“Combining elements of concerts, TED Talks and visual art, the show places the album’s 1980s-inspired synthpop numbers in the context of what inspired them: climate change, rising fascism, and Curtis’s anxiety about — and hope for — the future.” — Emily Hamilton, Seven Days VT
Shannon Curtis: 80s kids — “Take On Me” — live at The Triple Door, Seattle
“”Very cool and inspiring … a truly unique show”— Greg Burke, Twin Cities Club Crawl
“This magnificent ‘80s throwback from singer/songwriter SHANNON CURTIS’S GOOD TO ME, an album that began as a pandemic-era healing journal and ended up as a synthpop suite, deserves to be a hit in this year of Kate Bush.” — Matty Karas, Music REDEF
“A unique and inspiring performance, and a welcome change from the traditional concert experience.”— Marq Manner, Omaha Buzz
“Shannon Curtis asks what’s currently on a billion minds: How will empathetic people survive? How do we rescue our overburdened spirits from disasters like fascism and climate collapse? Curtis’s genre-defying synthpop performance piece Good to Me promises to bring joy, even as she stares down the worst the world has to offer.” — Addie Mahmassani, East Bay Express
Shannon Curtis — “I Am” (live at the Sofia Theatre)
“I caught Shannon Curtis in St. Louis last week and was really mesmerized by the vulnerability and authenticity of the experience. It lacked cynicism, pretension, and posing. You just don’t see this at rock shows. So when you come across it in the real world, it stands out. Authenticity in spades.“— Jeff Stevens, Wellraiser
Shannon Curtis: The Good to Me Tour — “Valuable Information”
“How do you stare down dark times? For Shannon Curtis, the answer was making a shimmering 80s-inspired synthpop album about the relentless, interwoven, swirling chaos we’ve made of the world.”— John O’Neil, Record Exchange Boise
ABOUT Shannon Curtis & Good to Me:
How will empathetic people survive the troubles of this time? How do we rescue our overburdened spirits from overlapping disasters such as rising fascism and climate collapse? And from where can we summon the power to heal ourselves, our communities, and the planet?
These are the animating questions behind singer, songwriter, and storyteller Shannon Curtis’s new album and show Good to Me — her second collection of shimmering 80s-inspired synthpop in as many years.
Confronted in late 2021 with near-paralyzing anxiety brought about by the increasingly fraught state of the world, Curtis aimed her angst at her journal. Using tools she acquired in 12-step recovery, she set out on a quest for self-healing, with the intention of nurturing her personal sense of peace and agency in a world on fire.
The journal entries became 80s-inspired synthpop songs, influenced in equal measure by the textural angularity of Kate Bush, the Blade Runner-esque futurism of Vangelis, the celebratory propulsion of Erasure, and the hopeful joy of OMD.
The result is a song journey that took Curtis through a practice of identifying failed coping mechanisms (“From the Inside Out”), coming to terms with radical acceptance (“Be With What Is”), learning to trust her inner truth (“The Silent Sea”), and reconnecting to her serenity and power (“I Am”) — even as the world continued to burn.
With their move into theater spaces, Curtis and her husband, record producer Jamie Hill, have designed an immersive narrative journey of personal empowerment, complete with high-energy musical performance, scripted storytelling, and enveloping video art. It’s not just a show, it’s an experience, intended to leave you a little different than it found you.
The extended Good to Me project aims to illuminate a path for others to go deeper on this journey in a personal way — complete with a companion book for more intimate and extended introspection.
The title song from Good to Me spent three months in the Listener Top 5 on commercial AAA radio in the Pacific Northwest at the end of 2022.
The Good to Me tour will bring Curtis all over the United States in 2024.
