| April/May 2008 | Frøy Aagre East Coast Tour Frøy Aagre, Kris Davis, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| April 29, 2008 | Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC Frøy Aagre, Kris Davis, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| April 30, 2008 | Norwegian Seamens Church, NYC Frøy Aagre, Kris Davis, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| May 1, 2008 | Twins Jazz, Washington DC Frøy Aagre, Kris Davis, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| May 2, 2008 | Lily Pad, Boston Frøy Aagre, Kris Davis, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| May 3, 2008 | Bushwick Department of Public Works in Brooklyn Frøy Aagre, Kris Davis, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| May 25, 2008 | 295 Douglass St Space, Brooklyn @ 8pm Michael Winograd/Michael Bates Quartet |
| May 31st, 2008 | 295 Douglass St Space, Brooklyn @ 8pm Douglass St. Opening Festival with , Frank Carlberg, Michael Bates' Outside Sources, Russ Johnson's group, Tanya Kalmanovitch's Girl Fight |
| June 6 | Michael Blake Quintet The Stone, Manhattan |
| July 10-July21, 2008 | Music by the Sea Symposium, Bamfield, BC Performances and collaborations with John Stetch, Bourealis String Quartet, Ian Macdougall and many others |
| September 11, 2008 | Rex Hotel, Toronto Michael Bates Outside Sources cd release w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 12, 2008 10pm | Lily Pad, Boston Michael Bates Outside Sources cd release w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates | September 14, 2008 10pm | Twins Jazz, Washington, DC Michael Bates Outside Sources cd release w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates | September 21, 2008 | L'Archiduc, Brussels, Belgium @ 5pm Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 22, 2008 | Hnita-Jazz Club, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 23, 2008 | LOFT, Cologne, Germany Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 24, 2008 | A-Trane, Berlin, Germany Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 25, 2008 | Club Neuetonne, Dresden, Germany Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 26, 2008 | Unterfarht, Munich, Germany Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 27, 2008 | Jazz Studio Nürnberg, Germany Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| September 29, 2008 | Stockwerk Jazz, Graz, Austria Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |
| October 3rd, 2008 | Bimhuis, Netherlands Michael Bates Outside Sources w/Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Jeff Davis, Michael Bates |