I'll be at the school all day--mostly working with high school students. Looking forward to it!
Down the Road
While in New Mexico I'll be doing a set at an assisted living home, thanks to the folks at the Flickinger Center, the fine performing arts center in the community.
I'll be holding forth on fiddle and story at the excellent Rosey's Pizza in Carrizozo. This will take everyone to Alaska and back.
I'll be spending four days, Monday-Thursday December 12-15 at the absolutely wonderful Moab Charter School in beautiful Moab, Utah. It's an arts week, and we'll be writing, making music, and doing much more.
I'll featured at what will be a most excellent benefit show for the Moab Charter School, which is hosting me for four days this week. Expect fun, inspiration, surprises!
Jerry Hagins will put a banjo together before your eyes and will then play it. Ken Waldman will share a new poem about banjo-building, will talk, tell a few stories, read a few more poems, play some fiddle tunes, and await Jerry's completed fiddle. A one-of-a-kind event. When the venue is 100% confirmed, we'll let you know. If it's outdoors, it'll depend on winter weather.
I assume it will be back in person this time around.
I'll be joining forces with Danielle Devlin of Canis Major Music to co-produce this year's showcase. It'll be similar to and different than prior years. We'll have some fun--eight great acts. Ken Waldman & Ilan Moss, Sean Dagher, Jefferson Hamer with Rob Jost, Jason Anick Acoustic Trio, Tamar Korn joined by Kornucopia, Yacouba Sissoko, Bad Penny Pleasuremakers, Tamar Ilana Duo. If you have an APAP badge you're our guest. Otherwise, it's a $60 ticket.
I'll be visiting schools for a week, and one evening will lead a writing workshop and do a performance. Looking forward to a return to Slidell!
I expect to make it to this year's Folk Alliance (and bringing new CDs for a change).
It's the 27th anniversary of my March 2, 1996 plane crash near Nome. I'll celebrate in style with Portland musician friends, including the Cajun band, P.O. Sparkle Club. We'll have ourselves a music party at the famed White Eagle Saloon. More news as we have it!
I'll have an accompanist or two for a Ken Waldman & The Wild Ones show, a Stage Door series offering at the historic Columbia Theatre in Longview. Guaranteed: not only a stellar accompanist or two, but lots of fun, inspiration, and surprises.
It'll be a Northwest and Alaska year at AWP. I look forward to it, and seeing friends who didn't make San Antonio pre-pandemic, and Philadelphia as we strive to enter endemic times.
Another McMenamins music party! Rich & Robin Kuras will be there, and lots of other folks. More news as I have it.
More details as I have them, but I'll be joined by a wonderful accompanist or two. And a fine local Shelbyville musician, Kit Haymond, will be featured at some point. If you've been to a few of my shows, you know how these things can go. The Strand is a beautiful place. This show will be a National Poetry Month blast. Yes, more details as I have them!
It looks like I'll be visiting a school on Friday, offer a writing workshop sometime Saturday, and do a show with an accompanist or two on Saturday night. The River House is super excellent, and I really look forward to all of this. More details as I have them.
I'll be joined by Tim Kerr & Jerry Hagins (aka Up Around the Sun) and by Beth Chrisman, and maybe a surprise or two. Expect at least one outreach event--looks like we'll be doing a school matinee show on Thursday morning, April 20.
I'll be spending the whole month of December in beautiful downtown Fairhope, Alabama working on a number of writing projects.