In last week’s post, I talked about the challenges of being both a mama and a musician. This past weekend, I was hired to play a wedding in beautiful Bellingham, Washington. My son Benny and I flew to Seattle and […]
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I’ve heard my dear friend Danny Schmidt – who is also one of contemporary folk music’s most treasured lyricists – say, “Folksingers are dashing and dangerous.” I think that’s true. Traveling the world to sing songs is an often romanticized […]
I’ve talked about house concerts quite a bit in this column. I believe they are the modern singer-songwriter’s saving grace. You can’t beat a venue where the audience is on your side from the get-go and most of the door […]
I used to sit and wait for inspiration to come to me. When she came, I would jump out of any activity I was a part of and dive into the song she dangled in front of me. I would […]
As I was driving home to Portland on my first month-long tour in 2005, I had a moment of absolute joy that I was doing the thing in life I wanted to be doing. I was driving north on I-5, […]
I have played at a number of music festivals. From the smaller folk fests to hippie jam fests, and everything in between. These are the jewels in the crown of summer gigs. Usually they pay a little bit of money […]
Pioneer Square was where we used to go when we skipped class during high school. It’s a big brick square where a wide range of Portland residents gather to have lunch, converse, and people-watch. But today, I lugged my speaker, […]
I started playing guitar when I was 11 years old. I wanted to play bass, but my father wanted me to start on the instrument he knew best. His argument was, “You love to sing. Start with guitar so you […]
When I first hit the road, I had a cellphone, but the best trick it could do was send and receive text messages. There was no checking email, no GPS, no social media applications. If I saw an epic, glorious […]
When I started touring full time in 2006, I was a full-on vegetarian and had been for seven years, though I had eaten salmon a few times. By the time we got to Memphis in March, it was all over. […]
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