Zo! & Tall Black Guy – 2023/2024 Abstractions Tour

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Feb 17 in Philadelphia, PA (City Winery) • Feb 18 in Atlanta, GA (City Winery)Apr 18 in Oakland, CA (Yoshi’s) • May 7 in Escondido, CA (California Center for the Arts) • May 21 in Washington, D.C. (Pearl Street Warehouse) • Jun 17 in Baltimore, MD (AFRAM Festival) • Jul 03 in St. Louis (City Winery) • Jul 04 in Chicago, IL (City Winery) • Jul 08 in Detroit, MI (El Club) • Aug 26 in Waterbury, CT (SOUFEST at Silas Bronson Library Park) • Oct 07 in Durham, NC (Made In Durham: A Little Brother Block Party at Missy Lane’s Assembly Room) • Oct 27 in Houston, TX (The Studio at Warehouse Live) • Nov 16 in Dallas, TX (Sandaga 813) • Nov 24 in Washington, D.C. (Pearl Street Warehouse) • Nov 25 in Washington, D.C. (Pearl Street Warehouse) • Dec 14 in Oakland, CA (Yoshi’s) • Jan 26 in Detroit, MI (Sound Board Theater) • Feb 25 in London, UK (The Jazz Café)

2012 in Pictures

"...Give is up for Lorenzo Ferguson a/k/a Zo!, ya'll!!" © Phonte in LA • Photo by Kris Perry (Oct. 2012)

“…Give it up for Lorenzo Ferguson a/k/a Zo!, y’all!!” © Phonte in LA • Photo by Kris Perry (Oct. 2012)

2012 has been another helluva year. I got to do some traveling and play shows in LA, NYC, DC, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, St. Louis, Bethesda, MD, Greensboro, NC, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Columbia MD, Boston, Virginia Beach, Raleigh, Vienna, VA, Memphis, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and Phoenix …..and Durham, NC for this coming New Year’s Eve. I completed my first year as a full-time musician after the school I taught music at closed last year – I was then able to continue teaching by conducting individual piano lessons and workshop to groups of young ones. I began endorsing Moog Music, received another standing ovation during a performance back home in Detroit, and got the bulk of the recording finished for my newest album ManMade. Sy Smith and I did some touring this year playing big solo shows at DC’s Blues Alley and NYC’s Blue Note and received big performance props from Sheila E while I was back on the road with The Foreign Exchange who wrapped up performances for an album we have been touring for two years, Authenticity. I hit my ten-year anniversary of releasing music as well. Outside of all that, it was a fairly quiet twelve months……….

…Looking forward to 2013. Enjoy the photos!!