I’m going to be shooting a live performance DVD with Jack Lawrence and Robert Bowlin at this cool festival
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While Lauren and Joe are in town to start recording the new Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly album, we’ll also be doing a couple of gigs, with Marsha Genensky of the Anonymous 4. These will be the debut California gigs for Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly and I’m very excited about them. We’ve decided to start relatively low-key with gigs at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Menlo Park and the San Francisco Waldorf School (a fundraiser for my son’s class). Crow Molly will play a set and then we’ll back up Marsha for a set. And at the Waldorf School there will be a couple of special student performances.
Saturday Jan. 17, 7: 30 pm, St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, Menlo Park, CA, Tickets $25/$18.
Sunday Jan. 18, 4 pm, San Francisco Waldorf School, San Francisco, CA, Tickets $20, $10 for children under 18.
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I’ve been touring with the wonderful women of Anonymous 4 and my old cohort Darol Anger for a couple of years now. Gigs have been a little less frequent recently and it looks like our next concert in Portland, OR, on Wednesday will be one of our last. The Anonymettes have a few new recordings/programs in the works, but it looks like they will all be sans strings. Sigh.
Well, it’s been a long time since there was a Scott Nygaard Band, but I’ve finally found the right group to play all the odd new tunes I’ve been writing–Joe Walsh on mandolin and Lauren Rioux on five-string fiddle/viola/violin. They’re both residents of Portland, ME (conveniently located a mere 3,222 miles from my San Francisco home), they’re fantastic young musicians, and they seem to like to play my tunes. At least they’ve only complained a bit, and those complaints dissipated once we actually got together to play–at a marathon rehearsal in Portland last month. The new stuff is a bit of a departure from my usual old-time/Celtic/jazz stuff, this time with a bit of a Swedish accent, some odd meters (Joe says we don’t play in 4), and with a little more of my inner Thelonius Monk showing. At any rate, we’ve given this band a name–Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly–and we’re headed into the studio in January for the long overdue follow-up to Dreamer’s Waltz. Here’s a photo from our first real gig, at One Longfellow in Portland last month, with the wondrous Natalie Haas sitting in. (Hmm, it looks as if Joe and I are listing a bit to port). 
