This page is mostly for me. I'm using it almost like a diary or scrap book to record things that I want to memorialize. So, to some extent it's my "old news" page. (The picture above is where I work--The Deer Island Treatment Plant in Boston Harbor--though I'm not usually there at night.)

6/27/10 I released "Drill, Baby, Drill" as a single and as a video. You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTlT5Gl-LI.

5/21/10. What an awesome night! Tonight we celebrated Ana-Eder Mulhane and the Java Jo's Open Mike. We had a wonderful group of talented musicians filling the night with original songs.

4/11/09. I couldn't relate this better than The Kennedys fan Bruce, from the Jangle Poets list:

"During Maura's solo set portion of tonight's Driftwood Folk Cafe Kennedys show in Plymouth, she suddenly and unexpectedly ceded the stage to someone else, saying, "This is the most important song ever written!" 

Without further ado, Mike Delaney, playing on Maura's guitar, played a complete rendition of his song, "I Wanna Be Maura Kennedy" -- !!!
 
Maura mostly watched from a comfy chair that had been hastily hoisted to the very middle of the stage.  But she also backed Mike up on background vocals on the choruses.
 
Bruce"

And here's some pictures courtesy of Jake Jacobson of the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse:

3/14/09: Ken Porter and I opened for Chris and Meredith Thompson at the JP Unplugged Concert. In addition to being polished and lively performers, they were totally gracious and played a song with us and asked us to play a song with them.

11/22/08: Here's a video with Beth DeSombre at the FCOA Coffeehouse performance in Asland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioODEaVS9U4

11/8/08 -- I was honored to open for David Roth at JP Unplugged. He is a true gentleman and a talented song writer and performer. He asked me to join him on "May the LIght of Love" to close the concert. Here's a photo taken by Neal Braverman.

8/8/08 -- Kim and Reggie Harris played at my sister-in-law's wedding (Patricia Granahan). I got to host the reception and open for Kim and Reggie. They graciously joined me on "I Remember Blue" and "New Teenagers in Love", a parody that I wrote for Pat and her beau Terry Skelton. Pat found the powder blue tuxedo that was the same color and style as I wore at my wedding in 1973.

9/8/07 -- I got to open for Michael Troy (www.michaeltroymusic.com) at JP Unplugged. It was a lot of fun. We got to play and sing "Charlie Pikes" together, which really embodies how I feel about music.

9/2/07 - "Other World Eve", what I'm calling a co-write with Bob Franke (www.bobfranke.com) and Pete and Maura Kennedy (www.kennedysmusic.com), was performed at the WUMB Summer Acoustic Music Week in August. It honors all the SAMW instructors and students, my music friends, and the view into my dreams fostered by Pete and Maura Kennedy. Here's the live recording and lyrics.  

8/27/07 - "Peace Through War" is back at NUMBER ONE on the front page on Neil Young's "Living With War Today" song list (www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html). It has been in the Top 10 for the last 7 weeks and three weeks at #1. That puts me about an inch from Neil Young (my name to his picture), which is closer than I ever thought I'd get. "Terror Rainbow" is also on the list and "Peace Through War" is also listed at www.polititunes.com.  

9/16/07 -- "The Fedora Brothers" back up Patti DeRosa (www.pattiderosa.com) at the 2007 Boston Folk Festival.

6/16/07 - The New England Weather CD Release Party and Katrina Benefit was a big success. The CD, "A Little Sun; A Little Rain" is available from my CD page.

4/8/07 - "Low Carb" has been identified as one of the "best new climate songs" by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock (www.ecoshock.org).

 3/14/07 - My songs "Trash This Planet" and "Low Carb" are listed on Step It Up 2007!  (www.stepitup2007.org). We are organizing a National Day of Climate Action--April 14th, 2007.  On this one spring day, there will be hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the country.  We hope to have gatherings in every state, and in many of America's most iconic places: on the levees in New Orleans, on top of the melting glaciers on Mt. Rainier, even underwater on the endangered coral reefs off Key West.

2/19/06 - I've sort of co-written a song "First Day" with Maura Kennedy (www.kennedysmusic.com) as part of a dream-inspired songworkshop. Maura had the dream and directed a meditation. I took the images from the meditation and wrote the song. It's on my New Songs page.

9/16/06 - New England Weather had a great time playing today at the Boston Folk Festival. Check it out at  www.BostonFolkFestival.org.

9/10/06: "Colonoscopy" was played on Dr. Demento. It was played in between a song called "My Pants Fell Down" (Trout Fishing In America) and one called "Working Where The Sun Don't Shine" (Bowser & Blue).

8/27/06 - "I'D LIKE TO BE MIKE DELANEY" by Bob Franke and performed by "The Wannabees" (Pete and Maura Kennedy) on dueling ukuleles. I'm back from WUMB's Summer Acoustic Music Week, and what a week it was. The highlight for me was a response to my song "I Wanna Be Maura Kennedy". I was totally surprised by the honor. An MP3 of performance is HERE. How many people can say that they have a song about them written by Bob Franke (www.bobfranke.com) and performed by the Kennedys (www.kennedysmusic.com)? (There is also a recording of my song "Mando Slut" on the Mando page.)

"The Wannabees" (Maura and Pete Kennedy) with Mike. (Photo by Peter Bortolotti).