June 14th 2026
The world is a strange and unpredictable place filled with humanity, kindness, creatures of all kinds, and more reasons than are imaginable to celebrate and be hopeful. It’s also filled with greedy, self absorbed people, who, while they are clearly only a small fraction of the whole, seem to have undue sway over the general condition of our civilization and our times. In the immortal words of Tennessee Williams (through Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire), “Don’t hang back with the brutes.” That’s advice worth repeating now a days. Sure there are endless ways to be a brute, to revel in the callous and the cruel, to numb our senses in social media or to give in to hate and bigotry, but there is still artistry and science, nature and language, oceans, constellations, and history. There are children born every split second, filled with promise and possibility. New days rise every 24 hours and the present becomes the past as soon as a moment, even a painful one, has been lived.
I for one plan to leave the brutes behind as much as possible this year. To start, I have shows booked, recordings to finish and release, and so many new songs I’m not sure what to do with them all outside of playing them to people in this city and elsewhere. See the shows page for details.