Richard Shindell – 10/23 – SOLD OUT!

Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds that inform his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery and busked in the streets of Paris.

Originally from New York and now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, and inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds and expanding our sense of what a song may be.

Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full-length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play—as each of the eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.”

During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide-open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected, or empathize with those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point of view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the souls of the many varied personalities he casts as narrators—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.

Doors: 5:30 PM
Showtime: 7 PM

Ticket info:
- The 443 is an intimate listening room with table service that seats 75 people.
- Green squares and circles on the floor plan are bar-height tables; orange squares are regular-height tables.
- Most seats are sold as “Tables for Two,” meaning the ticket admits two people.
- A limited number of single seats are available. Single attendees may share a table with other single attendees.
- Multiple tickets purchased under the same name will automatically be seated together, up to six people.
- Requesting a specific table is a perk reserved for VIP Patron members. Membership information is available through the venue.
- For special seating arrangements—such as for a walker, cane, service animal, wheelchair, or low-table requirement—or to be seated with another party, please email the venue after placing your order.