January 2013 Newsletter
January 2013 Dear Friends, Happy New Year! I hope the New Year is off to a great start for everyone. Here in Los Angeles we are laughing at ourselves at how we cannot take this cold snap ~ our friends […]
January 2013 Dear Friends, Happy New Year! I hope the New Year is off to a great start for everyone. Here in Los Angeles we are laughing at ourselves at how we cannot take this cold snap ~ our friends […]
December 2012 Greetings, Dear Friends! Happy holiday season to all our friends on the list. I'm delighted to be sending news of our great line up of December shows and also whetting your appetite for our new CD release […]
October 21, 2012 "White Swan" Is on the Way! "Fate gave the word, the arrow sped, and pierced my darling's heart….and with him all the joys have fled that life can to me impart…" Dear Friends, I'm thrilled to be […]
McCabe's Show~New Album~August Tour! Hot, Hot, Hot! August News August 3, 2012 "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all […]
Our show at McCabe's Guitar Shop on July 15 was a huge success! Big thanks go to Wayne Griffiths in the sound booth for giving us the best sound support we've ever had, and Lincoln Myerson at McCabe's for inviting […]
June 20, 2012 Dear Friends, We welcome new friends to this newsletter, and we hope you're having a great summer so far. Ours is off to a terrific start ~ as I write today the band and I are still […]
"MILLWORKER" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFffMq7Zq44&feature=youtube_gdata_player "Millworker" is James Taylor's iconic song about the trials of the working woman. And From Berkeley's Freight & Salvage Coffee House, a video MONTAGE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc3o83Iiz4Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player Hi Friends! February was an amazing month for the Hiloneome Band as we […]
See our "Evangeline" on YouTube "Evangeline" is Ernest Troost's song about mistaken identity, crime and heartbreak. Hey Friends! February finds the band traveling a lot, running to and fro! We've spent the last month developing our show for the tours […]
“It is the time so well we love,The time of all the year;When winter calls with chilling breath,For fireside and good cheer.” From Jean Ritchie’s Winter Grace See Our New Video “MillWorker” on YouTube Happy New […]
Greetings Friends ~ I’ve been remiss in getting this letter out to you ~ my time has been taken up with new website renovation and other promotional duties for the band as well as a bunch of shows […]
Happy Dog Days Friends ~ Hope Summer is treating you well and you’re having a fun time with family and friends, whether traveling or staying around home, and that you’re enjoying some great music along the way. We had […]
Out and About – July Tour! As I write, the band and I are eagerly preparing to leave Los Angeles in just about a week’s time for destinations North! We have a marvelous Summer 2011 Hilonesome Band Tour planned, and […]
Drinking In the Draught of June From the New York Times on Sunday, June 5: “If we could bottle a few days to uncork later in the year – when the wind has got us by the neck and the […]
"May Day Day" From Jean Ritchie: Cold and dark the winter, in March it snows again Through the rains of April, spring comes stealin' in Smilin' 'oer the meadow in the risin' light of day Beauty is reborn again every […]
Hello Dear Friends, The band and I have had a most remarkable last few weeks, with shows all up and down the California coast, including the lovely Atascadero and Sonoma County (with a surprise radio set on KRCB’s “Our Roots […]
Wintergrace From Jean Ritchie: “Ice and snow mean hardship to city people, as I learned when I came to New York and had my first taste of ‘rush hour’ during a January storm. How different on our Kentucky mountainside farm! […]
Well, friends, as I write, the summer seems to be winding down, and I don’t feel like we got enough summer at all. Perhaps I feel this way because when we were kids the summers seemed to stretch out in […]
The magazine formerly known as Dirty Linen has now evolved into online only Driftwood Magazine. Check it out friends and read my review of Loreena McKenitt’s 2009 release “A Mediterranean Odyssey.” http://driftwoodmagazine.com/2010/08/23/reviews-8-23-10
Thanks to the great Dick Boak from Martin Guitar Company, the story of how we got our Martin D28 (pictured above with Susie) was featured in the official Martin Guitar Newsletter “Sounding Board” for July 2010! Check it out below: […]
Hey Friends, Steve and I have had a great time in June getting around to music festivals in California and enjoying the new friends we've made there. The Live Oak and Strawberry Music festivals were such fun and I recommend […]