Setlists – Folk Alliance Feb 17-20, 2016
Folk Alliance, Kansas City, MO
Feb 18-20, 2016
Thursday: Access Film (RED Room): 3:40-4 PM
Damn Fine Day
Only the Rain Knows Why
Change the World* (Clapton/Tommy Simms)
Mahogany
Friday: 7 PM Taping of “A World That’s Bigger” for 90.9 FM The Bridge
Thursday: Anderson Fair Room, 10:30-11 PM
with Mike & Amy Aiken & host Ken Gaines
A World That’s Bigger
Burning Bright
Change the World*
Only the Rain Knows Why
Friday: Sugarbaby Room 732, 11:40-12 AM
Girl on the Mountain, Boy on the Beach
Don’t Mess Around with Jim
Damn Fine Day
One Way Road
Saturday: Access Film (Blue Room)552: 1 – 1:30 AM
with Randy Brown and Stuart Markus
A World That’s Bigger
Burning Bright
Saturday: Bottomland Showcase Room 713- 2:30 – 3 AM
A World That’s Bigger
Don’t Mess Around with Jim (Croce)
Burning Bright
Change the World
Made a Mess (with hosts Drew da Man!)
New bandmate
Saturday: Main Stage Ballroom C
American Folklife Center 40th Anniversary Showcase/Taping
Alan Lomax’s field recording of “Don’t Judge a Man by the Clothes that He Wears“
Saturday: First Timer Room I (FAI Room 725): 11:30-11:55 PM
Girl on the Mountain, Boy on the Beach
Damn Fine Day
Change the World
A World That’s Bigger
#BuskingWiththeBridge 90.9 FM Video Sessions
I met some wonderful musicians while we were waiting to tape sessions for the Bridge 90.9 FM. The videographers had worked a long shift, and asked us if we’d wait through their lunch break.
The break turned out to be valuable because Plu, Cameron Calloway, Sonia and I got chat for an hour and chill during the hectic FAI conference. Cameron, Sonia and I ended up hanging out most of the night at Folk Alliance.
Here’s our #BuskingwiththeBridge 90.9 sessions!
My session – “A World That’s Bigger”
Cameron Calloway – “April 23rd”
Sonia Seelinger – “Cinnamon Skin”
Sarah Clanton – “Stormy Baby”
Plu – “[Losing Touch] title translated from Welsh]
(Yep, that’s my Taylor 514ce guitar in the session!)
You can watch the rest of the Bridge’s sessions here, including Bobby Long who taped right before us! #BuskingWiththeBridge – watch here
Band Links:
Cameron Calloway | Sonia Seelinger | Plu
90.9 FM The Bridge | bridge909.org | kcpt.org | eightonesixty.com
Ginny approves of these video sessions.
Video Session with The Bridge 90.9 FM
The Bridge 90.9 FM from Kansas City posted a video session we did together at Folk Alliance last weekend. Watch out for student loans in verse two, Ginny!
#BuskingWithTheBridge at Folk Alliance International 2016.
90.9 FM The Bridge | bridge909.org | kcpt.org | eightonesixty.com
It never feels like the right time, but now trumps tomorrow.
Sure, we could wait another year to release that song, that record, that project–but what if we are too busy “next year”? Or worse…
“But you need to wait six months to a year to promote it correctly!” says the pr person, and she’s probably correct; but what if those pitches don’t get that much coverage in the end? The best promotion is still releasing the work, sharing it, seeing if it makes an impression: If people share it or respond, you’ve got something.
No one can share the unfinished project still in your head.
Strike while the iron is lukewarm; coals take time to get hot.
Alan Lomax’s field recordings, Matt Jones’s River Street Anthology, and you
The American Folklife Center is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary this year, and they are hosting a showcase performance of folk musicians redoing songs from Alan Lomax’s field recordings at Folk Alliance this weekend.
I’ve been rearranging a song Lomax recorded at Beaver Island in 1938, the same year Natalie and my house was built. The song’s called, “Don’t Judge a Man by the Clothes that He Wears” sung by A. Gallagher.
I was thinking about that trip Lomax took, that ambitious journey; how Matt Jones is doing the same.
Attending Folk Alliance? Here are my Folk Alliance showcases appearances.
Alan Lomax didn’t need permission to go out and start taping. He just did it. Matt Jones started recording artist for fun in his basement with lo-fi equipment, without a major idea of his project’s goal. But then project grew into the River Street Anthology, capturing many songwriters from Michigan.
My wife wrote one of the first stories about Jones’s River Street Anthology here.
And we don’t need permission to create own projects, nor do we need to know where we are going when we start.
The closer we get to a destination, the more obvious it appears.
Having a vision is simply looking at something long enough to see what potential awaits.
