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A Social Media Announcement (and full fall/winter tour solo piano dates en route to you). (Patreon)

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2025-10-08 20:45:48

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Hi loves.

Reading comments. Writing, and in deep cleaning mode....but also need to get this tour out the door....and thought I’d share this more public post with you; I just posted it on socials (slightly more abbreviated on IG).

Full rollout in the next day or two, with a heads up about when tickets and guest list will be announced. But you can save the dates. I cannot wait to get back on tour and play these songs for the community. These will be strictly small cap patron-only shows.

That's you.

Yay.

Here it went:

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An announcement.

As most of you know, I have had an unbelievably difficult year, for so many reasons.

I’m so proud of myself for getting through it, with the help of my friends, my patrons, my family, my team and my new & old community here in Boston. I am so grateful to everyone who’s been carrying me through.

And I am so proud of myself for tying myself to the piano and writing desk, proud of myself for making ugly and beautiful new songs from the bottom of my rage and sadness, and for not letting the darkness get the best of me and drag me down to its swampy level (don’t forget: that’s how they win).

There are parts of my heart, gears in my box, muscles in my soul that I didn’t know I had. They’ve now all gotten a workout and are part of my every day.

It all makes me a better mother.

Meanwhile, I am doing what a real fucking artist does. I will just continue to create, no matter the conditions.

This is what all of the artists I truly admire do and have done across time. They just do not stop creating, even when the conditions are not ideal; cold, punishing, unwelcoming. They persist, they keep making. My heroes all persisted. And so will I.

I will do what a writer and a singer does when shit gets crazy: I will write and I will sing, because art is the lifeboat that carries us all out of the sinking ship of trauma. Hopefully I can row a couple people out with me.

To all of my artist friends out there who are feeling rot and listless despair in these trying times, I am cheering every single one of you on. Be the fire. Don’t stop creating, even if the clicks don’t come, even if the algorithm fucking buries you, even if your voice is red and sore and your hands are raw and tired, even if the book isn’t selling, whatever. Write the next chapter. Keep making. Keep making. Keep singing. Keep writing.

I’ve played this new batch of songs in tiny clubs and living rooms in London, Cambridge, Vineyard Haven, New York and Los Angeles over the last few months. Cone of the most powerful shows of all were right here in my living room, playing the songs for my neighbors and visiting friends as they sat and bore witness to what was screaming out of me. This has been the most humbling and educational era of of my life as an songwriter and an artist: I really have had to take dictation from inside my own dark mind and resist the temptation to shy away from the harsh music that was coming out of me. I don’t always like what I hear. I don’t always like the sound of my own pain. I feel more like a vessel than a writer, sometimes. Something bigger is speaking. I have to get out of the way.

It hasn’t been fun, and it hurts sometimes, to play. But the tears of my friends and patrons kept validating me. So I kept going.

I’m about to announce my first solo piano tour since…ages.

Later this month and into November and December, I’m heading to Minneapolis MN, Seattle WA, Portland OR, Northampton, Framingham and Cambridge MA, and NYC. I will announce actual venues and the ticket links only to my patrons in the next few days to keep it nice for the community, so please join up. It costs nothing, just an email…or support with money if you’re able. I’ll be playing all my new material and doing a Q&A after every show.

I’m also about to announce an author talk with Harvard Book Store, that’ll be a public event in early December with a super special guest…and I’m really looking forward to it.

As I saw Halsey say during an intense interview the other day (as she was on her way to chemo, dealing with a small child and an upcoming tour):

“Tragedies and triumphs beyond my wildest comprehension. And my job is just to bear witness to it and write about it. And that’s all I have to do til the end of time.”