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Americana artist Annette Conlon to embark on ‘Compassionette Tour’

Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Annette Conlon is hitting the road in support of her critically-acclaimed debut solo album, Life, Death, and the Spaces Between.  Conlon is also seeking to raise awareness of animal cruelty, factory farming, and the many vegan options in music, fashion and food.  The Compassionette Tour will wind through Alabama and North Carolina, head up to Chicago for an evening show in Chicago, then back to Los Angeles, where she will wrap up this fall tour with a Halloween performance at SoCal VegFest in Costa Mesa on October 30.

“I am so excited to share my love for animals and vegan-ism with folks across the country, to show them how easy it is to live more compassionately, from what you eat, to what you wear, and to help folks make the connection that our animal friends are not food,” states Conlon.

Her husband Doug will accompany Conlon on the tour, playing mandolin and banjo and providing background harmonies.   Conlon will be performing on two of her favorite guitars, her Bedell Blackbird Vegan Parlor and her Seagull Artist Studio Concert Hall. Both instruments are made from sustainably-sourced woods and found tone-woods, and the Bedell is 100% vegan, containing no animal products.  Conlon is endorsed by both of these companies.

“We are thrilled to have Annette perform at Chicago VeganMania this year,” says CVM co-founder, Marla Rose. “Annette’s approachable, warm and welcoming style along with her passion for vegan-ism help listeners imagine themselves making steps in this direction. There is so much progress and movement in the mainstreaming of vegan-ism happening today and Annette and her music speaks to that so beautifully.”

The tour kicks off in Nashville at the AmericanaFest on September 24 (Antique Archeology Pickin Corner), before hitting Birmingham the next day (Bluff Park Shopping Center) for Moonlight on the Mountain.  The tour continues with stops in Asheville, North Carolina on September 28 (The Block off Biltmore), Hendersonville, North Carolina on September 29 (Santuary Brewing Company), Chicago for Chicago Veganmania at the Broadway Armory on October 1 and at the Red Line Tap that evening (Heartland Veg Café).

Check out her website and Facebook pages for more info.