Life has been crazy, but the music does not stop. Thanks to all those that came out to the Kitty Cat or to the Party at the pond. This is shaping up to be a summer of crazy good music!

We have three shows coming up in the somewhat near future. There will be a whole bunch of new material including songs from FAWM 2007. In fact, George S of G-Slab fame is joining Jen and I as a regular player, adding his great guitar talents as well as his awesome drumming/percussion. He is the inventor of the now-infamous Log Drum (patent pending), which, if you haven’t seen it in action, you must hear! These upcoming shows are going to be a bit more rounded “full band’ experiences. And keep an eye out for a few possible performances from the G-Slab ensemble!

Friday, July 27th, we are going to be at Dunn Brothers Coffee in White Bear Lake. This is one of my favorite coffee shop venues and it’s always a blast! The show starts at 7:00 PM

Sunday July 29th - FAWM Midwest Songwriters Showcase! at the Acadia Cafe This is the big one! We have FAWM participants from MN and WI getting together to play songs they wrote during February. Autoclamp, Us, G-Slab, Nancy Rost, and Matt Pierce all sharing the stage in a four hour session of music. We’ll be playing round robin, so even if you can only stop by for a half hour, you’ll still probably get to hear a mix of songwriters. We did this last year and it was about as much fun as you can have legally.

The doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7:00 and goes till 11:00 PM. There is a $3.00 cover charge.

Check out this poster. If you feel like helping out, print it out and post it.

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Finally, Friday August 24th, we’ll be at Dunn Brothers Coffee in Roseville. This is a new venue for us, but it looks like it will be a very solid place to play and the location is great. Show starts at 7:00 PM.

Full details as well as maps to the the venues are in the Shows section. Hope to see you at a show!

The show that was scheduled for Oct 26th in Waterton is being rescheduled. Sorry to all those that were coming out to it. Keep an eye on the shows page for the updated date and time.

To all those that came out to Dunn Brothers and the State Fair, thanks. We had a blast and we hope you did too!

We have one more show - the FAWM Showcase at Ginko’s - which is going to rock so hard, it just might hurt! After that, Jen and I will be on a hiatus while we get down to business on the new CD. I may also be posting a couple new song demos, so keep an eye out for those.

Hope to see you out there.

This is just a quick reminder about two upcoming shows.

First off is Friday August 25th at Dunn Brothers in White Bear Lake. This is one of my favorite coffeeshop venues so I was already psyched. To add to it, I have a special guest joining me - G-Slab. Those of you who made it to the FAWM Showcase got to see Jen and I play a few numbers with the G-Slab crew. We’ll be doing it again, with Jen and I swapping around instruments, including G-Slab’s very nifty log drum setup, to fill out the sound. On top of that, G-Slab is going to be joining us for several of our numbers, adding guitars and drums. It’s going to be a big old jam-out BLAST! It starts at 7:00 PM and it costs 0$… that’s right… FREE. (Though Tips are always welcome.) Details are in the Shows section.

The other show is the Midwest FAWM Songwriters Showcase. This one is a show you REALLY don’t want to miss. It’s also FREE (again Tips are very much encouraged) It’s on Saturday September 9th at Ginko’s Coffeehouse in St. Paul on Snelling Ave. 4 FAWM Songwriters (including myself) will be rockin out 4 hours of music. Russ Brown of the Balet School Troublemakers, Amy Curl, Nancy Rost, and myself will be playing the best of our FAWM songs and having a darn good time! Details are in the Shows section.

Work continues on the new album, albeit slowly. Keep tuned her for updates. That’s all for now. Hope to see you at a show!