summer is icumen in
in which we recap a great week!, reschedule this weekend's Chrysalis, get excited for summer shows (only one in NYC!! 7/9), and wish you all a happy solstice
Hey Hartlist,
Someone had to remind me yesterday that it was the summer solstice; who have I become?
I’ve made up for the lapse by naming this week’s newsletter after a 13th century middle English canon which I may or may not be listening to as I type this.
JUST THE SHOWS MA’AM
Sunday, July 3 4PM - *rescheduled from this Sunday* THE CHRYSALIS 63 livestream
Saturday, JULY 9 7PM- The Annual Not My Birthday Show @Rockwood Music Hall1
(Special appearance by guitarist Rob Rapley of the Dirty Waltz Band)
Friday, JULY 15 - Songs from Iron John, @Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, CT2
Thursday, AUGUST 4 7PM - ‘Dining Camp’ @Pocono Lake Preserve, PA
FROM THE CHRYSALIS
Speaking of the 13th century, I want a harp. I’ve always wanted to learn. Not for the band, just for me. The Irish Arts Center has harp classes and I almost signed up for one but then found out you have to rent, like… a harp. I want one of the small ones I’m not sure what they’re called but I know they exist because I used to go in the back of McCabe’s Music in Los Angeles and moon over them and I’m sure I’ve said this already that I never got one because I thought my (first) band would think it was uncool.
My current band would be all over it. The label “prog folk” came up more than once this week at the (exciting, fiery, full-drum-kit-and-electric-mandolin) rehearsal for my birthday show. Despite my early 20s love affair with Jethro Tull, I don’t think we actually fit into that category? (Though, you tell me.) Ironically, my first band totally did!! So I guess I may as well have bought the harp and leaned in.
If I sound a little giddy today, it’s because we had a great week bringing Summer Icumen In with music after not playing together since February!! Speaking of the Irish Arts Center, they produced both our shows this week, and a good time was had.
On Wednesday, Matt (fiddle) and Chris (bass) and I played a very sort of Grownup House Concert to the audience lounging on couches in the midtown IAC lobby bar, and on Saturday Matt, Danny (drums) and I did this.
Once upon a time I would have turned down these shows because schedules wouldn’t allow me to get a full band together. Now I know better. Not every show needs that. Also, songs, like people, benefit from being dressed differently now and again. Even if I am originally bummed about having to change a plan, I know if I just say yes and stay open, what usually occurs is exactly the right show for the moment. I think (surprise) that this probably applies to most situations.
The CHRYSALIS livestream #63, scheduled for this Sunday at 4, will be pushed back to the following week because my little sound setup in my apartment cannot and will not compete with the levels of the Pride Parade going past my house. So let’s all have a great time and I’ll see you on the internet JULY 3 at 4PM.
Grab tickets for the full-band experience July 9 right here. Consider it your birthday present to me.
Unless of course you have a harp lying around.
RH
young/underage folk CAN come to this show, as long as they are accompanied and I get all your names beforehand; just email me
not the band, but myself & collaborator Jacinth Greywoode perform(!) songs from our original musical at their Incubator Residency Concert