Shows in PA and MD, and a return to form (temporarily).

Jun 11-12, 2010 – XFEST
An all-day event, I play Saturday at 5:40pm
Country Creek Winery
133 Cressman Road
Telford, PA 18969
All Fest Tickets ($45)
Single Day ($20.00 Friday, $30.00 Saturday)
Children Under 11 always free.

June 14, 2010 - Frederick, MD – 7:30
Songwriters' Showcases at Brewer's Alley
124 North Market Street (route 355)
Take elevator to 2nd floor
www.brewers-alley.com
Full dining available till 9 pm; limited menu thereafter; full bar

True Story.* This afternoon, had a conversation with a lawyer in a bar (that always goes well) and instead of writing this email to you all, I listened to him blather on about how he doesn’t understand technology and how it keeps him from the face-to-face communication he prefers. “I like to talk to people” he laments. I would have told him about how useful I found Twitter to be in keeping all y’all updated (sort of) while I was overseas but I didn’t really want to tell him what I do for a living because that ‘cuz that would have led to a comparison of jobs, the likely result being that at some point he would have chided me about living in a state of suspended adolescence and I would have reminded him that my job involves making things (be they CDs, Books, or experiences) and his job primarily involves taking things away from people.

Then I would have said that Woody Guthrie line “ain’t never seen an outlaw rob a family with a fountain pen” and the conversation would have been over. Him turning away as he mumbled into his scotch**

I’ve returned to an older form of email missive in honor of my old roommate, Adam Brodsky’s, writing style, because he was largely responsible for getting me into this weekend’s event: The Extreme Folk Festival. Now it’s not what you think, there’ll be no rock-climbing, extreme motocross or freestyle wheel barrowing*** nor will there being anyone warbling through “more than words”**** But there will be a bevy of genre-breaking risk-taking act that fit in between the XFS twin mission statements of “the promotion and dissemination of folk music, with a determined emphasis on that which is original, daring and extreme” and “kick ASS music.”

It will be held at the Country Creek Winery in Telford, PA, which is in southeastern Pennsylvania, somewhere in the vicinity of a much larger (and frankly not quite as cool*) folk festival I will also be attending later this year.

Again let me give big thanks to Adam for getting me into this festival, even tho’ his efforts most likely just consisted of him repeatedly saying “but he’s not like that anymore!”

Now, for those of you who have been asking me to do something in the DC area, well, this is as close as I could get on short notice. I will be performing as part of the Songwriters' Showcase at Brewer's Alley in Frederick, MD. Basically, a “songwriter’s showcase” is an open mic with a vetting process, but that means it’s pretty likely that everyone else performing that night is also very good. You get the best seats if get dinner, and there’s a suggested donation of $6 to $10 that goes to the featured performer (who is NOT me, but is very good). I will also be doing something similar at Jammin’ Java towards the end of August.

Finally, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who supported me in the UK either by buying the live CD, downloading it, or just following the antics on facebook/twitter/website. I don’t mind repeating ad nausea what I once heard Ritchie Havens say on stage “I get to be up here, because you’re out there.” So thanks again.

C-ya out there

-Br

Those shows again

Jun 11-12, 2010 – XFEST
All day event, I play Saturday at 5:40pm
Country Creek Winery
133 Cressman Road
Telford, PA 18969
All Fest Tickets ($45)
Single Day ($20.00 Friday, $30.00 Saturday)
Children Under 11 always free.

June 14, 2010 - Frederick, MD – 7:30
Songwriters' Showcases at Brewer's Alley
124 North Market Street (route 355)
Take elevator to 2nd floor
www.brewers-alley.com
Full dining available till 9 pm; limited menu thereafter; full bar

Footnotes
*Not a word of this is true
** Actually it was Cranberry and Vodka, which says to me he probably wasn’t a very good lawyer
***God, I wish that I were making that up
****Not on my watch anyway.