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LIBRES ANTES DEL FINAL LIVE SPRING 2026

I am seriously so happy to share these new live dates with you: I am now booking myself on my own worldwide, it’s been hard work getting those dates together, but I am so grateful to the promoters involved for making these happen, and so excited at the thought of playing the new album live for you!
TICKET LINKS IN SONGKICK and THRILL JOCKEY ARTIST PAGE, also FULL CONCERT LIST IN LIVE PAGE HERE.
NEW ADDED DATES:
9-12 April 2026 – Rewire – DEN HAAG, NL 
3 May – Making Time presents Johnny Brenda’s – PHILADELPHIA, PA
11 May – 2220 Arts and Archive – LA, CA 
10 June – TBA – LONDON, UK
22 June – Waking Life Festival – CRATO, PT

I am working on confirming a couple of extra European cities for spring, and there will be more dates in the fall. However, for the US, these will probably be my last dates for a while, as it is highly unlikely I will renew my artist visa after this one expires in September, and as some of you may know, things are very much up in the air as far as the future of artist visas goes.

I have been working hard on rehearsing too, and I’m super pleased with the transitions I have found to make this my most fluid live show so far: it’s going to be me and the Matriarch on stage, absolutely nothing else (well, a small mixer to control volume in case the Matriarch I get for the show has a scratchy volume pot, which can unfortunately happen). 

If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know I had made a decision to stop playing live in 2021, and the relief I felt actually allowed me to reverse my decision a few months afterwards. The concerts I gave for Le jour et la nuit du réel in 2023 and 2024 were some of the most positive I ever gave in terms of the pleasure I felt on a human and artistic level, and confirmed that playing live is a priority for me, one that motivates me to take care of my health both mental and physical even more than I would were it not for the perspective of travelling for these shows and having to be “on top” mentally and physically.

I hope to see you there, and from the bottom of my heart, thank you for your support.

LONG PLAY FESTIVAL AT PUBLIC RECORDS, NYC, SAT, MAY 2 202

Over the past 23 years I have played 260 shows as Colleen, and while I have many fond memories of many shows, I can honestly say that performing at Public Records in September 2023 will forever remain a personal, artistic and professional highlight for me. I had heard about the venue’s renowned sound system designed by Devon Turnbull of OJAS @devonojas
and Global Audio Systems, and really wondered what that was going to sound like with my Moog Grandmother-centered album Le jour et la nuit du réel. During soundcheck with engineer @octavedowner I already thought the sound was truly amazing, powerful yet superbly balanced, but it was only once the room was full and I hit the first chords that I started to *feel* the music literally vibrating inside my body and going through my organs, in the best possible way: I had never felt something like this physically while performing, and while on the rest of that tour I did play venues with exceptionally good sound systems operated by equally excellent sound engineers, nothing came close to replicating the full-body sensory experience of playing at Public Records. 
So to say “I am happy to be back” is an understatement: I absolutely cannot wait to hear and feel what my new, Moog Matriarch-only, pulse-driven album Libres antes del final will sound like in this fabulous room, and I am deeply grateful to Bang on a Can and Public Records for the invitation to be a part of Long Play festival.

AS WELL AS MY RETURN TO PHILLY with MAKING TIME at JOHNNY BRENDA’S, 3rd MAY!

Making up for the fact I couldn’t play at Making Time’s 2023 edition because of the tropical storm that hit the East Coast at that moment!

BOOMKAT REVIEW

Finally, it’s a pleasure to share Boomkat’s really beautiful review of the album, which warmed my heart, as they have been super supportive of my work since 2003! They are based in the UK, so a good option to order the album if you live there.

As always, thank you so much for your support!

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