| When |
Thursday, November 20, 2008
12:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
4000 University Drive
McKeesport, PA, USA 15131 |
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My two days at home are up and I’m off to the great upstate of New York to seek my fortune. I leave behind memories of laundry and a lovely little show at Whole Foods in Chapel Hill where I met a woman who saw me accidentally eat a moth onstage several years ago. I’d forgotten what exactly happened and she was able to fill in the details I had blanked out. Also, hello to the DSI improv wonderkids who came out on a rainy night to see me. Now I gotta pack some longjohns and get ready to hit the road. APCA Northeast, here I come!
| When |
Friday, November 14, 2008
6:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
Whole Foods Market (map)
81 S Elliott Rd
Chapel Hill, NC, USA 27514 |
Just arrived in Iowa. It is cold. Some of the corn fields on the way in were still standing, long past harvest season. I feel sorry for the corn that doesn’t ever ripen and get eaten. Makes me feel like an emo farmer.
Tomorrow I’m putting on a warm coat and heading up to Coralville, Iowa for APCA Midwest. I’m showcasing Monday afternoon. If you’re going to be there, we should make a pilgrimage as a group to the terrifying Ronald MacDonald statue carved out of a stump. I don’t want to visit it alone.
| When |
Thursday, November 6, 2008
9:00pm
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Solo
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All Ages
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| Where |
191 Main St W
Banner Elk, NC, USA 28604 |
| Other Info | Wily's, in Cannon Student Center. |
| When |
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
9:00pm
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Solo
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All Ages
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| Where |
1115 College Dr
Gaffney, SC, USA 29340 |
| Other Info | Stephenson Dining Hall |
If you’ve driven south from Charlotte on 85, you’ve probably seen the giant peach. That’s where I’m going first. I’m heading down to play at Limestone College tonight at 9 pm, then I’ll be driving back up to the mountains of Western North Carolina for a show at Lees-McRae College at 9 pm tomorrow. Then it’s off to Iowa on Sunday. I’ll let you know how it all goes. Talk to you later, Internet!
The cc flickr image above is from jimmywayne22.
Have a look at my Shows page for the full picture, but let’s start by saying that my tour map is a little nutty this November. Next week, I’m playing just over the border in South Carolina, then in the NC mountains. The week after, I’m going out to Iowa to play an APCA showcase and book college shows in the Midwest. The next week, I’m doing the same thing near Syracuse, NY, booking shows in the Northeast, and playing a show near Pittsburgh on the way back. Then I get to go home and eat a whole bunch of turkey. Life is food! Oops, I meant “good.”
The general store in Pittsboro NC has it all. A performance space with a huge mural? Check. Giant, painted umbrellas? Check. Normally, I’m happy with just a mural, or just a half-dozen giant umbrellas, but this time I guess I got lucky.
For this show on 10/18/08, I was joined by Alex Van Gils on electric upright bass and Charles Cleaver on keyboards. The sound system took some figuring out, but it ended up sounding fine and the dinner crowd stuck around after we played to hear Jeff Crawford and Nick Jaeger play the late set. We all got amazing dinners out of the deal, too. Sweet potato and jerk chicken burritos, mmm.
As a footnote, former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was there having dinner and he bought one of my CDs and gave us a thumbs up. If any eagle-eye photographers caught that moment, let me know.
