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Greetings once more, this time from the San Pancho Music Festival. Theirs is a great design - a main stage and a smaller side stage in the same public square, which they alternate back and forth from.
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When one act is playing, everyone turns their chairs in that direction, while the crew on the other stage sets up for the next band.
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The back-and-forth makes for a great non-stop flow of many kinds of mostly Latino-influenced music crossing many genres. Bien hecho!
(Here's the 2023 t-shirt - I love singing dogs!)
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And even as I write from our open-air studio second-story flat in this beautiful Mexican town, I'm getting ready for next month which will include
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~ a tour that includes Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
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As I reflect on next month's gigs alone, these are the beautiful blossoms of seeds planted over decades of invovement in folk and orginal music. I am more grateful than I can say for the opportunities I have these days, cultivated over many moons and many connections (old and new) with so many of you.
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The Pacific Northwest also throws out the annual "welcome mat" in April, and because we lived in Seattle for all the 1990's, I love returning each spring (since 2000) to rekindle these ties that bind. Plan ahead to join us if you can. Anywhere, any time.
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And something else that's new and road test-worthy:
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For any of these concerts anywhere, bring an instrument to join me on a song! Here's your chord progression
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Nothing more to know. Instant spontaneous bands!
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And June & July foretell some collaborative concerts with a couple more old pals - Anne Hills and Harold Payne. Here we come!
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4-8 ~ Provincetown, MA ~ Cape Cod Songwriters Retreat
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w/Sloan Wainwright, Alastair Moock, & Glen Roethel
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* In the 1PM - 3PM afternoon workshop I'll facilitate an ALL LEVELS group co-write of a custom made song for a sick child through the Songs of Love Foundation ~ www.songsoflove.org ~ a non-profit organization I've written over 80 songs for over the years. These one-of-a-kind creations are provided absolutely free of charge to kids and their families, and along WITH the family, our songwriters will receive an MP3 of our song within a couple of weeks. There’s absolutely something for everyone here.
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17 ~ Freeland, WA ~ 7 PM ~ Trinity Lutheran Church
18 ~ Mount Vernon, WA ~ 7 PM concert @ Unity of Skagit Valley
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19 ~ Eastsound, WA (Orcas Island) ~ 7:30 PM - Emmanuel Episcopal
20 ~ Woodinville, WA ~ 7:30 PM concert @ Woodinville UU
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8 ~ Kenosha, WI ~ Immanuel United Methodist Church w/Anne Hills
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30 ~ Independence, MO ~ 10 AM guest speaker/musician @ Unity
30 ~ Independence, MO ~ 2 PM concert w/Harold Payne @ Unity
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6-15 ~ Ireland group music tour ~ sold out
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* 2025 dates are October 24-November 2nd ~ includes Dublin!
for availability write Barb @ barbinishfreetours@gmail.com
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“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?
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It's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye.
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But we lean forward to the next crazy venture
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