and - what was the longest day on a bus/train/or in the van???
Two categories:
yes, I'm a curious wonderer, also given to really really hoping the cricks don't rise
you might say some Sentimental Gentlemen :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBSFdnj_Q-I "Girl From the North Country"
left to right: unknown guitarist; Josh Rilko, mandolin; Oliver Bates Craven, fiddle; Dr. Geoff Saunders, double bass; unknown banjoist
Crossroads Acoustic Fest, Friday April 24 2026, Seymour, Indiana, USA
The Sentimental Gentlemen have 4 scheduled performances in July '26, the last of which is in France :-)
https://www.sentimentalgentlemen.com/tour .
[edit] The Sentimental Gentlemen's 4 performances in July '26 coincide with a break in Sierra Ferrell's tour.
She has SOLD OUT the venue in London, UK, for Tuesday, July 7 '26. Her next scheduled gig after that is in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday, August 6, '26. and evvvthang's "if'n the cricks don't rise," don'tcha know? ;-)
https://www.sierraferrellmusic.com/tour
I surmise The Water Tower Band (?) will be at Delfest to kick off the year this Friday (?) but The Sentimental Gentlemen otherwise remain the favored fellows? is that right? [ENDedit]
[[edit#2 I'm assuming drummer Matty Meyer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Anderson will re-join the posse in Portland, Oregon at the end of May '26?]]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPME6PcmiQ John Hartford credit 2 him 4 finding this oldie
btw TIL the Turnpike Troubadors' "Long Hot Summer Day" is a John Hartford composition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dievHU8iV10 Sierra Ferrell, 2021. still in a Major key. Gosh :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hulMxf6zOPI Sierra Ferrell, 2026. in a minor key! edit2add: Wow
[[ Sat. May 9 '26 EDIT: Just a thought (unrelated to either Sierra Ferrell's tour or Dave Matthews)
The more AI comes in everywhere, the higher goes the value of Sierra Ferrell! ime. endEDIT ]]
https://www.daveandtimrivieramaya.com/ I couldn't see there whether the day of Sierra Ferrell's appearance, if'n the cricks don't rise, is narrowed down more specifically than Wednesday, Jan. 20 - Saturday, Jan. 23 2027.
btw When was this announced? https://www.sierraferrellmusic.com/tour
Haha, I won't be there on the Yucatan peninsula a bit south of Cancun ....... [link is to a wide-scale map]
....... :-( barring several miracles!
If you needed a sign to buy, this is it. Only 15 copies remaining via the Rounder Records store — don't miss out!
Recorded direct-to-acetate at Third Man Records Blue Room, Live at Third Man Records captures the final night of her 2025 tour — raw, unfiltered, and pressed in real time.
Limited red vinyl. Drops June 5, 2026.
(the above text was COPY from the email - unofficially now [me] a different source said SOLD OUT
IDK whether copies might be available thru other means than Rounder)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMbhtway5g !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His appreciative smile says more than all the science-y stuff - he's using the science-y stuff to shield his heart
I kinda hope Sierra Ferrell herself doesn't see this - and get self-conscious. 'Coz he's got a God-forsaken pitch-monitoring machine going - but his approving smile says more than does his nit-picking about "a little flat here" "a little sharp there" - to me those lines on the graph as she ascends and descends look damn solid.
He seems unaware of Sierra Ferrell's big successes.
