Today I found out that there was a Post-Gazette article (in the South edition) about my residency April 14-18 at Bethel Park High School. I worked with 3 different groups of students, and they wrote songs and poems, which they performed on Friday during an all-day coffee house-type event at which each student performed their original work 4 or 5 times for different groups of their peers.
As last year (when I set the e.e. cummings poem to music which I still perform), I wrote a new song during the week, the lyrics to which came out of a writing exercise that I did with the students, who really did some great work and came up with very creative things.
Thanks to:
Julia, Andy, Andrew, Laruen, Robert, Zach, Zach, Joe, Sarah, Ashley, Jordan, Max, Brennan, Jess, Emma, Ashley, Blair, Vickie, Valerie, Jayna, Florence, Laurel, Andrea, Alyssa, Kerry, Cameron (apologies for misspelling any names), and also to Mr. Youngs for making it happen!
I’ve been going down to the Monday night open mic at Club Cafe (and then heading over the equally fine, later open mic at the Rex Theatre.) Lots of folks are taking pictures of performers at Club Cafe, and KS was kind enough to e-mail me some good ones, including this one of me playing “Something Good,” (the song of that title, not just any good song), and wearing a nifty Eat More Kale t-shirt I got at last year’s Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
Mostly, this last paragraph is great practice linking things to other pages! :]
Dave Potts is a terrific songwriter-performer from Alabama, and someone I’ve heard play, and had the honor to play in-the-round with, at NERFA—for “best 2007 discovery” and one of his two “best CDs of 2007.” You can read that blog entry here.
Thanks, Dave!
I recently played at the Inspiration Café in Washington, PA, and Harry Funk from the Observer-Reporter came out and shot some videotape. Video of “One Excuse,” as well as audio of “Local Band” are posted online on the Observer-Reporter’s “Sound & Vision” blog. Thanks, Harry!
I played the Gristmill at St. Vincent College on Sun. evening, Jan. 27th. Eamon shot some video (as a work study project-good work, if you can get it!), and put together a pretty cool little video, which you can check out on the St. Vincent College site.
Thanks, Eamon!
HEY, I WON! for the 4th time in 5 years, I was voted “Best Solo Artist” (previously “Best Acoustic Artist”) in the Pittsburgh City Paper Poll. You have to scroll down to find my name. BIG THANKS to everyone who voted for me—this is a very helpful thing, when trying to get shows at new places, and talking to people who have never heard of me.
On January 19, 2007 I played live solo on WYEP’s Morning mix, to announce my CD release party, and performed Immortal, One Excuse, and Excellent Trouble.
In December, 2006, Jason Rafalak and I were live on the Folk Show with Gene Shay (WXPN, Philly), playing duo versions of: Everybody’s Got a Record, Excellent Trouble, and Local Band. All downloadable, & free.
