On New Year’s Eve, I said goodbye to 2018 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where Kate Baldwin and Ashley Perez Flanagan sang a ravishing version of my song “Singing You Home,” with Kent Tritle conducting the orchestra, and an audience of more than 3,000 New Yorkers grateful to have survived that tumultuousRead More »

The amazing Chris McGriff invited me out to the Hill School to share a wonderful night with his amazing students, who had just finished a run of Songs for a New World and couldn’t wait to ask me a million questions about it and why there are blessings on the water and the stones. HopeRead More »

I wrote a song in 2010 to celebrate the fact that Georgia Stitt and I had, at that point, made it through ten years of our relationship. Today marks our 15th wedding anniversary (so we’ve been together for eighteen years now…!). Everything I wrote in the song back then is even truer now – weRead More »

I made my first visit to Derry in 2007 and always love coming back to this corner of the world.  Thanks to Matt Cahoon, Janice Edwards, and the whole gang at the Pinkerton Academy for hosting me in their beautiful theater once again. Hope from How We React and How We Recover (2018) It AllRead More »

In memory.