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Letter From John March/April 2010Hi Folks-I hope you like the new look of the website. After several tries at a new design, we decided to "re-paint" our old site and will be updating the videos and pics in the days ahead. I really like the design of our site so we'll leave it for now and try to add to the content more frequently than we have since Wild Way was released in 2008. Spring is arriving as I write this-Saint Patrick's Day is here, the sun is warm & bright and the days now last into the evening… Very inspiring time of the year-the hopefulness of this in-between season with its air of promises… I feel especially Irish this year as Tracey & I look forward to our visit to Ireland in June- a first for both of us to a place we've always wanted to see. I'm looking forward to experiencing the magic with my Irish fairy bride, especially the evenings, which remain light long after it's dark here in the US. We had a fantastic kick-off for the new CD, "The Wonder Show", at the Iron Horse Music Hall last month. Thank you all for coming out to Northampton and making it a kick-ass show! For those of you who were not with us, we had a capacity crowd with Dave Mattacks on drums and an encore of Tennessee Rain after a brief set of songs which included "Free to Fly", "Heaven" & "Dreamers" from the new album, with a handful of set staples from earlier albums. Jon Pousette-Dart & his band were a lot of fun and the pairing made for a great bill. We hope to return to the Iron Horse again in the fall. It's a fantastic room for the van Gogh Brothers. We also had terrific gigs at both Toad and Vincent's, with many of you there for both of these shows. Tauras Biskis handled drum duties at both of these favorite bar gigs and will join us again at Vincent's on March 19th. We've had interest in re-recording older songs in new ways and are looking at the possibility of an album of older tracks re-done, including "May the Road Rise to Meet You" with a Celtic treatment and "Last Train Home" as a fiddle-based country stomper. Sounds fun, huh? We'll keep you informed of our work on this and let's all hope it comes together-it would be a very cool 10th album for us! Looking ahead we've got Vincent's booked for FRIDAY, March 19th, an unusual night for us at Vincent's, but one that schedules allowed for. We return to Toad on Saturday, April 3rd and again on Saturday, May 1st, followed by Vincent's on Saturday, May 15th. As we look towards summer, we will be appearing at THE DREAM AWAY LODGE in Becket, MA, for the first time on Friday, July 15th. If you've never been to the Dream Away, this would be a great opportunity to visit a historic roadhouse which has hosted Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Review and many others. We'll keep you posted as to times & tickets. We hope you're all well- and we look forward to seeing you in the weeks ahead. Thanks again to all who came to our CD release show and we hope to see you all again soon! Love, John |