New Merch in the Kellogg Family Store!

We’ve got three new t-shirts, signed setlists, & numbered tour posters! Check them out:

Grab the Milwaukee Shirt here!
Grab the Letter of Hope shirt here!

Grab the Socially Distanced/Emotionally Connected shirt here!

Grab the Virtual Experience Tour Poster here!

Grab a Signed Setlist here!

10th Annual SK Family BBQ Moved to June 2021

Hey there loyal BBQ ticket holders.  . 

We waited as long as we could to see if things would get safer, and tried by moving things to August. It’s just not happening. There’s no safe way for us to ask you guys to travel in from your corners of the country to join us without putting everyone (and their families) at risk. SO- we have moved the entire event to the same original weekend next summer. The new dates are June 11+12, 2021. If you had a hotel reservation, those have moved over too. No need to call the Westin, we handled that for you. You should expect an email from Jammin Java as well, letting you know about the new dates for the concert side of things. There is no action for you to take here. All of your tickets are valid for next year. Thanks for being committed to spending the weekend with us. Next Summer, at the 10th Annual, we will have even more to celebrate!

Hang in there friends!

-Team SK

Jessica, Dale, Shady and SK, of course.

Virtual Tour 2.0 + Book Club with SK Dates!

We’ve got some great news for you. Leg two of The Virtual Experience Tour is here. We’re calling it “Home is Wherever You Are” because we think that lyric has taken on new meaning right now. 

Version 2.0 has some upgrades: New time zones (hello Texas, west coast and Ireland!), new virtual cities and even live streams from a few of our favorite venues! ALL shows on this tour are virtual. We repeat: ALL shows on this tour are virtual. The new exception is that an extremely limited number of in person tickets will be available for those in-venue shows. Like we did in the spring, you’ll have the option of a virtual general admission ticket or a virtual meet and greet. For safe social distancing, we will not be doing in person meet and greets.

For you frequent viewers we’ve added the Season Pass option as well!  For one low price you’ll get a unique code that will let you into to all virtual shows September 1 through November 30.

In honor of the release of SK’s new book (out July 7th available everywhere you get books) we’ve started a virtual book club. Let SK and our moderator lead you and a small group of others through a conversation on how to live a perfectly imperfect life. If you have questions of your own, feel free to bring those too! As with all things SK, EVERYONE is welcome. Come by yourself or join with a friend from across the country! Meet up in SK’s book club. To choose the best date for you, click here.  

We can't wait to see you again!
XO, Team SK

PS: If your summer is looking different than you imagined, and you’ll be spending it in your backyard, email Jessica at jkmartin@marionettemgmt.com if you’d like to host SK for a backyard or virtual concert. Can’t go to the concert? Let the concert come to you!

Good News... This is long, but I hope you'll read it.

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Stephen Kellogg and family here giving each of you a socially distant, but extremely heartfelt, hug.

One week into a national emergency– How ya holding up? Yeah, me too.  As I’ve told my daughters, this is a chance to reveal our character. We don’t like it, we didn’t choose it, but it’s where we are and we’re lucky we’re all such badasses so that we can meet this crisis head on. 

I wanted to give you an update on the upcoming book tour which is scheduled to begin on April 15. It’s going to be happening, but there will be a change of venue. It’s being moved to your living room screens. We have paid deposits and rented non-traditional locales around the country. We’ve invested in the gear for an evening of stories and song. We've hired an amazing crew to work the shows. That hasn’t changed and if at any point in the next two months the government tells us that it’s ok to safely congregate again, we will arrive at these venues in person. But since you’ve purchased tickets and we’ve made a date, I intend to keep that date with you, and because this isn’t quite what either of us expected, I’ve spent the last week working with our new digital partner Lee on a contingency plan that would allow me to deliver the Experience Tour as scheduled, while doing our duty as citizen’s of the world by not putting folks at risk. So what does this mean?

It means that if you have tickets to one of our shows, you will be sent a private link on the week of the show at the email address you used when you got your tickets. At the appointed show time (7:30pm local time for most, excepting our Sunday Matinees), I will come on the screen and perform a full-length, one-of-a-kind, geared towards-your-city, concert for you. As planned, I’ll be sharing stories from the book and my twenty years on the road, taking requests and playing some music. If you purchased a meet and greet ticket those will take place immediately prior to the show on a second private link that we’ll also send you. There we will be able to take digital photos together and chat. I will be happy to answer questions, you can tell me any stories you had hoped to tell me and we’ll have a hang. If you’ve already purchased your tickets you don’t need to do anything, we will be in touch on the week of the event and you’re good to go. 

Even though these are virtual shows, I am only going to sell to the extremely limited capacity that we had planned to offer, because I want you to have the same intimate experience you would have had if we weren’t in this unique situation. As such, 4 of our shows are now sold out–thank you for that. Your support means more to my family and those that work with us than you can ever imagine.

In order to keep our crew working throughout this crisis, they will be available on show days to answer any tech questions you might have. We’ll also have the Kellogg Family assisting during the quarantine, so I’ll have to up my humor game if I’m gonna get any laughs. You’ll be able to post comments and make requests at the shows simply by typing them in. 

Is this a perfect solution? No. But here is what I’m asking you to trust me on:

#1 I am going to show up and deliver my very best at every single one of these events because I know you need it more now than ever. I couldn’t bear the thought of being just another cancellation or rescheduled event and I’m excited to over-deliver for you. We have decided that you’ll be able to keep the link to the meet and greet and watch it again and again. It’s our gift to you for being the best fans in the world.

#2 If you decide to purchase a ticket to a show and by some stroke of luck we are mobile again when that event takes place, we will still stream it from location. Otherwise, all the shows will be broadcast from my home where we are building the stage that I intended to bring to your cities. The good news is that now you can watch from anywhere in the world and if I wasn’t coming to your city, now I am. Plus all the shows will be BYOB, BYOF, and you won’t need to get that sitter after all (-=

#3 Last but not least. You know me. I’m not doing this lightly. I’m not just gonna sit in my office and say “so what did you want to hear?” I’m gonna bring the heat. This will be worth the price of your tickets. I need this as much as I believe you do, and if you’ll bear with us and go ahead and pick up your tickets today for the “Virtual” Experience Tour, I’ll do everything in my power to lift you and your loved ones up.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I’ll be doing a free fireside chat on Facebook Live this Monday at 7pm where I will further explain how it’s all going to work AND I’ve decided to read the introduction to my forthcoming book that evening as well. 

See you later, See you soon,
SK

COVID-19 Experience Tour Update

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Hey friends, 

We want to bring you an update on tour in these uncertain times. Stuff is changing by the day, even by the hour. The Experience Tour 2020 is scheduled to start in just over a month. If it is safe and acceptable for these shows to take place in person, WE WILL BE THERE. 

From where we sit, it’s still too far out to confidently make the call one way or the other. BUT, in the potential case where you’re quarantined, and we’re quarantined by a national mandate, we have been developing a contingency plan so that this doesn’t become another disappointment in a sea of cancellation/reschedule situations. We are not going to let that happen, and the shows will take place on the appointed day, at the appointed hour, even if we have to broadcast from SK’s house to yours. We’ve been on the phone all morning to ensure that should it come to it, we can use technology to create everything from photo op’s to the promised Q & A’s, song request sessions, and beyond. SK is fiercely dedicated to over-delivering and ensuring that if you’re stuck in your house, you can still count on a live, one-of-a-kind experience. He’s coming up with ideas and we’re working on getting them implemented. Again, this is just in case.

In the meantime, we’re still only going to sell tickets to the appropriate venue capacity, because our sincerest hope is that we’re through this trying moment in time to all be together again. That is still the plan. If you’re game to trust in our ability to make this a next level experience, whether in person or virtually, we want you to be able to get your tickets with the confidence that you’re still guaranteed the unique, unforgettable experience that SK is known for delivering. Your support and continued patronage is noted, appreciated, and an inspiration to the Kellogg Family and all of us who work with them. Stay sane, be kind, be cool. We are right there with you every step of the way.

Love, Team SK

TICKETS: https://stephen-kellogg.myshopify.com/collections/experiences/products/the-experience-tour-2020-tickets

DATES:
4.15 Manchester, NH | Bookery
4.16 Burlington, VT | Study Hall
4.17 Northampton, MA | The Parlor Room
4.18 Wethersfield, CT | Heirloom Market
4.19 Shelton, CT | Bar 140
4.24 Philadelphia, PA | Old Swede's Church
4.25 Rochester, NY | Record Archive
4.26 McKees Rocks, PA | Black Forge Coffee
4.28 Chicago, IL | Foxhole | SOLD OUT
4.29 Chicago, IL | Foxhole
5.1 Milwaukee, WI | Mobcraft Beer
5.5 Madison, WI | Table Wine
5.6 Minneapolis, MN | The Loft
5.7 Des Moines, IA | Moberg Gallery
5.8 Lawrence, KS | Watkins Museum
5.9 Boulder, CO | Roots Music Project
5.10 Denver, CO | Industrious
5.14 St Louis, MO | The Novel Neighbor
5.15 Nashville, TN | Thistle Farms
5.16 Atlanta, GA | Sixthman
5.17 Birmingham, AL | Wild Roast Cafe
5.19 Columbus, OH | Wild Goose Creative
5.20 Charlotte, NC | Camp North End
6.2 Boston, MA | Warehouse 11
6.3 New York, NY | Secret Loft

SK To Perform With Some Of Broadway's Finest

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Stephen is honored to be part of an evening of music to support INARA and its continuing and vital mission to provide life-saving and life-changing medical care to refugee children wounded in war. Stephen will be performing as part of the programming along with Morgan James and Jasmine Cephas Jones. The evening is hosted by CNN Host S.E. Cupp, and John Goodwin as well as actor’s Tom Sadowski and Amanda Seyfried. Tickets for the evening available HERE.