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ElysianFields opens tonight for The National at the Bowery Ballroom in New York.
ElysianFields will be playing tonight, 23 March 2007, at Joe's Pub at 11:30 PM.
In addition to the upcoming ElysianFields show at Joe's Pub on 23 March, the band will be joining the "all-star tribute to Bruce Springsteen" at Carnegie Hall in New York on 5 April 2007.
In Homeric mythology the ElysianFields lay on the western margin of the earth, by the encircling stream of Oceanus, and there the mortal relatives of the king of the gods were transported, without tasting death, to enjoy an immortality of bliss (Odyssey book iv: 563).
In the Renaissance, the heroic population of the ElysianFields tended to outshine its formerly dreary pagan reputation; the ElysianFields borrowed some of the bright allure of paradise.
In Paris, the Champs-Élysées retain their name of the ElysianFields, first applied in the late 16th century to a formerly rural outlier beyond the formal parterre gardens behind the royal French palace of the Tuileries.
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