Joe Russo took to social media today to announce a lineup shift for the Selcouth Quartet shows slated for this weekend. Russo disclosed that Billy Martin, the acclaimed Medeski Martin & Wood drummer booked to open for four of the quartet’s performances this spring, will be absent from the band’s final pair this weekend due to illness. In lieu of Martin’s opening sets, Russo has tapped Tom Hamilton, best known for contributing guitar and vocals to Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, to open for the group on March 20 and 21.
Hamilton will join the band tomorrow, March 20, at Ardmore, Pa.’s Ardmore Music Hall and again on Thursday, March 21, at Washington’s The Hamilton. Much as Martin performed solo to open the quartet’s first 2024 engagements last month, Hamilton will present a solo ambient guitar set before each of these shows. This news follows Hamilton’s announcement that he will tour with a new solo band for the first time in April, beginning with an April 15 performance at Portland, Me.’s Portland House of Music.
This weekend, Selcouth Quartet will close out its first 2024 run with a set at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn. on March 23. The band will continue in May with a late-night set during New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, taking the stage of New Orleans’ Toulouse Theatre on May 3. For more information on the band’s upcoming performances, click here.
