Greetings from Planet Earth!
Speaking of the planet, are y’all familiar with a guy named Bill McKibben? Back in the day, Letterman had him on The Late Show a few times, and that’s where I ran across him. He’d written a book about climate change called Eaarth, and it had a big effect on me.
If climate change has your attention these days, check out this organization he put together;
www.350.org
And under 350's umbrella there's a very helpful page called Climate Activism for Beginners: 7 Ways to Get Started:
https://350colorado.org/
For more on McKibben and that book:
https://billmckibben.com/
OK, I have news!!
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Contents of This Newsletter
1. I’m playing a 100% solo hour-long streaming concert this coming Tuesday night (Feb 18)
2. Waymores reunite to play Puckett’s in Nashville on Saturday, March 1
3. Songwriting retreat in May in Sweden
4. Ireland 2026: NOW taking reservations
5. Song of the Month: “One World”
6 Poem of the Month: “Personality”
7. Wisdom for our time from Michael Singer
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1. Join me for an hour of songs, poems & stories, streaming from my studio in Memphis this coming Tuesday (February 18)
The scoop:
What: Streaming Tuesdays Presents Tom Kimmel
When: Tuesday, February 18, 6-7pm CST
How to watch & listen for *free: https://aftontickets.com/
*It's free, but you need a reservation. Just click the link to make one.
Thanks so much to Gary Pratt & Kathi Caccavale for this Streaming Tuesdays opportunity.
2. Waymores reunite for Nashville show March 1.
Don, Sally & I have made a pact to play one show in Nashville each season. Here's our winter concert.
What: Los Waymores (Don Henry, Sally Barris y yo) en concierto
Where: Puckett’s, 500 Church Street, Nashville, TN
When: Saturday, March 1, 8:30pm CST
What else: Free show, but we advise **reservations
*Sally will bring a coffee can for a tip jar.
**For reservations:
https://www.
3. Sweden retreat in May.
What a joy to return to Sweden to write, teach & perform.
When: Sunday May 4-Sunday May 11, 2025
Where: Gotland, Sweden—an island in the Baltic Sea!
What else: The perfect place to step away from this crazy world, take a deep breath and write songs with warm & creative kindred spirits.
For more info: email annikafehling1(at)gmail(dot)
4. Ireland, June 2026 (TAKING RESERVATIONS NOW)
My August tour is sold out…
…and as of NOW we are taking reservations for my 2026 tour of Ireland's soulful and beautiful southwest.
When: Wednesday, June 24 till Friday, July 3, 2026
Where: Counties Cork, Kerry & Clare
*Reservations: https://www.inishfreetours.
*On that page, scroll down to my June tour and click ENQUIRE. My friend Vicki with Inishfree will reply to you right away. Please note that this tour will fill up very quickly.
For much more on the tour (and the tours in general), visit my Ireland page:
https://tomkimmel.com/ireland
And visit the Inishfree home page:
https://www.inishfreetours.
5. Song of the Month: One World
For 12 years way back in my mid-Nashville days I visited a man in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.
This song—“One World—bubbled up from my experience there.
This track was produced by Ray Kennedy, and it was added to my Never Saw Blue some years later.
To listen, go to my home page…
www.tomkimmel.com
…and scroll down. Listen for free—or download for 99¢. (And it's streaming everywhere.)
6. Poem of the Month: Personality
To think
it is fixed
personality
ink on a page
tattooed
on the face
of a cloud.
In the cloud
there’s a child
now a man
now a woman
lost
in a dance
with the sun.
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7. Wisdom for our time
“If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.”
—Michael Singer (b. 1947), author, speaker
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Till next month, Maximum Peace, Love & Understanding,
TK
PS Thanks always to the folks at Elixir Strings for keeping me playing the world's best strings for over 25 years.