The Ark Family Room Series and more...
Familia Extenda — Well, the church rolls on...or at least treads water. We are keeping busy with house projects, cooking successfully, cooking unsuccessfully, starting a garden, home schooling Ida, keeping impressively calm, succumbing to wild fits of panic, congratulating ourselves on how quickly we bounce back from our wild fits of panic... Alli (she’s got a new Allison Russell Music Facebook and Instagram) and our housemate/sister Awna Teixeira, have been backing up our other quarantine housemate/sister, Yola - check them out on the Whiskey Sour Happy Hour premiere to benefit MusiCares and Direct Relief.
We’re mourning the loss of our MAN, John Prine. That knocked out a handful of days. I spent the day after we heard the news sobbing, sipping whiskey, incorrectly assembling and reassembling a very painfully easy to assemble scando shelving unit, playing all his albums from first to last. He was still at the top of his game. No way around it. Of course that makes the pain of losing him greater, but what a feat! 50 years of that rarified air. We owe him so much and man do we need his perspective right now. I encourage anyone who hasn’t taken the deep dive into his whole body of work... that NOW is the time. Likely, you have the time and you don’t know how much you need it...
We’ve been pulling ourselves out of our old ludditery, turning our music room into the best live streamIng, patreon-ready broadcast studio that we can...
Our first live stream shows felt, honestly, so much better, so much more CONNECTED, than we imagined they would ...we wanna keep that fire lit. This Sunday we’ll be playing The Ark Family Rooms Series
We love The Ark - Ann Arbor so much - they've supported us since our early days and because of their #annarborfolkfestival - we once got to sing Paradise with the eternal John Prine... We’ll be going live on their Facebook Page - April 26th at 7:30pm Eastern/6:30pm Central time - it's free but please donate if you can to make sure #theark can shine and uplift musicians and the Ann Arbor/Toledo/International arts community for years to come. Any tips will be split between the artists and The Ark equally: https://tinyurl.com/ArkFamRoom. This will be our first full length show since the Parlor Room Home Sessions - and we’re going to do a mostly all requests set - so hit us back here or on our socials —your voice will be heard! We’ll play the top 10 most requested for sure…
Our dear Awna Teixeira will be joining us for this show and for a couple of special cameo appearances- Saturday April 25th we’ll be joining American Original Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show on his #HartlandHootenanny to play a couple of songs and chat at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central.
And Thursday April 30th we’ll be guests on the Calgary Folk Festival’s Isolation Station Happy Hour and play a few tunes and chat via their Instagram Live at 4pm Mountain/5pm Central/6pm/ Eastern.
We’re working on some virtual things for May and beyond - we’ll keep you posted. However many months this continues, however long it takes to come back...know that we are here now, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you just need to holler at someone.
The line’s open.
Peace and Healing,
Your Birds,