The Show Goes On !
May 11, 2012

Gang,

Thanks for stopping by. Come on in and have a look around. Wish I could offer you a beer, but the technology isn’t quite there yet.

The Kickstarter Campaign is funded and the Club 47 show at Symphony Hall is on for Friday, December 28th !! Many, many thanks to those of you who helped make this happen. The campaign closes out on May 26, so we have a little time left. Some of the premiums will disappear when the campaign closes out - the seats + perks packages in particular. Tickets to the show will still be available through the Symphony Hall box office, but …

Three reasons to get your tickets at Kickstarter: 1) You get the best seats, the general public will get what’s left. 2) You save money – avoid the $6.25/ticket box office charge, and 3) You help me put on a better show – the more money we raise up front the more we can put into production, guest artists, the stuff that dreams are made of. We’ve also added some new premiums to keep it interesting (a bumper sticker, a Tom Rush cigar-box guitar*, a private concert). If you want to add to an existing pledge, go to the latest Update there and I’ll tell you how.

Meanwhile, look around the store – we’ve got music that will make you feel good!

Tom Rush

* The Tom Rush Cigar Box Guitar. I found these cool old cigar box labels featuring some guy (not me) named Tom Rush. Bruce Gootner is using them to make cigar box guitars. Primitive? Yes. Playable? With the right attitude, yes. Fun? For sure!! Matching battery-driven amp. Beer not included. Limit of 10. ONLY AVAILABLE AT KICKSTARTER!

Quote of the month:"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are." - Matt Lauer

AVAILABLE ONLINE

• RECENT INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
  Tom' appearance on NPR's "Here and Now" with Robin Young, May 15, 2012
  Tom's talks about - and performs - "Child's Song" on NPR's "Here and Now" with Robin Young, May 15, 2012
  Tom performs on WGBH-TV Boston, supporting the film
  For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival, April 11, 2012
  Tom performs on WCVB-TV Boston, supporting the film
  For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival, April 11, 2012
  Montgomery News (PA), March 13, 2012
  KUNC - Community Radio for Northern Colorado, February 9, 2012
  Broward Palm Beach New Times, January 30, 2012
  No Depression - The Roots Music Authority, January 28, 2012
  St Louis Music Press, October 27, 2011
  Wilmette Life, October 25, 2011
  The Wire, June 23, 2011
  Robin Young/WBUR, May 18, 2011
  Televised discussion of music with Country Joe McDonald on Purdue University's Arts Weekly which aired May 8, 2011.
  Jackson Hole News & Guide, April 15, 2009
  
  
• Tom's performances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, are available online:
  April 16, 2011
  May 29, 2010
  April 18, 2009
  
  
• Tom's performance on Mountain Stage, aired on National Public Radio (NPR) in April, 2009, is now available online.
  (photo: Brian Blauser/Mountain Stage)
  
  
• Tom's video performance of Steven Walters' The Remember Song has now had over 5.8 Million plays on YouTube!
  
  
• One of the very first music videos ever produced was for Tom's album, The Circle Game, circa 1968. Produced by Arthur Gorson it has been put online by Filmmaker Jonathan Moser.
  
  
• Tom watches his Facebook page closely and contributes when he can.
  
  
  

"The Remember Song," can now be downloaded online from iTunes.