NORTHEAST – In April I'll play four shows with a full quartet in the Northeast, beginning with a return to the Cock'n Bull restaurant in Galway, NY (4/12), a magnificent old barn in the bucolic upstate farm country. It's a wonderful joint with great food and sweet people, and they always make it sound good. Next morning we'll haul ass out to the coast to play the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA (4/13) – a real stunner of a concert hall – then turn around and head back north and west to the Zenbarn in Waterbury, VT (4/14), finishing back in here in the valley at The Drake in Amherst, MA (4/15). Get your tickets, tell your friends. Erik Koskinen, jewel of Minnesota songwriters and accomplished tractor pilot, opens and joins the band on electric guitar.

FRANCE – After some running around the countryside visiting family Kris Delmhorst and I will return to Paris, France to play a one-night, one-mic acoustic show (4/23) at a little place called Le Café Du Village, in the Place d'Italie. If you or your French connection might like to come, email our friend Hervé: acousticinparis@proton.me for tickets/information.

MIDWEST – In May I'll tour Wisconsin and Michigan duo with Erik Koskinen on electric guitar, starting in Eau Claire, WI at Ume Studios (5/3) and moving on to Ore Dock Brewing Co. in Marquette, MI (5/5) and then over west to Bayfield and The Backstage (5/6), a new indoor venue run by the Big Top Chautauqua folks. Then its down to Appleton and a show at the Appleton Beer Factory (5/7). After that I'll play the historic Trempealeau Hotel (5/10) north of La Crosse, and the Cafe Carpe (5/14) in Fort Atkinson. The Carpe is sold out, but hope springs eternal and fortune favors the bold. You could probably stand in back if you offer to help Kitty with the dishes.

As always, if you can take a second to forward this letter to someone you know in some town where we're headed, someone who enjoys music, or even just watching people struggle, please go ahead. We like to make new friends, especially when they pay us.

We'll see you out there.

April 2023