The Old Ceremony is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina pop-noir musical group fronted by Django Haskins. Formed in 2004, the group has released two full-length albums, Our One Mistake, on sonaBLAST! Records, and The Old Ceremony, on their own label, Alyosha Records. Through unique live performances, radio airplay, and positive critical reviews, the group has risen to local prominence and is planning a 2007 tour of the Eastern US. Formation of the group In the summer of 2004, Django Haskins, then a member of North Carolina rock supergroup International Orange, decided to form a 'mini-orchestra' to explore music that would be difficult to play in a rock orientation. For this effort, Haskins gathered numerous musical luminaries from the NC Triangle region and the end result was dubbed 'The Old Ceremony,' after Leonard Cohen's 1975 album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony. The fledgling group was soon granted an extend

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