Category Archives: News

General news about projects and activities. Not blog related.

Stringband reconvening for couple of weeks

News

My old band Stringband is reconvening for a couple of weeks very soon! (Never heard of us? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringband )

We haven’t played together in 10 years, but the Winnipeg Folk Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and we played their first one (yeah, we’re that old, don’t rub it in!), so they’ve invited us back. We’ll be resurrecting some of our old classics, like “Dief Will Be the Chief Again,” “I Don’t Sleep with Strangers Anymore,” and more.

APPEARING AT —
Winnipeg Folk Festival, July 10-14 www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca/
Gabriola Island, July 17 – late addition,  details to come, or if you live there, ask around
Victoria BC, July 18, details at http://deepcovefolk.ca/  (note the hall is already half sold out)
Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 19-21 http://thefestival.bc.ca/

See you there I hope!

New Horse Song in the Works!

News, News + Gigs

I thought that the horse-song CD would have the nice round number of ten songs on it and I had all the new songs written. Then a very cool thing happened: a horsewoman I’ve never met commissioned me to write song no. 11!

And what an amazing true story the song’s about! Perhaps the Korean War’s most unlikely hero: a little Mongolian mare named Sergeant Reckless. You can see a video about her at 

So “The Ballad of Sergeant Reckless” is joining the herd. You “herd” it here first!

 

New Website Launch!

Designed by Carol Noel and implemented with much ingenuity in WordPress by Hollis Morgan. Some elements of the site are still works in progress, but hope you like it so far!

TWO new CDs Coming!

Yes, two. Because I’m nuts and enjoy being poor. 🙂 But mostly because after a long dry spell,  the songs started pouring out and demanding to be written and recorded, and I couldn’t seem to close the floodgates!

Creatures contains songs about human creatures, animal creatures, the environment, and all their interrelationships. (Oh, and even one about a heavenly creature too!) At least one will be in French, and genius musician David Woodhead, who produced Pegasus, is producing again.

Hoof Beats, because there’s almost nothing out there like it. All songs at least 50% about a real or legendary horse – none where the horse is merely a metaphor or a passing mention. Contains songs from previous CDs, plus new ones. An extension of my EP Two Old White Horses.

You can pre-order or support these projects by become a sponsor and using this online form.

Here’s a list of the songs so far…