Penny & Sparrow w/sg Caleb Elliott

Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104 | Ann Arbor

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Penny & Sparrow w\/sg Caleb Elliott
Tickets on sale Friday 10/3 @10am; VIP packages availalbe (see below)
The last album from Penny and Sparrow, Olly Olly, was a work of revelation and liberation. A search for and an embrace of the self. I imagine they were left with a headscratcher of a question: well, shit. Where do you go from there?
Fortunately, they listened to the wizard and followed their noses backwards to find their way forward.
Aiming to strip away pretense and invite experimentation, they commandeered a garden shed from a friend and retrofitted it to make a twenty-track album that is vast, weird, and wholly unexpected.
If Lefty is anything, it is the journal of Penny and Sparrow’s inner child. Dog-eared, lock busted open. On its pages the sketches of dreams, nightmares, erotica, and literary fan fiction graffiti the margins of poetry, elegies, and love letters in the wild colors of saxophone blue, electronic pink, and blood harmony red.
Beautifully varied and richly rendered, it is an album that wanders from theme to theme, style to style, exultation to tragedy. Yet it is never lost. If anything, it is at play.
United by its intimate vocals and aching harmonies, its acoustic laments trickle into ethereal pop only to surge into whimsical ballads and crest into grand hooligan anthems that sway gently down to familiar shores where melancholic ballads tell of love lost, found, forgotten, and remembered.
Andy and Kyle have written some albums in blood. Others they’ve whispered to the sea. This one they danced in the sky with smiles on their faces. Lefty feels like not just a celebration of their journey beyond the bounds of their traditional genre, but as if they have rediscovered the joy in music by honoring the sounds that inspired two boys growing up in Texas to one day make the damn stuff themselves.
–Pierce Brown, author and friend

VIP includes:

One general admission ticket
Early entry into the venue
Access to an intimate pre-show soundcheck party (2-3 songs)
Q&A with Penny & Sparrow
Limited edition tour poster; autographed by Penny & Sparrow
Crowd Free Merchandise Shopping
Limited availability

Early Entry includes:
One general admission ticket
Early entry into the venue
Limited edition tour poster; autographed by Penny & Sparrow
Crowd Free Merchandise Shopping
Limited availability

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316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104

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