Acclaimed folk singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega is back with Flying With Angels, a brand new LP, due for release on May 2 via Cooking Vinyl. This will be Vega's first album of new songs not based on other material since 2014's Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles. (2020's Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers featured ten songs inspired by McCullers' writing, and were co-written with Duncan Sheik and Michael Jefry Stevens.)

The has also shared a brand new single in the form of "Speakers' Corner", which was directed/animated by Michael Arthur. Listen and watch below:

Vega says the new song was inspired by the way social media has led to people speaking their minds with somewhat wild abandon, sometimes abusing that power. She goes on:

"That’s something you don’t want in democracy: the shutting down of the Speakers’ Corner where people get a say. This is a moment in time when people are saying a lot, but sometimes they’re not making sense or not telling the truth. People should be accountable for what they say. They can’t just lie. One would think that that would be self-evident."

Flying With Angels, which includes previously-shared single "Rats", was produced with Gerry Leonard, Vega's longtime guitarist and collaborator. Vega says "Each song on the album takes place in an atmosphere of struggle ... Struggle to survive, to speak, to dominate, to win, to escape, to help someone else, or just live."

To celebrate, the Vega will be heading out on a "career-spanning" tour across North America and Europe, with newly-announced shows including New York's Town Hall and Three Rivers Arts Fest in Pittsburgh.

Flying With Angels is out May 2. Preorder here. Full tracklist below:

1. Speakers’ Corner
2. Flying With Angels
3. Witch
4. Chambermaid
5. Love Thief
6. Lucinda
7. Last Train From Mariupol
8. Alley
9. Rats
10. Galway

Tour Dates:

03/06 East Greenwich, RI @ Greenwich Odeum
03/07 Turners Falls, MA @ The Shea Theater
03/08 Homer, NY @ Center for the Arts of Homer
03/10 Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall
03/11 Toronto, ON @ Lula Lounge
03/12 Toronto, ON @ Lula Lounge
03/15 Minneapolis, MN @ Dakota
03/16 Minneapolis, MN @ Dakota
03/19 Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music
03/20 Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theatre
03/21 St. Louis, MO @ The Sheldon Concert Hall
03/23 Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music
03/24 Indianapolis, IN @ The Tobias Theater
06/08 Pittsburgh, PA @ Three Rivers Arts Festival
06/10 Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
06/11 Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
06/13 Amagansett, NY @ The Stephen Talkhouse
06/14 New York, NY @ Town Hall *
06/15 Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse
09/30 Amsterdam, NL @ Royal Theater Carré
10/02 Rotterdam, NL @ Nieuwe Luxor
10/04 Munich, DE @ Isarphilharmonie
10/06 Hamburg, DE @ CCH Saal Z
10/08 Berlin, DE @ Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie
10/10 Brussels, BE @ Bozar
10/12 Antwerp, BE @ Queen Elisabeth Hall
10/13 Esch-sur-Alzette, LU @ Rockhal Club
10/15 Offenbach, DE @ Capitol
10/16 Koln, DE @ Theater am Tansbrunnen
10/19 Gateshead, UK @ Sage Gateshead (The Glasshouse Int’l Centre for Music)
10/20 Manchester, UK @ Bridgewater Hall
10/21 Glasgow, UK @ Royal Concert Hall
10/23 Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall
10/25 Liverpool, UK @ Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
10/27 Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange
10/28 Brighton, UK @ Dome
10/30 Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
10/31 Birmingham, UK @ Symphony Hall
11/01 Stoke, UK @ Regent Theatre
11/03 London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall

*with special guests Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche

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