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A Very Special Evening With Pete Yorn
Pete Yorn
You & Me Solo Acoustic
Fri Dec 12
Show at 7:30PM
at La Rosa
16+, $8.63-$296.00
Indie
A Very Special Evening With
Pete Yorn
You & Me Solo Acoustic
Friday, December 12th
16+
This show is standing room only.
Veranda Bar opens at 6pm (21+)
Venue doors open at 6:45pm
Show starts at 7:30pm
Pete Yorn has hit numerous milestones lately. First, his acting debut in Martin Scorceseโs Killers of the Flower Moon, then his 9th top 10 AAA hit, a landmark birthday and now his tenth studio album. The Hard Way (via Shelly Music) is a country-folk blend featuring Yornsโ raw vocals, cinematic strings and vivid, confessional lyrics. The record was co-written and produced by Josh Gudwin. The stunning and succinct 25-minute album features the introspective โSomeday, Someday,โ which Yorn debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Good Morning America in January or 2024, and โReal Good Love,โ which he performed on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Pete performed the title track on Jimmy Kimmel Live in January of 2025. The Hard Way bears proof that it is no wonder SPIN aptly lauds Yorn as โone of his generationโs best songwriters.โ
Pete says, “I was face to face with my own mortality, and that forces you to rise above it and figure out new ways to look at life and change the ways you react to things. It’s not a bummer record, the title comes from [the idea that] change is hard, but [if you] commit to something and if you want to make your life better for everyone around you, including yourself, you have no choice but to do that. It’s a celebratory record, it makes me excited and proud of being able to rise above a lot of adversity in my personal life.”
A New Jersey native equally indebted to Bruce Springsteenโs blue-collar introspection and Lou Reedโs deadpan stream-of-consciousness, Yorn first broke out in 2001 with his extraordinary Columbia Records debut, Musicforthemorningafter. Hailed by NPR as one the yearโs finest, the album garnered RIAA Platinum certification on the strength of its universal acclaim as well as Yornโs relentless appetite for the road. Rolling Stone praised it as โatmospheric, gently lit by sunlight and regret,โ while The Guardian called it โsublime,โ and The AV Club deemed it โthe first chapter in a long and exciting career.โ In the decades that followed, Yorn would go on to solidify his status as a songwritersโ songwriter, releasing nine more critically-acclaimed solo albums and collaborating in the studio with everyone from Frank Black and Peter Buck to Liz Phair and Scarlett Johansson (Yorn and Johanssonโs joint 2009 release, โBreak Up,โ went Platinum in France). With a voice Consequence of Sound described as โruined and forlorn,โ Yorn earned performances on Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel, Ellen, and more, as well dates with artists as varied as R.E.M., Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, and The Chicks, and festival slots from Coachella and Bonnaroo to Glastonbury and Austin City Limits.
In 2019, he released Caretakers, featuring the top 2 AAA single โCalm Down.โ The New Yorker Magazine praised the albumโs โdreamy synths-and-strings jangleโ and in AllMusicโs 4 star review, they described the music as โlush yet spare, tuneful but not forceful, cinematic yet small scale…an appealing blend that sets it apart from most other albums in 2019.”
The Hard Way follows his 2022 LP HAWAII, which earned critical praise from SPIN, American Songwriter, Paste and more. Other recent releases include Pete Yorn Sings the Classics, the artistโs first ever collection of cover songs, Pete Yorn Live At The Troubadour, and The Trilogy: Morning, Day, And Night, a 5 CD box set including the complete audio downloads from his Veeps full album live streams of albums musicforthemorningafter, Day I Forgot and Nightcrawler.
