TREMPEALEAU WI // RED ANTS PANTS FEST
This summer I’ll leave my town (population: 1659) to perform in Trempealeau, WI (population: 2034) and White Sulfur Springs, MT (population: 979). That’s the extent of the summer tour, and to be honest I’m pretty into it. No doubt I’ll start rushing around to a different town every night sometime soon, but for now it feels just fine to stay on the slow road a little while longer. Aside from the bits of performing, I’m sharing covers and work-in-progress every month on Patreon, and working my way through a nice kaleidoscope of recording and writing projects while I wait for my moment to fully re-enter the fray.
Meanwhile, the world is A Lot right now. You don’t need me to tell you this. I’m trying to keep in the front of my mind that there are people whose only hope of staying in power is to keep the rest of us as divided as possible, to make us see each other as the enemy. Not only is it a stressful and depressing way to live, but it saps us of our collective strength. Music, conversation, service, compassion, efforts to connect with people outside our immediate bubble; these are the things that weave us into a resilient fabric. I’m putting my energy there and hoping that my molecules of music can be of any use; even if it’s just by helping pent-up emotions flow.
TREMPEALEAU WI // In the course of some summer meandering, Esteemed Spouse Jeffrey Foucault and I will land briefly at the Trempealeau Hotel and play a show trading songs and backing each other up. This room got rave reviews from the JF band when they played it earlier in the year and I for one am looking forward to being introduced.
RED ANTS PANTS // I was at Red Ants Pants Festival a few years ago playing in JF’s band, and I’m thrilled to be reversing the situation this year, playing my own songs with him joining me on guitar. We’ll also have Eric Heywood handling the mysterious workings of the pedal steel. Red Ants encompasses a great women’s workwear company, a foundation supporting supporting small rural businesses, and on top of all that, one of the sweetest music fests you’ll hope to find. We’re playing Friday evening, followed by my fellow New Englander Martin Sexton, and then Allison Russell and her band, whose fierce, joyous, gorgeous set I was grateful to catch a few days ago at the Green River Festival. Full weekend lineup and tickets here.
May we continue to love, and to hope, and to fight - with and for each other. *kd
UPCOMING SHOWS
JULY 17 - w Jeffrey Foucault at Trempealeau Hotel, TREMPEALEAU, WI Tix
JULY 29 - Red Ants Pants Music Festival, WHITE SULFUR SPRINGS, MT Tix
photo // Brittany Powers
