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Performance Dates
I play clubs, bookstores, regional festivals, and private gatherings. Please contact me if you're interested in having me perform at your event. I donate all of my performing fees to charitable organizations.
My upcoming performance dates will occur at the film festival screenings of the Kalamazoo Gals short documentary.
- Golden State Film Festival (Hollywood, California), the world premiere in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre: Feb. 14-20
- Wrap Film Festival (London): the Festival has selected Kalamazoo Gals as a candidate for one of its awards: March 21
- Capital City Film Festival (Lansing, Michigan): April 2-12
- Red Dirt Film Festival (Stillwater, Oklahoma): April 4-6. WINNER, Best Short Documentary
- Music performance on Went-to-WWII Banner Gibson at the opening party at Backstage Stillwater, April 4, 6-8- pm
- Social Justice Film Festival (Seattle, Washington): April 9-13
- Poppy Jasper International Film Festival (San Francisco, California): April 9-16
- Kalamazoo Gals screens at 11:00 am on Sunday, April 13 at the CURA art gallery
- PIFF will host 2 Kalamazoo Gals “Special Feature” concerts/open mics. We will have on hand 2 Banner Gibsons that US soldiers took to WWII. Come out and play a few tunes on these magical and historically significant instruments!

- Thin Line Fest (Denton, Texas): April 23-27. Kalamazoo Gals has been nominated for the award for “Best Overall Short Documentary”
- Forum on Life, Culture & Society (FOLCS) (NY, NY): April 25, 2025, 7 pm. Kalamazoo Gals is one of 6 finalists for Best Documentary Short and will screen at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space
- New York Independent Film Festival (NY, NY): June 2-8, 2025
- Roosevelt Reading Festival, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (Hyde Park, NY): a book reading followed by a few tunes picked on a Banner Gibson. No film screening.
- New York Shorts International Film Festival (NY, NY): October 11-17
- Buenos Aires International Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina): September 1, 2025
- Cine Paris Film Festival (Paris, France), WINNER, Best Short Documentary: Dec. 1, 2025
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