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Brooklyn-based Clare and the Reasons, fronted by Clare and Olivier Manchon, will be on the road with the legendary Van Dyke Parks for a fall tour.

The concerts will offer a set from Clare and the Reasons, followed by a set from Van Dyke Parks, backed by the Reasons. Parks will perform new renditions of songs from the classic Song Cycle as well as newly written songs, never before performed live.

The two recently performed their double-bill concerts at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Richard Thompson's Meltdown Festival in the UK and Paradiso in Amsterdam.  They also played a string of dates together last February on the west coast.

Most recently, both artists have been indulging their orchestral sides, as Parks played Roskilde with a symphony orchestra and Clare and the Reasons played with members of the Orchestre de Paris, the Paris Opera, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Royal Swedish Philharmonic.

Clare and the Reasons will tour Europe later in the fall, including a performance with a symphony orchestra in Paris.

Collaboratively, the two are developing a project with an orchestra that Parks has been working on for over a decade: highlighting Depression Era radio music, with focus on songs never brought to disc or digital release. Aiming for symphonic arenas, it'll feature the arranging skills of Parks and Olivier Manchon.