can feel near impossible some days.

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All that said, can I tell you the ONE SINGLE THING that is THE HARDEST thing on our list to accomplish successfully? 👉🏻 It's the act of making sure people know about what we're doing.

It can be so frustrating, honestly, because we have this AMAZINGLY FUN & JOYOUS thing we're doing with 80s kids — I mean, you should have *seen* the excitement during every single one of the "80s kids encores" we did on our tour last fall — when people get a taste of this thing, they are PUMPED.

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So yeah: today, my to-do list will grow, like it seems to grow every day these days, to prepare for our 80s kids album release and tour. It's just a mountain of THINGS TO DO! 😆 But it's good work, and it feels like important work, and I'm grateful to be doing it. And OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS it's going to be WORTH IT, and SO DANG FUN, you don't even know. 🤩

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❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤎🖤 Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone who knows that LOVE is for EVERYBODY, inclusive of all expressions of humanity, and that LOVE doesn’t ever try to control, marginalize, target, or dehumanize any person because of who they are, how they love, what they look like, or what their immigration status is.
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*And to anyone who doesn’t understand and act and vote with a love like that: a very unhappy day to you, be better.

The world is on fire.

The future’s uncertain.

But it’s Friday and you can do something good for yourself like getting concert tickets for the most joyful tour of the year. 👇🏻

Let’s look forward to THIS together!!! 👉🏻 https://shannoncurtis.net/tour-dates/

@hilljam #music #synthpop #80s #80smusic

Y’all. This is just unbelievably cool: DURING our #fedithon today, you all helped us get OVER Goal 3 in our 80s kids campaign! We are amazed and grateful and feeling so supported. Because of you. THANK YOU. ♥️

(We’ll be closing up the campaign portal tonight [Tuesday] at midnight pacific, so there’s still time to get over there and participate if you want — https://shannoncurtis.net 👾)

MASSIVE THANK YOU to @radiofreefedi for hosting us, and thank you everyone who joined in. 🦄

I've been through many periods in my life now — after 50 years of living here on planet Earth — when I have been faced with a sort of opportunity, let’s say, to confront old patterns, old ways of thinking about myself or the world, old beliefs … and it’s never easy or comfortable or even inevitable that I will choose to take up that opportunity.

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Some thoughts n stuff, from someone consistently grappling with how to be a person / artist / woman / member of society, that I wonder if maybe some of you here can relate to.

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And the rut for me in the last week or so — the old pattern, the old belief — is this: it is not ok for you, Shannon, to ask for help.

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