Locusts, rivers of blood-

Happy Canada Day! Today marks the end of what then US Secretary of State John Hay referred to as “a splendid little war,” where the United States defeated its vicious northern aggressors to gain control of the “Maritime Provinces” of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The war lasted 4 years, claimed over 600,000 lives, and resulted in a deep, lasting animosity between the new Maritime states and the “lower 48.” So celebrate: grab yourself a fish and throw it in the trash.

In reality, last month was an absurd month in which I drove nearly 3000 miles, going back and forth from Asheville to New York to Athens and around, playing at Summer Stage in Central Park with Josh Roseman & the King Froopy All-Stars, the Undead Jazz Festival with the Andrew D’Angelo Big Band, and AthFest with Kenosha Kid. I also wrote an essay that I’d been mulling over for either 6 months or 6 years, depending on your point of view, read a bunch of books, lost not one but two pairs of glasses, went to the Fort Tilden for the first time, etc. This month I will probably drive the exact same amount, but not until the 27th or 28th when I head from here in Asheville out west to the Bay Area to emerge from my cocoon into a beautiful butterfly.

This month will (most likely) also see the premiere of a solo project I’ve been hiding from most everybody for a few years called emilys, an electro-acoustic pseudo-pop project that involves me singing the poems of Emily Dickinson, amongst other people. Then again, maybe I’ll freak out and never do that, ever.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Shane Perlowin + Jacob Wick // Shane Perlowin Trio
8PM @ The Magnetic Field
372 Depot St
Asheville, NC 28801