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    • The Muse and Whirled Retort 2024

    The Muse and Whirled Retort July 2024

    Chandler and Benoit summer tour 2024

    Summer Tour 2024

    Hey everybody!

    Today is July 1 and would be Anne Feeney's Birthday. My former music partner liked to say, "They made Canada Day be my birthday. She was kidding of course. But I do miss her. Not a day goes by when I don't think, "what would Anne think?

    Yes my friends, It's July! My new book - Know Exit - is out, and Paul and I have a bunch of shows to celebrate the release - including the High Sierra, the Oregon Country Faire and the Black Sheep Reunion!

    Click Here to get the new Chandler Book

    So where to start. I am in Oakland signing pre-order copies of the book and getting them out the door. Can you believe it?

    If you would like a mail order copy click HERE: I WANT THE NEW CHANDLER BOOK!

    or copy and paste: https://chrischandler.org/product/know-exit/

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    If you are anywhere on the west coast and would like to see us come to your town - please let me know by responding to this newsletter. Keep checking the website for updates there are lots of things pending.

    Thanks.

    Chandler

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    M.U.S.E. .A.N.D. .W.H.I.R.L.E.D. .R.E.T.O.R.T.

    For this fourth of July, someone asked me to write something good about this country so here ya go: from the new book “Know Exit”

    Independence Day

    By Chris Chandler

    The very thing that makes America great
    is the the thing we are most afraid of:
    our people.


    From the beginning
    America has been a hodgepodge
    of sundry, and diverging groups.
    It is what makes us great.


    Two, three hundred years ago,
    (and even last week)
    it was the best and the brightest,
    that came here.

    It was the adventurers,
    the free thinkers, the risk takers
    that came here.

    It was the debtors, the n’er-do-wells
    looking to start over,
    the extremists,
    the fanatics, the radicals, the persecuted
    and the prospectors
    that longed for the salvation of a new beginning.


    It was the draft dodgers,
    the exiled intellectuals, the starving,
    and the industrious.
    The refugees.


    In 1776,
    there were two and a half million
    non native people
    in what is now the United States.
    No nationality held a clear majority.


    There were more nationalities and more religions
    being practiced in one location
    than anywhere else on earth.

    Twenty percent were of African decent.
    (More than from any single country in Europe)

    At one point
    it could be argued that the 18th century version of Swahili
    was the most spoken tongue in the western hemisphere.
    Granted, they did not come here willingly.
    It is one of our greatest shames
    that it has taken us so long to realize
    the gifts they had to offer.

    For even though Africans were subjugated
    for most of their history in the western hemisphere,
    their contributions to what makes America great
    is immeasurable.

    And, the same is true of the contributions
    of those who have been the most mistreated, the Native Americans,
    the Chinese and the Mexicans.
    Most of our greatest achievements
    have been at the behest of
    ... the newcomer
    ... the outcast
    ... the refugee.

    It was the new-comer,
    the immigrant,
    the refugee...
    that put his body on the line against an armed private militia
    in the struggle to give us the eight hour day.


    It was the newcomer,
    the immigrant,
    the refugee...
    that swelled the ranks of the Union Army
    and put an end to slavery with the barrel of a gun.
    The only country in human history to do that!

    It was the newcomer
    the immigrant,
    the refugee...
    educated in our universities that sat in Houston, TX
    and Cape Canaveral
    as we put a human on the moon.


    It takes a great deal of courage and gumption
    to come to a new land and begin again.
    And once ya get here,
    even if it may seem you have arrived with nothing,
    the one thing ya still got is courage and gumption.


    Even today. It is what makes us great.
    Even if it is what we fear the most.


    Many fear the new comer.
    But I say, what does the new comer have to offer?


    We are all after all, newcomers.
    We are still so young, and so big.
    Europeans poke fun at us saying we think two hundred years is a long time,
    yet they think two hundred miles is a long way.


    Our American trailblazers
    have conquered great distances
    with a mule and an axle.


    We, a largely impoverished rural, uneducated...
    loose connection of villages...
    were able to defeat the mightiest army on earth
    with nothing but a wagon load of hunting rifles and declare ourselves free.


    Only a great and inspired people could do that.
    Yes, What we have done with that history
    has not always been pretty.


    No people’s history is pretty.


    Perhaps if our history were pretty it would surely be that... History

    Pretty people don’t last.


    But in America, it has often been the ugliest of the ugly
    that prevail.
    And prevail we do.

    But today,
    I choose to celebrate what is great about our country.

    Our diversity.

    Now in the new 2014-2024 Anthology "Know Exit"

    Originally released on "Pocket Call from my Dreams" (2019)

    We Still Call ‘em Records

    **********
    H.E.R.E.’.S. .D.A. .D.A.T.E.S.

    Thursday, July 4th, 2024 11:30 PM

    High Sierra Music Festival

    Quincy , CA

    Website: https://www.highsierramusic.com/

    Artists at Large

    with Paul Benoit

    Jarrod Kaplan, Jordan Feinstein, and Christine Gunn

    Friday, July 5th, 2024 11:30 PM

    High Sierra Music Festival with Paul Benoit,

    Jarrod Kaplan, Jordan Feinstein, and Christine Gunn

    With Zach Gil and Lebo in the round.

    The Troubadour Sessions

    Saturday, July 6th, 2024 1:30 PM

    High Sierra Music Festival with Paul Benoit
    Jarrod Kaplan, Jordan Feinstein, and Christine Gunn

    Vaudeville Stage

    Sunday, July 7th, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00

    High Sierra Music Festival with Paul Benoit
    Jarrod Kaplan, Jordan Feinstein, and Christine Gunn

    Vaudeville Stage

    Friday, July 12th, 2024 1:15 PM to 2:05 PM

    Oregon Country Faire

    Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/

    Venita , OR

    Kesey Stage

    Friday, July 12th, 2024 4:20 PM

    Oregon Country Faire

    Blue Moon Stage

    Saturday, July 13th, 2024 4:20 PM

    Oregon Country Faire

    Artist at Large

    Sunday, July 14th, 2024 4:00 PM

    Oregon Country Faire

    Hoarse Coaral Stage

    Sunday, July 14th, 2024 9:00 PM

    Oregon Country Faire

    Library Show

    Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 9:00 PM

    With Very Special Guest Caroline Aiken

    Hybrid Cafe

    941 W 3rd Ave

    Eugene , OR

    Website: https://www.thehybrideugene.com/events

    Thursday, July 18th, 2024 9:00 PM

    The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit Show Returns to Cottage Grove

    The Axe and Fiddle

    657 E Main St

    Cottage Grove , OR 97424

    phone: 541-942-5942

    Website: https://axeandfiddle.com/

    Friday, July 19th, 2024 7:30 PM

    The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit with special guests!

    Floyds Coffee and Wine Bar

    1996 S. East Ladd Ave

    Portland , OR 97214

    Website: https://www.floyds.coffee/

    Saturday, July 20th, 2024 7:00 PM

    House Concert in Portland

    Home of Dean and Abby Boudouris

    DM me for the address. Or email dean@technw.net

    Portland , OR

    Sunday, July 21st, 2024 7:00 PM

    A Fundraiser for KXCR

    The UU Church

    87738 US-101

    Florence , OR 97439

    Website: https://kxcr.net/

    Friday, July 26th, 2024 7:00 PM

    Seattle Scottish Highland Games

    Enemclaw State Park (with Jen Delyth)

    Enemclaw , WA

    Website: https://www.sshga.org/

    Saturday & Sunday July 27th - 28th, 2024 7:00 PM

    Seattle Scottish Highland Games

    Enumclaw State Park (with Jen Delyth)

    Enemclaw , WA

    Website: https://www.sshga.org/

    Friday, August 2nd, 2024 7:00 PM to 9:00

    The Whole Evening With Very Special Guest Caroline Aiken

    Egan’s Ballard Jam House

    1707 NW Market Street

    Seattle , WA 98107

    phone: 206-789-1621

    Website: https://www.ballardjamhouse.com

    Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 7:00 PM to 9:00

    House Concert

    At the home of Leslie Cook

    Email spiritofmusicv@gmail.com or DM Chris Chandler for the address

    Victoria , BC Canada

    Sunday, August 4th, 2024 7:00 PM to 9:00

    Fun house concert on Salt Spring Island

    RSVP for location info

    email me at baldchandler@yahoo.com for location info

    or Jenn Christianson agent99@hotmail.com

    Salt Spring Island , BC Canada

    Monday, August 5th, 2024 7:00 PM to 9:00

    Fun House Concert

    See below for location information

    For location info: Jenn Christianson agent99j@hotmail.com

    Vancouver , BC Canada

    Monday, August 5th, 2024 7:00 PM

    House Concert in Vancouver

    Email Jenn Christianson agent99j@hotmail.com

    Vancouver , BC

    Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 7:30 PM

    House Concert in Bellingham

    The Home of Caryn Simmons

    DM me for the address

    Bellingham , WA

    Thursday, August 8th, 2024 7:30 PM

    The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit SHow with Very Special Guest Christine Gunn

    New Traditions

    300 5th Ave SW

    Olympia , WA

    Website: https://newtraditionsfairtrade.com/

    Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 7:30 PM

    The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit Show

    Sam Bond’s Garage

    407 Blair Bvd

    Eugene , OR

    Website: https://www.sambonds.com/

    Friday, Sat, Sunday, August 16th - 18th, 2024 7:30 PM

    Black Sheep Family Reunion

    Venita, OR Camp grounds

    Venita , OR

    Website: https://www.blacksheepfamilyreunion.com/

    Chandler will be MCing the entire event.

    Friday, August 23rd, 2024 7:30 PM

    The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit Show

    The Monkey House

    1638 University Ave

    Berkeley , CA

    Website: https://www.themonkeyhouse.org/

    Saturday, August 24th, 2024 8:00 PM

    House Concert

    at the Home of Sabrina Parker

    RSVP ME baldchandler@yahoo.com for address

    Santa Cruz , CA

    Sunday, August 25th, 2024 8:00 PM

    A House Concert

    At The Home of Miracula

    email baldchandler@yahoo.com for address

    Nevada City , CA

    Details TBA at the top of the year - stay tuned

    Thursday, September 5th, 2024 8:00 PM

    Da Grand Pooba Presents

    TBA

    Email Chandler baldchandler@yaahoo.com

    or Pooba da.grand.poobster@icloud.com

    Willits , CA

    Friday, September 6th, 2024 7:00 PM

    Split Bill with John Elliott

    Bazaar Cafe

    5927 California St

    San Francisco , CA 94121

    Website: https://bazaarcafe.com/calendar/

    Saturday, September 7th, 2024 7:00 PM

    Sherman Oaks House Concert

    at the home of Justeen Ward

    to RSVP email justeenw@gmail.com

    Los Angelas , CA