I LOVE touring. When I am home for too long, I start to get a little restless and cranky. I miss the road; crazy, I know, because traveling is no party. But I need to hear the songs in a room, live, with the added electricity of an audience - then I feel truly myself.

Well, I haven't toured in a little bit now. I have postponed many things for the past year to do a different kind of work.

A year ago September, I moved my mother to an apartment in my building. She has dementia, and assorted other ills, and so needs constant care, constant attention. It's been intense and yet, incredibly rich - an entire spectrum of gifts and heartbreak.

Needless to say, I haven't finished the album I had planned to make, or followed it with the tour I had expected to launch!

I DO, though, have a wonderful concert planned for the 18th of January at Lincoln Center in New York City. Next year would have been Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, and so we are pulling out all the stops and starting the party right here. This concert will aim to re-create "The Works" and we'll throw in a little new stuff, and some Woody classics, reapproached, as well. It's part of the American Songbook Series. http://www.americansongbook.org/

I hope you can come. There will be some really special guests - John Leventhal, Dar Williams.... and some old friends - Rich Mercurio, Ricky Peterson, and a couple more TBA's!! Fine, fine company!

Until then, thanks for all the support over this year, and I can't wait to see you all again. I promise, I AM working on a new record! Just more slowly than I ever thought I could!

Jonatha