Another special music performance at Unity Church in Urbana.

I’ll be part of an ensemble playing music together & individually for a special all-music holiday service at Unity Church!

Once again I get to play a special Thanksgiving tune at Unity Church!

Another opportunity to share music & experience with the patients on the alcohol & drug treatment unit of the Pavilion, perhaps my favorite setting for performing.

I’ll be performing a half-hour set at the open house for DSC’s new downtown Champaign community work setting for adults with developmental disabilities.

In its 11th year, the Champaign-Urbana Folk & Roots Festival is a world-class event featuring top local, national & international performers, in addition to workshops, lessons, dancing, singalongs & activities for children & families, almost all free & open to the public. The headliner this year is Dom Flemons! I am performing an hour solo set this year at the Urbana Comminity Center for the Arts.

Another musical performance at Unity Church, a favorite spot.

My regular gig playing music & talking recovery with the patients at the Pavilion, something I always look forward to & enjoy. Plus, I get to help out by restringing & tuning a couple of guitars for the unit.

I always look forward to talking & playing music for adults in treatment at the Pavilion, my old stomping grounds … always very rewarding & appreciated.

One of my favorite recurring gigs! Performing at Unity Church in Urbana …

Sandra & I are really excited to host Gina Forsyth at our next Autumn Ridge House Concert! Gina is an old friend & a Soona Songs label-mate when recording with her folky female super-group, the Malvinas. I’m delighted to be playing an opening set yet again & we are likely to be graced with a reading from a local poet as well.

We’re really looking forward to hosting Bill Chambers, all the way from Australia, a talented singer-songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, & just an all-around interesting character. We first saw him performing outside the Lincoln Center in NYC, accompanying his daughter, Kasey Chambers. Opening for Bill Chambers will be another Bill, our longtime friend & veteran singer-songwriter, Bill Passalacqua, or Bill Poss, as he is known in the biz. If we can fit me in, I’ll play a song or two as well. With all of that music, I don’t know if we’ll have room for a local poet, but maybe we’ll squeeze one in, as is becoming our new custom. Should be a great night!

The Autumn Ridge House Concert series continues to pick up steam! The next event will be on Friday, July 19, when Sandra & I will be hosting Ben Bedford. In keeping with tradition (ahem), I will be opening the show & we hope to invite a local poet as well, identity as yet unknown (??) …

The next in our series of Autumn Ridge House Concerts, Sandra & I will be hosting Kyle Carey … I’ll be opening the show, along with a local poet TBA.

Always a great pleasure to play music for old & new friends at Unity Church in Urbana.

Bill Passalacqua & Taylor Steele will visit me on my radio show, From the Joshua Tree Inn, on WEFT, 90.1 FM (weft.org) (also on radiofreeamerica.com/station/weft), to play some music & talk about the upcoming Moccasin Creek festival, which is June 20 to 23 in Effingham, IL, & which will feature ALL of us on a stellar schedule, also including John Fullbright, Darrell Scott, Slaid Cleaves, Will Kimbrough, Anne McCue & many more … we’ll feature a lot of these artists on the radio program this evening!

Well, hot on the heels of playing at Exile on Main Street on May 4, I get to play there AGAIN, opening for my buddy Rupert Wates!

I am honored & excited to be asked by Jen & Eddy, The New Zeitgeist, to open for them in another friendly & familiar setting, Exile on Main Street, in Champaign!

What a nice surprise! I get to join my friend Gina Forsyth on stage at Neutral Grounds in New Orleans for a tune or two … my New Orleans debut!

Once again, I get to play music for a favorite audience at Unity Church in Urbana.

Sandra & I get to host our second house concert at our new home, this time with Greg Klyma, & I’ll be the opening act (again) (as usual). We have decided to call our house concert series Autumn Ridge House Concerts & I believe we are starting to get a following!

Once again, I get to play music & talk about recovery from drug & alcohol addiction with patients at The Pavilion, my old stomping grounds, where I used to be the director of the program … still one of my most rewarding playing experiences.

Another engagement of special music at a special place, Unity Church in Urbana, IL.

Sandra & I will be hosting an open house at our new home on Autumn Ridge in Urbana & also having a house concert with our friend Rupert Wates, from London, New York, Colorado, & the road … in addition, I’ll be playing a set of music as the opening act!

I’m honored to be a part of a young man’s memorial service … his wished were to hear Amazing Grace & Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

Elliott Counseling Group is opening a new office at Lincoln Square in Urbana, IL. There will be the usual talking, touring, food & fellowship, with great music from Dorothy Martirano & Armand Beaudoin, who both played on my 2011 CD, It’s a Circus Here, Dolores, & Armand also played on my 2016 CD, Patterns of Blue. I’ll join Doro & Armand for a couple of tunes.

Another favorite place to play music, Unity Church in Urbana, IL.