The Big Table drops 5-24

Friends, my new single The Big Table drops 5/24.  It will only be available on my Bandcamp store and all proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen, who have returned to G*z* to provide food even after 7 of their aid workers were killed. 

For a larger donation, I will send you a lyric sheet for The Big Table, handwritten and signed by me.

I made a little sneak preview visualizer, with help from artist and arts-supporting friends at Southeast Regional Folk Alliance in Black Mountain this past weekend:

Sharing meals is always about more than just the food itself - it’s about the feeling of connection and nourishing ourselves in community. No offense to the kitchen staff at the Blue Ridge YMCA, but I can tell you for sure that what these folks are enjoying is primarily the company.

The Big Table is about believing there is enough for everyone - enough food, enough love, enough joy, enough power.  Enough peace.  Enough time and space to dream and take risks in the name of love.  A world where we can trust we will all be protected and provided for, by forces seen and unseen.  It's about sharing our true abundance (our ability to care for each other), knowing that when more people do this than not, there will truly be enough for everyone.  We will collectively be free when we collectively know this core truth.

We originally recorded this track in the sessions for When We Rise. It didn’t fit with the album per se, and I’ve been sitting with it for a while, trying to decide how and when to release it. When I learned that World Central Kitchen had lost 7 aid workers, I felt called to use The Big Table in this way.

Here’s a bit about WCK’s current work in Gaza, from their website:

World Central Kitchen has resumed operations in Gaza, serving 2 million meals over the past week. The humanitarian crisis remains dire. We will continue to get as much food into Gaza, including northern Gaza, as possible—by land, air, or sea. We have 276 trucks, with the equivalent of almost 8 million meals, ready to enter through the Rafah Crossing. Dozens of these trucks have already entered Gaza this week. To date we have distributed more than 46 million meals and we are eager and ready to deliver millions more. 

PRE-ORDER THE SINGLE AND/OR A LYRIC SHEET HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED BY ME TO SUPPORT WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN.

Join me and my full band Friday 5/24 at Muddy Creek in Sparta, NC! So excited to play at this gorgeous listening room for the first time and bring you all the rock-folk-whatever I am you can handle. Special guests The Wild Hares open. 8 pm show. Sponsored by the Alleghany Arts Council.

Upcoming Shows:

5/24 Muddy Creek Music Hall, Sparta, NC - FULL BAND SHOW!

6/6 The Martha Bassett Show, Reeves Theater, Elkin, NC

6/20-23 Moccasin Creek Music Fest, Effingham, IL

8/2 3rd Street Coffeehouse, Roanoke, VA

7/21 HAUNT Concert Series, Radical Healing, Durham, NC - tickets coming soon

8/8 Gas Hill Drinking Room, Winston-Salem, NC - w/Grant Peoples

9/5-9/8 Antlers & Acorns Songwriters Festival, Boone, NC