Monthly Archives: July 2025
SETLIST: A VEGAS DEBUT WITH UMPHRESS, LAS VEGAS NV, 6/28/25
7/2/25I’ve spent a lot of time in Las Vegas over the years – I was the music supervisor for six industrial shows for State Farm Insurance that played at the Thomas & Mack Arena – and I actually wrote a whole show about that wacky town, but I’ve never actually performed a concert there, in spite of the very healthy musical theater community that’s evolved in the Greater Las Vegas area. So I was particularly intrigued when I got a Facebook message back in January from someone named Myron Martin, who said he ran a jazz club in the SmithRead More »
SETLIST: McLEAN ON McLEAN IN MCLEAN VA 6/14/25
7/1/25Sometimes I ask what it is that the world needs from me, how can I be of service to this complicated and conflicted planet, and sometimes the answer comes with bracing clarity. On June 14, I was given the opportunity to perform at the Alden Theatre in the McLean Center in McLean, VA, exactly ten miles away from the White House, at precisely the same time as the president’s highly dubious Military Parade, and it felt like the most obvious sign: I can provide a small drop of relief for those who are thirsting for something, anything other than theRead More »