Sunday, February 9, 2020
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Looking Forward to LATE Winter.
I still stand by the sentiment of my November post, but at this point Spring will definitely be welcome when it arrives. In the days between that last post and this one, I've been toying with the repertoire, working on new material, and ironing out how the next album will actually go. It looks like my schedule will allow it to be completed this year, and I'm now pretty certain which songs will be on it.
Today I started work on the promo art for the first show of the year. This will be a Prestons gig, and it falls on Friday, March 13th (hence this post's title nod to Late Winter), when we're booked to play a double bill at the Friday Night Café in Cummington. We'll be sharing the night with a true Valley legend, songwriter/guitarist Jim Kaminski.
In fact, you can probably expect the next post in here to be titled Gig Poster. That seems to be what I do. In the meantime, stay warm.
Today I started work on the promo art for the first show of the year. This will be a Prestons gig, and it falls on Friday, March 13th (hence this post's title nod to Late Winter), when we're booked to play a double bill at the Friday Night Café in Cummington. We'll be sharing the night with a true Valley legend, songwriter/guitarist Jim Kaminski.
In fact, you can probably expect the next post in here to be titled Gig Poster. That seems to be what I do. In the meantime, stay warm.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Looking Forward to Winter.
You heard me. I know, this is completely out of character. But this time feels different. Our house is all battened down for the cold weather, we had the heating system serviced a couple of months ago, and we've taken the winter clothing and boots out of seasonal storage. We've still got a handful of things to do, but we're basically ready. And I'm ready mentally, for a change.
I'd planned to have more work done on the next album by now, but I don't, and I don't care. There's no deadline, so there's no hurry. In the meantime, I've written a few more songs, and am feeling no pressure to lay down tracks in any kind of order. Perhaps the next record will have the songs on it I'd originally planned, but who knows? I take comfort knowing that nothing needs to be decided anytime soon.
I suppose this is the best way to approach the cold part of the year: to know that even though everything we'd planned for this past year might not have gotten done, it's okay. It'll wait. It's time right now for us to prepare not only ourselves and our shelters, but to also prepare a welcome for the time itself. To understand that the pace of life should slow, like a slumbering heartbeat, until the sun awakens us again.
I'd planned to have more work done on the next album by now, but I don't, and I don't care. There's no deadline, so there's no hurry. In the meantime, I've written a few more songs, and am feeling no pressure to lay down tracks in any kind of order. Perhaps the next record will have the songs on it I'd originally planned, but who knows? I take comfort knowing that nothing needs to be decided anytime soon.
I suppose this is the best way to approach the cold part of the year: to know that even though everything we'd planned for this past year might not have gotten done, it's okay. It'll wait. It's time right now for us to prepare not only ourselves and our shelters, but to also prepare a welcome for the time itself. To understand that the pace of life should slow, like a slumbering heartbeat, until the sun awakens us again.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Transperformance 29: Lookstock. Again.
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| Poster Art by Arnold Skolnick - Courtesy of the Northampton Arts Council |
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