Announcing ~ Our Transition Transmission: Songs for Liminal Spaces and Thin Places
We filmed and recorded another 16 songs in our old farm house, and are now making all three of our recent concerts permanently available. Hopefully, they will be meaningful mile markers for the journey ahead.
You can pick up your portfolio of these musical offerings here:
And we hope these songs will tide us over during the time of year when we typically host Nowhere Else Festival. We are so looking forward to seeing you all just a bit further down the road. Soon.
You can read all about it in our letter below. xo, L&K
As spring arrived here on the farm, and Karin’s ruby throated hummingbirds once again began to dart and thrum around her feeders, and the tree swallows and chimney swifts returned from their long journeys, and the mockingbirds took up residence in the blooming lilacs, and the very first young doves fledged, and the linden tree leafed out its big green tent, and the tiny lettuce seeds pushed their dark quilt of soil aside, and the sun began rising earlier and earlier as if it couldn’t wait to see what was next, tell me, how could we not join the ragtag chorus all around, get a little drunk on the idea of a new chapter ahead, make a little hopeful ruckus of our own?
It felt like we had no choice: Karin and I picked up our instruments and gathered around the piano once again. We filmed and recorded another 16 songs in our old farmhouse that we would love to share with you. If I look a little distracted at times, it might be because a pair of bluebirds was building a nest right outside the piano room window, just north of middle C.
We felt a little rusty and even a little nervous to be playing again with cameras rolling after this long break from performing. I could feel my uncertain hands shaking a few times trying to remember the way. But my brother Myron reminded us that in the old creation story so many of us grew up with, God didn’t call what was made perfect, God was pleased to simply call it good.
And it was good. We found yet again we desperately needed music. It felt so good to fall into the arms of a familiar song.
Our Transition Transmission: Songs for Liminal Spaces and Thin Places
As Karin and I continue to process the surreal and difficult season we have all weathered together, and look forward to new days ahead, we realized that so many of our songs had grown out of seasons of change and transition. Even now the songs seem to want to throw off sparks of possibility and gratitude. Songs remind us that we can be resilient. Songs release into the close and holy darkness the unspoken prayers we don’t quite have words for. Songs whisper that in spite of it all, we’re gonna be alright.
It meant so much to us to share a concert from Nowhere Else around Christmastime. And then a batch of love songs in all shapes and sizes in February — our St. Valentine high five. Your generous feedback felt like a much-needed circle was completed. Like we were somehow together again. And the way you all pitched in to support and sustain us during a season of great uncertainty is one of the gifts we will always remember.
Many of you have inquired as to whether we would consider making those concerts permanently available. We heard you.
Because of all the requests, we decided to offer permanent access to this brand new concert recorded in May — Our Transition Transmission — along with the previous two concerts filmed and recorded here at Nowhere Else. All three of these intimate acoustic performances are now tucked into a portfolio for you, musical keepsakes from a chapter we all weathered together. May they continue to serve as mile markers, and bring enjoyment in the days and years ahead.
Again, you can find this folder packed full of our music here:
Typically this time of year, we are putting up a big tent here at Nowhere Else, and getting ready for our musical family reunion called Nowhere Else Festival. This year, we postponed the festival until September 3-5, Labor Day Weekend. God, it feels so good to be talking about live music.
It is still a challenging time for music festivals and arts organizations. Several weeks ago, we lost a signifiant grant that had been promised to the festival back in 2019, because the organization lost so much revenue during Covid.
Like many others, we find ourselves continuing to fundraise, as we work to establish a music venue here at Nowhere Else, and continue to host a music and arts festival and make it sustainable.
Your generosity has made it possible for us to come this far, and we believe there are good things ahead for all of us. We can’t wait to see you again. Make plans to join us in September.
Come check out all the progress you’ve helped us make on the barn. Soon we will be moving the piano and all the instruments into the loft and getting back to work finishing the next round of Over the Rhine projects and my solo album. Our dream was to have the barn be part of our sound moving forward. It’s happening.
And again, speaking of Nowhere Else Festival, what a line up. This promises to be a much-needed weekend of music, conversation and healing. It’s going to be quite a moment when the music finally starts. We can’t wait to see you again.
Festival tickets (and cool merch) available here:
Lifting a glass to much love & revelation ahead,