my opinion on AI at this point is 'if it makes more work for me, I fucking hate it' google results are fucked: more work for me news sites posting ai generated content without fact checking: more work for me code that isn't scaleable: more work for me

Hayden taught some really great tunes this month. Islay Rant, The First Pint, and Farewell to Santa Ana are now up on contratunes.org/tune-archive...

Some great tunes this session! It'll take me quite a while to be able to play them *and* do the feet at the same time, I think :)

Here's a sneak preview from Devon for one of the tunes he'll likely teach tomorrow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9g7... If you're in the Seattle area and interested in learning a tune like this, and the feet, check out contratunes.org for more info! #fiddle #trad #contradance

The April Seattle Contra Tunes session is coming up! Visit contratunes.org for more info, and come join us!

www.transtradfest.org/lineup with #ContraDancing musicians take a look!

A few more tunes are up from the March Contra Tune Session: contratunes.org/tunes-by-ses...

Happy Bandcamp Friday! It's a great day to pick up Flow, if you haven't yet :) countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com/album/flow

Crazy as a coot Usually means crazy. They seem sane to me.

Overseen.

Today I found myself drinking cider at happy hour prices when the bookstore I was working in unexpectedly (to me) became a hurdy-gurdy / maritime tune concert venue. I feel like I must be doing something right 😂

Again, Alex sums things up perfectly with a song.

the struggle

We had another great contra tune learning session last Sunday! The tunes we learned are posted here if you want to follow along: contratunes.org/tunes-by-ses...

My band, Countercurrent, has a brand new record up for pre-order! You can find it at www.countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com/album/flow

a little clip from a jam session the other day. perpetually in love with weird little 16-bar bagpipe reels

Y’all. My local Democratic committee asked locals to call their Senators about Vought *last Tuesday*. And we did. And Senate Democrats responded by boycotting the vote to move him out of committee. “Dems aren’t doing anything” is an attack meant to split the Democratic coalition. Please boost.

Maybe you are going to Supersonic and want to get some music in your contra-filled weekend? Join us afterwards on Sun 2/9 to learn some tunes taught by Sarah! contratunes.org

This is going to be so awesome. I can't wait!

Well that was actually super easy. Thanks little yogurt guys!

I'm fiddling with Rufous at the Emerald City Contra Dance on 1/24... Come dance with us! seattledance.org/contra/emera...

Our first session was last night, and Hayden did a great job teaching us some sweet dance tunes! Recordings are on contra-tunes.notion.site if you want to check them out... And come join us next month for tunes with Sarah!

Wheeeee

Come learn some tunes at the Seattle Contra Tune Repertoire Builder, starting in Jan 2025! Hayden Stern and Sarah Comer will teach a few of their favorite contra tunes every month. All instruments and levels are welcome to attend. Visit contra-tunes.notion.site for more info.

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

me too me too

Celebrating the passing of Thanksgiving...

So very cozy in the rain 😊

Don’t mind me, just painting the kind of place I’d like to be right now 🍂

"The future was nice, if you liked that sort of thing." beautypill.bandcamp.com/track/instan...

Here's a little reel I wrote last year called Expect Resistance (as in, respect my existence or expect my resistance). Felt timely to share it with the world; hope y'all like it.

Loish has been one of my favorite artists for a long time (I first discovered her many years ago on DeviantArt and it has been a pleasure to watch her journey). Here's one of her pieces that I like, and I guess a lot of other people like it, too. :)