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Big Picture Tour

The Big Picture tour: the graffiti van, Mexico, and songs on the road

After releasing his first album Big Picture in 2016, Noah Grove bought a graffiti-covered van and drove around the country for three months and into Mexico on a tour he called the Big Picture tour.

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Graffiti van from Noah Grove's Big Picture tour in La Ventana Mexico

A self-made road tour

In late 2016, after releasing Big Picture, Noah bought a van covered in graffiti and drove around the United States for three months and into Mexico. The tour was a real-life extension of the album: a search for music, movement, stories, places, and possibility.

The Federales story

In Baja California, in the middle of nowhere, Noah was pulled over by the Federales. Rather than turning into a disaster, the moment became part of the mythology of the tour: they had him play them some songs.

Noah Grove playing guitar for Federales in Baja California
Federale holding guitar during Noah Grove Big Picture tour
Charleston marsh photo taken by Noah Grove in 2016

A pre-Charleston glimpse

During that same era, Noah took a photograph of a Charleston marsh in 2016, long before he and his wife moved to Charleston in 2018. In retrospect, that image now feels like a marker pointing toward the next chapter.

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