Kevin Carrel Footer

Author: KCF

  • A year in Chalk

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    Last year, on this day, we created the world’s largest chalk drawing on the tarmac of the Alameda Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA. Today, I have finished the documentary. Wow. So much can happen in a year.

  • Concert in Allentown, PA

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    I will be performing a duo concert with Maria Volonte in Allentown, PA on June 20. If you are in the area, I hope you’ll come out to the show. Concert details are: “Maria Volonte: Intima” (one woman show with guest artist Kevin Carrel Footer, harmonica) Saturday, June 20th, 8:00 pm Symphony Community Room 23…

  • Encumbrances

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    I feel like I have wandered for years in her streets. When I stumbled, she picked me up; when I was in danger, she guided my step to safety; when I was at my wits end, she sent me a sign. She has been my comfort, my destiny and my provocation. It is here that…

  • San Francisco Jazz Festival

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    I performed with the Maria Volonte Tango Jazz Ensemble at the SF Jazz Festival on May 31. Lately, Maria and I have been experimenting with fusing her Argentine music with my blues harmonica — and it works. After all, it makes sense. As Maria says, both tango and blues started in the same place: brothels.…

  • Music to my ears

    Music to my ears

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    Today I’ll be performing at the San Francisco Jazz Festival in California, one of the world’s great music events – not bad for someone who can’t even read music. The situation makes me chuckle and has gotten me thinking about the curious paths that lead us through our lives to such unexpected places. I learned…

  • Trained or untrained

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    I set out on my bike at first light but there wasn’t much since it was raining. The sky was dark and the streets were wet but today was the day of my 100-mile ride and months before I had committed myself to doing those hundred miles today –- and I was going to do…

  • “When love comes to town” – Live in Buenos Aires

    “When love comes to town” – Live in Buenos Aires

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    Kevin Carrel Footer playing harmonica with “Macarena” in Buenos Aires from Intrepid Patrol Video on Vimeo. W

  • Searching for the day

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    My friend Brian Day (“Big guy with earring,” 30 March 2003) committed suicide just before Christmas. In true biker fashion, he did it with nitrous oxide – which his girlfriend told me was a good thing. “At least it’s painless,” she said. In a fathomless situation, you take solace in small things like that. I…

  • Big guy with earring

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    The stories came one after the other. In each he was accompanied by a different exquisite girlfriend: Prague, the 210 motorcycles, the lecherous rock ‘n roll photographer, the train trip across a continent in search of absinthe. He was, among many other things, a collector – not only of girlfriends but of antiques, of motorcycles,…