If you Google Donavon Frankenreiter looking for a music bio and tour itinerary, you’re much more likely to find his surf team roster at the top of the list.
While it’s true that Laguna Beach, Calif., resident is a team rider for Surf Prescriptions with sponsors including Surf Rx, Billabong and Von Zipper, the Jack Johnson protege is a budding acoustic music star as well.
If surfing truly is a way of life, one can tell that Frankenreiter is deadly serious about his music career – because he’s not going to be doing much surfing on his upcoming 35-city North American tour.
In fact, he might want to invest in a nice parka before hitting the ski towns of Colorado starting January 15 in Telluride, before moving on to cities that don’t exactly evoke images of surf, sand or swaying palm trees.
The winter caravan includes stops in Minneapolis, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Atlanta before finally making its way back to the West Coast, where Frankenreiter can break out the board in between gigs in San Diego and Los Angeles.
Then he’ll head up the coast to Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle before tentatively winding down the outing in Vancouver, B.C., March 6th.
Frankenreiter’s eponymous debut was produced by Johnson and released on the his signature label, Bushfire Records. The buzz on this laid back dude has been growing ever since.
The tour marks his first major American outing after a year spent primarily in Europe and Australia when it wasn’t spent catching waves.
Source pollstar.com.
