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calendar 2009 Summer tour : (more dates to come)

  • Thursday, May 21, 2009
  • Mai's Cafe
    2815 Main St, Ventura, CA
    9 p.m. (acoustic set w/Susan D, Yul Vianzon)

  • Saturday, May 23, 2009
  • The Spot Café
    4455 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA
    7:00 p.m. (acoustic set w/Pi Jacobs & Toddy Ivy)
    FREE admission

  • Sunday, May 24, 2009
  • Viento y Agua
    4007 E. 4th Street (corner of 4th and Termino), Long Beach, CA
    12:00 noon (acoustic set, just me til 2 p.m.)
    FREE admission

  • Tuesday, May 26, 2009
  • Trummerflora house concert
    tape looping set
    3615 El Cajon Blvd (@36th), San Diego, CA
    8 p.m. (w/

  • Tuesday, May 26, 2009
  • Soda Bar
    tape looping set
    3615 El Cajon Blvd (@36th), San Diego, CA
    9 p.m (w/Basshaters)

  • Wednesday, May 27, 2009
  • Borders Books
    acoustic set
    3030 Plaza Bonita Road, National City (San Diego), CA
    6 p.m.
    FREE admission

  • Saturday, May 30, 2009
  • Eclectic Company
    tape looping set
    Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
    117 N. Sycamore
    Santa Ana, CA
    8 p.m. (w/Magick Orchids, Luna is Honey, The Vacuum Bell)
    FREE admission
    poster

  • Sunday, May 31, 2009
  • Pharoah's Den
    3579 University Ave, Riverside, CA
    details TBA

  • Tuesday, June 2, 2009
  • Borders Books
    acoustic set
    4980 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA
    7 p.m.
    FREE

  • Wednesday, June 3, 2009
  • Teazers World Market
    acoustic set
    645 E. Olive, Fresno, CA
    8:30 p.m.
    FREE

  • Thursday, June 4, 2009
  • Luggage Store Gallery
    as part of Orchesperry (part of annual Matthew Sperry memorial series)
    1007 Market Street (near 6th), San Francisco, CA
    details TBA
    (I'm super excited to be part of this. Matthew Sperry was a very active bass player in San Francisco, playing with the likes of Tom Waits as well as in the local production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He was struck by a car and killed while riding his bicycle to work soon before I left San Francisco in 2004. Each year since, players in the local jazz/free music scene put on a weekend festival in his honor).

  • Friday, June 5, 2009
  • Fox and Goose
    1001 R. St. (at 10th), Sacramento, CA
    acoustic set w/Ross Hammond

  • Saturday, June 6, 2009
  • Godwaffle Noise Pancakes
    noise set
    San Francisco, CA
    details TBA

  • Saturday, June 6, 2009
  • Bluesix Acoustic Room
    3043 24th st. @ Treat
    San Francisco, CA
    8 p.m. (acoustic set w/Travis Johns, Julie Zielinski, plus a REALLY COOL HEADLINER I can't announce yet)

  • Monday, June 8, 2009
  • CANCELLED
    SMF Series
    Sacramento, CA
    w/Ross Hammond

  • Wednesday, June 10, 2009
  • 21 Grand
    tape looping set
    416 25th St.
    Oakland, CA
    w/Matt Davignon
    (Matt calls himself a "drum machinist" - he processes drum machines and creates sounds you never would expect. I find his approach somewhat similar to my tape looping, where we both use the equipment for purposes they're not typically used. We'll be trading off solo and duo sets, and I can't wait.)

  • Thursday, June 11, 2009
  • Southern Oregon Guitar Concert
    tape looping set
    Christian Church of Ashland
    2nd and B Streets
    Ashland, OR
    w/Ted Killian
    FREE admission
    (Ted is an amazing guitar player, in command of a massive array of sounds. His axe is a wonder to behold, fitted with all sorts of additional pickups and gizmos, which he then processes through a wonderful rack of gear that slices, dices, and loops it all back at him . We'll be trading solo and duo sets all night, and it's going to be a blast trying to keep up.)

  • Friday, June 12, 2009
  • Cloud 9
    TWO SETS - acoustic set, followed by tape looping set
    126 Sw First Street
    Corvallis, CA
    9 p.m.
    FREE admission

  • Saturday, June 13, 2009

  • Portland Playhouse Presents
    entirely acoustic set (no PA whatsoever!)
    602 NE Prescott
    Portland, OR
    7 p.m. (w/Juan Prophet Organization, Fruition String Band, Meyercord)
    $8
    (This is the first show of a new series the Portland Playhouse is putting on of entirely acoustic music shows, with no amplification at all. Their venue is a beautiful church where the Decemberists reportedly recorded Picaresque. A lot of time was spent putting together the bill and it should be an amazing night of music - and I absolutely love playing with no PA.)

  • Sunday, June 14, 2009
  • Dunes
    looping set
    1905 NE MLK, Portland, OR
    4 p.m. matinee
    w/Nevyn Nowhere

  • Monday, June 15, 2009
  • Eastside Club
    acoustic set
    410 E. 4th Ave., Olympia, WA
    8 p.m.

  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
  • Chai House
    acoustic set
    5463 Leary Ave NW
    Seattle, WA
    8 p.m. (w/Travis Hartnett)
    FREE admission

  • Wednesday, June 17, 2009
  • CANCELLED
    Mojo @ the Dojo

    Three Shapes Aikido Dojo
    tape looping set
    1512 N. 10th St.
    Boise, ID
    8 p.m. (w/Krispen Hartung, Aaron Davis, Jared Hallock, Joel (from Bonefish Sam))
    $5
    (Krispen is an idiosyncratic and fascinating man responsible for the annual Boise Experimental Music Festival as well as a dozen other projects. As a player, he uses g a custom-made mini-scale guitar fed directly into a laptop to process his steadfastly out-of-bounds ideas. There will be four different combinations, including a solo set for me in addition to joining with everyone else. Expect a truly exploratory and wide-ranging night.)

  • Thursday, June 18, 2009
  • The Compound
    Provo, UT
    tape looping set
    w/Forest World
    details TBA

  • Friday, June 19, 2009
  • Tenn Street Coffee
    acoustic set
    4418 Tennyson St
    Denver, CO
    7 p.m.
    FREE

  • Saturday, June 20, 2009
  • Moka's Coffee
    acoustic set
    701 N. Main St
    Newton, KS
    6 p.m.

  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
  • End of an Ear
    tape looping set (in-store performance)
    2209 South First Street
    Austin, TX
    6 p.m.

  • Friday, June 26, 2009
  • The Living Room
    acoustic set w/Michael Huerta, Forest Fallows, Francis Ploski
    413 E. 5th st.
    Tucson, AZ
    7:30 p.m.
    $5

  • Saturday, June 27, 2009
  • Fiddler's Dream
    acoustic set w/others TBA
    1702 East Glendale
    Phoenix, AZ
    9:45 p.m.

  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009
  • Mayorga Coffee Factory
    acoustic set
    8040 Georgia Ave.
    Silver Spring, MD
    details TBA

  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009
  • Badgerhaus
    tape looping set
    Raleigh, NC
    details TBA

  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
  • Gillie's
    acoustic set
    153 College Avenue
    Blacksburg, VA
    details TBA

  • Saturday, July 4, 2009
  • Arefa's Espresso
    acoustic set, w/Keith Hershberger & Heather Kropf
    5827 Forbes Ave
    Pittsburgh (Squirrel Hill), PA
    7:30 p.m.
    FREE admission

  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009
  • Java Cat
    3918 Monona Drive
    Madison, WI
    7 p.m.
    FREE admission

  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009
  • Ronny's
    2101 N. California Ave.
    Chicago, IL
    w/Shapenote, Imaginary Colors
    9 p.m.

  • Thursday, July 9, 2009
  • Electric Brew
    136 South Main Street
    Goshen, IN
    8 p.m.
    FREE admission

  • Friday, July 10, 2009
  • Waterloo Café
    acoustic set
    15601 Waterloo Rd
    Cleveland, OH
    8 p.m.
    FREE admission

  • July 11-12, 2009
  • Ingenuity Festival
    tape looping sets as part of Chinapainting
    multiple sets over the weekend, venues and times TBA
    Cleveland, OH

  • July 13, 2009
  • Tequila Bookworm
    tape looping set
    512 Queen Street West
    Toronto, ON
    8 p.m. (w/James Bailey, Mimo, Ted Harms, & Jay Hay)
    (this is going to be a MASSIVE night of music. Mimo is a conceptual music duo (I think that's how they'd best be described) who quite literally played an espresso machine when I met them last year. Ted Harms is a free-minded, exploratory acoustic bassist from Kitchener that I enjoyed playing with the last time I was in Toronto, James Bailey is a mad & jolly circuit bender I met at the Santa Cruz Looping Festival. When looking for a venue I found the Bookworm, with Jay already slated to play, and they were willing to bring all of us aboard. We're going to fit everybody in, and it may result in some really interesting combinations.)
  • July 14, 2009
  • Le Cagibi
    part of Mardi Spaghetti improv series
    looping set
    5490 St. Lauren
    Montreal, QUEBEC
    9 p.m.
    w/ Dion/Allen, Lauzier/Lima

  • July 17, 2009
  • Radio Bean
    acoustic set
    8 N. Winooski Ave
    Burlington, VT
    8 p.m.

  • July 18, 2009
  • Outpost 186/Zeitgeist
    tape looping set
    186 1/2 Hampshire St (Inman Square)
    Cambridge, MA
    w/others TBA
    8 p.m.

  • July 19, 2009
  • ABC No Rio
    part of (COMA series)
    156 Rivington Street
    Manhattan, NY
    (as part of Chinapainting)
    8 p.m.

  • July 25, 2009
  • Private event
    acoustic set
    Lancaster, PA

  • July 26, 2009
  • Chestnut Hill Cafe
    532 West Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA
    acoustic set
    5-7 p.m.
    FREE admission

    Where I been recently:

  • October 20, 2008 Java Lounge, Sacramento, CA (Ross Hammond's SMF series, as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 19, 2008 7th Annual International Live Looping Festival, Santa Cruz, CA (as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 18, 2008 M2 Wines, Lodi, CA (as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 17, 2008 Pharaoh's Den, Riverside, CA (as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 16, 2008 Echo Curio, Los Angeles CA (as part of Chinapainting) w/Crooked Cowboy, The Ohioan
  • October 15, 2008 Genghis Cohen, Los Angeles, CA (w/Toddy Ivy, Susan D)
  • October 14, 2008 Bookzoo, Oakland, CA (w/Matt Davignon)
  • October 12, 2008 Annie's Social Club, San Francisco, CA (w/Pi, Julie Zielinski)
  • October 10, 2008 Norcal Noisefest, Sacramento, CA
  • October 9, 2008 Luggage Store Gallery (New Music Series, w/Alan Anzalone)
  • August 24, 2008 La Candela, Oaxaca, Oax MEXICO, Benefit for Clínica Hospital del Pueblo
  • August 2, 2008 The Nave, Somerville, MA (as part of Chinapainting) w/ Dennis Moser, Rob Byrd, Tim Nelson
  • August 1, 2008 Outpost 186 (Zeitgeist), Boston, MA (Vortex series) w/Jonathan Lamaster, Todd Brunel
  • July 30, 2008 Banjo Jim's, Manhattan, NY (w/ Adam Levy, The Hippy Nuts, Bill Sims Jr.)
  • July 28, 2008 Mud NYC, Manhattan, NY (Naked Mud series) as part of Chinapainting
  • July 27, 2008 ABC No Rio (COMA series), Manhattan, NY (as part of Chinapainting) w/John Gilbert
  • July 26, 2008 The Stain Bar, Brooklyn, NY (as part of Chinapainting)
  • July 25, 2008 The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, VT
  • July 22, 2008 Le Cagibi (Mardi Spaghetti series), Montreal, Quebec (w/Pierre-Yves Martel, Nicolas Bernier, Helene Prevost)
  • July 21, 2008 Take 5 Music, CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto, Ontario
  • July 20, 2008 Bread and Circus, Toronto, Ontario (a Bread Cabaret event, curated by Lisa Pijuan-Nomura) w/ Ted Harms, Mimo
  • July 18, 2008 International Children's Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (w/ Michael Klobuchar)
  • July 17, 2008 Barking Spider Tavern, Cleveland, OH (w/ Hillbilly Idol)
  • July 16, 2008 Cafe Connections, Pittsburgh, PA (w/ Keith Hershberger)
  • July 15, 2008 Arefa's Espresso, Pittsburgh, PA (w/Heather Kropf)
  • July 14, 2008 Milk Boy Coffee, Bryn Mawr, PA
  • July 13, 2008 Cornerstone Coffeehouse, Camp Hill, PA
  • July 12, 2008 Max Crema's, Fleetwood, PA
  • July 11, 2008 The Coffee Company, Lancaster, PA
  • July 10, 2008 Wings To Go, Wilmington, DE (w/ Kurt Houff)
  • July 9, 2008 The Fire, Philadelphia, PA (as part of Landscape Paperweight) w/Happy Accident, Faux Slang
  • July 5, 2008 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • July 3, 2008 Luggage Store Gallery (New Music Series), San Francisco, CA (w/Jonathan Segel, John Hanes)
  • July 1, 2008 Javawava, Fresno, CA
  • June 26, 2008 Viento y Agua, Long Beach, CA
  • June 22, 2008 The Planet Coffeehouse, Tucson, AZ
  • June 21, 2008 Dry River, Tucson, AZ (w/Paul Baribeau, Great Job, Michael Huerta, Bird Names)
  • June 20, 2008 Fiddler's Dream, Phoenix, AZ
  • June 18, 2008 E Street Cafe, Encinitas, CA
  • June 15, 2008 AC Lounge, Venice CA (w/ Toddy Ivy, Ruthann Friedman, Stage 4)
  • June 14, 2008 Echo Curio, Los Angeles CA (w/ Fantastic Ego and Warm Climate)
  • June 13, 2008 Experimental Cafe, Oxnard, CA
  • May 30, 2008 Boise Experimental Music Festival , Boise, ID (joining in remotely via Ninjam) w/Brian Good, Brian McFadin, and Krispen Hartung
  • May 22, 2008 Finloop Festival, Helsinki, FINLAND (joining in remotely via Ninjam) w/Stephen Goodman, Jaako Huotari and Rainer Straschill
  • May 6, 2008 El Breve Espacio Puebla, MEX
  • October 27, 2007 C & D's Welcome Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
  • October 26, 2007 Experimental Cafe, Oxnard, CA (w/ Kapiano and Judy)
  • October 25, 2007 Experimental Cafe, Oxnard, CA
  • October 23, 2007 Red Victorian Peace Cafe, San Francisco, CA (w/Julie Zielinski)
  • October 21, 2007 M2 Wines, Lodi, CA
  • October 20, 2007 6th Annual International Live Looping Festival Santa Cruz, CA (as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 19, 2007 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 18, 2007 1510 8th St Performance Space, Oakland, CA (as part of Chinapainting)
  • October 14, 2007 The Spot, Los Angeles, CA
  • August 15, 2007 Zebulon Cafe Concert, Brooklyn, NY (as part of Chinapainting, plus artist Paul Bianca doing live painting)
  • August 10, 2007 The Coffee Company, Lancaster, PA
  • August 7, 2007 The Space, Hamden, CT (as part of Chinapainting)
  • August 1, 2007 Weathervane Music Hall, Brattleboro, VT
  • July 31, 2007 Tip Top Cafe, White River Junction, VT
  • July 29, 2007 Secret Garden radio interview, WVKR-FM, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (as part of Chinapainting)
  • July 27, 2007 Center for Improvised Music, Brooklyn, NY (as part of Chinapainting)
  • July 26, 2007 Vox Pop, Brooklyn, NY
  • July 22, 2007 Deuce Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA
  • July 15, 2007 Javanican, San Diego CA
  • July 13, 2007 Synergy Café, Los Angeles, CA
  • July 11, 2007 Koos Art Center, Long Beach, CA
  • July 6, 2007 Full Circle Brewing Co., Fresno CA
  • July 3, 2007 Brainwash Cafe, San Francisco, CA
  • June 30, 2007 Mama Art Café, San Francisco, CA







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