Pokey LaFarge - Delmar Hall - St. Louis, MO - 11.09.24

Rhumba Country Tour

Pokey LaFarge

with The Tailspins

Set Times:
Pokey LaFarge – 9:00pm
The Tailspins – 8:00pm
Doors – 7:00pm
*Set times are approximate and subject to change without notice.

About Pokey LaFarge

After crisscrossing the nation for the last half-decade looking for a home, Pokey LaFarge found himself in Mid-Coast Maine. Upon arriving, the Illinois-born singer/songwriter/actor pursued a major life change, working 12-hour days on a local farm—a turn of events that catalyzed an extraordinary burst of creativity and redefined his sense of purpose as an artist. On his new album Rhumba Country, LaFarge reveals his newly heightened devotion to making music that channels pure joy. “There was a time when I glorified sadness because I lost sight of who I was, but now I understand that creating and expressing joy is my gift, and gifts are meant to be shared,” he says. Reclaiming his voice, LaFarge has recorded his boldest album yet. 

Rhumba Country was initially shaped from material that emerged while LaFarge was deep in work on the farm. “I’d be pushing a plow or scattering seeds, and the songs would just come to me,” he recalls. “It was tremendously inspirational and made me realize that apart from singing, farming is perhaps the oldest human art...

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About The Tailspins

he Tailspins hit the ground running as a hand-selected act to support Jack White‘s “Supply Chain Issues” tour in 2022. The husband & wife duo go electric for their latest single “Inmate Number 99” – recorded LIVE in studio the old-fashioned way, engineered & mixed by Josh Jové from Social Distortion, and backed by an all-star band ft. Nicholas Baker from LA LOM on drums, Lakshmi Ramirez from The Groove Empire Orchestra on bass, and Alex Hernandez on baritone sax.