Cleveland, OH - July 16 - Cain Park

JeweLINK Presale: General, presale tickets go on sale to the JeweLINK mailing list for Cleveland this Thursday, April 15 at 10:00 am EST.

I have tickets to the Clio, MI show on July 18. I lived in clio for several years. The show will be held near the Clio park and middle schools. Usually, there is free parking at the middle school. In addition, there is a church nearby that offers a trail to the middle school and theater. For those of you who will need a hotel while you are there, i'd recommed not getting one in clio. Flint is about 20-25 minutes away. There are some nice hotels on the southern side of flint near grand blanc. Clio is north of flint. While you are there, the birch run mall (north of clio) is rather nice.

Next week I have finals and then the semester is over. I'm planning on doing a major overhaul on foolishgames.com during that time. Hopefully i'll get some of it done!

Santa Rosa, CA - June 10 - Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
NEW! Clio, MI - July 17 - Clio Area Amphitheatre

JeweLINK Presale: General, presale tickets go on sale to the JeweLINK mailing list for the above shows this Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00 am PST (Santa Rosa) and 1:00 pm EST (Clio).

Here is another jewel link that I don't have time to post in the links section.. check it out http://www.superiorpics.com/jewel_kilcher/

Jewel's Santa Rosa show is at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts on June 10. The Velvet Rope Backstage (meet Jewel!) and Preferred Tickets for UNEDITED subscribers go on presale on Monday, April 12 at 10 am local time

Just FYI for everyone .

Jewel will be in the double issue of People. The 30th anniversary issue where they feature celebrities who are 30 or turned 30 or are turning 30 soon. I believe there is a picture of Jewel fishing in Alaska as a kid.
Check it out.

Elizabeth, the tennis-ball-whacking angel

The Velvet Rope Backstage (meet Jewel!) and Preferred Tickets for the two of Jewel's June show dates go on presale to UNEDITED TODAY, April 2 at 12:00 noon local time.
These shows include:
- Wente Vineyards in Livermore , CA on June 16
- Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville, WA on June 20.

This was pointed out on the SMOE.org mailing list (from billboard article):

Soon Jewel says fans will be able to take home a true souvenir from her
concerts: a live disc of the show they've just seen. "I never do a set list," she says. "I talk a lot. Every show is so different night-to-night.


"I'm alone on stage for two hours with an audience and you can't lose 'em," she continues. "You have to really stay in touch and keep them entertained with nothing but your guitar, and that takes a lot of skills. And I think if you did some sort of formatted generic set list you would just be completely leaving your audience behind."


At present the plan only allows for sale of the discs at the venue on that night. "Right now we're going to be selling it like a merchandise piece," she says. "You know, you can order it at the beginning of a show and pick it up afterwards. Beyond that, I don't know. There will probably be a demand for swapping shows and all that, but I'm not sure how that will work."

From Billboard!

Jewel Planning 'Lo-Fi' New Album

Jewel's current solo acoustic tour will likely influence the approach she'll take with her next album. The singer/songwriter tells Billboard.com she's planning to make "a really simple, kind of lo-fi record" to follow up last year's "0304," which took her in an unexpected dance/pop direction.

"I've started [working on new material]," she says during a tour break she's spending in Texas. "I always write. I'm fairly prolific. I'm probably going to do a pretty simple record this next year. I've just been touring solo and have a lot of material I'd like to do [suited to that]."

That as-yet-unscheduled next album will be the last under her deal with longtime home Atlantic Records, which is in flux in the wake of an Edgar Bronfman Jr.-led acquisition of the label's parent company, Warner Music Group. Jewel says she'll "have to see what the offer is" before deciding if she'll remain with the label or decide to work with another company.

"I'm in a really unique position," she says. "I have been since my first record. You know, I lived in a car and I was broke and I sold 11 million records on my first record [laughs]. I'm not broke anymore and I have the freedom to do whatever the heck I like."

Armed with just a guitar, Jewel will resume touring April 6 in Charlotte, N.C., and has plans to be on the road in the United States through July. Along with "0304," she is also out in support of her first concert DVD, "Live at Humphrey's by the Bay," released yesterday (March 30) by Eagle Vision.

Recorded in 2001 in San Diego, the disc features the artist performing 13 songs, including the hits "Who Will Save Your Soul," "Hands" and "You Were Meant For Me." Three bonus tracks recorded elsewhere on that tour, as well as an interview, behind-the-scenes tour footage, a photo gallery and discography are also included.

"I think anything that can get you directly to a fan without a lot of middlemen is great. I prefer it," Jewel says of the DVD. "I think I'm better live. I think my personality comes across a lot more; it's a lot more three-dimensional format [than an album]. And, really, rarely does a fan ever get to hear a person talk directly without an outside editor with some kind of agenda working on it. For this, I just think it's a really pure format.

"That was my first night with a new band, literally our first show, so there were a lot of times, just personally, where I was going by the seat of my pants," she remembers. "We all were!"

For more of Billboard.com's conversation with Jewel, visit the Featured Artist section of the site tomorrow (April 1).