July/August Newsletter

I suggest chocolate. Right now: go get a Hershey bar. Not the kind
with nuts, either. Just straight up milk chocolate. It's helping.

Helping what? What?! Haven't you been reading the news? It's all
going to Hell in a handbasket! Everything! Gas and banks and the
middle east and God knows what else... You don't dare turn on the
computer for fear of catching a sidelong glance at some new atrocity.
It's like Medusa: one look at the news and ping! you're stone.
Immobilized with anxiety. Which is what happened this morning, which
is why this email wasn't written two hours ago.

So. I suggest chocolate. We had a pack left over from camping, where
we didn't dare hit the kids with another night of s'mores. And really
it was only one slice into that first bar before I felt measurably
better. So: go get some and come back. I actually may go get more
myself...

There. Better, eh? I also recommend Byron. Really! But read the long
stuff, not the short poems. (It's all public domain, you can read it
on-line -- look up "Beppo.") Byron really hits his stride when he can
chase some tangent for a half dozen stanzas or so. Flamboyant,
irreverent, brilliant expatriate who laces his stories of sexual
impropriety with vicious attacks on his peers and mind-bendingly
hilarious rhymes. It's either the highest low culture, or the lowest
high culture around. Plus, it has nothing to do with current
(disastrous) events. Shoot... shouldn't have said that -- go get more
chocolate...

I will be doing some playing over the next couple months, some good
stuff coming up in the fall and winter as well (I'll get it up on the
website soon, I promise!) I seem to have some new songs, so you can
catch those as well!

As always, I love to hear from you, don't be a stranger! And if
you're interested in hosting a house concert, drop me a line: I've got
some coming up that I'm very excited about, where I'll be running a
songwriting workshop in the afternoon before the concert... so keep
that in mind as well!

Take care, and don't forget what I said about the chocolate.

-Jud

Shows:

Friday, July 18, 2008
North Star Cafe with Vanessa Torres
Portland, ME 8:00 PM
http://www.northstarmusiccafe.com/

Saturday, July 26, 2008
House Concert
Pinckney, MI 7:30 PM
email bill nedela @ nedelab@charter.net for more info!

Friday, August 01, 2008
White Crow Conservatory
Saginaw, MI 8:00 PM
$10
http://whitecrowconservatory.blogspot.com/
3736 Mackinaw Saginaw MI 989-790-2118

Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Little Brown Church Concert
Round Pond, ME 7:30 PM
Rte 32
207-529-5438
Price: $10
Happy to be part of the 10th season of Little Brown Church concerts!

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Club Passim
Cambridge, MA 7:30 PM
In the round with Thea Hopkins, Susan Levine and Alastair
Moock.
$12/10 (members)
http://www.clubpassim.org
47 Palmer St
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 492-7679

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Cindystock V
Wexford, PA 3:30 PM
Yates Fund for Cancer Hope presents "Cindystock V"
Cancer fundraising concert
Doors open 3:30 -- Music begins at 4
For information- myspace.com/yatescancerfund or
yatescancerfund@hotmail.com

Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Americana Song Academy
Sisters, OR
http://www.sistersfolkfestival.org/american_song.html

Friday, September 05, 2008
Sisters Folk Festival
Sisters, OR
http://www.sistersfolkfestival.org