Set List Time Machine

I don't do this often, but I'm going to write a blog about a set list I played and what it means to me now.

I recently came across my set list for my last show pre-covid lockdown etc etc - Feb. 23, 2020 at Sean Michael Dargan's Rock n Roll Supper Club. A beautiful, complex production that was just getting off the ground and about to be aborted, like everything else.

Like a lot of my music, this set has ended up feeling really prescient. I had no idea things would unfold in the extreme ways they did, and continue to.

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Updated show info Feb. 25-June 2

Hello all,

I’m writing about 3 upcoming shows that I’d love for you to come to (the one this Saturday is live streamed from cafecoda.club - that’s why you’re getting this if you’re far away. Also - Beau friends and fans, I plan to play his/our song in my last set of music, between 4-4:30CST).

Saturday Feb 25, 3pm (CST) The Human Show ep. 16: Crimethink Inc. or...
The Political is Personal

Featuring interview guests John Nichols on the state of
political discourse and organizing, and Sharon Irwin on her... [read more]

Saturday 10/22, 3pm at Cafe CODA --The Human Show ep. 15: Changing the Narrative

Hello,

Next Saturday I’m playing a show that’’s important to me, and I’d like to invite you to come in person or join on the livestream. and if you’re not available that day, the recording will be shared later...

Saturday 10/22/22, 3pmCDT Human Show Ep. 15: Changing the Narrative feat. interview guests Aaron Cutler and Paul Abramson, music by Stephanie Rearick and Aaron Cutler

At Cafe CODA, 1224 Williamson St Madison WI, and livestreamed from cafecoda.club (check there and facebook for streaming info in advance)

Music in Detroit, Variety in Madison :)

hello all

I have 2 shows coming up that I’d love for you to know about.

First, this Sunday

Sunday July 24, 7pm at Marygrove College in Detroit MI
I open for the great Stanley Clarke! This is wildly exciting for me. How did it happen, you ask? well, Stanley Clarke is family with one of the organizers of this conference I’m presenting at in Detroit, and now I get to play this show where the theme is Changing the Narrative. Our Detroit-based hosts, Khary and Piper, will lead a conversation on the topic, I’ll play a... [read more]

Human Show tomorrow! Plus more Stephanie Rearick solo shows in June and July

Hello all,

I’ve added an exciting new show (skip to the bottom to find out) and I’m also writing to remind you about TOMORROW’s interview/variety show at Cafe Coda. I’ll just play 2 little music sets to bookend a longer-than-usual very fascinating interview about China. Bring your own questions to ask from the audience!

Sat. June 4, 3pm at Cafe CODA 1224 Williamson St. The Human Show ep. 13: The T in China
my monthly interview/variety show at Cafe CODA has changed days and times - we’re now doing it the... [read more]

Courtyard Concert THURSDAY 5/26 (new date!) + more shows info

Hello friends,

Here is an updated schedule of my upcoming solo shows. They will be very different from each other, in case you want to check out more than one. Progressing from a junior rig with casio, loops, vocals, and trumpet, to adding electric piano for the house concert, to a piano-based show at Make Music Madison.

Sat. May 21, 2-11pm at OM Tiny Houses 1901 Aberg - Sharefest! I’ll play a set sometime between 6:30-8pm during the free dinner, during this daylong extravaganza of skillshares, food, music,... [read more]

Sunday 3/13 - The Human Show ep 11: Celebration of Life and Renewal

The Human Show ep. 11: Celebration of Life and Renewal
Sunday March 13, 2-3pm at Cafe CODA 1224 Williamson St. Madison
and live streamed at cafecoda.club

I’ll celebrate the lives of two people very dear and important to me who passed into ancestorship recently - Edgar Cahn and John Wagnitz.

Then celebrate youth and renewal with my young guest Micah Vedder, who will play some drums with me on an improvised piece and share some of his thoughts in a short interview.
(We’ll catch up with Joey Banks at a later... [read more]