straight to you from the monitor desk of @craigbruceengineer • this was last night’s fun at @blissfestmusic as the magic time descended... among the highlights of the festival, we watched as our tour mate @johncraigie held the audience in the palm of his hand, devoured the fabulous food vendors offerings, swooned over the beauty of #northernmichigan ‘s green fields and silver maples, and cheered @theredelvises as Saturday night gave way to Sunday morning. All in all one helluva good time, thanks for having us #blissfest ❤️📸: @thereal_chucknasty
singing, dancing, #maxfieldparrish skies, tree frogs, lagoons, mysterious flying shadows, a magic night...thank you #minneapolis and @musicinthezoo for having us, thank you @johncraigie for your fabulous set, thank you #summer and this gypsy life 💜 📸: @christetzeli #sometimesjustthesky
what a gorgeous night at @bigbluetent with a fantastic set by @johncraigie kicking off the proceedings...big ❤️ and thanks to the rocking raucous audience, so good to be with you all, flat tires and lost luggage are not going to dampen our spirits 💪🏻👊🏻, as the #summercampforgrownups rolls on, see you tonight @musicinthezoo ❤️ 📸: @christetzeli
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language”. —Henry James • spoiled rotten by this perfect summer’s day • #blueridgemountains #virginia #hammock #sunday #summer #summerafternoon #nap
sometimes just the sky #sometimesjustthesky #blueridgemountains #virginia #frontporch #sunset #home #themagictime
The display of fireworks opens/ umbrellas of flame and sound. In a flash, our blanket is peopled, then it’s too dark to see faces- only the dipper’s white stars. —Margaret Hasse 🎆🇺🇸🎇💥
thank you @mountainwinery and our dear friend @shawn_colvin for a wonderful day and a perfect California evening to bring our first run of the US summer Tour to a close...our intrepid tour mate/photographer @emilybarkerhalo captured this shot during the magic time at this beautiful and very special venue, it was wonderful to return to a stage where we’ve had such great times over the years...this first run of the 2018 #sometimesjustthesky tour was a joyful thing and our love and thanks go out to the beautiful audiences who reminded us on a nightly basis of the honor and privilege it is to play music, and of the joy that comes from connection and dancing. Wave your arms, close your eyes, take it in, let it go...We couldn’t be more grateful. Now a short break, enough time to do some laundry, catch up on some sleep, take some long walks and ponder from the top of the hill. Tour resumes 7/12 in Bayfield, WI @bigbluetent
Saturday night and the moon 🌝 was out in Napa, thank you @uptown_theatre_napa for having us 🕺💃🏻 it was our last show this run with @emilybarkerhalo but she’ll be in the band tonight and will climb back on the bus 7/24...tonight @mountainwinery with my dear old friend @shawn_colvin #lovecalifornia #napavalley 📸: @emilybarkerhalo
#showbusiness 🤦‍♀️
from soundcheck to show, yesterday @sunvalley pavilion was one of those best days and nights...our endless thanks to the gorgeous audience that danced from the first song to the last, even the sad ballads...you lifted us up and we won’t be coming down anytime soon...🚀❤️💃🏻💯🕺📸 soundcheck: @emilybarkerhalo 📸 show: @craigbruceengineer
final night in Colorado @bellyupaspen #edibles #whoadudes
Two nights ago we played at the elegant and sonically superb @operformingarts Holland Performing Arts Center In Omaha to a wonderful audience, and then it was 10 hours on the bus to Colorado… last night we were spoiled again by a beautiful summer night @denverbotanic. The wonderful @margaret_glaspy kicked off the evening with a fantastic set...this concert series is one of my favorite gigs to play, because of the way the stage is set up…you are surrounded by people on all four sides, and you feel as if you can reach out from every side to see and hear and wave and sing and dance and feel connected to every single person there. There were picnics, camp chairs, wine, desserts, kids, grandparents, first dates, sweaters, a place for dancing in front of the stage, a fabulous moon up above and the golden light of a sunset that only Colorado knows how to do. The band with special guest @emilybarkerhalo killed it. I found this photo by @k.poast , with it’s hint of a moon in the top corner, the wash of sundown across the clouds, the music floating off the stage and all of us feeling so fortunate to be together. The magic time indeed. @colorado_chautauqua tonight! #sometimesjustthesky
yesterday it was a gorgeous balmy, sunny and azure blue sky day in Wichita, Kansas and last night it was an outrageously fun night at @wichitaorpheum ...thanks to our wonderful tour mate @emilybarkerhalo, and everyone who came out, for all the requests, the embrace, the journey we got to go on together...love you Wichita ❤️ 📸: @dondixon50
Playing last night in Bloomington at the @buskirkchumley Theatre was absolutely wonderful. In addition to the the fabulous sold out house and the opening set by our fav @emilybarkerhalo , one of my heroes was in the audience… I have loved @carrienewcomer ‘s music for a very long time, for the way she so gracefully merges her artistry with her activism; she is a thinking, breathing, caring human being who advocates for those with less in this world, those who are in pain, those torn and wounded among us. She serves her community with both hands and heart. She isn’t pedantic in her art, she doesn’t hit you over the head with a sledgehammer to tell you her story. She simply sings in that gorgeous alto voice about the personal made universal. Her world is our world, her concerns are our concerns, her joys and sorrows are what connect us even if at times we don’t recognize it right away. I walked around the beautiful Indiana University campus down the street from the venue; it was much emptier and quieter during the summer months, reminding me of my own growing up in a college town, when it seemed like the summers were these special times when the streets and paths and sidewalks belonged to the town once more. Of course, it all changes come late August when the students come back, the hum returns, the sense of time being back in gear, moving forward again after having paused for a moment…the march of the seasons resume, the things that mark time passing remind us that nothing stands still. Thank you Bloomington for the rousing welcome last night, we loved playing for you, and thank you for the lovely day, the respite from the heat amongst such shady trees on campus (tree hugger’s delight) breakfast at the #VillageDeli, and the reminder of Carrie’s gifts and her constant example that we can be agents of change in this world, with both hands and heart. #bloomington #indianauniversity #backstageglow 📸: Danielle McClelland
yesterday @dondixon50 and I walked in the heat along the #threeriversheritagetrail on the Allegheny River in #Pittsburgh...this trail marker with its lovely, simple message reflects how welcome we felt in that fabulous city...thanks so much to the @byhamtheater for having us and for all the fine folks for coming out...Summer Camp for Grownups I mean the Sometimes Just The Sky Summer Tour rolls on tonight, stopping for a sold out show at Bloomington, Indiana’s @buskirkchumley with our dear pal @emilybarkerhalo kicking things off, see you tonight! 💫🧘‍♀️🙏🏻🕉
thrilled to be back @tanglewoodmusicfestival with @thedavidcrosby and #chrishillman and #herbpedersen on a perfect summer night 💫 #berkshires #tanglewood #treehugger #ilovetrees
As excited as we are for 2018’s ̶S̶u̶m̶m̶e̶r̶ ̶C̶a̶m̶p̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶G̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶U̶p̶s̶ Sometimes Just The Sky US 🇺🇸Summer Tour, it’s always hard to leave this view...see you Friday night!#blueridgemountains #sometimesjustthesky #virginia #themagictime
my loves @cmatheater #grevenguitars @rockbridgeguitar @hussanddalton #cmafest #songwriters
When I was 10 my father held me on his shoulders above the crowd/to see a train draped in mourning pass slowly through our town/his widow kneeled with all their children at the sacred burial ground/and the tv glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down • Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train passing through Princeton Junction ©️Paul Fusco #RFK50 #stonesintheroad #princetonjunction #paulfusco