NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS FROM CHARLIE OTTO + HIS GEAR
last show of 2024
2024 has been the busiest year yet for me + the gear, so much thanks to everyone who came to a show or followed along online. I’m playing one last show, here are the details:
Saturday, November 16
Hunt House Creative Arts Center
113 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174
Music from 8 to 10pm
all ages, $15
Hunt House is a music school and performance venue run by a very talented collaborator of mine, hometown hero Leslie Hunt. She asked that I come out and play my tunes but also describe a bit of the process of making music and videos, and performing them live.
Leslie will come up and perform the tunes we made together, including this one:
lakeview east arts festival
I’m headlining the Lakeview East Arts Festival on Saturday, Sept. 14th. It’s at the corner of Belmont and Broadway in Chicago, it’s all ages, outdoors, very fun.
new album from J. Yellin
I produced an album for longtime friend and collaborator J. Yellin, I think it turned out pretty well. Sounds like Beck and Pete Yorn. Drums by another good friend Nate Urbansky, mix and master by good friend Rollin Weary.
Here is the Spotify link:
new music video “mow the lawn”
“mow the lawn” is a phrase used by Israeli officials and think tanks referring to their periodic bombing of Gaza, which is a place where 2M humans, half of them children,have been trapped by Israel for 20 years.
The video features translations of actual quotes from Israeli officials about the current lawnmowing, which is by far the worst yet, and the quotes reveal that they plan on cutting the blades of grass down past their roots this time, unless we stop them.
One More Time at Logan Square Auditorium
Dec 23, 2023, I’m opening for One More Time, a Daft Punk tribute. this same exact bill happened in March thanks to Wavelength Productions, and they decided it was so fun we had to do it one more time.
For tickets, go to this link:
Last time we did this, I got Great Eye Films to get some footage of my set, and made a full length live video, here it is: