Raid the Quarry

Don’t let that calendar page surprise you. May is just around the corner, and we’re back at Clayton Rocks May 1! Everyone who came out to Riffmas last year raved about how great this spot is. Come hang at Clayton Rocks in downtown Clayton.

While I’ve never seen “My Dinner with Andre,” I have seen the still captioned “When I was young, all I thought about was art and music. Now I’m 36, and all I think about is money.”

I used to have a New Year’s Eve tradition in which I would try to write one more song before the year was done. This New Year’s Eve I spent all day tracking down my wife’s old 401(k)s so I could roll them over. It’s not an obsession with money so much as the practical necessity of family life. I didn’t write a lot this year, but I had lots of snuggles from two tiny people who like me more than almost anyone else, even if they would rather listen to the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack than my album.

Still, there were some musical moments. We saw a bunch of you at shows and had a great time. Hopefully we’ll do it again next year! We wrote new songs and got better at arranging as a band. We made a couple reels that got people talking. We made a few new friends.

Life looks a little different than it used to, and maybe music has a slightly different role in it; but it’s so key to who we are that we’ll just keep doing it as long as it inspires us. Thanks for a good year. Best wishes and blessings for 2026.

-Dan