The tour dates continue to multiply, almost as if the map itself has become involved in the booking process. Places keep emerging I never heard of, towns and small communities […]

Next year, at a certain point I am doing 2 weeks of house concerts in BC. What would be the best way to organize the costs of driving? They start […]

Penticton confirmed. Oh joy. That’s Vallican, Kimberley, Castlegar, Fernie, Robert’s Creek, Powell River, Nanaimo, Vancouver and Penticton confirmed. Waiting on Victoria, Kaslo, Kelowna, Cumberland, Williams Lake, Crawford Bay. That’s BC […]

It had been so long since Ray toured the East Coast. Some venues disappeared, along with promoters, record stores and radio stations. He remembered Halifax when you could arrive with […]

Five of the twenty shows I have lined up for January and February 2027 are now officially confirmed, meaning contracts signed and deposits paid. I remain extremely grateful to Jen […]

I recently asked a booking agent whether they might be interested in working with me to pursue folk festival bookings. They said no. Not because they disliked the music. Not […]

I have playedfor six people,thirteen people,twenty-seven hundred people,confused bartenders,and springer spanielswhose commitment to artistic inquirywas superior to many festival programmers. The posters promisedAN EVENING OF EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC. My manager,which is […]

The West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg feels like a place that has decided, quietly and firmly, to take music seriously. Jorge runs it like someone tending a long-burning fire. […]

Gimli, floor-to-ceiling windows behind us, and beyond them the lake, frozen, vast. You expect stillness from a frozen lake. What you don’t expect are cars driving across it like it’s […]