Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket in Concert May 19, 2012

Glen Phillips started his first band, Toad The Wet Sprocket, in Santa Barbara at age 15. He served as the frontman and main songwriter in the band. It was Toad's third album - the jangling, orchestral Fear - that truly broke the group, garnering heavy radio play with the singles "All I Want" and "Walk on the Ocean."

After three years away from the recording studio, Toad returned to the mainstream with Dulcinea, which again found one of its singles, "Fall Down," in heavy radio rotation. After six albums and a substantial string of hits, the group disbanded in 1998.

Phillips began touring as a solo act after Toad the Wet Sprocket's demise, and has since released 5 solo records and two EPs.

He has also collaborated on other projects: (Mutual Admiration Society and Works Progress Administration (WPA) w/ Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and Luke Bulla from Lyle Lovett’s Large Band), released an EP with Plover (with Neilson Hubbard and Garrison Starr) and an album as RemoteTreeChildren (with Portland's John Askew).

In 2006, Glen toured North America with a reunited Toad the Wet Sprocket. Toad has toured off and on since that time, and in 2011 played 70 shows and decided to begin writing for a new album, to be released late in 2012.

This show will feature Glen Phillips performing in a solo acoustic format. Electroacoustic folk singer / songwriter Robert Lloyd Peeples opens the show.

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