April 2025
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April 27th, 2026. The Music City Open Mic.
Morsbergers be Morsbergers. For a couple of years now I’ve pretended otherwise, but last night Morsbergers was feeling its oats, and spring was quite definitely SPRUNG. It’s not a good thing. Outside of our walls, on the back porch, there was a yellin’ and a hollerin’ and there was racin’ aboot and amok being mucked.…
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April 25th, 2025. Breathing Deep with Mixed Results.
I’m breathing deep. It smells of onions and peppers and chorizo and I Love it. Coffee. Spring has sprung aggressively and there’s a little bit of optimism that comes with sunlight and cool mornings. We’re out. About. In motion. May’s full of shows and noise. My friends from Sweden have moved to America. Now, THAT’S…
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April 22nd, 2025. The SPARK w Babel Baby.
I must admit – I came home from tonight EXHAUSTED. Just mentally beat. It was a great night. Three new artists? But I was just so … freakin… beaten. The featured artist was great though. Babel Baby has never played anywhere but at my open mics, and they’ve been enjoyable to watch develop. We do…
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April 21st, 2025. Live Long and Prosper.
It’s a grey Monday. My father’s been dead for 20 years. What an unimaginable thing. “Fortunately”, I don’t have to imagine it. It’s my reality. Every year I think about this less than I ought to. It still hits at random moments – overwhelming. Usually in moments where I wish he was there to give…
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April 20th, 2025. The Music City Open Mic.
Cause like… it’s 4 20 MAAAAAN. THAT got old quick. Oh. And it’s Easter. Light list. It was actually a pretty Lovely night. Unfortunately, I forgot to click RECORD on the board and we’ve just got camera audio for the night. An ESPECIAL shame because we have a Dave Benham, rob, Juels and Mike Bragg…
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April 16th, 2025. Farewell Dave Godbey.
Dave Godbey hanging out outside of Teavolve in Baltimore, MD. Dave Godbey died Tuesday. His daughter reached out this morning and I felt terrible because I didn’t even know he was ill. Just within the last week I’d been thinking about him. I thought about reaching out, but I didn’t. You should always reach out.…
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April 15th, 2025. The SPARK w Jack Lavin.
Driving down to Takoma Park on Tuesdays has increasingly become an ordeal. Increased traffic, increased construction, increased distraction. Today at least SOME of the delay was people slowing down to flash lights and honk (presumably) for protestors on one of the overpasses. Generally there’s banners and text on the overpasses on I-95 headed towards Washington…
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April 8th, 2025. The SPARK w Lydia Sylvia.
Bev kicking things off at the SPARK open mic in Takoma Park! Tonight’s featured artist, Lydia Martin, has great folk lineage and is known throughout the local old-time scene for her banjo playing, and that’s definitely what Dave was expecting to see tonight. She’d been telling me that she’d been writing her own material and…
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April 6th, 2025. Pretty Damned Human.
Sometimes it’s not defiance, it’s just a narrative. I shot video at a Mongolian band’s performance at Glen Echo on March 24th and it was a beautiful thing. With it’s storied past of segregation, it gives me satisfaction that this National Park is SO focused on doing multi-cultural events. On the other hand, it’s own…
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April 1st, 2025. The SPARK w Jeff Miller.
Many thanks to Jay Keating for catching us in the act. I invited Jeff Miller to join me at the beginning of the night just to make Juels jealous. I FORGOT that he did that THING during Going to California tho… Jeff Miller continues to be are hardest-riding road-warrior. I really admire his devotion to…