This weekend in Woodstock, + The Red Balloon (short film night for kiddos of all ages) on June 8th (Patreon)

Hello loves

Greetings from a plane from Santa Fe to NY via Dallas. I am fucking exhausted but spiritually overfilled to the brim because my band is just so goddamn good and we fairly slaughtered all six of our shows these last two weekends in Denver and Santa Fe.

I am drowning in footage and photos and patron meet-up goodness and I’ll get to all of it. The Althing will probably be chock fullllll.

For now - this one, omg -

Taken by Cody last night at Meow Wolf i. Santa Fe. Says it all. I broke down crying - seriously, broke down - telling the crowd how deeply musically and soul-understood I felt by Brian Viglione, and how lucky any of us are to find one person in this life who understands and supports us this deeply. Who knows what would have happened to me if I had not met this man.

Who knows. Nobody understood me, not really, til this guy. My songs just scared people.

He lifted me, I lifted him, we lifted each other into the stratosphere. We became so much larger than the sum of our parts.

Michael got this great shot from side of stage.

I still haven’t found a good way of gathering all your gorgeous photos. Patreon blows in this regard. I’m working on it and lost as usual. For now tag me on IG or post to a FB post.

So…there is SO much to catch up on BUT RIGHT NOW: a tiny local piece of news for my Woodstock/NY area patrons.

Hudson Valley locals: KEEP YOUR EARS & EYES PEELED, HERE for some possible meet-up/show/ninja plans this weekend in Woodstock, okay? HIJINX ARE AFOOT. I’ll have more news for you tomorrow / Wednesday latest. It is juicy.

Mom Mode for a moment:June 8th - for people / kiddos of all ages!!!! 🎈♥️🎉

Andy from Tinker St Cinema just told me he got ahold of an original print of The Red Balloon and Ash still has never seen it - and it’s one of my all-time fave kiddo movies. It’s in French, but it’s 99% non-dialogue. If you’re an American kid of a Certain Age who Took French, you almost definitely watched this heartbreaking shit in French Class. There’s also a children’s book version of the film that became popular for a while. I won’t spoil the plot.

BUT IT IS A FILM ABOUT GRIEF AND LOSS AND JOY AND EVERYBODY SHOULD SEE IT GODDAMMIT!!!!!!

It’s only 35 minutes long, so we tacked the Ugly Duckling on, too. June 8th, 5:30-6:30pm. Tix are $10 and all the money just goes to support the cinema. And there’s popcorn and Fruition chocolate in the lobby.

AND - if you score tickets, tell me in the comments. I may have a secret place for us/y’all to gather before or after the film, wink wink nudge nudge knowhatimean.

Ticket link here, and please spread the word and tell local families!!!

https://www.tscwoodstock.com/movie/the-red-balloon-on-16mm-film-w-host-amanda-palmer

I’ll bring my ukulele, as usual. Always giving hugs. I’d love to sell the place out. It seats about 100.

XXX

Much more soon. For now just get Balloon tix.

afp

P.s. just a little lite reading on the plane from Sophia Giovannitti - it’s a slightly heavy read but a good one for artists and anti-capitalist sex workers alike.