PASSIM // EGREMONT // PATREON
September goes off like an alarm clock, cutting through the floppy, gooey, swampy brain-haze of August. Suddenly it’s Go Time: the season to bring in the harvest, hunt for mushrooms, make pickles, make jam, get the kid back in school, get the sweaters out of the basement, make soup, and establish which creative projects the fall will revolve around.
Usually, it’s also the time to dust off the flight case and head back out on the road, but this year it seems that touring will continue to be minimal. It’s a drag any way you look at it. We did launch into an optimistic flurry of booking in the middle of the summer, but then quickly backpedaled as things started looking iffier and iffier out there. At the moment, I have a handful of things booked through the end of the year, all of them teetering on the edge of viability, but I’m hoping for the best. September, though, has two shows that feel solid, so let’s focus on them for now!
September 25 I’ll play at Club Passim, my first show featuring walls AND a roof AND an audience in 18 months. It feels significant and symmetrical to return to playing indoors at Passim, since I was last booked to play there March 13 2020, aka The Day Shit Got Real. I ended up live-streaming that show from home, which I didn’t know how to do, and now I can’t wait to play the room again in person, which I may or may not still know how to do. Please note that ALL Club Passim performances require proof of vax and a mask to attend. You can read the full club policy here.
September 30, I’m at The Egremont Barn in South Egremont, MA. I do love a barn show; this one will take place outdoors next to the barn, but that’s just as good. This venue is new to me and while it's only a couple hours from my house, at this point driving the winding road into the Berkshires passes for an adventure. I’m looking forward to exotic flora and fauna, and encountering a foreign people and their mysterious ways.
In the absence of robust fall touring, I’ll be doing my best to make and share music, however possible. I’ll crank back up the livestreams next month, which, while not a replacement for in-person shows do have their own beauty, and I find they help maintain a feeling of connection. There’s a few old records still left to play through, and I’ll dive back in starting with Blood Test, in October. There’s also a queue of new recording projects over here, and at least one of them will make the move to the front burner. More on all of this as the fall proceeds.
Meanwhile, I’m keeping up a steady stream of freshly-learned covers, recent songlets, and assorted show-and-tells on the creative process for my crew on Patreon: a sweet community of thoughtful, interesting, devastatingly attractive people (I’m going on faith about this last thing but I’m sure I’m not wrong). It’s of course helpful to have a trickle of income during this challenging chapter, but I’m finding it’s also really nice to have a group of people to have to show up for and interact with on a regular basis. You can sign onto this excursion for any amount per month, starting at 3 bucks.
JF and I played the Green River Festival a couple weeks ago, with Moses on bass, and things felt as close to normal as they have in a good long while. We’ll stash some of that feeling away with the pickles and the jam, in case we need it to get us through the winter. Amidst the general hell-in-a-handbasketness of the world, I hope you get a chance to appreciate the beauties of your particular version of September, and to stock up on friends and music and joy. I’ll look forward to a little more of that later this month, and see some of you there. Thanks everybody. *kd
UPCOMING SHOWS
SEP 25 - CLUB PASSIM - Cambridge, MA Tix
SEP 30 - THE EGREMONT BARN - South Egremont, Ma Tix