Monthly Archives: June 2015
THE ROLLING TIDE OF HISTORY (SETLIST: HUNTSVILLE, AL, 6/25/15)
6/28/15I could not have known when I scheduled this week’s concert in Huntsville, Alabama, that we would be in the middle of a roller-coaster ride through ten historic days in this nation’s history, starting with the unspeakable horror of last week’s shooting in Charleston and ending, in what would have been unimaginable even five years ago, with the exhilarating affirmation from the Supreme Court that gay marriage is legal across the entire United States. But that triumphant ending was yet to come when I did my concert at the Von Braun Center on Thursday night, and what was most onRead More »
SET LIST: PORTLAND, OR. 6/14/15
6/17/15This weekend marked my third trip to Portland, Oregon to visit the fantastic folks at Staged!PDX. I first came to town in June 2010 when they did a wonderful production of Songs for a New World at the Milagro Theater, and then Shoshana Bean and I returned in January 2012 for a sensational night at the First Congregational Church (and I got to watch a rehearsal of their great production of 13). So now, after three and a half years, I’m back again, and delighted to see the company on such solid footing, and doing all kinds of exciting workRead More »