It's not too often I get to play in my own 'hood. This Saturday morning, Sept. 8, I'll be playing at the Sunset Valley Farmer's Market from 11 to noon. While...
My spare room will be coming vacant about the time I get home from Switzerland, so I'm starting to advertise now. Feel free to pass the ad below to anyone who...
Ah, Switzerland! If you're curious about my adventures in the land of crags and cheese, you can read all about them in a separate posting. But, first, I have a...
The sun and I were moving in opposite directions as we pulled into Walsenhausen. It was headed for the horizon as our cogwheel train crawled its way up the...
One of the nice things about being back home in South Austin is browsing the Sunset Valley Farmers Market on a balmy Saturday morning. This Saturday, besides...
Yup, I'll be singing out November at every folksinger's favorite rib shack, Artz on South Lamar, where Seymour & I will be backing Paula and doing some songs...
If you're out and about this Saturday morning, I will be serenading the Downtown Farmer's Market from noon to 1. While you're scarfing up homegrown tomatoes,...
The egg nog and the champagne have been stashed for another year, and it's back to work for this musician. I'll be out bright and early this Saturday at the...
Here's a quick update on the Farmer's Market this Saturday morning. Paula got herself a better-paying gig (go figger) and bowed out. Filling her boots will be...
"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member" - Groucho Marx For those of you who wonder what misadventures I get into when I'm not...
Thought y'all might be interested in the news below. Being recognized in connection with one of my heroes puts a big lump in my throat, especially when the...
If you're one of the 46,000 who wanted to see the debate this Thursday, but not among the 100 who got tickets, here's another entertaining way to spend...
I'm writing to let you know of two public performances in town this week and next, at very different kinds of events: This Saturday, March 15, I'll be marching...
Still feeling pretty energized from the Million Musician March, after all the energy the rest of SXSW took out of me. I'll be putting that energy to good use...
Yup, I'm still around. If you haven't heard from me for awhile, it's because I've been sucking down $3.60 gas and doing the Panhandle Tour, from the one in...
Yes, it's that time of year. Time to bar the door, or open the door to the bar. Time to run screaming for the hills or run cheering to the corner of 5th and...
Howdy, Austin, For the moment, I can't say I'm not in Kansas. I'm off to parts North on my summer tour. Already did a church service in Denison, Texas and ...
I'm on the last weekend of my summer tour, which has been about the smoothest and most profitable I can remember. I just came off two days at the Woody Guthrie...
Howdy, Austin, There's no place like home, said Dorothy, and after seeing a good bit of Kansas the past few weeks, I couldn't agree with her more. After 3,000...
Yup, I'll be mounting the Unitarian pulpit again this Sunday morning to talk on a topic close to my heart: what it means to be a Pagan, which has been my...
It's been years since I've played a solo show down here in beautiful South Austin. Tuesday, my fellow Bubbas and Bubbettes can hear one without having to stay...
It's a busy weekend and a busy week ahead for El Frog. You can sip wine and listen to me on a sunny fall afternoon in peach country, hear me at a poetry...
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Wow. It's been awhile since I've played this much around Austin. But this week and next, I go both ways - that is, South and North. Thursday, I'll be rockin'...
If you were thinking of heading up to Longhorn Caverns this Saturday, I'm afraid my show there has been cancelled, due to a shortfall in reservations. That's...
My Austin shows this month will be a couple of solo happy hours at Mesa Ranch at Oltorf and I-35, well-placed for those of you who live South or those who want...
Doing my bit to make Happy Hours a little happier, I'll be back at Mesa Ranch this coming Tuesday. When you get sick of sitting in traffic on I-35, pull off...
I picked my time carefully for early voting - I was one of the few residents of Travis County who didn't have to wait in line. Oh, what a feeling! But I've got...
I'll be on the move all day Saturday. I'll play the morning at the Sunset Valley Farmer's Market and the evening at B.B. Rover's. Depending on the temperature,...
Before I head to Houston and Galveston for the weekend, here's a note on my next show here in Austin. The last Tuesday evening I played at Mesa Ranch, Barack...