Well, yeah! It was a really good comeback year for Mr Sun. We got another recording out on Compass Records, and played a bunch of beautiful festivals such as Wintergrass, Grey Fox, Redwing Roots, and more. We toured the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, Colorado, all over the Northeast (twice) and the Midwest. Two of the band members completed fantastic solo albums. Aidan and his wife Mary produced another child! We started compiling new original music, and Joe had a wonderful idea: Re-interpret the Duke Ellington version of The Nutcracker Suite.
So we’re slingshotting into 2023 with a Big Project: Mr Sun Plays Ellington Plays Tchaikovsky. We’ll premier the record, with special guests, at Mass MOCA’s Freshgrass Festival in September, which is underwriting the project! And we’ll hit some of the other cool festivals this year, appearing in California in the spring at the Berkeley Bluegrass Festival and the Strawberry Festival. and at Grey Fox, Grand Targhee and the Green Mountain Festival… so far, so good. And we’ll Keep On Keepin’ On.