Here are some pictures of our trip to Tamworth

Here are some pictures of our trip to Tamworth, NH, the Greenriver festival in Greenfield Mass., and Lowell Mass.

Gala in Tamworth, with Bill's band, Seth Austen on a Collings mandolin and fiddle, Beverly Woods on autoharp, fiddle and accordion, Pete Heimlich on guitar and banjo and Peter on the harmonica

Seth and Pete

Bill and the crowd

Bill, Seth and Pete

Seth Austen

Beverly

Pete Heimlich

Bill and Seth

Beverly and Bill

Peter

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At Chuck and Patti's in Maine:

Chuck and his old Hoboken-made Guild M20

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Jolene in Bellows Falls, VT, home of the great Charlie Hunter

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At The Greenriver Festival, July 15, sponsored by Signature Sounds

The wonderful Tracy Grammer

with Jim Henry

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The Redbird gang

Peter Mulvey, Jeffrey Foucault & Kris Delmhorst

Tribute to Dave Carter with from left to right Jim Henry, Tracy Grammer, Anais Mitchell, and the Redbird team

With Jeffrey Foucault, first meeting with one of very best songwriters around after five years of email traffic across the pond

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Steve Earle closes the evening. I missed Buddy Miller, as I chose the Dave Carter Tribute instead. hard to make a choice sometimes...

With Alison Moorer

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With Bob Martin, Lowell-based singer-songwriter. "The River Turns the Wheel" will make it to my desert island. A huge Thank You to Bill and Dave Perry -- a journalist for the Lowell Sun whose linernotes for the Kerouac boxset owed him a Grammy nomination -- for making this long-awaited visit possible. I love you guys!

Above: with Bill Morrissey and Bob Martin

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Below: another infamous encounter of the third kind

Kerouac's grave at Lowell's Edson cemetary

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Bob & Bill