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Anyway Anywhere

Recently I’ve had the great privilege of joining up with Saint Anyway again, and have played keyboards on a few dates in Vermont with them this past week. Tonight we start moving into the urban part of their tour, with a show tonight at Toad in Cambridge, followed by two shows in NYC this weekend and a mad dash westward involving shows in Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Milwaukee early next week. Come out to one of these performances if you can!

They’re also poised to release their new album, Here on the Ground, to which I contributed piano, organ, accordion, and various brass things. The record sounds great, and they’re planning to have it out around Thanksgiving. In the meantime though, check out this track they’ve put out in anticipation of the release. The ending features what I now acknowledge to be an oddly mariachi-flavored trumpet part for a bluegrass song.

Arrangements

New dates are slowly being added to the performances page: So far, I’ll be playing shows in Connecticut, New York, Chicago, Wisconsin, Regina, and a whole bunch in Minnesota later this month, and more will hopefully follow soon, in Winnipeg and Seattle. I also got the chance to play a few sets in Fairbanks, Alaska last week while I was up there to talk to some musicians and a soundscape scientist at Denali for an article I’m writing.

I’ve also been writing arrangements and orchestrations for the Saint Anyway guys as they record material for their next album. This has turned out to be amazingly fun work. Here’s a demo of one of guitarist Jamie Kallestad’s new songs, to which I added some euphonium, violin, keys, upright bass, and a pile of other things.