Ron Pope and the Nighthawks - Release brand new album!!!!

January 2016

Tour, UK / Releaae

Ron Pope will tour will tour with The Nighthwawks!!!

Ron Pope and the Nighthawks’ self-titled debut album is out January 8th on his own label Brooklyn Basement Records. The band will celebrate at New York’s Irving Plaza on January 9th before kicking off a thirty one city tour across the UK and Europe before traversing America. Following his fifth studio album in 2014 and extensive Worldwide touring, the Nashville based Pope began recording new music written on the road with his favorite Brooklyn based musicians who later too the name The Nighthawks.

The recording began in Lake Blue Ridge, Georgia followed by a loft in Louisville and finished up at the Magic Shop in New York. The final album was co-produced by Pope and Grammy award winner Ted Young (The Rolling Stones, Kurt Vile, Grace Potter) with Paul Hammer, Alex Foote, Andrew Pertes, Alex Brumel, Alan Markley and Michael Riddleberger of The Nighthawks.

While recording, the band enlisted filmmaker Kelly Teacher ('No cameras Allowed, Austin to Boston') to create 'One way Ticket', a feature length documentary following the band as they record their debut album and tour the US. The film uses the story of Ron Pope and the Nighthawks as a backdrop to explain the state of the contemporary music industry and how to forge a career in the new digital age. The film will screen at this year’s SXSW

“Here’s a guy who’s figured out how to do this basically by himself, and is really proving the power of streaming music,” - Wallach (Spotify’s D.A.)

As a solo artist, Ron Pope has sold over two million singles to date and averages fifteen million spins a month on Pandora. His songs have been streamed over one hundred and twenty six million times via Spotify, with over one hundred million YouTube views and over fourteen million plays on Soundcloud. His music has been featured on NBC’s 'The Voice', CW’s 'Vampire Diaries' and '90210' and multiple seasons of Fox’s 'So you think you can Dance', which sent two of his albums into the top one hundred on iTunes simultaneously. Pope also guest stared on Nashville as himself last season, so check him out on that... it's well worth seeing.

2016 UK tour dates Below:
January
15th – London, Koko
16th - Manchester, Academy 3
17th - Glasgow, o2 ABC
18th - Belfast, Empire Music Hall
19th - Dublin, Whelan’s