shows this coming week!

the daredevil christopher wright
the opposite of a train

the david wax museum
jenee halstead

sandman
senayit
nima

pearl and the beard
sontiago
dilly dilly
lady lamb the beekeeper

not this saturday but next

wow kids.  come check this out.

“Old Mexico has become hip among some white indie rock bands. Calexico, Beirut, DeVotchka, The David Wax Museum and songwriters like Devendra Banhart are all flirting with traditional Mexican forms in their repertoire.” – NPR
(Listen to the feature story here) http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/01/rundown-115-2/

“If one of Boston’s hottest new bands, The David Wax Museum, gets any hotter, it just might melt. The Latin-flavored Americana outfit had to add a second show at Club Passim tonight to celebrate the release of its new album, “Carpenter Bird,” which comes out today. Earlier this month, the foursome, led by Missouri-bred, Harvard-schooled namesake David Wax, launched a six-week East Coast tour that winds up at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge Oct. 24.” – Jonathan Perry, The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe selects Carpenter Bird as one of the top 10 local CDs of 2009:
“Singer-songwriter David Wax led his charges through an inspired selection of lovely, semi-acoustic folk songs, and Mexican roots music that sounded older than the hills yet utterly fresh and forward-thinking. ‘What could you want with my antique music box voice?…’ Wax asked listeners on the winning opener, ‘Jalopy

“A uniquely tremendous album.” – Hear Ya
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“Boston’s own rising Mexo-Americana quartet [performs] an exuberant melange of Midwestern roots-rock and rural Mexican folk music.” — Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe

and then jenee halstead!
A recent transplant to Boston, Jenee Halstead arrives with an alto voice that floats hypnotically between the spectrums of frailty and strength—part Emmylou Harris, part June Carter, part Patty Griffin. With “The River Grace”, Halstead presents a collection of highly personal songs, effortlessly suited to her voice, bringing together bluegrass, folk and electronic rhythms to create a sound rooted in the past yet beckoning the progression of Americana. Joined by Steve Moore (Laura Veirs, Mount Analog), Mike Grigoni (Anais Mitchell), Zak Borden (Willy Mason), and Matthew Weiner (Asylum Street Spankers), “The River Grace” boasts a cast of stellar musicians that breathes life into tunes like “Before I Go” and “Darkest Day”, creating a sonic palette as lush, lyrical and evocative as the stories Halstead tells. As Boston musical luminary Billy Beard (Session Americana, The Dennis Brennan Band) puts it, “The road to salvation is a treacherous one, and the traffic is worse than the Southeast Expressway at rush hour. Alternate routes won’t help at all—the indie rock bypass is strewn with broken careers, the Nashville Trace is washed out and the NY Thruway is backed up from Brooklyn to Woodstock. So if you’re gonna take that trip, you’d better be brave, you’d better be honest and you’d better be good. Thank goodness that Boston newcomer Jenee Halstead has all three of those elements going for her”. ..

the david wax museum and jenee halstead will curate the tail feather shaking festivities. ¡viva el chicharron! ¡viva el amor!

sharing photos

hey lovers

our good friends, the accident that led me to the world, added a lovely post on the hfs annex bill they shared with mr. dan blakeslee.  the photos are so very nice, and i’d like to share them here.  please check out tatlmttw’s blog, as well as dan blakeslee’s site.

xoxo

los corrals

!!!! the rappin cowboy!!!

for super reals.  and it’s so f-ing awesome.  for super duper reals.

tamales!

we’re getting ready for tomorrow night – really really looking forward to it.  kelli rudick and selbyville.  awesome!  it stands to be a full sensory experience.   and we’re listed as an editor’s pick in the portland phoenix and a nice write up on mainetoday.com

we’ll have paella, our grilled veggie paninis, pbnj’s with flax and banana, nancy’s fave snappy salad and straight from el paso, tejas – ¡tamales de los corrals!  ohmanohman.  mulled wine, mexican beers, other micro and macro brews, wines from telmo rodriguez, stumptown coffee, and some lovely doug fir tea.

here’s a photo from last weekend, taken by hfs annex audience member, j. frazier.  thanks, man.

the david yearwood symposium

love notes

i’ll post video this evening…i hope.  that’s the goal.  it was a beautiful night.  i’m emily hope price’s newest biggest fan.  and ms lady lamb.  we’ve been her fans for a while now.

i have to share the love note she posted this morning.  made us smile even more.

Aly Spaltro Dear Gil and Coco of Hog Farm, thank you so much for feeding me two of my favorite twenty-six foods after the show last night. I can’t believe you had bananas and peanut butter and jellies for me at midnight. You are my favorite humans. Love, Aly

planets around the sun

planets around the sun recorded in the hogfarm studios barn the first week of january.  it was lovely having them creating in the barn, and meeting for rounds of spongebob sorry and charades.  and of course, the six year old would get rastafarian.   still not clear on what that rhymes with.

xoxo

oowhee baybee

i heart valentines.

i love love.  i mean, i loooooooooove love and good feelings and treating eachother sweetly and hugs and smooches and friendship and good stuff.  and for that reason (besides the opportunity to really rock a pink and red color combination) i crazy heart valentines day.  boo hiss to any valentines humbugs, it’s just more pink champagne and glorious cupcakes for the rest of us.  on that note, come by for themed libations and snax on friday, feb 13!  we’ll start at lovinganvil AndMOR around five, then love parade over to hfs annex around six or so — get settled in and celebrate lovefest style with the david wax museum and friends!  I CAN’T WAIT!  for true!

clara berry . the david yearwood symposium

xoxoxo !

the daredevil christopher wright . the opposite of train

there are so many reasons why these folks playing at hfs annex just seems to be part of a larger cosmic plan.  this will be a stellar show.