"Stuck in Vermont" is a vlog on the Seven Days (Vermont's Arts Weekly) website. It is the creation of Eva Sollberger.

I just came upon a video about Vermont State Parks that features Grand Isle State Park where we played in August 2009 and we'll be playing in August 2010. There is a little bit of audio that sounds like it was recorded while we played there. It's the refrain of the song "I Was Not Born Here", though it is credited as "Home".

Check it out.

We have just arrived back from a wonderful weekend at The Northeast Regional Folk Alliance.

Not much sleep, but seeing old and making new friends, playing music until the morning hour.

We were honored to be in the Suzi Wollenberg DJ Showcase and also the Saturday Tricentric Showcase.

Thank you also to The Ripton Community Coffee House, Songwriting Scene, Songwriters Association of Washington (SAW) and Kindred Folk for including us in their showcases.

Hat's off to all of the volunteers and organizers for a successful conference. We spent the early Sunday morning

hours at the Kindred Folk Vermont showcase room with Ali Chambliss, Kathleen Pemble, Phil & Allison Henry,

Liz, Crosby, and others whose names I do not know. Still floating...

Putnam Smith, Richard & Mitch

Richard, warming up the RCCH stage 

We are very honored to be part of the Suzie Wollenberg DJ showcase this year at NERFA. It's always fun to arrive Thursday at NERFA, now even more so. Suzie loved to come up to our room to drink the Vermont Coffee Company brew we served throughout the weekend. I have a great picture of her taken at Kutshers years ago, posing next to the urns. I think it's a wonderful idea this evening was named for her.

We're getting busy for the next several weekends.. This Friday Oct 2nd, over the mountain in Waitsfeld at The Purple Moon Pub. The next day Oct 3rd Richard & I and the crew are hosting Brooks Williams at The Ripton Community Coffee House. Always a treat to have him with us.

Friday Oct 9th we'll be in Portland Maine on the radio at WMPG bright and early with Chris Darling.We'll have the day to find some excellent full belly clams before  playing that evening at The North Star Cafe.We're excited to be back at the The North Star and see Anna Maria and everyone. The next Friday Oct 16th we are thrilled to be at Caffe Lena , sharing the evening with our friends, Hungrytown. Richard and I played there years ago as part of a fundraiser. That was 1:00pm with a handful of people in the audience, and it was still totally fun!Oct 24th, back home  in Middlebury for a show at the very fancy 51 Main.

Oct 30, Cabbage Night we are zipping down to Morristown , NJ to be the featured performers at The Minstrel.We opened for Michael Smith back in March and were asked to return...By the way, we'll be having Michael Smith at the coffee house March 6th of 2010.

Well.... The hills are blazing with color, the gardens are being tilled in, perennials cut back, wood stacked. It is an amazing brilliant fall here in Vermont.

Come up and say Hi to us if you see us on the road...

We’re just back from the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival where we played on the main stage on Friday afternoon as part of the Emerging Artist Showcase. It was a great experience with people cheering us on and it was the first time I can recall having our lyrics simultaneously translated into sign language by an ASL interpreter.

We’ve been going to this impressive festival for years and in addition to the music on the stages there are great song swaps, showcases and jams happening up in the camping areas. There was also a bit of rain and mud. I think it may have been the muddiest FRFF of the fourteen I’ve been at, but all three of us from Bread and Bones had rain gear and tall rubber barn boots (at least that’s what they’re called in Vermont) that let us walk through the deepest mires, so we were okay. Next year will certainly be dry and lovely to make up for the last few years. It wasn’t continuous rain and it didn’t keep great music from happening.

Every morning we started off with a pot of Vermont Coffee Company coffee brewed very strong. We needed it because we were playing music until after 3:30 each morning.

We had lots of great folks near our campsite up in 10 Acres camping area, many we knew from previous years. It was an amazing neighborhood. Lots of folks that kept everyone posted about any incoming bad weather and checking in on each other. There was the Loozers Lounge made up of the wonderful folks from the Boston-based band Pesky J. Nixon and many of their friends. Their encampment had over thirty people staying there, some great cooking and some great jamming (moving under the canopy when ever the rains came). Across from them was a camp of Kerrville Festival Kerverts. We met two who were cooks at the Kerrville Festival while we were all parked waiting to get into the festival camping on Wednesday afternoon. They also included another family, a very large canopy and some great music. The Dharma Café/George Fox Pavilion folks were fun too, with a great showcase on Thursday afternoon. We had people drop in at our “Toast Pirates” camp to jam (an especially good one on Saturday night). We also had fun playing other places like Camp Stupid Americans and the Budgie Dome.

I’m still in that post-festival haze, looking at pictures posted online, swapping stories and thinking about more fun for next year.