Big City Folk Song Club RETURNS tonight. Wed Sept 8th – 7pm -10pm Stella and Fly 1705 1st Ave, New York, NY 10128 Proof of vaccination required. No cover. Pass the hat for the featured artist. Upcoming featured acts: Sept 8th – Karen Dahlstrom Sept 15th – Jo Kroger […]
Photo by Mulography Rockaway, Monday June 7th, 2021 I take the ferry to from Rockaway to Pier 11/ Wall Street. It being a hot summer’s day, the ferry’s completely full. Mostly full of people in beachwear and masks. Like a PG casting call for ‘Eyes Wide Shut’. Thinking through the […]
Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St, Tonight Sat, Jun 5th, 2021. Doors 6pm. E.W. Harris 7pm. Niall Connolly and Band 8pm. Proof of Vaccination Required. Somehow, the day has finally come. After a brutal 15 months, one of my favourite venues has reopened. I feel very honoured to have been […]
Rockaway Park, Monday April 12, 2021 I have an appointment to get my eyes tested at 5pm. My glasses are taped together. It required an infraction of this magnitude for me to schedule this overdue test. No corrective lenses would have helped me see this time coming. Still, here we […]
(Photo from Olomouc, Czech Repbublic – Image for new single ‘We Don’t Have To Talk About It’ ) Rockaway, New York, Sat Jan 30th, 2021 Even in the best of times January lingers, hangs around a little too long. December’s poor house guest, the smell of yesterday’s feast. […]
Rockaway, New York, November 29th, Somehow Still 2020 Today forgot to be winter, blue skies and warm sunlight found us here on the edge of USA. We took a 25 minute drive to Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn this morning. I’m still foreign sometimes and there are many gaps […]
Rockaway Park, NY, Sunday, November 1st, 2020 My new single ‘Maybe Next Year’ will be my first official release in over three years. It will be out on Bandcamp and usual streaming platforms later in the month. It’s available right now through my Patreon page. It’s a simple song that […]
Rockaway, September 29th, 2020 The Day of the first Presidential Debate/ The Tuesday after Trump’s Tax Revelations/ Half a Year into the Pandemic/ Children back at NY Public Schools/ Cases Rising in Ireland and many parts of NY Bless me reader for I have sinned. It has been 270,000 […]
Rockaway Park, September 15th, 2020 I am thinking of my friends out West and of all those who have lost their lives, homes, livelihoods this week. I toured in the Pacific North West in the winter of 2015. Never before or since have I been so consistently bowled over by […]
Rockaway Park, July 10th, 2020 Last Saturday, July 4th, was the first livestream that I have missed since the lockdown began in mid March. A sideways summer rain taps gently on my window. The bedroom curtains dance to the sirens. I am back in Rockaway this weekend. My father […]