A BABY! That’s right I’m taking time off for “life,” not as in forever, but as in a baby boy, whom I’ll be bringing into this world come September.
As many of you know, over the past 5 years I’ve been forced to cancel a lot of shows due to a series off losses that began years ago with my sister Donna and subsequently back to back deaths of my brother Don, followed by my father, followed by my brother Dan and just last month, my beloved mother. So here I am just losing a mother while becoming one. So deeply strange and beautiful.
I’m as shocked as probably some of you are. By now, I sort of figured I’d live a life without children and was feeling ok with that. Yet,as death came knocking again too soon for another dear loved one, life too, was fighting to prevail. To be honest, my first thought was “what awful timing” until my dear Italian friend and agent Luisa Parelli so beautifully wrote to me, “You could do nothing better than life to battle death, and having a kid is simply finding one of the reasons we come to this world which is not so clear often!!!!!” (Thanks for that Luisa).
That said, I’m absolutely terrified and now even more ready to come see so many of my dear friends and homes all over the world one more time before “the end of the world as I know it!” So, as I list the last shows of the year below, please consider coming to bless this new little life that’s tagging along in my belly, and to celebrate ALL LIFE, past, present and future together in our Rock and Roll Church of Love.
Fear not, I plan to spend the most likely sleepless, downtime this autumn and winter making a new body of music that’s been brewing in me all year. Then, I plan to bring this wee one all over the world (within healthy reason of course) to see the many beautiful places and meet the many incredible people I’ve been so very fortunate to have encountered.
Until then, I’ll look forward to seeing you all this June, July and August. My dear friend and clothing designer, Gayatri Jolly is making my big-belly shirts right now, while still devoting her time to the women in the slums of India teaching them to sew and be self-sufficient.
(What a Goddess!)
Thank you all for allowing me to share yet another of life’s twists & turns through sadness and joy with you.
I look forward to seeing you soon starting in the USA next weekend and then back to Europe starting with a “home” I haven’t been to in a while, which was my very first foreign country to ever visit and will now officially be the first foreign country for my baby boy, ITALY!!!
So here’s where to find me, Y’all…..I sure hope you will.
Love, Dana
(click links for tickets)
MAY 2016
05-22-16 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival - Annapolis, MD USA 1:25pm
JUNE 2016
06-11-16 The Levoy Theater - Millville, NJ USA with Devon Allman! 8:00pm
06-12-16 B.B. King’s - New York, NY USA 8:00pm
06-16-16 Mexicali Live - Teaneck, NJ USA with Peter Diamond! 8:00pm
06-24-16 Piazza Matteotti - Torrita di Siena, Italy 10:00pm
06-25-16 Bergamo Italy - Time TBA
06-26-16 Sconfinart Music - Suzzara Mantova, Italy 10:00pm
06-27-16 New Orleans Meets Zofingen Festival - Zofingen, Switzerland 5:00pm
06-28-16 Z7 Konzertfabrik - Pratteln, Switzerland 8:00pm
JULY 2016
07-02-16 La Nuit du Blues de Cabanes - Les Arènes Municipales de Cabanes, France 10:30pm
07-04-16 Grosseto Music Festival - Grosseto, Italy 9:30pm
07-09-16 Bossa Nova Blues & Rock Festival - Ekenäs, Finland 8:00pm
07-14-16 Callahan’s Music Hall - Auburn Hills, MI USA 7:30pm
07-15-16 Bluesfest Windsor - Windsor, ON Canada 11:25pm
07-16-16 Peter’s Players - Gravenhurst, ON Canada 8:00pm
AUGUST 2016
08-13-16 Ram’s Head - Annapolis, MD USA 1:15pm
08-13-16 Sellersville Theater - Sellersville, PA USA 9:00pm
08-14-16 Heritage Music BluesFest - Wheeling, WV USA Time TBA
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24 comments:
Wow! That is some big news!! Congratulations!!!!
God bless you. You Will come stronger. Enjoy the beauty of being a Mother.
God bless you. You Will come stronger. Enjoy the beauty of being a Mother.
I know how much loss you have already endured and nothing can fill that void any better than a blessing of a child to someone who has such love and courage and will be a warrior Mother. I too, have suffered some losses recently and i know there is no other solace than the one I find in my own child and her love for me keeps me strong. I wish you the best and of course a healthy delivery and baby!!! Congrats Dana
Love Dawn
Congratulations - I am so very happy for you!! Hope to see you back in Norway when you are ready - hopefully with your little boy too ♡ love from Taran and me!
Congratulations - I am so very happy for you!! Hope to see you back in Norway when you are ready - hopefully with your little boy too ♡ love from Taran and me!
Lucky baby!
Thats fantastic, Dana! We're so happy for you! You are so generous - you deserve all this life has to offer. Much love from Annie and me..................
Tweedcity - that's me - Jack O, in case you didn't know.................
Congratulations!
Congrats Dana! What a nice way of "getting back on death" You will be an awesome mom I'm sure of. All the best!! Love your music and can't wait to get to know the new music coming from you :-)
Congrats! I'm sure this change will lead to a Vista of new inspirations...Enjoy living in the moment, so many of them to come...continued blessings
Hello Dana,
I am very happy that you come in Italy and I hope to be able to come to listen.
Marco.
Felicitaciones Dana!! Te lo mereces, mi saludos!! Un beso para ti.
Dana, happy news for you. You've had too much sadness. No more jumping around for you for awhile :)
See you in Sellersville, front table!
Lyne M.
Gongrats my friend so good news wow u will be the best mother no doubt.Hope to see u if u going to Denmark this summer :)
Congratulations, Dana! Life is an amazing journey and this next adventure will be a wild ride. Enjoy it. I gotta throw in there that boys are a lot of fun. I've enjoyed mine.
I am so happy for you Dana! The Good Lord and all the Angels has blessed you and you will be a great and loving mother. See you soon! Hugs!!!
How Wonderful! So looking forward to seeing you Sunday at Chesapeake. Then there will be Callahan's in Michigan and hopefully Ram's Head, Sellersville and Wheeling to go out with a bang. (If any of the Barefoot and Pregnant Tour can't happen for whatever reason, none of this "it is with a heavy heart" business, we all love you.) So here's to life. I'll end my words. (Even though I could go on about spirituality, lessons learned and new friends made.) I hope my "pilgrimage" from here on in has many trips to Danaland - it's good for my soul. Humble Thanks.
So happy for you!!! A dear woman thay was like a mother to mr, that I loved and sadly lodt had a beautiful sentimrnt she shated with mewhen I had my son, and I would like to share it with you. "honey, sons are born for their mama`s, no matter what ever happens, he will always be yours, and you will always be his" peace and love, and congrats Dana!!!!!
I believe that there may be an invisible thread between death and life, and we must be ready to grasp the deeper meaning of the existence of this thread. I'm very happy for you. Is there any way to contact you privately? I noticed that the Italian dates do not have links to purchase tickets: were canceled? Love. Marco Oliva.
Luisa is so right Dana , as a mother of 4 and grandmother of 8 , the children are and the biggest inspiration in life , they are life ,so celebrate life with life and lots of lifeROCK'N ROLL ! ! ! ! ! ! ! All our love and blessings to you and your little "fox" from Bjarne and me
Reading thru your blog it is easy to see how the beauty within you is reflected in the beautiful human, woman, and about to be mother that you are. My four children and I loved you in Across the Universe and this year I was able to make it to your concert in Fairfield, CT in February with one of your biggest fans, Robert Taylor of Darien CT. After sitting,standing, singing in the crowd along with you and your wonderful band, I understand the beautiful energy that you put out there in to the universe and why my friend goes to every single concert and takes his friends along with him. You are a daughter, sister, friend, and mother who anyone would be proud to have in their lives. I am so sorry about all the loss in your life in recent years and your mom. She sounded wonderful. You were very blessed to have those final days with her. I lost my mother last year and reading your words made me think of how selfless and loving she was all of my life and how I wish I had been there to hold her hand and kiss her on her final good night. We were blessed with amazing women as mothers and as I have raised my four children to love, laugh, dance, twirl in delight and joy, work thru the hard times and to lift others up whether people or animals and take care and honor all lives, I can only imagine how beautiful a life this sweet child who has chosen you as his mother, will have when he enters this world fully this autumn. Many blessings to you both and thank you for the wonderful blog. I read about your trip to India and could feel the empathy you have for others. If you ever want to come to the Canadian Rockies and sing at our Folk Festival in Canmore in the summer, you and your baby and band will always be so very welcome. I wish you all the best and know you will be an incredible mom with all those beautiful people who have been a part of your life and gone on to watch over you and your little one.
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