If you haven’t already, please head over to this page to check out a video of a new song, ‘Motherland’ and consider donating to the funding of my new set of songs! The project has fourteen days to raise $1500 or more – please consider sharing the link w/ friends as well or thru social media – it helps! This is so important as it will allow me turn my ideas into real pieces for you to hear – thank you! <3
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/160002774/lindsay-clark-makes-a-3rd-record-for-real
I am home from an energetic and loving week on the east coast!
Thanks to everyone who made these shows possible.
Waiting for the LIRR in Brooklyn, NY
A sunny Park Slope
Now: getting back to that recording project.
Portland welcomed me back w/ an armload of snow.
I have some music dates to share w/ you – so glad that this has come together and that I will be able to share my music w/ more people, new and old – please come out if you are able and say hello to me! Also – eating or place visiting suggestions would be so welcome.
March 10th Hudson, NY @ Spotty Dog Books + Ale*
March 11th Brooklyn, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store w/ Great Republic of R+R
March 13th Manhattan, NY @ Cake Shop
March 14th Portland, ME @ TBA* w/ Hersey State
March 15th Boston, MA @ Aviary Gallery*
March 16th Lewiston, ME @ Guthries*
March 17th Providence, RI @ Salon 7 PM* w/ Orion Dommisse
( * dates are w/ my dear friend Alexis, Hearsay + Hyperbole)
I’ve also been recording new songs in my house, getting ready to prepare a brand new record. I’m glad to be playing the banjo and expressing new things as a follow up to what I did last … its soon but I feel like I’m finally catching up with myself and w/ my writing. Happy early spring!
A few things are happening here and many more are happening in my brain. I am currently reading ‘The Big Year’ which has been made into a film recently – it has me flipping through my field guides like crazy and listening to bird chips like a mad person – how wonderful! I’m waiting for the days where I can awake easily pre-sunrise and drive down to festering swamps [birds love wetlands] – there are quite a few in this city, yes. I will let you know what I discover. Some days I question my current path – there is nothing more important than wildnerness and wildlife – we can’t live without it! [literally - but even if we could - would we want to?].
I am almost done confirming dates for east coast touring – March 10th – 18th. I will post them over the next couple of weeks – if you live in MA, NY, or ME, I am coming to you! I’ve also just begun planning out my next recording and have lots of demos ready to be made into full songs – that will also begin over the next few weeks, possibly in my living room, or some cabin out in nowhere land.
Until next time — <3 L.
@ ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE
WEDS Oct 26th at 8 PM (doors 7)
w/ Ezza Rose + Duover
Tickets are $10
SEE Y’ALL THERE! <3 I’ll have a pile of cds around, too.
I’ve been melting the past weeks here in Portland, which feels amazing after so many gray summer days. A couple of weeks ago I finished my second west coast tour with my friends, Great Republic of Rough and Ready, which felt welcoming and more encouraging than I was expecting. I’m always so surprised when a space goes from noise to silence and stays that way through an entire set – with the way we live in the world right now, it can feel like a lot to ask for such complete attention, and I wonder what magic happens or how sound waves move to create this kind of space – it happens with children I watch, too and it seems to bring a new meaning to “time” – it’s a bit of a cliché to say, but time can stretch and shrink and pull in ways that are really magnificent. Last night when I sang to Alice (a four month old girl), her blue eyes grew wide and she became so quiet.
We also played most of the shows with my friend Alexis, in her project called Hearsay and Hyperbole. Both bands have returned to their respective homes in Brooklyn, NY but it was lovely to spend the week together – we got to swim in the Yuba River together (in my home, Nevada City, CA), and got to be reminded for a brief moment of that smell of dry summer dirt crumbling and sliding as we climbed down the banks to the water. I shared a lovely show in Davis at Sophia’s Thai with Portland’s Wild Ones, and hope to see them again.
Last weekend I played with the beautiful Annie Lynch and Ed Thanhouser at the Christmas Horse, and this weekend (Friday, the 26th) I’m playing at Q Cafe in Seattle. I have plans in the works for an east coast tour in October (New York, Boston, Portland, ME …) – cool and interesting and challenging to be playing so much. Lastly, in the next week or two I should have cds with full artwork and inserts for my new record, Home of the Brave (designed with help from my good friend Greta Merrick, who is moving to Portland this month!)
Lately I’ve been feeling limited by my instrumental skills (guitar! a challenge at times for the piano minded). So have been exploring harmony as an instrument, and writing a cappella. It’s so freeing for the voice and soul! I have this live recording of Crosby Stills N & Y (4 Way St – beautiful) and before the song Triad, they talk about how if you want to write a song that means anything, you have to dig deep, for the stuff that really matters, and how it can be so difficult to open yourself up in this way, and to subsequently perform it, especially the subject often involves the people in our lives – but, so wise and simply put “It’s kind of groovy to do it anyway.”
Finally! You can stream and download my new record!
