Welcome aboard the Stardust County Rail line, serving Arizona, the hinterlands, and points beyond! This is the web page for filk artist, folkie, and singer/songwriter (oh that word!) Nancy Louise Freeman. Have fun exploring, and feel free to drop me a note!
FYI, if you're interested in performing at the Prescott Folk festival this year (Oct 2&3), applications are now available here. Their forms are v. nice and IMO a big improvement over last year.
The Flagstaff Folk Festival's schedule is now online for your perusing pleasure. Looks like a great group of acts again! I'm only sorry that I'll be missing out on the Mexican Beaded Lizard Band due to scheduling. I'm scheduled for Sunday 11:40 on the "Pioneer Stage", which if I recall correctly from last year is the shed near the food stands that opens up into an outdoor stage.
Also, I'd like to draw your attention to the Northland Hospice Run for Life, happening Saturday morning the same weekend. It benefits a worthy cause and is being billed as a "run/walk", so even if you're not an athlete you can take part, so please consider if you're coming up to Flagstaff for the festival and will be there early Saturday morning. I'll be gasping my way through the 5K course.
A quick reminder that I'll be playing at the Glendale Folk Festival, battling the peacocks at Sahuaro Ranch Park this weekend. For those of you who remember the old Phoenix Folk Traditions festivals in Encanto Park, this is their spiritual successor. Come on by, it's just south of the Glendale Library, and what better way a spend a sunny Arizona spring weekend? I'll be playing the Fruit Packing Shed stage at 11:00 Sunday morning.
On a less-musical note, I'd like to invite you all to come see me make a fool of myself at my first "race", Pat's Run in Tempe on Saturday April 17th. As part of the event I'm raising funds for the Pat Tillman foundation here - no guarantees on finishing time, but I pledge that if I raise $500 and don't finish I will eat a bug.