Hello everyone! It’s been an exciting couple of months full of more incredible music and good times with friends. We’re all enjoying a bit of down time as a band, traveling around in different combos taking time off, playing gigs and picking up some new tunes and songs along the way and will be ready to hit the studio and the road in the new year. Good times ahead!
The Trio hit the road on October 13, starting in Austin at the sixth annual Austin Stringband Festival. We played a raging set and square dance until the wee hours. We also played a honky tonk/ cajun dance with another band we play with, Jesse Lege, Joel Savoy and the Cajun Country Revival (CCR!). Woohoo! It is by far one of the most beautiful locations for a festival we’ve ever seen. Hopefully some year we’ll get to stay all weekend!
From Austin we headed east to Lafayette, LA to play the famous Festivals Acadiens et Creoles. It was truly an honor to get to play along side so many of our music heroes! And thanks to all the dancers! Another highlight was getting to play a Saturday night show at a great bar called Artmosphere, packed with folks filled to the brim with the Festivals’ spirit! A special thanks goes out to the “Alaska Embassy” representing big time down there. You know who you are…
After a much needed few days off in Eunice we did a short tour over to Alabama and back, just in time to teach at the Blackpot Festival camp up near Eunice at the Lakeview RV Park. It was an amazing week full of classes raging from cajun singing to cajun cooking, with a whole lot of old time and swing in the middle, complete with night time dances to boot! We’re pretty sure we played the first square dance ever at Lakeview! It was the perfect lead up to the Blackpot Festival itself where Reeb joined up with all of us. (Yeah Reeb!) Thanks to the Red Stick Ramblers for putting on such a fine festival and for having us back again.
After another few days to relax we were headed over Alabama to back up Caleb, playing in his country band at a festival called Angel Ride and parted ways from there until New Years Eve. What a fun month it was. Caleb and Reeb headed to Georgia for some chill time and will soon do a tour on the East Coast with Caleb’s Country Band. Nadine and Sammy headed north to Quebec to visit friends and family do a tour of the Maritimes on a house concert circuit called Home Routes.
In other exciting news, Sammy will be involved in an exciting new project from time to time with some amazing musicians we’ve met over the years, April Verch, Riley Baugus and André Brunet. Fans of North American traditional fiddle music will not want to miss this! It will be called April Verch’s Heartland Expedition. Check out the details on April’s website and on facebook. Check ’em out somewhere in the coming year!!
All the best and keep a look out for upcoming Foghorn Stringband shows and a new album in the new year. Yeehoo!