The Suitcase Junket Coming To Arden!

Who the bleep is The Suitcase Junket, you ask? He’s this guy (I’m only providing live cuts b/c that’s the way he plays, and he plays everything):

Here’s what you need to know:

Fresh off the release of his critically-acclaimed new album, Mean Dog, Trampoline, The Suitcase Junket makes a triumphant return to the Arden Gild Hall on Friday, May 10, 2019 at 8 p.m.

NPR has already labeled one cut from the album as a ‘song we can’t stop playing’. The Junket’s incredible recent session on the World Café elicited a ‘holey moley’ from host Talia Schlanger. “Dandelion Crown” above is from that session.

The Suitcase Junket is Matt Lorenz. His stage set-up is comprised of items picked out of the garbage and repurposed as instruments, including a guitar rescued from a dumpster, suitcases, gas cans, saw blades, baby shoes, trinkets, and probably something he just picked up this week. He is a skilled multi-instrumentalist, an ace songwriter, and an expressive singer who even brings in the otherworldly harmonics of Tuvan throat-singing for good measure.

He puts on a great show, and there is literally no one like him. America’s best (only?) one-man band. He first appeared here as an opener to rhapsodic audience reaction. This is now probably your last chance to catch him here before we can no longer afford him.

Boston soul songstress Ali McGuirk opens. Tickets are $16 for Arden Club members and $20 for the general public, and are available at ardenconcerts.com and Between Books in Claymont. Also, if you wanna come, you can always get in touch with me. Save yourselves a service charge.

What, you ask, does ‘Mean Dogs, Trampoline’ mean? They’re two things that insurance companies hate to cover. You’re welcome.