Last time we were in NY we saw Laurie Anderson. She was amazing, poetry of challenging beauty, supple and unnerving. One phrase she used was “a new North” , about clocks spinning like compasses trying to find what happened to the magnetic field, or something along those lines.
After a lovely time showcasing at the amazing Brooklyn community eccentric musos’ hang - Roots and Ruckus, we drove North into VT. In Rutland we caught a jaw-dropping concert by Village Harmony, an organization that has been important to some of our favorite musicians ever. So inspired by that, we lit on today into Shelburne’s Bread and Butter farm to play for those guys during their wonderful Burger Night event. There was a beautiful big crowd there in the gorgeous long light of late summer afternoon. The burgers were fantastic, the place was too. Here it is…