Bill Callahan - VENUE CHANGE
w/ special guest Frances Chang
August 20, 2026 • 7:00 pm
DOORS 6:00pm • 21+ without parent or guardian
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BILL CALLAHAN
My Days of 58 is the eighth Bill Callahan album, his first since 2022. The twelve tunes here open uncanny depths of expression as Bill continues to blaze one of the most original songwriting-and-performance trails out there. With My Days of 58, he applies the living, breathing energies of his live shows to the studio process, sharpening his slice-of-life portraiture to cut deeper than ever before.
The core musicians featured on My Days of 58 is the group that toured for 2022’s REALITY: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White, whose synergy was evident in 2024’s live Resuscitate!. This showed Bill, as he puts it, “that they could handle anything I threw at them,” adding:
“Improv/unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes—making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”
With this in mind, Bill prepared the songs with each player separately. Taking a note from songwriter, fan and friend Jerry DeCicca, he recorded the basic tracks for all but one song in a duo with Jim White. Meanwhile, he rehearsed with Matt, guitar to guitar, while asking Dustin to make horn charts for a few songs. Bill:
“I usually just sing a melody to a horn player or let them try a few takes and go from there. This time I thought, why not get some of the record charted out. There’s always room for spontaneity on top of that. And we did indeed throw some off the cuff stuff on top of the charted horns in a couple cases where they weren’t fully doing what I wanted.
With this record I kept thinking of it as a ‘living room record.’ I’m not talking about fidelity at all here. Living room attitude. Living room vibe. Not too loud, not otherworldly. I asked for the horns to be relaxed like someone on the couch playing, not a blast from heaven or hell.”
For more spontaneity and human color, Bill called up several other players: Richard Bowden on fiddle, whom he’d seen playing with Terry Allen and loved; pianist Pat Thrasher; bassist Chris Vreeland; and trombonist Mike St. Clair. About pedal steel player Bill McCullough, who he knew from Knife in the Water, Bill says this:
“He has a real abstract approach to an abstract instrument—he’s a photographer (shot the front and back cover) and sees the steel in the same way as apertures and f-stops—foreground and mid ground and background—blurry and sharp. That’s how I’ve always seen the steel so it’s exciting to share that.
But hobo stew is always the idea—throwing together who I have at hand instead of following a recipe. I’m always learning. I know very little after all these years. I go by gut mostly, but sometimes forget all the possible considerations to consider.
The goal of every record at the recording part of the process is to get thrown out of Eden. Every session starts in Eden but you have to get out of there at some point.”
FRANCES CHANG
Frances Chang is a boundary-pushing songwriter, producer and performer. Born to immigrant parents in Chicago and raised in New York, Chang’s musical practice grew autonomously through bedroom recordings. Her formative live experiences were shaped by her early exposure to DIY punk scenes.
Largely self-taught as a musician, Chang’s output has long been marked by a sense of curiosity and experimentation across her own music, releases alongside collaborators and contributions to film scores. In 2022 Chang self-released support your local nihilist, her first album under her name. During the production of 2024’s Psychedelic Anxiety (Chang’s solo follow-up to support your local nihilist), she began collaborating with Andréa Schiavelli (Eyes of Love). Alongside Schiavelli, Chang formed a live trio with Liza Winter (birthing hips) for the album’s tour. The eclecticism evident in Chang’s music has found parallel expression via interdisciplinary new media projects like her found poetry project ORACLE, based on the I Ching.
In January 2026, Chang released “I can feel the waves,” the A side of a two track 7” which she would bring on a nationwide tour of North America supporting Cate Le Bon. The single, supported with a video co-directed by April Wen, was followed up in April 2026 with “No avatar,” both singles praised by The Guardian
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VENUE CHANGE
We’re on the move! Due to popular demand, this show is being moved to The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co. Please note, the show now will begin at 7 pm. If you previously purchased tickets to the Tumbleroot show, your tickets will be automatically transferred. No action is necessary.
TICKETS
$25 + fees
DAY OF SHOW: $30 + fees
PUBLIC SALE: Wed, Apr 15, 10 am
For online ticketing sales & support, contact support@holdmyticket.com or call 1-877-466-3404.
For in-person sales, visit the Lensic box office.
TICKET UPGRADES
VIEWING DECK: $51
Tickets are now available to watch the concert from the Bridge's new VIP Viewing Deck! See the stage and beyond from the deck on top of the Bridge building. Limited availability.
PREFERRED PARKING: $24
Want guaranteed parking close to the venue? You can now purchase a preferred parking ticket. Limited availability.
For preferred parking holders please present your proof of purchase to the parking attendant as you turn on Fire Place and they will direct you to the location.
VENUE: THE BRIDGE AT SANTA FE BREWING CO.
SEATING: Standing room only unless specifically noted otherwise.
ADA: There is an ADA area with chairs for patrons in need. First come, first served. Check-in at the will-call table upon arrival.
PARKING: There is FREE parking at the venue. Enter Fire Place from HWY 14. There is also a limited first-come first-served paid parking area available for $23 at the end of Fire Place.
ALCOHOL: Yes, bars on-site
OUTSIDE FOOD/DRINK: Outside food is okay, no outside drinks. Food trucks on site.
Please be advised that by entering this event, you are agreeing to being filmed and/or photographed, and the resulting assets may be used for Lensic marketing or promotional purposes. Should you wish not to be photographed or recorded on video, please notify a staff member or one of the event photographers/videographers