"ENOUGH" - Dear NYC, I'm playing a Gun Safety benefit on Wednesday (Patreon)

Hello my loves.

Greetings from the deep woods, where I am trying to sabbatical. Still unpacking, still reeling, still feeling all the things. Thank you all for the beautiful feedback from the little "Hello, My Name is Sonu" piece I posted the other day. I miss writing, I love writing, I love that I can get paid here to write, and there's a lot to process from the last two+ years, so I'm going to slowly crack my knuckles and start dusting off the cobwebs. Seeing people responding to my writing makes it easier. I don't love writing in a vaccum, I like writing on a stage where I can share my work immediately, without waiting eighteen months for a publisher to stick it in the cue and bind it into a book. It also means I have to be self-published, but writing is just writing, and work is just work, and whatever works, man. I'm so proud to be a paid working writer, salaried by YOU. 

I have an ask, given that I've been so under-productive for the past year or so, which has meant a dwindling in the patreon #s....please go out and share my work. Talk up the patreon. It'll help me get through the next year while we get The Dresden Dolls into shape. I thank you. 

So: I was not going to leave my house for any reason. My stated intent up and down was pure collapse. 

I've been doing plenty of that....

BUT (and there's always a BUT): my old pal Schlomo Lipetz, from City Winery, called the other day and asked if I would join this group-show/benefit fighting gun violence this coming Wednesday, July 6th.

I had too many pals on the bill (John Cameron Mitchell (aka HEDWIG! Dar Williams! Laurie Anderson, maybe!) to say no. And DIONNE WARWICK? C'mon. I gotta do it. That's what friends are for.

And also, fuck all this gun violence in America. 

It's just fucked.

So I'll traipse down to the city and I'll play two or three songs, and if you're in New York, I hope you can drop everything and come. You know I have appropriate material. I'll dust off "Strength Through Music", probably, or "Guitar Hero", but come to think of it, "Ukulele Anthem" does have that great line about kids and guns...how to choose? 

And I may have to pull out "Voicemail for Jill" as well, given last week's news.

(Fahk.)

Tickets are $50-$500, and all proceeds all go to everytown.org.

NOTE: $75+/GUEST-LIST PATRONS....if you think you can come and want guest list, hit up Michael!! Michael@amandapalmer.net. We may have a ticket or two to give away! First come first served. 

Doors at at 6:30, show at 8pm. No idea where I'll be in the line-up, so come on time.

If you're coming, holler in the comments so I can look out for you!!!

If there's a handful of patrons coming, hopefully you can all find EACH OTHER, and I'll try to find a place for us to gather before or after the show. Anyone know the neighbourhood and have ideas about WHERE? Holler in the comments.

AND, here's a (public) thread I made on the shadowbox for those who are coming if you wanna find friends/share photos, etc:

https://forum.theshadowbox.net/t/enough-nyc-july-6-gun-safety-benefit-at-city-winery/9231?u=amandapalmer

And, dudes, if you don't think I'm going to ask Dionne Warwick if I can possibly join her for a rousing company rendition of "That's what friends are for", you're off your rocker....

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Speaking of guns, here's the scene today at Rough Draft books in Kingston, NY:

Also: for the webcast folks...now that I'm home, i'm going to aim to do a webcast the week after next. I''m back in the American time zone! I'm aiming for the week of the 11th now that next week is gonna get a little hairy with this new york trip....sometime in the late morning or early afternoon American time. Stay tuned...

xx

AFP