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Decemberists Charity Poster Auction Ends Wednesday


Bid on a rare foil variant of Emek/Aaron Horkey limited edition silkscreen poster for the July 17-19, 2009 shows in Redmond, WA and Troutdale, OR. Six of the ten posters available are signed by the band.  The auction benefits The Jeremy Wilson Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping uninsured musicians with their medical bills.  Visit the auction site here: http://bit.ly/9HVOFa

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The Decemberists | News 6.30.10


John Moen here, speaking to you today on behalf of The Decemberists. I am pleased to announce a charity poster auction, which features ten limited edition silkscreen show posters (see image below) and benefits The Jeremy Wilson Foundation.  This foundation is dedicated to helping uninsured and under-insured musicians and their dependents in times of medical crisis.

I wanted to write you personally because Jeremy Wilson is a close friend and former band-mate of mine, who has been dealing with a second round of medical insanity due to a heart condition known as Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome.  Jeremy and I started playing together in the late 80s in a band called the Dharma Bums, and, as is the case for many other musicians, found it extremely difficult to afford health insurance.  The Decemberists are aware that this is a problem shared by many Americans, not just those of us in bands, but we applaud Jeremy's efforts to help others at a time when he could justifiably be thinking solely of his own well-being.

We're offering six posters signed by the band and four unsigned (for the poster-art purist) to help Jeremy kick off fund-raising for the new foundation.  Each poster is an incredibly beautiful and rare foil variant of the collaborative poster designed by Emek and Aaron Horkey for our shows on July 17, 2009 in Redmond, WA and July 18-19, 2009 in Troutdale, OR. To bid on the posters, please visit the auction site.



Sincerely,

John Decemberist

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The Decemberists | News 6.1.10

Points of Order
• The Decemberists to play two shows in the Pacific NW
• Recording of LP #6 well underway

Adored Mailing List Recipients,

Let me, the disembodied voice with which your brain voices everything you read, be the first to welcome you to this moment, this day, this glorious first day of June.  In fact, I would appreciate it if you allowed this selfsame disembodied voice to take on the lilting cadence of an Italian shepherdess, speaking in a charmingly clumsy patois as you both lay supine under a Florentine sun -- you can do that for me, can't you?

Good.

Now:

We Decemberists are appearing live in not one, but two venues in the coming months and we thought it appropriate that we inform you of this happening, since you'd gone so far out of your way as to sign up for our mailing list.  Those two dates are as follows:

September 4, Memorial Stadium at Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
Supporting Bob Dylan with Neko Case.  Tickets and more info here.

September 11, Pioneer Courthouse Square at Music Fest Northwest, Portland, OR.  
Tickets and more info here.

In other Decemberist news, you might be pleased to know that we are currently recording what will no doubt become our SIXTH record at a barn in an undisclosed location near Portland.  Our esteemed management has suggested that you might appreciate a photo documentation of this endeavor, so I conclude by attaching the following snapshot:


Yours truly,


The Decemberists

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Limited Edition Silkscreen Poster for A Benefit For Jessica Schleif on April 30

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