I’ll be rolling back into The Loft at Strafford Farms for a night of roots revelry with my pal Jeff “JHawk” Hawkinson tonight (Friday, April 2). The air’s warm and the beer’s cold, and it’s the last chance you’ll get to see me before the Sox season kicks off. What’s the significance? None really, it’s [...]

I spent some serious time over the last two nights bringing material over from the Pondering Judd website. I guess it’d never occurred to me just how many gig journals were out there (Jenny printed all of them out for me back in January as a birthday gift – over 800 pages of material). Just [...]

Last Tuesday night we had an interesting conversation at PJudd rehearsal, a discussion that probably would’ve spelled the end of the band 10-15 years ago. Back then, egos played a stronger role in how adversity played out, and emotions ran a little hotter. In this newfound age of maturity, somehow the conversation seemed as natural [...]

St. Patty’s Day in New England is typically scarred by snow, rain, wind, and cold (or all of the above). Yesterday was the warmest on record, and felt more like Memorial Day than an Irish holiday.It was against this backdrop that I pulled into Portsmouth, to the Dowey estate, to play their annual St. Patty’s [...]

Music is a party’s soundtrack and life blood. It makes small talk seem like a conversation about life’s great mysteries, and saves us from those pregnant pauses where we wished trap doors existed. House concerts are a great way to have fun on the cheap. I’ll show up in your living room, patio or garage [...]

This Friday, March 19, Pondering Judd makes its 2010 debut at Fury’s Publick House (Dover, NH – formerly Biddy’s) for a full-night of music and laughs. There’s no opener, just PJudd all night long. Music starts at 9:30. Arrive early to secure a seat. This show will sellout.

This Friday, March 12, I’ll be performing in my hometown at the Elysium Arts Folk Club (Rollinsford, NH). Good friends Courtney Brocks and Jeff “JHawk” Hawkinson will join me to round the night into an event for all-time. The show is alcohol-free and all ages. Details and directions. Update: Eric Ott will not be opening [...]

Music to me these days is about beating some different bushes hoping to flush the same birds. It’s about putting music in places people don’t always think about these days. But really, it’s about bringing music back to where it came from, living rooms and other places where people feel at ease, most like themselves. [...]