Spent last weekend up in Woodstock recording basic guitar and piano tracks at Mark Dann’s beautiful studio. The other day, Cheryl Prashker came up from Philly to Mark’s Tribeca NYC studio to lay down drums while Mark plucked away on the bass. I’m getting ready to do some serious vocal work next week, while Thad Debrock is preparing to do some tasteful multi-instrument overdubs in his Williamsburg home studio and Pat Wictor is going to show up the last week of July and two a couple of slide guitar tracks. Finally, I’ll be adding my own harmonies to a few tunes and inviting good friends Carolann Solebello and Meg Braun to add their lovely voices to a couple of songs.

After that, some final mixing and off to the printer! I hope to have CDs in hand sometime in September. Then, I’ll already be dreaming about the next time I get to record…ahh…that’s how it goes…

So I’m trying to get something going in my new adopted hometown of Metuchen, NJ — and next Thursday, July 15, from 7:30 – 9 p.m., I’ll be performing and hosting an original music evening. I’ve invited two great New Jersey songwriters to join me — the lovely, funky, Princeton-based  Sarah Donner and the awesome, laidback, Rahway-based  Tom Picard. I’ll get the evening started by playing a few tunes; then Sarah and Tom will each get a 1/2 hour set, then I’ll close the evening with a few more of my own songs. Combine it with an espresso or iced tea and you’ve got a terrific evening in store!

I also have a second evening planned, on Thursday, August 19 — also 7:30-9 p.m. — and Brooklyn’s Meg Braun and Bellefonte, PA’s Jim Colbert will join me.

Hope to see you in Central Joysey!

I’m tremendously thrilled…it’s going to be an eight-song album, so short and sweet, with six originals and two cover tunes. I plan to have the files at the printer by the end of August, by hook or by crook. I’ll keep you updated!

First, on May Day — that is, May 1 — I’m so excited to be the opening act for the amazing Sloan Wainwright at my good friend Chris’s house concert series in Montclair, NJ. Then, on May 22 I’ll be the opener at my other good friend Tom Boyd’s “Music Over Manhattan” series for the lovely Penny Nichols, a fabulous singer-songwriter who is also the founder of SummerSongs, and her sometime-duo-partner Glen Roethel, who is also one-third of the harmony-folk trio Gathering Time.

If you’re interested in attending either event, just give me a holler and I’ll make sure you get put on the list…

Next, I’m thrilled to hook up with my good friends, Meg Braun and Carolann Solebello, for a Song Swap on Tuesday, February 2 at Googie’s (Above the Living Room) at 154 Ludlow in NYC, 7:30 p.m. — basically, we sing in-the-round…I sing a tune, then Meg, than Carolann, and round and round. We sing some harmonies on each other’s tunes when we can and sometimes Carolann throws in a guitar lick. I love singing with my friends, especially these two — and Meg is super-busy with booking and touring these days in support of her terrific CD, Tomboy Princess, and Carolann spends most of her time as one-third of the wonderful Americana trio Red Molly, so I feel lucky to get them for this show!