DIGITAL RELEASE EXPANDS ON JUNE'S ACCLAIMED 2021 LP, INCLUDING SIX ACOUSTIC RE-IMAGINATIONS AND THREE BRAND-NEW THEMED COVER SELECTIONS 

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR JUNE'S 2022 HEADLINING TOUR BEGINNING MARCH 31 IN SEATTLE, WA 
WITH STOPS IN VANCOUVER AND TORONTO 

LISTEN TO VALERIE JUNE'S COVER OF
NICK DRAKE'S CLASSIC PINK MOON HERE

TORONTO, ON – January 21, 2022 – Valerie June’s latest album, The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers, was one of 2021’s most celebrated releases. Today, the GRAMMY-nominated, genre-busting artist expands the album’s visionary scope with a special digital Deluxe Edition featuring 23 tracks in all: The Moon and Stars’ 14 original tracks, six reimagined, acoustic versions plus three brand-new covers that align with the album’s theme: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, John Lennon’s Imagine and Stephen Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer. Listen to Pink Moon here.
 
The Deluxe Edition’s six reimagined album tracks include the previously shared Within You (Moon And Stars/Acoustic), Why The Bright Stars Glow (Moon And Stars/Acoustic) featuring Mavis Staples, and You And I (Moon And Stars/Acoustic) along with three previously unreleased acoustic versions of the songs, Smile, Stardust Scattering, and Stay.
 
Buy/Stream The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Deluxe Edition) here
 
“This Deluxe Edition reimagines a few of the album’s key tracks in a stripped-down acoustic setting that offer intimate takes of some the album's richest arrangements,” June explains. “Listening to the original album versions alongside these acoustic arrangements shows the life of each song and how they can be appreciated both with luscious layers and in their simplest forms.  Songs are living entities, and it's always lovely to watch how a song with a huge arrangement can still touch a listener even in its simplicity.” 

June achieved many career highlights this past year. Upon its release last spring, The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers quickly became one of the year’s most acclaimed albums and landed on numerous ‘Best Of’ lists in 2021 including Rolling Stone, NPR, and Bitter Southerner. Additionally, one of its tracks, Call Me A Fool, featuring Stax legend, Carla Thomas, was nominated for Best American Roots Song at the upcoming 64^th GRAMMY Awards, the first nomination of June’s illustrious career.  Also, You and I, the gorgeous lead track from The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers was featured in Apple’s latest #ShotOniPhone Holiday ad. The poignant short film is called Saving Simon and was directed by Oscar® Nominee Jason Reitman and his father, Oscar® Nominee, Ivan Reitman. Watch the full-length version here.
 
The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers, produced by June and Jack Splash, is sweeping and ambitious with earthy R&B production and a touch of psychedelia amidst its astral folk-pop orchestration. Uncut called it “a psychedelic tour de force” that is “powerfully, elegantly subversive,” and Rolling Stone proclaimed it, “career making.” At the centre is June’s spellbinding vocals and infectious sense of wonder that finds the Brooklyn-via-Memphis artist narrating the often-precarious journey to joyful possibility. The follow-up to her 2013 breakthrough, Pushin’ Against A Stone, and the widely adored The Order of Time—a 2017 effort that earned the admiration of Bob Dylan and landed on best-of-the-year lists—The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers is a transportive, deeply affecting work - a potent catalyst for those foolish enough to dream. 
 
Tickets are on sale now for June’s 2022 headlining tour which kicks off on March 31^st in Seattle, WA, with stops in Vancouver and Toronto. Full routing is below and for more information visit valeriejune.com/#tour.
 
The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Deluxe Edition) Track List
1.Stay
2.Stay Meditation
3.You And I
4.Colors
5.Stardust Scattering
6.African Proverb Read By Carla Thomas
7.Call Me A Fool” Featuring Carla Thomas
8.Fallin’
9.Smile
10.Within You
11.Two Roads
12.Why The Bright Stars Glow
13.Home Inside
14.Starlight Ethereal Silence

Bonus Tracks
15.Within You” (Moon And Stars / Acoustic)
16.Pink Moon (Nick Drake cover)
17.You And I (Moon And Stars / Acoustic)
18.Imagine (John Lennon cover)
19.Why The Bright Stars Glow featuring Mavis Staples (Moon And Stars / Acoustic)
20.Smile (Moon And Stars / Acoustic)
21.Stardust Scattering (Moon And Stars / Acoustic) 
22.Stay (Moon And Stars / Acoustic)
23.Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster cover) 

The Moon & Stars 2022 Tour Dates
Thu Mar 31 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox 
Fri Apr 1 – Vancouver, BC – The Commodore Ballroom 
Sat Apr 2 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater 
Sun Apr 3 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater 
Tue Apr 5 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore 
Wed Apr 6 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre 
Fri Apr 8 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre 
Sat Apr 9 – San Diego, CA – Belly Up 
Fri Apr 22 – Kennett Square, PA – Longwood Gardens Open Air Theatre
Tue May 3 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre 
Wed May 4 – New York, NY – Town Hall 
Thu May 5 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore 
Fri May 6 – Munhall, PA – Carnegie Music Hall at Homestead 
Sat May 7 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre 
Tue May 10 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall 
Wed May 11 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag 
Fri May 13 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom 
Sat May 14 – Columbus, OH – The Athenaeum Theatre 
Sun May 15 – Indianapolis, IN – HI-FI Annex 
Mon May 16 – Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre 
Wed May 18 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School 
Thu May 19 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall 
Fri May 20 – Minneapolis, MN – Pantages Theatre
Sat May 21 – Iowa City, IA – Englert Theatre 
Sun May 22 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall 
Tue May 24 – Louisville, KY – Paristown Hall 
Wed May 25 – Cincinnati, OH – Memorial Hall 
Fri May 27 – Harrisburg, PA – Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center 
Sat May 28 – Annapolis, MD – Ram's Head On Stage

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