Hello friends and a Happy New Year! Writing to you from my home in Upstate New York where we received record breaking snow this weekend. I’m in soup mode.

Dropping a quick note to share that I will be embarking on a tour next month with the formidable ambient pedal steel player Luke Schneider. I’ve been a fan of Luke’s for a while and when he reached out asking if I would hit the road with him it was a no brainer.

I’m extra stoked for this tour because it’s my first time playing each of the cities we’ve got booked. I love the southern US and can’t wait to bring some zones into new spaces. Do me a favor and tell your friends down there to come out to the gigs and please pass me some recommendations about how I should spend my free time. A few things that are drumming up a little extra excitement for me:

• We’re playing at a public library in Alabama. I’m very excited for this, I love libraries. They’re one of the last public places where you can go socialize in public and not be expected to pay for something. Very important!

• We’re playing with Joseph Allred in Cookeville, TN. I’ve been a huge fan of Joseph since I saw them play a few years back at a small music festival put on by Raven Sings the Blues. 

• We’re playing at the Ayurprana listening room in Asheville, NC. It’s a venue I’ve heard lore of and that I’ve been eager to visit for a long time. 

Here’s the tour flyer:

And while I’ve got you here…

Tapes and T-shirts are still available for my most recent album In Alaska, which was released by AKP Recordings back in November. It’s a site specific album made in partnership with the Alaska State Park Service in and around the Juneau region. It’s a meditation on natural beauty, purity, and fragility, and destruction. Perfect for dark winter days.

Thanks for reading and see you out on the road.

Brendan