Set I
Little Big Sky
Let The Pieces Fall
Mile After Mile>
Angeline The Baker
Been Along This Road
Shot In The Blue
Mix Up The Medicine
Cactus Country
Katmandu
Got To Move
Good Enough For Me

Set II
Sweet Peach
Seattle Song
Trouble No More
Burnitarus Rez
See You In The Moon

Encore
Make Up Your Mind

I am still elated at the collective experience of releasing “Living Room” in performance at Mississippi Studios and  presently able to reflect more completely, for after the show I immediately hit the road the next morning on Strings For Industry w/ Bill Nershi tour… now I’m back in my Portland habitat and savoring that night’s memory. You can check out some pictures here.

Big THANK YOU!!! to everyone who helped co-create this fabulous evening including the band (Asher, Carlton and Tye), Jason Mastrine, Doug Balk, the entire Mississippi Studios organization and the best music community in the country – Portland, Oregon!!! I anticipate more such events in the coming year(s)...

We did multi-track the show (which I haven’t listened to yet) and who knows, maybe we’ll mix a few tracks for “Download of the Now” or something??? OK so stay-tuned!
 

Festival Performance Set
New Tune Improv
Been Along This Road
Trouble No More

I was joined by:
Forrest Gibson - mandolin
Grant Dermody - harmonica
Bob Banghart - fiddle

I've been coming to the Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau whenever possible since 1993. I missed some years in there but it has always been a special place for me. It's an event where some of the greatest musicians you'll ever hear (but may not hear of) convene and tell the stories. The music here feels alive and there are amazing humans all around to drink it up. Something is very "true" about this one. The whole state community is involved and people come from all around, cutting across all the obvious divides of what instrument they play (Celtic bassoon anyone?) age, ability, race, sex, color, creed etc. Just people getting together and energizing themselves with the music and the music with themselves. It is a timeless sort of experience and a real soul feed.

Friday night I played old time fiddle tunes with my pals Scotty Meyer and Kate Bull. We saw the sun come up on that one... Scotty is masterful on fiddle the old time way, and as hard-driving rhythmically as they come - plus he knows about 6 billion tunes (5,999,000,000 of them are crooked). He recorded a great record with my pals Forrest Gibson and Grant Dermody called "The Improbabillies" many years ago. Kate said she hadn't picked up her banjo since last festival. I didn't notice. I'm a fish out of water with that stuff but I love to play it because when it's peakin', you kind of disappear in a way. One BIG SOUND, locked in all together - being and nothingness.

I followed that slice of heaven with two late nights in a quiet little gallery, surrounded by beautiful paintings on canvas swapping tunes of all kinds (mostly original) with the folks Forrest and I affectionately call "the Whitehorse Gals" - Kim Barlow, Natalie Edelson, Kim Beggs and Anne-Louise Genest. Look them up. They live in the Yukon and freakin' play the coolest most subtle stuff... plus they sing so well together it's rather stunning and write many songs that make me fall off my chair laughing. Kim and Anne-Louise have a band called "Annie Lou" check them out, too!

Anyway, this was one for the ages. I posted some photos on my facebook page that might give you a glimpse of the flavor. Thank you... for a real good time.