LAST MINUTE GIG DEPT.

Hey all, I’m playing for tips at Opening Bell Thursday, April 14th, 9PM, 1409 S. Lamar, Dallas, TX. Come Celebrate Filing Your Income Taxes at a basement coffeehouse with great sound, a competent, happy, helpful staff, and a view of people’s feet as they walk by outside! I’ll be there for the single set with…

Oh, my.

It has been too long since we’ve had a chance to chat; so much has happened; travel to Tennessee, New York City and it’s city-state, and Oregon, just long enough to roll through the station stop for Bernie Sanders speech to tens of thousands.  Lisa and I have been focusing on regional performances this fall,…

Summer ’15

We’re having glorious clear days here in Texas, belying the weather forecasts right and left.  I could be painting houses, and I just might. Lisa and I have some marvelous gems of shows coming up this summer, all within a day’s ride; check out the Upcoming Events column over there>>. I’ve been enjoying the street…

Markley & Balmer Tonight!

Lisa and I are terrifically excited to be playing here in Dallas at the Labyrinth Walk Coffeehouse Benefit For St. Cecilia School Musical Instruments tonight.  She’s been working overtime to upgrade the musical education for these students.  Yesterday there was a Special Performance at the Kessler Theater by Jake Shimabukuro, ukelele virtuoso, for children from two…

For our Folk Allies:

Lisa and I’ll be attending the 2015 International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis this week, with our fellow label-mates at SoonaSongs, Inc.  It will be mayhem and cacophony like nothing you’ve heard, and we’ll be relishing it all like it was brisket. Our schedule: Wed:       10         PM  …