Music makes everything more fun. It helps fill those pregnant pauses and awkward silences between bites of hot dog at the family reunion, birthday party, or backyard BBQ. It also makes you feel alive, and allows your body to synch up with the natural forces of melody. My point? I’m now booking house concerts (aka [...]

Here’s the final tour schedule for our Lost Sailor Six-In-Six Tour for this Saturday, May 15. A hearty thanks to Kelly and Jeff for letting us borrow their passenger van! Please feel free to join the caravan at any point: Coffee with Jen and Kev (House Concert) – Rollinsford, NH 10-10:30 AM Aquarius Pools (Small [...]

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 [...]

Fran from ConcertsInYourLivingRoom.com read the article on me in yesterday’s Portsmouth Herald Spotlight and, in turn, sent me this super cool guide to help prospective house concert hosts (that’s you, right?) get a handle on the concept. Check out Fran’s website to either join as an artist or host, or to get a better feel for [...]

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I’ve written in this space many times over the importance of music as not only an escape from the norm, but also as a medicine for the rigors of everyday life. House concerts have become a pharmacy through which this medicine is distributed, an up-close, intimate environment with people at their social best. See, once [...]

Holiday season is upon us. This also ushers in winter party season. Why not make it a little more interesting with some local, live music (provided by yours truly)? Here are my available dates through New Year’s Day: Friday, December 4 (evening) Saturday, December 5 (afternoon or evening) Sunday, December 6 (afternoon) Friday, December 11 [...]

A weekend for the ages: three days, three gigs, three incredibly interwoven experiences, with each seemingly picking up where the previous one left off. The trifecta of shows never took me more than 20 miles from home, and yet I felt as though I could’ve been nearly anywhere in the world (anywhere, that is, with [...]

The offices of Martimus are open again, and I’m now booking house concerts and gigs for fall 2009 and winter 2010. In case you’re new to the idea, this will get you up to speed. In a nutshell, it’s the most fun you can have in your own house with your pants on. Ok, it’s [...]

The new setlist page now includes a list of covers and originals I perform. These can be used to create your own customizable setlist, whether you’re hiring me for a house concert, or some other special occasion. Check it out.

My mind is smoking from the last 72 hours: Thursday night show at Biddy’s; studio session at Thundering Sky; house concert at the Traeger’s on Saturday night. This string of events provoked fantasies of pursuing music full-time, and will go down as one of the great music-oriented weekends in a long, long time. Here are [...]