upcoming
shows note: all shows are free
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boston
commons | sun-2008-04-13
> show details
playing as part of Soul Purpose Live, an event put on by Soul'N'Roul band,
Melodeego, in conjunction with Massachusetts
Power Shift, a weekend-long conference
where over one thousand citizens will converge in Boston to learn, connect,
get inspired, and take action to solve the climate crisis and chart the path
to a just, sustainable future.
Past shows
unity
college | mon-2007-11-12
> show details
8:30-10:30pm
> venue info 90
Quaker Hill Rd, Student Center
unity, me website
cushing
academy | sat-2007-09-29
> show details
8:30-10:30pm
NOTE: private event
> venue info 39
school street, ashburnham ma
(978) 827-7000
perks
coffeehouse | fri-2007-09-28
> show details
8-10pm
> venue info 685
washington street, norwood ma
(781) 762-5565
common
grounds | fri.2007-09-14
> show details
8-10pm
$7, which covers drinks and snacks
> venue info
beautiful little coffeehouse run out of a UC church 260
Main Street, rindge, nh
(603) 899-2268 or (603) 562-7210 website
> setlist walk the world (fred small)
onward >
the boy
for hal
coming home
there but for fortune (phil
ochs)
blessings as you go
kahmti >
la iglesia de dios
the strawberry picker
next time around
in their time*
when i rise >
firehole*
until the dream*
I
hadn’t
performed
really
since
May,
except a few open mics here and there. I had a few new songs that are different
than anything I’ve ever done. When we got there, I wasn’t sure what
was going to happen. It was a great room, and Jim the booker (and also minister)
asked me if I’d brought a sound system. I told him I didn’t have
one, but that the room probably didn’t need it. It felt so right. It was
going to be an all-unplugged show. I had all this frenetic energy that I get
before shows, but more intense than I’ve ever experienced. I could’ve
run a marathon on that stuff. There were a few tables with older folks, definitely
a different demographic than what I’ve usually played for, and then my
friends. Amy Petty, who blows my mind, was opening but she wasn’t there
yet. We went and got food and by the time we got back the place had really filled
up. Amy performed and just really opened my heart up…it was perfect. She
did this amazing rendition of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m
Looking For” that blew the whole room away. I got up to the stage, and
told the story of the global warming campaign this summer, and talked about Reverend
Fred Small, who taught me a few songs to use in the campaign. I asked if folks
wanted to try singing one, and they all said yes, so we sang together, it’s
called “Walk the World.” Filled the whole room, everybody was singing
and snapping their fingers. A good start! The rest of the show was just great…the
old songs felt so new and fresh because I hadn’t performed or even practiced
them in so long. They took on different forms, and it was exciting to tell the
stories again. Amy came up to sing for “Firehole,” and I almost had
an orgasm onstage. I think the only reason I didn’t is because I knew she
was counting on me to keep playing the guitar. Everyone also sang on “Next
Time Around,” a song about the new year, and it was absolutely haunting.
Amy and I did two new ones together too, “In Their Time” and “Until
the Dream.” Everyone sang along with these ones also, and it was unbelievable.
Just so much energy. I’ve never experienced anything like it. Total communion.
And it’s crazy, because my experience
as performer and theirs as audience were mutually interconnected – the
show obviously couldn’t have happened without me, but if
it were just me, it also couldn’t have happened. I’m
finally starting to live out my values in my music. I’m
realizing on a new level that original vision I had, that intention
for starting to play music, that aspiration to help people feel
that they are a part of something far larger than themselves.
I’m writing music on a more authentic level than I ever
have before. The process is different too. It’s just coming
out. And completely separate from guitar, too. Just voice. Just
melody carrying everything, melody and rhythm. I’m not
judging as it comes out. It’s been a long time in coming
too.
take
a stand (peace rally) | tue.2007-08-28
> show details
5-7pm
Take a Stand Day is a national event planned as the culmination of a summer-long
campaign called Iraq Summer. Iraq Summer has targeted John Sununu in New Hampshire
since July 1 with a series of ongoing events aimed at keeping the Senator's summer
a hot one.
Join us for special guests (Sen. Sununu, you're still invited!), music, and the
largest anti-Iraq War rally in New Hampshire!
Call 603.225.1947 (New Hampshire Citizens Alliance) or 202.425.0638 (Iraq Summer
New Hampshire) for more information.
> venue info veteran's
memorial park
737 Elm St., Manchester NH
democracyfest | sun.2007-06-11
> show details
6pm, right before NH Secretary of State Bill Gardner and Howard Dean!
DemocracyFest is "an
annual rallying event, which empowers grassroots activists to unite and take
their experience back home to their communities. This educational and inspirational
festival incorporates progressive issues with politics and entertainment. Join
us this year at the Historic Wayfarer Inn in Manchester, NH on June 9 and 10,
2007."
buy tickets to DemocracyFest here!
> venue info Wayfarer
Inn, bedford nh
club
passim | sun-2007-05-27
> show details
1:45pm-3:05pm Campfire
Festival - songwriters in the round!
also performing: Trisha O'Keefe, Liz Longley, & Patrick Fitzsimmons $15/Day Pass $20/Festival
- Available through their website,
ticket line (617) 492-7679,
or at the door.
> venue info 26
Church St, cambridge, ma
(617) 492-7679 website
herrell's
cafe | mon-2007-05-21
> show details
8-11pm
also performing: Zac Galen, Clinton Degan, & Action Camp
Free! All ages!
simmons
college | wed-2007-02-07
> show details
7-9pm
> venue info Quadside
300 the fenway, boston ma website
rivier
college | tue-2007-02-06
> show details
9:30-10:45pm
> venue info
upper dining room lounge 420
south main st, nashua nh website
colby-sawyer
college | sat-2007-01-27
> show details
9pm
> venue info
lethbridge lodge 541
Main St, new london nh website
st.
mark's school | sat-2007-01-20
> show details
8-10pm > venue info
the lion's den 25
marlboro rd, southborough ma website
worcester
polytech institute | tue-2007-01-16
> show details
opener: brien
sweet, 7-7:45pm
i play 8-9:30pm
> venue info 100
institute road, worcester ma website
the
bull run | sat-2007-01-13
> show details
opening for Tracy
grammer!
i play from 8-8:30pm; tracy follows
$16 advance, $20 day of show - ordering info here
> venue info 215
Great Road, shirley ma website > notes The Bull Run is a delicious restaurant and
magical performance space. It's also where I saw Acoustic
Junction in 1998, my first live concert and an experience that inspired me
to perform, in order to pass on that same kind of magic I felt that night.
the
groton school | sat-2007-01-06
> show details
7:30-10:30pm
> notes what a place! this was one of those
great nights with a fabulous audience and a good time had by all. the
part of my job i love the most is the diversity, one night a bar, the
next night a listening room at a prep school. super cool. oh, and my
good friend degan also opened up the show with an opener
placed strategically in the middle, after one of my strings broke!
> setlist onward >
the boy
anchored in you (shawn
mullins)
children of cain
the dream (shawn
mullins)
for hal
miami
they stood up for love (live)
kahmti >
la iglesia de dios
firehole pig (dave
matthews band)
playing their hands
next time around
ends the song
pocos | thu-2007-01-04
> show details
7:30 - 10:30pm
free > venue info 37
bow street, portsmouth nh
(603) 431-5967 website
> notes
my friend Chad
verbeck introduced me to this nice place, one of portsmouth's
many great live music venues.
> setlist
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