We left today for our 6 week west coast tour which starts tonight in St. Louis at the Shanti in the Soulard district then onward to Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California & Oregon before returning to our Old Kentucky Home. We'll be posting video blogs here as we unload all the amazing adventure we have o ...
Last night we played our first show on our tour at the Shanti in the Soulard district of St Louis...we had a blast with all the incomparably unique, warm hearted Shanti hippy family. Phil greeted us at the end of the show with this commercial he wrote for bliss. Life is just too sweet!! Here's Video Blog 2
Our fun filled day with our dear friend of 20 years who offers us an amazing home away from home in St Louis. We popped in on him, took a tour of his posh pod then took him to breakfast at Local Harvest. This restaurant resources all of their delicious food from a 150 mile radius. We love Local & We love you, David!! ...
Blake and Karla (author of the "Holy Road Cookbook") are dear friends of Lizzie West and Baba. They greeted us with a scrumptious dinner of stuffed mushrooms, salad, tofu manicoti and homemade brownies then hosted a House Concert for us with a lovely group of friends! Miracle and Smiley were treated like royalty an ...
Driving today through the big snow storm in Kansas had us clicking our heels and saying there's no place like home while simultaneously wishing a tornado could pick us up out of there and transport us to better weather. No, we haven't been in any poppy fields..but the sky did say surrender Aim Me & Renee. ;-) Video ...
Video Blog 7 Our reunion with the nice lady was amazing. Anne Shutan is the nice lady...she is a dear friend that we had not seen in over a decade. We originally met Anne when we were in Boulder street performing on Pearl Street in 2010. She approached us and we took off laughing and talking like we'd always known ea ...
A tour of the Petroglyph National Monument outside of Albuquerque, NM with our friend Beth Mc Cormack, amazing archeologist, mom & musician whom we are so thankful to have befriended over 13 years ago in New Orleans! Here's a VIDEO link to Beth's fascinating introduction to Petroglyphs http://www.youtube.com/ ...
Petrified Forest National Park...breathtaking evidence of God's Imagination!!! With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, native grassland, and displays of over 200-million-year-old foss ...
VIDEO LINK: Shalom Ya'll...Troubadouring 101: Sweet Dreams in Random Parking Lots http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=500134402420&comments#!/video/video.php?v=500137852420&comments We also had the wonderful opportunity to be reunited with the radiant soul & heart of Teneia Sanders! Here's a VIDEO s ...
We pulled off the highway in Southern California for a couple of days to unload the road in the Cleveland National Forest. We camped in Laguna Meadow under a full moon and read The Alchemist (thank Kristine) under by campfire. It feels so good to be following our dreams...so much gratitude for this gift. Here's a V ...
Steph has landed in San Diego! Woot Hoot! Let the adventures begin... Here's a link to a video of us picking up our 3rd musketeer: http://qik.com/video/30681608 We packed a picnic lunch & headed for the beach with Steph to watch sunset & let the boys (our dogs Miracle & Smiley) swim in the ocean for the fir ...
We all had our batteries fully charged by the infusion of inspiration in San Diego and headed out to Los Angeles for a few days. Our first show in L.A was at the Gallery Backstage run by Bob Stane who was the owner of the legendary Icehouse venue in L.A. He is a man who knows what he is looking for in an act. In fact ...
Wow...there are no words to express how much we are loving touring with Steph & making beautiful music! Perhaps a chorus of Sea Lions could express it best. So...we headed to Santa Cruz for an afternoon on the beach where Steph spotted some precious lil' hummingbirds and then onto the pier where we discovered hundr ...
We were excited to head out into the mountains for our show at the Marshall Grange. We had some hint of what to expect, but nothing prepared us for the embrace of this happy, happening, hippy, big hearted community! Our opener was a powerful Lakota spoken word & musical combo, Light Shield & Mignon. Here's a link to ...
Bam...the Pam has landed! Pam Swisher arrived tonight for our show in Berkeley at the Subterannean Gallery. We were so glad to see her & looking forward to the presence of Pam on the tour. Just before the show we were reunited with our friend & bliss sis, Maya Dorn, whom we hadn't seen for at least 10 years. Maya i ...
14 years ago in New Orleans we encounted the enchantress of song, Myshkin. She is a weaver of poetry & storytelling into an incomparably rich tapestry of timeless melody & hypnotic singing. We have been thrilled to share some shows with her in Oregon and were delighted to be invited to the Gypsy Cafe to stay with h ...
Wow what an amazing evening we had sharing this house concert with Myshkin, with a room of goddesses in the magical woods of Jemma & Dana. Woodsong is the name of the house concert and Steppingwoods is the name for their woods that magically embraces their homestead. We were blessed to spend the night in their home ...
We have reached our northern most point of the tour, Astoria, OR. We were invited here over a year ago by our dear friends, Linda & Dan. Dan was drawn to relocate to Astoria after a vacation visit. What a great choice! This town is amazing and is right now in the running for coolest small town in America. We cast ...