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A More Abundant Life with Hank Lazer

I’m appearing tomorrow at a poetry reading/performance with Hank Lazer at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers to celebrate the release of Lazer’s poetry collection Abundant Life. I’ll provide some ambient field recording sounds, play my electric clawhammer guitar, and deploy some voice-responsive electronics.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 5pm
Hank Lazer
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers
Tuscaloosa AL 35401

Hank and I have been performing together for the last 5 years–less than a quarter of the time represented in Abundant Life. And like the poetry in the collection, our work together continues to change and evolve while circling around a common interest in poetry and sound as opportunity for stillness, presence, attention.

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Floating Down the River with a Fiddle and a Banjo

Onoma River album cover showing an engraving of a Kingfisher surrounded by a gold halo and hovering over a rural landscape. Esther Morgan-Ellis and Holland Hopson's names are in cursive and blocky fonts.
Onoma River cover art, exceprt from John Klosterman’s print

Fiddler Esther Morgan-Ellis and I are celebrating the release of our new recording, Onoma River, with an online listening party on Thursday. Onoma River is a collection of new old-time tunes for fiddle and banjo that brings new blood to old-time music. Esther and I embrace the spirit of ‘crooked’ tunes with a set of newly composed music that builds on southern Appalachian traditions.

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7pm
Onoma River Listening Party
RSVP for a free, online listening party

I’ve been writing a banjo tune every week since 2011. A few of these tunes have wound up in other projects, but most have never been released. Working with Esther was a great opportunity to get more of this music out into the world.

To accompany the album we commissioned John Klosterman to create a beautiful, limited-edition, 12.5” x 18.5” art print. The hand-printed piece incorporates gold ink on Arnhem cotton rag paper and chine collé woodblock images on Japanese rice paper. We chose a section of the print to serve as the album artwork. More information about John’s work can be found at www.johnklosterman.com