Downtown Lafayette, I'll be in the very cool Beausoleil Books bookstore--and folks can bring in beverage and food from the next door Whisper Room. My first public event in Acadiana in awhile. There's not only Now Entering Alaska Time to have on hand, but I'll have The Writing Party, which was almost totally written in Breaux Bridge, and Sports Page, and more. Of course there will be some fiddling. Perhaps a few special musical guests. We'll see!
This is not just any Happy Hour gig. I'll be playing with wonderful guitarist and mandolin player, Steve Hodges, who I last joined forces with at 2021 Word of South Festival. We'll play tunes, probably bust out a twin mandolin piece at some point, and otherwise kick off the long holiday weekend. I'll have my new novel too! Really looking forward to being back in Tallahassee.
Back to Zoom. I'm part of a way-cool anthology and will be reading for about 10 minutes with several other fantastic writers. More news about this as I have it. You can check it out from anywhere!
Postponed in 2020 and 2021, we'll see how it goes for 2022. I made it through the lottery, so we'll see! Dates are August 11-21. My show: Portrait of an Artist as Santa Claus (the Post-Trump Edition). Originally I was going to do my Trump Sonnets or How I've Taken on Donald Trump (and Won), but times have changed. I sure look forward to spending time in Edmonton, where I've never been.
WAA in Calgary? Sure! Looking forward to the conference.
I'll be solo, and it gives me an excuse to share my Carl Sandburg poem, my Robin Metz poem (long-time Knox College professor who passed away a couple of years ago and who wrote the foreword to my Are You Famous? memoir), something or other from my September 11 suite of poems, and of course take out the fiddle and mandolin. Looking forward to being back in Galesburg. I think it's the first time in a decade.
Looking forward to being in NW Ohio and seeing lots of long-time friends and making new ones. I'll be breezing in from Illinois, and an event the day before.
I assume it will be back in person this time around.
I expect to make it to this year's Folk Alliance (and bringing new CDs for a change).
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.
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.