The amazing Mollie O Brien joins us in Seattle, along with a fleet of Scandinavian fiddlers. At Tanglewood, we re pleased to have the Juilliard String Quartet join us and we intend to write them into a Guy Noir script. And at Wolf Trap the great Ralph Stanley joins us. This has been a good year for us, I think. In this business, the one that there s no business like, it s enough to survive, and the show has survived and a little more.
Amazing things happen sort of regularly.
The ultimate tribute to Bob D., proof that some of his songs have become genuine folk songs. It s a busy summer for me. I m planning to take Jenny and Maia and climb aboard the westbound Empire Builder and ride out across the plains to Glacier Park. I m writing a sort of opera pastiche for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and starting a memoir about my neighborhood in St. Paul and putting together an anthology of poems from The Writers Almanac , called Good Poems .