Dan’s Blog

  • Travel Time!

    As I think you know, I leave for Almaty, Kazakhstan tomorrow (Monday the 17th) morning. I will be participating in a weeklong Cultural Exchange sponsored by The Southwest Folk Life Alliance in conjunction with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Music Unbound in a very exciting program of music and cultural exchange.…

  • I’m going to Kazakhstan!

    I’m going to Kazakhstan! Appalachia to Asia by way of Arizona Thirty years ago I released a recording called New Frontier. To my knowledge it was the first release of an album blending US Appalachian and traditional-style old-time music with Chinese traditional music. I, along with Michigan musician Kim Murley, had met at a festival in…

  • Summer Travel 2026

    Yep, as usual I have not been the dedicated blogger or, how do they say it now, “digital content creator” many of you have become. BUT, every so often there is a thing of two I want to let you know. First, I’m still alive and hanging in at 70. I did have that aging…

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