Ezra Furman announces open-ended hiatus from touring

Taking to her socials, Ezra Furman announced that after she completes her forthcoming run of UK shows, she will be taking a hiatus from any touring routes or shows that are out of her hometown of Boston, "for an undecided amount of time".

Furman states that seventeen years of "exhausting and wonderful work" have begun to become tiring. "Recent events including a popular explosion of transphobia, increasingly corporate-owned music venues, COVID-19, the demands of motherhood and some unsettling audience encounters have made it all the more difficult for me."

After Ezra Furman and the Harpoons broke up in 2011, following five years of touring, Furman spent the next decade touring as a solo artist, releasing six solo albums including her most recent – All of Us Flames, which came out last year.

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"Even without that stuff, any sort of touring is effing difficult," she continues. "The pressure and the exhaustion are immense. It has a major impact on the body and mind and the structure of one’s life. Since I was a teenager (other than the ’20-’21 heavy Covid times) there has never been even a 6-month period of my life without touring. That’s because I love it and I have always loved it and always will. But it’s time for me to explore life without it, and follow my instincts of what’s necessary to take care of myself."

Furman explicitly adds, "I’m not done with music and creativity. Art is not my career and it’s not my hobby; it’s a life path. One of the pathways of my life and spirit. One reason not to tour is to spend more time clearing that pathway so I can freely walk it and see where it goes next."