Summertime! — July and August 2024

It’s been a while! Sorry, I’ve been travelling and didn’t have a chance to send you more spam… er… I mean, a much-anticipated newsletter!

June was much fun, and July had hidden treasures (more on that anon!)… and there’s at least one more July event, and a bunch happening in August…

June Tunes, and Flying in July…

The Bloomfield Saturday Market on June 15 was a blast, as always! Lots of people at the market, and some (encouraged by kids who wanted to stop to dance) even stayed with me for a song or three!

Then on June 21 I played a sweet solo set for Make Music Pittsburgh at a very cool venue, the Greenhouse Cider and Plant Coop in Greenfield. Lovely place, lovely audience (including several old and new friends) and also some lovely music by Madeline Jo & Friends, and the acoustic duo known as the Goats!

The very next day, June 22, we blanketed the Swissvale Farmers’ Market with music from 9am to 1pm! Joy Street played from 9am to 11am, and I kept the party going from then until until 1pm. The weather was hot, the music was hot, and much fun (and perhaps a few heat hallucinations?) was had by all.

On Saturday July 29 I headed out to Sharon PA to play some country blues and soft rock hits with Debbi Pace at the Main Street Farmer’s Market. Really fun, and something different for me! I played a little guitar, a little mando, and a little banjo (you haven’t really lived until you’ve heard Steve Winwood’s “Can’t Find My Way Home” on clawhammer banjo!).

That got me all ready to get on a plane the very next day, and meet my son Toby in Brussels for a little R&R. Caught a quarterfinal game of the Euro Cup live in the stadium (Netherlands beat Turkiye in that one, but couldn’t last ’til the final!), visited dear friends in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, and attended and played music at a wedding in Switzerland. It was a much needed break, but it’s also great to be back!

July and August!

Whew! All that, and there’s still a little July left, and all of August too!

Friday July 26 Joy Street (only a few days away!) is playing from 7pm to 8 or so in Beth Claussen’s Porch Concert Series, 1031 Jancey Street in Morningside.
Then on Saturday August 10 I’ll be returning to the Bloomfield Saturday Market with purely acoustic music from 10am until noon.
A week later, on Saturday, August 17, I’ll be playing from about 10am ’til noon, at the Fresh Start Cafe in Canonsburg.
On Monday August 19 I’ll play a solo set from 6:30 to 7:30 as part of the Music Mondays series at the Three Rivers Outdoor Company in Regent Square.
Saturday afternoon August 24, Joy Street is playing at St. Andrews Church in Highland Park
…and finally. on Saturday Aug 31 I’ll play the 9am slot at the Swissvale Farmers’ Market, and East End Appalachian Jam community will jam from 11am until 1pm.