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Watershed Tour and Other Happenings

Midwest! I am coming for you. Later this month, I’ll be heading back out to one of my favorite parts of the country for shows in Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Duluth, Iowa City, and more (with a couple of stops in Vermont, Ontario, and New York along the way). Here are the dates:

3/1: BRATTLEBORO, VT – Metropolis Wine Bar, 8pm
3/14: MILWAUKEE, WI – Bremen Cafe, 9pm
3/15: MINNEAPOLIS, MN – 331 Club (with Saint Anyway), 10pm
3/16: MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Hell’s Kitchen (with Saint Anyway), 10am
3/16: NORTHFIELD, MN – The Contented Cow, 5pm
3/17: DULUTH, MN – Amazing Grace, 6pm
3/19: MADISON, WI – Indie Coffee, 7pm
3/20: IOWA CITY, IA – Uptown Bill’s, 7pm
3/21: GUELPH, ON – Community Music Collective, time TBA
3/22: ALBANY, NY – Hudson River Coffee, 7:30pm
3/22: ALBANY, NY – [house concert], 9:00pm

…and, something of a geographic outlier:
3/25: NEW ORLEANS, LA – Neutral Ground, 7pm

After that’s over, I’ll be out playing the first set of shows with 90-Mile Portage that we’ve had on the books for a couple of months; we’ll be playing five shows across Vermont and Massachusetts to promote the release of a little EP we’ve been putting together. Stay tuned for details on that front.

Meanwhile, progress is clicking along on a new solo project. And in unrelated news, an essay of mine about rivers appeared this week in both the Harvard Advocate and Land That I Live: check it out here.

See you in the northland (or New Orleans, admittedly about as non-northland as one can get) later this month!

Eastern Standard Tour 2013

Presenting the official poster and the next several dates for this year’s winter tour! I’ll be heading down the coast in January and hope to see you along the way:

12/28: BRATTLEBORO, VT – Metropolis Wine Bar, 8pm
1/17: JAMAICA PLAIN, MA – Midway Cafe, 8:30pm
1/19: NEW YORK, NY – Caffe Vivaldi, 8:30pm
1/20: WASHINGTON, DC – Electric Maid, 8pm
1/21: WASHINGTON, DC – Black Fox Lounge, 6:30pm
1/22: WILMINGTON, NC – Bottega Art Bar, 7pm
1/22: WILMINGTON, NC – Juggling Gypsy, 10pm
1/23: RICHMOND, VA – Globehopper Coffee, 6pm
1/24: MEDIA, PA – Seven Stones Cafe, 8pm
1/25: TARRYTOWN, NY – Silver Tips Tea, 12pm
1/26: NEW HAVEN, CT – private show, 9pm
2/2: BURLINGTON, VT – Radio Bean, 7pm

Midwinter and Upcoming Tour

Today I’m releasing my first new recordings since Yankee Division, in the form of a seasonally-themed EP called Midwinter. I’m very excited about it, and I hope you are too. It features eight tracks, each of which is an instrumental reimagining of a traditional yuletide melody. I wanted to keep this from being a Big Old Cheerful Holiday Record though, and you’ll find that the music here is spare and quiet, meant to evoke stillness and snow rather than eggnog and Bing Crosby. I hope you enjoy it.

There’s a catch, though – this will only be around for a limited time. You can download Midwinter: Vol 1 here for a mere 5 bucks (no plans as yet to make hard copies of this, but if you’d really like one, email me and we can arrange something), but at the end of the season, it’s gone. Then you have to wait until next year, when I’ll make Vol 2, but that will obviously feature different music. In the meantime though, I’m happy that this is finally available, and I hope you like it. It’s been nice to have this to work on and I’ll miss these tunes.

Stay tuned, though, for performance announcements. I’ll be playing a pair of shows up in the great city of Portland, Maine this weekend, followed by a smattering of MA/NH gigs throughout the month of December. But then in January I’ll be going on a longer tour down along the east coast. Watch this space and the performances page for details in the coming weeks. I can’t wait to get on the road again. Clearly I’ve already forgotten what it’s like to sleep in a car in January.

Thanks again, everybody. Enjoy the holidays, and please check out Midwinter, here.