The Geography of My Songs & Poems
Set List: Sept 12, 2015 – the Ark
Set List: Sept 12, 2015 The Ark (Opening for Ellis Paul)
Ann Arbor, MI
- Girl on the Mountain, Boy in the Beach
- Damn Fine Day
- Only the Rain Knows Why
- A World That’s Bigger
- I Just Want to Be Your Last
- Do You Know Your Fears by Name?
- Love and Be Proud
- Ghostwriter
Lady Liberty cries with silent lips; we must be vocal: 5 ways to help refuguees
Betsy & Chris were discussing the refugee crisis so articulately and powerfully on Facebook yesterday, forcing me to reflect when I wanted to escape and ignore the photos, the story, the suffering. And then you focus on that little boy’s sneakers…and the magnitude hits you like a ton of bricks.
We need to do better. The world is flat: We worry about China’s Stock Market affecting our financial system more than we worry about another’s suffering. When one suffers, we all suffer.
Emma Lazarus’s poem on Lady Liberty speaks more powerfully than the terrible rhetoric we hear from the celebrity farce of these current and temporary presidential primaries: “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Lady Liberty cries with silent lips; we must be vocal.
5 practical ways to help:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/5-practical-ways-you-can-help-refugees-trying-to-find-safety-in-europe-10482902.html
Set List: Aug. 29, 2015 – State Theater
Set List: Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015
ArtBeat @ the State Theater, South Bend, IN
As close as I can recall:
- Damn Fine Day
- Don’t Mess Around with Jim (Jim Croce)
- Only the Rain Knows Why
- Smooth (Santana)
- Riptide (Vance Joy)
- Made a Mess
- Love and Be Proud
- Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
- Empty Cup
- Drift Away (Dobie Gray)
Set List: Aug. 29, 2015 – Chicory Cafe
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015
Chicory Cafe, South Bend, IN
As best as I could remember it:
- A World That’s Bigger
- Here Comes the Sun
- Damn Fine Day
- Smooth
- Only the Rain Knows Why
- Landslide
- I Just Want to Be Your Last
- Love and Be Proud
- Drift Away
- Before You Accuse Me
- Ohio
- Burning Bright
Thanks to Bello Spark for sharing the show with me!
