High Hearts are putting on their only show of the season at the Doylestown Moose Lodge on Saturday, Dec. 29 @ 9pm.  It’s going to be a festive affair with some very special guests joining Matt (guitar) and I (mandolin):

Award-winning clawhammer banjo player, Jim Arkezewski
Powerhouse Dobro player, Mish Sumichrast
Rock-solid bassist, Jason Bonthron

We’re playing the famous Moose Lodge tomorrow night at 8pm (127 E State St. in Doylestown, PA).  We’ll be joined by special guests Mike Sumichrast on Dobro and Jason Bonthron on bass!  See you there!

 Dream A Highway [8:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are two of our heroes. Their music has been such an inspiration for us in terms of songwriting, vocal harmonies, and instrumental textures. One day about two years ago, we decided to set up some mics in my living room on a rainy day. We left the windows open so you can hear the rain in the recordings!

We’re starting to get our summer schedule together with a new show at Shippen Manor, up in Oxford, NJ (Warren County) on Sunday, June 24th from 6-8pm.  This place is a real treat.  It’s an outdoor, festival-style-with-a-picnic kind of gig.  Bring your own lawn chairs and food.  Best of all, it’s free!

 Together [4:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re feeling the sun beating on our caves and have been gradually emerging from hibernation. This website has become something of a diary of our progress and a place we can post some things we’re working on. This is a rough track of Matt’s song Together, which we recorded last month and have been trying to add some backing vocals and bass to. While I’m working out some of the technical difficulties with my digital recording setup at home, here’s a preview… It’s one of my favorite of Matt’s tunes, and I think it came out quite well. I could go on for hours about how equally great and awful Garageband is, but I’ll spare you my rant. Anyway, let us know what you think!

We just added a great show at the end of April to our calendar. We’re playing with Smokehouse Bluegrass Band at The Moose in Doylestown. This is a free show!

Thanks to everyone who came out to Lambertville/New Hope for the anti-war demonstration this past Sunday. It was like deja vous from two years previous, although the politics are getting better, and the people are getting angrier (which is good).

In case some of you don’t know, I’m a “staff reporter” for Juxtaviews.com.  My buddy, Kevin Fricovsky started Juxtaviews as a blog in August 2006, and I have been helping him with it since around October 2006.  Every Wednesday we publish an interview with someone who is doing something interesting on the internets.  We also put out a round-up of the coolest links we find each week.  This week, I got to interview Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group.  He’s got some very progressive views on the future of the music industry. Check it out!

After moving to Lambertville, NJ from South Orange, I wanted to find local musicians to play with. I was advised by friend and former Smoove member, Gregg Weiss to record the songs I had written and put them out there to see if I could find other musicians with similar tastes. Well, I ended up producing a whole 13-song album, with lots of help from my friends. Upon finishing in the summer of 2004, I dropped off a copy to the Fireside Tea House. Next thing I knew, I was in the audience at a Fireside performance, as Matt Pillischer sang Frame of Mind Rag. Shortly after, High Hearts were formed. (Thanks, Gregg!)

Friend and Family (and the FBI),

Seriously, do you ever want to get your records from the Freedom of Info Act to see what kind of crap those bastards have on you?