2011
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July 22nd, 2011 – Falcon Ridge Day 2.
ilyAIMY on the Main Stage at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Yes, I’m wearing a hat. We are not daisy fresh. It’s a heatwave. Awesome. Yesterday we arrived on the scene at around 3 in the afternoon, slathered ourselves in sunscreen and bugspray and made do with the heat. We’ve had showers and beds and no…
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July 21st – Falcon Ridge Day 1:
The audience at the Lounge Stage Thursday night, our first night at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, NY – as the night wore on this just grew and grew and stretched out through the tents. We had a huge response and sold a good number of discs – we donated all the proceeds…
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July 21st, 2011.
On our way to Falcon Ridge! We enter one of the typical construction trenches that seem to ALWAYS be on I-83. Many Star Wars jokes ensued. We ran across this on the way to the festival – I’m greatly curious. Not everything was circular, much to my chagrin, but any second now I’m going to…
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July 20th, 2011.
For the Fourth of July we joined up with Brennan, Tori and Jackson to walk on down to the Catonsville parade. I purposely tripped over something to make everyone smile. Nice picture, yes? I suffer for my art. Brennan Kuhns of Petal Blight shows proper enthusiasm for the Catonsville July Fourth Parade! I try to…
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July 23rd, 2011 – Falcon Ridge Day 3.
Yup. They are. I definitely appreciate that I often got that feeling of “these are my kind of people” at Falcon Ridge. Whether it was the fact that another performer made Star Trek jokes, or the drawings of squid, or Ethan’s Muppet and Firefly references, I just Loved the people. Today is hotter. The sun…
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June 27th, 2011.
The first Friday of July found Kristen and I running an open mic at Skippers Dips and Deli in Charles Town, WV. Unlike our previous events, this one brought forth a cow. Morning looms. As does the “debt crisis”. It looms with all the suddenness of a term paper that you’ve been avoiding, causing a…
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June 26th, 2011.
Heather and I were playing the beautiful Elk Run Winery in Mount Airy, MD when I got the sad news about my Six Mile Underground open mic. The only thing that cheered me back up was the fact that the venue itself was stunningly beautiful and we had a nice audience. And the winery is…
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June 19th, 2011.
Gah! What the Hell? Not as good as dinosaurs but you learn a lot about the world by the trucks that you pass…. With only three hours left on the drive, I’ve been surprised by how the miles have flown. I was expecting the those 600+ miles to be disgustingly onerous, but even with another…
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June 18th, 2011.
Mat, the owner of the hostel where we stayed in Columbus, OH, left this Lovely little note for the other people at the hostel. Plenty of people came out and caught us at the meadery and then went clubbing! Ellis Paul accompanies us as we cross into Illinois for the what is probably going to…
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June 16th, 2011.
The watcher at the gates. He’s not as intimidating when well lit. We’re departing Columbus, OH and the city expressed its displeasure with a great downpour from the skies. The heavens have opened and sent upon us a great deluge. Thunder is rolling over Placebo on the stereo and the streets are running with people…