Portland, ME. Our radio slot last night was a good experience – we enjoyed talking with our host, Leah, and playing… The sound crew had their hands full with a mystery – why was the sound not coming out on the airwaves? It was garbled and strange sounding and going in and out… the answer? The Luther Bonny Button had been pressed, which apparently funneled the sound off into some other building or dimension or some such. Once they figured that out and deactivated the switch, things got easier! It was good to know about Luther Bonny Buttons as they apply to the rest of our lives – they explain so many things!

In fact, the radio slot was itself kind of a talismanic Luther Bonny Button for the show tonight at One Longfellow Square. A nice big house of new friends and family, some relations we’d never met, a lovely pairing with the awesome Boreal Tordu whose fiddle wizardry and Acadian harmonies lifted the room several notches off the ground. It was another reminder of how good it it feels to share spirit with folks, and a great kickoff to the tour. We should get a Luther Bonny button of our own and send off radio transmissions into the void every time we set out.