Jim Becker will play a set at 5:00pm this Sunday, May 30th at Chicago’s Saki Records: 3716 W. Fullerton.

Come celebrate the grand opening weekend event for the lovely new record store in Logan Square — brought to you by the folks at Carrot Top records. A mighty fine record label!

Jim Becker – vox, acoustic guitar, fiddle
Joe Adamik – traps,bass clarinet
Gillian Lisee – bass, vox
Adam Vida – electric guitar, vox

Sunday, May 30th
12:00 Chicago Independent Radio Project DJ
1:00 DJ Barry Phipps (The Coctails)
2:00 Daniel Knox
3:00 DJ Special Guest
4:00 DJ Rian Murphy (Drag City)
5:00 Jim Becker
6:00 DJ Joel Leoschke (kranky)
7:00 DJ Patrick Monaghan (Carrot Top Records)
9:00-? Weegees After-par

If you’ve been dying to see All My Friends Are Funeral Singers but never got the chance to catch the ‘Fone on tour, you may now rejoice! If you did catch the boys on tour but are dying to see the film again (and again and again), you may also rejoice. Everyone else, please rejoice at your own discretion.

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers — Califone’s Sundance-accepted film — is now available for purchase on DVD (LaserDisc coming soon)!

So mosey on over to IndiePix Films or Amazon and get your copy today!

Synopsis:

Zel is a fortune teller. She works out of her century-old house removing clients’ aches and pains, advising gamblers, and channeling cranky spirits for a quick check in with their loved ones. Zel is very good at her chosen profession, but also receives some unique assistance. For as long as she can remember she has shared her home with a group of ghosts — a priest, a bride, a mute child, some washed up vaudevillians and a noisy, sight-impaired group of musicians, who pass on incredible knowledge and abilities from beyond the world of the living.

All goes on at the family homestead as it has for generations, until a mysterious light appears in the woods. The ghosts suddenly realize they are trapped, and forge a rebellion, tormenting Zel with all the aggravation and insanity they can muster. And when Zel uncovers the origins of these spirits, she is forced to choose between her comfortable if strange existence and letting go of the only family she has ever known.

Cal-ee-fone (that’s how my actor/governor pronounces our favorite band’s name whenever he raves about them) will be hitting the road in June for a round trip to Louisville. After that, they’ll make the much shorter commute to Chicago’s RibFest and the Taste of Randolph Street Festival. In August, they’ll play a show at Mass MoCA in The Bay State.

There are a few additional shows floating around (TBA soon), but this could be it for a while. So if you still haven’t seen them — or you haven’t seen them the required 999 times to be in the elite Club Califone (it meets the sixth Thursday of every month on top of The Bean), now’s the time, friends.

Also, don’t forget, Jim, Joe, and the Judy Green have a 10pm Hideout show tonight. Be there!

Califone Summer Dates

6/11/10 – Louisville, KY – The 930 Listening Room
6/12/10 – Chicago, IL – Ribfest
6/20/10 – Chicago, IL – Taste of Randolph Street Festival
8/28/10 – North Adams, MA – MASS MoCA (w/ film)