September 1, 2008
Grafton, ON

I've had the most magnificent past few weeks with my friends! Spent last weekend at the Shelter Valley Folk Festival, glorious utopian artistic creation of Aengus Finnan and his amazing community. Hosted the daytime Village Stage there and got to see loads of amazing pals like Darlene, Bob Snider, Brian MacMillan and Rick Fines ... not to mention Lynn Miles who I love so and simply cannot stop listening to!

Last weekend I played the Eaglewood Folk Festival and slept in my sweet little van by the pond ... Thanks to brilliant artistic director Trevor Mills for having me, Darlene, Carrie (you're the best manager ever!) and Nathan Rogers for making me laugh my ass off all weekend. And of course, the amazing Ken Whiteley, friend and producer was there playing along with me ... Next stop NYC. Watch out world. xo

 

At the Shelter Valley Folk Festival ... more summer festival photos

September 5, 2003
Sperryville, VA

Look at me!! Back in the Shenandoah holler...Glorious rural Virginia abounds all around me and I am having my first official visit to Jenny's new 300 year old cabin ( that used to belong to a bootlegger.... no lyin') And let me tell ya I have had QUITE the trip so far... Holeee. I'm actually thinking this might qualify as possibly the FUNNEST tour I've ever had 'cept maybe yesterday when I drove down the gloomy dirty nasty icky I-95 from NYC to DC and hit ALL the disgustoid rush hour traffic jams along the way. Yikes. At least I had the new Harry Potter book on tape to keep me entertained... ( But pauvre Harry's going through some rough spots right now and I was forced to commiserate along with him. Boohoo. ) 

My adventure began two weeks ago when I hit the road for the Eaglewood Folk Fest up in Pefferlaw, Ont. Had an amazing weekend there with fabulous performers and friends, then swiftly hauled it to Peterborough for their folk fest main stage on Sunday night. Ptbo was a divine experience as I used to live there and all my friends came out to visit!! Yeehaw! After that it was off to lover-ly Vermont for some visitation and resting and mass consumption of Thai food and sushi. Mmmmmmm. Next I had my maiden voyage to Boston and surrounding zones for the Labour Day weekend Campfire Festival at Club Passim. Now THAT was fun. Got to meet fabuloso performers from all over and wander about the green pastures of Harvard fantasizing about going there one day (for my highly esteemed PhD in sword-slinging butt-kicking geetar-picking singer-songwriter-ing.) Or possibly some Rocket Science..?. And THEN came my favourite part (drum roll.....) when I got to have my "Vacation" in Salem where I spent too much money on witch-shaped things (but really, what's TOO much?) and visited various witchy museums and monuments. Ate some damn fine stuffed scallops at Victoria Station, then got sucked in to the happenings at Salem's Vintage Photography... There I got tons of wicked novelty photos taken that will for sure go down the archives as a wholly worthy cause. Check out some of the Salem Sessions photos!! 

So now I'm here in the holler fore a few days resting up and getting work done, then off to Nashville for showcasing at the Nashville New Music Conference (and a good thing cause I REALLY need a new pair of guitar shaped nail-clippers!)

yours ever so truly, 

xo, K

Check out photos from the Salem Sessions here!

Goodbye Esmeralda!

August 21, 2001
London, Ontario 

After seven and a half years of grand adventures (and nearly 300,000 km...) I said goodbye to Esmeralda the van today. Thanks Ezzie. You were such a good horse. She really wanted to be driven off the side of the Grand Canyon but I figure they'd probably catch me for that and wouldn't be very nice about it to boot. My new van is a sleek (yet still slightly soccer mom) Plymouth Voyager. Her name is Maybelle and she's a very delicious shade of burgundy. And her engine is young and she's excited to take on some mountains soon... I'm getting ready to head up to Lake Simcoe and Eaglewood Folk Festival next weekend. I'm excited for a little Ontario cottage country before I head south again. Then, back to Virginia for a little more sleazeball motel writing quarantine in the beautiful Shenandoahs...