HELLO 2024 // PARLOR ROOM // SUB ROSA ISLAND SHOWS
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HELLO 2024 // I know the starting point of the calendar is just an arbitrary thing we made up to make ourselves feel like we’re in charge, but I can’t help but enjoy the idea of a whole fresh empty new year lying ahead. I’m feeling the new-chapter energy extra strong this year, as I just tracked an album of new songs in Maine in November with the help of the magic people pictured below.
Erik Koskinen, Sam Kassirer, KD, Ray Rizzo, Jeremy Moses Curtis (photo Louise Bichan)
There’s nothing I love more than the process of taking songs that were written in solitude and bringing them to life in collaboration. It’s miraculous to see barebones demos unfurl into full-color, 3-D life over a matter of days. I’m so grateful for the attention and incredible musicianship these folks brought to the party and I absolutely can’t wait to share what we made! All in good time. Meanwhile…
PARLOR ROOM // I’ll ease into the touring year with a show close to home, Saturday January 20 at The Parlor Room in Northampton. A few months ago I did a last minute solo show in Cambridge where we alternated between audience requests and unrecorded or obscure songs I felt like playing, and it was a good time, so I thought I’d reprise it for my western MA constituents. There will be old favorites, there will hopefully be new favorites, there may be an amount of verbal rambling, there will be plenty of unexpectedness for all concerned. When you buy your ticket make sure you send an email or pipe up on socials somewhere and get in your request!
SUB ROSA ISLAND SHOWS // By now you’ve probably heard me rattle on about the annual Sub Rosa songwriting retreat in New Hampshire every June, without which many of my songs would probably still be languising half-written in the cobwebbed corners of my mind. Every winter we gather to perform some of the work from the previous retreat, and these shows are always some of my favorite moments in the musical year. January 29 & 30 (yes, it’s a Monday and a Tuesday, you can do this!) at Club Passim in Cambridge, a dozen or so of us will gather to spin through a collection of songs we wrote last summer. We’ll all be onstage together, trading up on lead vocals, playing arrangements that we whipped up that very afternoon. It’s the very opposite of a polished performance: a loose, half-baked, semi-improvisational group process which is short on perfection and very long on excitement and joy. I personally can’t wait for these and I encourage you to get tix or tune in on the livestream if you can’t be there in person!
A whole new year to live, let’s see if we can make it a good one, full of music, and fellowship, maybe even peace. *kd
UPCOMING SHOWS
JAN 20 - PARLOR ROOM - NORTHAMPTON, MA - KD Solo “One for You, One for Me” TIX
JAN 28 & 29 - CLUB PASSIM - CAMBRIDGE, MA - “Songs from the Sub Rosa Songwriting Retreat” TIX
