As an elder in the crowd said,

"it's like a big family here".

A waxing gibbous moon shone down through the oak boughs.

Warm winds and generous spirits officiated.

My songs poured forth from dear friends old and new,

and I loved every note.

Surprising tunes were pulled from deep downstream,

the newest ones settling in beside them.

Songs were inverted, rearranged,

stripped down and dressed up.

These were not cursory reads.

Good news is, it was recorded!

More about this, and word of other musical machinations, soon.

BIG LOVE AND THANKS to each and everyone who played and stayed and sang along,

Including you all sending well wishes from far & wide.

THANK YOU for the big-hearted donations of music and art and greenbacks.

AND THANK YOU to Annie Street Arts Collective

for being a catalyst of positive energy for the independent music community.

I hope that the generosity and suport showered on me and my songs

comes back to you all in spirit and in kind.

FARE FORWARD, VOYAGERS.

Amy Annelle

"God Bless" photo by Amy Annelle

Hi everyone,

We are hosting a benefit show tonight at 9pm for Amy Annelle.  She is a wildly good songwriter and beautiful friend of ours.  

The show is going to be an all star lineup of Annie Street favorites:

Amy Annelle!
Ralph White!
some say Leland!
Bruce Salmon!
The Susquehanna Hat Company!
Lindsey Verrill and Pete Murray!
Steve Bernal!
Andrew Stevens!
Dan Grissom!

Amy is a person who devotes her whole mind and soul to music and as a result is struggling to pay for recent surgeries and medical problems that she has been dealing with.  If we all come together as a community, we can help her get back to a place where she can write more beautiful songs for us.  Any donation tonight will get you a copy of Amy's new album 'The Cimarron Banks'.  Also, Will Johnson of Centromatic has kindly donated several fine screenprints of his baseball paintings for us to sell tonight.  The proceeds will all go directly to Amy.

As always, please consider donating to HAAM.  They are an amazing resource for Austin musicians to get health care.

Thank you and see you all tonight!

Annie Street Arts Collective
anniestreetartscollective@gmail.com

The "Long Nights Moon",

is here.  

Come salute her at a winter song series

Monday Nights in December at Flipnotics.  

A spectacular ramble through the Song Forest,

music from now & then, from hither & yon.

This series marks the debut of my new duo,

Amy Annelle & Steve Bernal (cello).

Come Hear!

"LONG NIGHTS MOON"

Amy Annelle & Steve Bernal (cello)

Mondays in December from 8--11 pm

$ donation

with very special guests:

12/6 Lindsey Verrill, Faux Paws

12/13 Country Willie, Rains & Keane

12/20  Aaron Blount, Christy & the Plowboys

12/27 Ralph White & Walter Daniels, Susquehanna Hat Company

FLIPNOTICS South

3601 Barton Springs Road

Austin, Tex 78704

www.flipnotics.com

Fare Forward, Voyagers!

I write from the wake of the season's first North'er.  A North'er is a cold front that barrels down the High Plains from Alberta.  Often there's blue-black clouds blasting a line from the west horizon to the east.  A wall of bluster.  But this one just blew away the summer.  It left crystal clear air and the rush of a season turning.  Did you hear last night, how the cicadas were singing?  There's urgency in numbered days.  Do it if you mean to, before the bitter winds lay you still.

North'er Approaching Lower Colorado by Amy Annelle

The Wednesday Residency continues.  Sitting in with me this week will be Brian Beattie on the electric bass. Brian and I have worked together on many studio recordings, but this playing live will be a first.  Please join us up on yonder hilltop tomorrow evening in Austin, Texas.  Chord-tangent transformation.  Offerings in the name of Bessie, Townes, R. Stevie & Dolly, Maddy, Woody and all the Watersons. 

Amy Annelle Wednesday Residency

special guest Brian Beattie

Wednesday 9.29 6--7:30 PM

RUTA MAYA NEW BACK BAR

3601 S. Congress Ave.

Austin, Tex USA
www.rutamaya.net 

I will also be playing a solo set this Sunday October 3 at the Ghost Room in Austin for Blue Dog Rescue's 10th Anniversary. 

http://www.bluedogrescue.com

www.theghostroom.com

Fare Forward, Voyagers!

AMY ANNELLE

6--7:30 PM 

every Wednesday in September & October

Ruta Maya New Back Bar

3601 S. Congress

Austin, Tex USA

www.rutamaya.net

all ages || suggested donation

Yesterday morning I woke to a soft rain in a Maine barn.  

And by tonight, I'll be all the way to Oregon.  

Presently, I plan to take two deep breaths.  

One.  

Two.

There.

"Schedule" Dan B & Amy Moon's |  Belfast, Maine

Thank you one and all for making the New England tour a happy one!

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AWAY NOW TO PORTLAND OREGON,

TO PLAY THE PORTLAND FOLK FESTIVAL & MORE:

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AMY ANNELLE PORTLAND, OREGON DATES

THURSDAY, 8.19 8 PM

Woody Guthrie Tribute & "Roll On, Columbia" Film Screening

with Peter Yarrow, Dan Bern, Rebecca Gates*

MISSION THEATER

425 NW 18th

503-241-2783

FRIDAY 8.20 8 PM
VERTIGO with Paper Airport

4260 SE Hawthorne

503-234-2423

SATURDAY 8.21 8 PM

THE WAYPOST with Pikara

3120 N. Williams

512-367-3182

SUNDAY 8.22 THE WOODS 2 PM

Kill Rock Stars/Stooping Bear Cookout with Michael Hurley, Rebecca Gates, Tara Jane O'Neil and Raymond Byron & the White Freighter*

6637 N. Milwaukee

503-890-0408

SUNDAY 8.22 9 PM

HOLOCENE with Laura Gibson, Thao & Mirah*

1001 SE Morrison

512-239-7639

*PORTLAND FOLK FESTIVAL DATES

www.portlandfolkfestival.com

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"Fare forward, travelers! not escaping from the past

into different lives, or into any future;

You are not the same people who left that station

Or who will arrive at any terminus,

While the narrowing rails slide together behind you;

And on the deck of the drumming liner

Watching the furrow that widens behind you,

You shall not think 'the past is finished'

Or 'the future is before us'.

At nightfall, in the rigging and the aerial,

Is a voice descanting (though not to the ear,

The murmuring shell of time, and not in any language)

"Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;

You are not those who saw the harbour 

Receding, or those who will disembark"

T.S. Eliot

------

  I'll see you up West.

Love,

Amy Annelle

NEW PHOTO GALLERY:

The Way of the Cimarron

by Amy Annelle 2010

www.highplainssigh.com

"In Oklahoma, all the experiences that went into the making of the nation has been speeded up...the one who can interpret Oklahoma can grasp the meaning of America in the modern world"  

Oklahoma: Footloose and Fancy Free 

 by Angie Debo--Stillwater, Oklahoma 1949

COMANCHE STORM by Amy Annelle

"It is impossible to reconstruct the full history of The Nermernuh, The True Human Beings...they had no writing or records...any history of The People, no matter who writes it, must suffer from the fact that records were kept only by the People's enemies"

Comanches:  the Destruction of a People

by T.R. Fehrenbach--San Antonio, Texas 1974

across the valleys of the Candadian and the Cimarron,

to the Rocky Mountains and then some.

I hope to see some of you who dwell out that way and your neighbors too. 

Friday July 9 

MATTER BOOKSTORE

144 N. College Avenue

Fort Collins, CO

with Origami Hands

http://www.wolverinefarmpublishing.org/matter-bookstore/about-matter-bookstore.html

Saturday July 10 

TITWRENCH FESTIVAL

a three-day all-ages, DIY festival of music & visual art

GLOB

3551 Brighton Blvd.

Denver, CO

http://titwrench.com/day-two.php

Sunday July 11

Buckhorn Bar

114 E. Ivinson

Laramie, Wyoming

with Birgit Burke, Mike Safran & friends

(307) 742-3554

Monday July 12

KRFC Live at Lunch

noon Mountain Time

Ft. Collins, CO

listen live http://krfcfm.org/

I'll have copies of the new album"The Cimarron Banks" and other music too.

You might find me on the street at the Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma July 14--18.  You might find me any old place between here and there.

Fare Forward, Voyagers!

Amy Annelle

P.S.  There's a page up for "The Cimarron Banks", come say hidy:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amy-Annelle-The-Cimarron-Banks/373241298603

Amy and Ralph recenly played a live Precious Blood set for "Phoning It In" on KDVS radio, in Davis, California. Wander on over & listen to a free recording here:

http://phoningitin.net/shows/567-Precious-Blood

"Amy Annelle (ex-Places) and Ralph White (ex-Bad Livers) phone it in from Austin, TX.  Precious Blood may be a lark for this duo--kicking back, jamming on old country standards, Cajun waltzes, and other traditional folk musics--but the results are nothing short of true alchemy. I'd make some mention of a time machine here if it wouldn't be mixing metaphors, but this stuff really does transport you, to the days of Harry Smith's or Alan Lomax's backroads recording adventures, when 78rpm records had just eclipsed sheet music, and families still gathered around the radio. It's magic, plain and simple. How else could these two incorporate so much musical history so effortlessly? And who else but? So take a seat on the porch swing and enjoy!"~~Nadav Carmel, KDVS Radio