Spring is here!

Spring is here! Our crabapple tree is blossoming like crazy and the bluebells are blooming in the bluebell glade I planted last year under the gorse:

Hoping to get lots more planting done in the next three days before I head away for six weeks – I’ve got potatoes, spring onions, thyme, parsley and sweet peas all waiting to go into the ground. You can keep tabs on my progress via my Instagram page, where you can also see photos of the blueberry bushes, raspberry canes, strawberries and collard greens I’ve already planted in the past couple of weeks. So little time, so much to do … but it’s good to see progress being made, albeit more slowly than I’d like.

Part of the reason for the slow progress is that I was on tour in the Netherlands and Germany for four weeks in February and March — although as it apparently rained steadily in Cornwall for pretty much that entire four weeks, it’s questionable whether I’d have got much done even if I’d been at home. Here’s a video kindly sent to me by the lovely people at Maximal Kulturinitiative Rodgau, where I performed on March 15th. It’s of my song “Only An Emotion,” which I recorded way back in 2008 on my album I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning.

And now I’m just on my way out the door to the second gig of my spring UK and Ireland tour. The first gig was last night at IntoBodmin — there’s a little video snippet from that show on my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages — and tonight’s gig is at the Praa Sands Community Centre, just a few miles up the road from my house. Such a novelty to be able to play two gigs in a row and sleep in my own bed after both of them – I’m not sure if that’s ever happened before! And I’m afraid it won’t be happening again anytime soon: we’ll be getting the ferry from Fishguard to Rosslare on Thursday for the Ireland leg of the tour, which segues straight into four weeks of concerts in Wales and England, finishing up back here in Cornwall at the start of June. Here’s what the full tour looks like:

As always, you’ll find all the details on the Tour page of my website, and you can also follow me on Bandsintown to get notifications about shows near you. I’m horribly behind on booking my October-November USA tour, and also need to fill in more dates on other forthcoming tours in the UK, Ireland and Europe, so do please let me know if you have any suggestions of people or places I should contact … bearing in mind that a big crowd in a small venue is always better than a small crowd in a big venue, and that I’m happy to play in all sorts of settings from house concerts to churches, community centres, libraries, village halls and more.

Hope to see you down the road! Thank you so much for your support.

All the best,

Sarah