Archive: August 15, 2012
Many of you have been following my journey through Nashville, out of Nashville, to Portland, through Portland, and now to… well… Portland. I am happy to announce that after 1 1/2 years of homelessness and sojourning around the country (and Portland, really) I will be getting my things together in 10 days and settling in a home with my guitar player Tyson, his wife and my keyboard player Jessica, and our friend Michael. It’s a cute house, well situated in SE PDX and has a place for us to set up a practice space, a craft room, and dare I say it: My own bed?
I come to this time with joy and a great deal of hesitation. It will be the first time I have ever set up a new home with 3 other people. Usually my roommates have already moved in, or I have had the whole space to myself (once it was a 3 story, glorious loft), but I haven’t yet had the slightly scary opportunity to choose paint colors with a group of friends, unpack and have to decide what stays in boxes and what homes out and sees daylight, but I also haven’t had the opportunity to build a creative space for music in my home, or to live with my band members. Even better? Two of our neighbors are deaf. I wonder if I’ll ever experience silence again with so much freedom to be noisy.
I can not wait to see my grandfather’s kitchen table again. I can not wait to put my art on the walls. I can not wait to have friends come and visit from Nashville, from Fresno, from San Francisco, from ???. I can not wait to stay up till all hours of the night and just write. Pen and ink. Legal pad an inky fingers. It’s going to be glorious. I can not wait for Daisy to have her own home.
Until then though, there are things to do and things having been done. I leave on a short Northern Californian tour tomorrow. I have 4 days with the road and 4 days planned with my mom in Napa. I am pretty tired, and a lot overwhelmed so I am going to try and get some sleep. Sorry to cut this rant short everyone! Here are those tour dates you’re looking for!
Upcoming Shows:
Thursday, August, 16, 2012
Sacramento, CA
The Naked Lounge
8:30pm
1111 H Street
All Ages
$5.00
w/ Jeff Campbell
& Natan Rodriguez
Friday, August 17, 2012
Tuolumne, CA
River Ranch Festival
6:00pm
http://www.riverranchmusicfestival.com/
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Sonoma, CA
The Epicurean Connection
7:30pm
112 W Napa Street
http://www.theepicureanconnection.com/
w/ Ezekiel Hampton
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Sonora, CA
The Greater Good
1 E Linoberg
7:30pm
$5
w/ Minor Birds
Monday, August 27, 2012
Portland, OR
Hawthorne Theater Lounge
9pm
$5
w/ Emily Wilder
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Corvalis, OR
The Wild Goose Festival
More Info TBA
Friday, September 7, 2012
Fresno, CA
FUSE Festival
Fulton 55
The Coffeehouse Stage
875 Divisidero St.
9:30pm
Weirdly enough, after that, I don’t have anything planned. The goals in place are to take 2 weeks off and breathe deeply. No band practices or anything. Then, I want to figure out when the new record is coming out for sure and get into some deep practices. I love my band but we have A LOT of work to do if we’re going to be at the place I’d like for us to be. Until I can catch a moment to get my breath and SEE what’s coming. I am not saying a word. Until then, hopefully I’ll see you at one of these tour dates.
Much love everyone!
Kat
