Thank you all who were a part of Winter Gathering #15 this past weekend! Y’all made it such a beautiful and inspiring experience. We’ll have to do it again sometime. I hope to write up a full length “afterword” soon, as per tradition, but things are busy around here, so i wanted to at least offer this brief thank you card now. We especially enjoyed playing the show so much! We were a 10 piece band for the night, but with all the collective movement, the dancing, the singing-a-long/scream-laugh-cry at the top of your lungs the lines were blurred between band and audience. We were just being there together. Living the moment. Exactly the kind of show we always hope for but it doesn’t always happen that way. Apocalyptic fervor! I hope we can use some of that energy to continue fighting the good fight in each of our local communities we inhabit. Yes, there is still so much life in our communities to celebrate. And it deepens the meaning of the rage we feel against those forces that conspire to continue destroying community. Sing courage to our souls O Land of the Living! Rumor has it that the show might have been recorded. If that’s true let us know, we’d love to see and share that. Look for more shows from the full band this summer and possibly we’ll even start the new recording before the end of the year. But for the moment we turn now to another project.
A small group of us are touring the country, starting next week, under the title Little Spoon River. Our trio will follow the flow of the waters from our minivan on the highways and byways. We will touch 4 coasts – Gulf, Pacific, Atlantic, and Lake Michigan – in just over a month. We are racing to get all the logistics figured out and dates confirmed before the first show(s) Feb. 5th. We are developing a beautiful and passionate set of love songs, both old and new, that we are extremely excited to share with you and your community. We pray they will be like a cool drink of water to quench the thirst you are working up as you serve and defend the life and lands you love. Keep in touch and see you soon! We still need a few shows, so let us know if you want to help with setting something up.