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~ VIDEO SINGLE “BLACK ROCHELLE” HERE https://youtu.be/30SrbQkemdk

When: Monday nite 4/8 7:30pm ET

WHERE: https://youtube.com/live/C08Lm9_8G1s?feature=share

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VANCE’S NEW ENGLAND COFFEEHOUSE TOUR
(ok Troy, OH & Bethlehem, PA bees up in there, but still, my agent doesn’t seem to want me to leave New England):

4/13 - TROY, OH ARBOGAST PAC W/PAUL REISER https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/7186147/paul-reiserthe-big-font-comedy-tour-troy-arbogast-performing-arts-center He closes for me

4/20 - HAVERHILL, MA - NEW MOON COFFEEHOUSE https://newmooncoffeehouse.org/vance-gilbert-april-20-2024

4/21 - PLAINFIELD, VT - PLAINFIELD OPERA HOUSE https://vancegilbert.com/calendar/event/4048

4/27 - LEXINGTON, MA - HANCOCK CHURST OF CHRIST https://www.hancockchurch.org/coffeehouse/

4/28 - BETHLEHEM, PA - GODFREY DANIELS - https://godfreydaniels.org/event/vance-gilbert-april-28-2024/

5/4 - WEST HARTFORD, CT SOUNDING BOARD UU CHURCH - https://thesoundingboard.org/

5/18 - MANSFIELD, MA ROSE GARDEN COFFEEHOUSE - https://vancegilbert.com/calendar/event/4017

See? Sooooo much New England.

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AGGRAVATION TO RESSURECTION

I’m still recovering from defending a great Black female guitarist - who was just on TV with Tommy Emmanuel - from vigilant, angry, nasty other Black females who said things about this musician because they dared have an opinion about the relevance of Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter to the new wave of Black Country music. Watching Black Sisters veritably eating their own was heartbreaking, stereotype-perpetuating, with language I recall 10X what you’d find on any Dice Clay album. It really broke me as I continued to tell them to “go listen to this woman’s work.” One of them caterwauled as I tried to explain in like 70 characters “I ain't reading all that” and posted a meme of a woman laughing and pointing, clearly not realizing the meme was of Dolly Parton - who happens to appear on Queen Bey’s new album.

Yes it was Twittxxer. Still I can’t believe people can be so nasty and cruel to their own.

The I got this note from a woman who gave up a million dollar career as a publicist in their 40’s to become an airline mechanic. You read that right. This is how she finds solace, particularly on Mondays:

The Find

I look forward to welcoming you into my living-room again, Monday.

In reflection of last Monday’s PJ party; it was so wonderful to pipe your voice into my home. I was just discussing how warm it felt to a very dear friend of mine.

I exclaimed about how I felt; cozy (in my PJs), warm (in my heart), peaceful, appreciative and….less lonely. These feelings struck me, because during the pandemic I did not at all care for or attend these distance hangs. Perhaps it was the trauma of the times that turned me off. However, at this particular moment in my life, I see how these shows must have felt back then and what they mean to people, and I sit here grateful for your ability to radiate warmth through a screen.

As I was driving at dawn on my way to my latest adventure I thought about the idea of being alone (as I often find myself, mostly by choice), and how being alone has opened me - that I see more of the world- because someone's presence isn’t taking up attention. A beautiful thought about all these wonderful, small moments I caught, and I thought as I recalled my favorites that "these are images I will recall in my final hours”, and I smiled. Not just my face- but my soul. So- as I make this long story longer, you my friend are part of “the find”. As had I not been alone, I’d not have connected with Dan, and I would not have meet you, I would not have had the moments of “well this is why” as we traded photos of W7 (a DC-3 aircraft hangared in Western NY - ed.) and for moments that I have a sunken heart I will recall this past Monday’s feeling, too.

Thanks Yasmin...and Kathleen