Setlist in a notebook. There is a pen on the page.
2026-03-28 - The Castle Theatre
#LiveMusic Bloomington, IL
#ClusterPluck
#ChicagoFarmer
11:15 pm.
Lights go on.
Hippies go to home.
I’ll be posting my audio recordings of all the sets to the Live Music Archive sometime in the next day or so.
Audio recording deck.
Yes indeed.
Singer and guitarist with a drummer in the background.
2026-03-28 - The Castle Theatre
#LiveMusic Bloomington, IL
#Bluegrass #Slamgrass
#Homeaid
#ChicagoFarmer & The Fieldnotes
I: Tina Hart’s Mustang
Four piece band, from left: bass player, guitar player, drummer, and guitar player.
2026-03-28 - The Castle Theatre
#LiveMusic Bloomington, IL
#Bluegrass #Slamgrass
#ClusterPluck
I: Blue Collar Country
Well played!
> If you see this, post a concert photo you took
From left: Jaik Willis and Chicago Farmer at Kenny’s Westside.
Not anymore!
Theater marquee: CHICAGO FARMER & THE FIELDNOTES ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
2026-03-28 - The Castle Theatre
#LiveMusic #Bloomington
#ClusterPluck
#ChicagoFarmer
At todays's #NoKings protest in #Peoria #Illinois, I recorded a video while walking the rally from start to finish along US Route 150 near Peoria Stadium. The video is 15 minutes long, but it gives you a good idea as to what the gathering was like. Lotsa signs, costumes and singing!
Another view of my local No Kings rally. We are a small mostly rural community. I would guess a couple hundred people turned out on a very chilly day.
Samizdat discs.
My #DrivinAroundMusic is last year's Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country show at Red Rocks.
I am partial to Chore and this version doesn't disappoint.
I estimate that there are between 6 to 8 thousand here. I made a video while walking from the beginning to the end of the rally. I’ll post it to YouTube when I get home.
No Kings rally lining a highway.
Things got started a little early at the #Peoria #IL #NoKings rally. This is 25 minutes before the official start time.
Perhaps due to the weakened jet stream from climate change?
Otis and Belle say "What's this then?"
And back up to 80 on Monday.
Concert poster showing a white Ford Mustang with the license plate "TNA HRT" driving through a riverboat's life preserver. The color scheme is yellow, orange and brown. Text: CHICAGO FARMER AND THE FIELDNOTES 3/6 DAVENPORT, IA 3/7 DES MOINES, IA 3/8 KANSAS CITY, MO 3/12 APPLETON, WI 3/13 BANGOR, WI 3/14 MINNEAPOLIS, MN -3/19 NEWPORT, KY- 3/20 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 3/21 ANN ARBOR, MI 3/27 SAINT LOUIS, MO 3/28 BLOOMINGTON, IL 4/3 CHICAGO, IL 4/4 CHICAGO, IL 4/11 KALAMAZOO, MI 4/17 EFFINGHAM, IL 4/18 CARBONDALE, IL 4/24 CLEVELAND, OH 4/25 COLUMBUS, OH 5/8 WEST BEND, WI 5/9 STOUGHTON, WI SPRING 2026
#LiveMusic tonight - it'll be Chicago Farmer & the Field Notes for their hometown, album release party at The Castle Theatre in Bloomington IL.
Pirates-in-the-bathtub troubadours ClusterPluck will be opening.
Doors at 7 pm.
See you there!
Will do!
Will you be there too?
SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?
CPAC CROWD: *cheers*
SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
#LastFourWatched
- Night of the Living Dead
- MST3K: Reptilicus
- Tom Jones
- Scarface
After the water supply collapses in central California, I look for many Illinois farms switching from beans and corn to garden produce.
"Which side are you on?"
Good film to watch before tomorrow's #NoKings marches.
It’s often said that Gettysburg was the “high water mark of the Confederacy” but I think that happened a week later during John Morgan’s raid on Indiana when his troops stole 2000 hams and subsequently had to dump them as they spoiled, leaving a trail of rotting ham for Union pursuers to follow
Poster with the following messages: (NO) Epic Fury (YES) Epstein Files No Kings logo #ETTD
My wife went the more traditional route in using poster board for her sign for tomorrow march.
#NoKings #Peoria
Dry erase board with the statement "You're One (banana) Short Of A Republic!" There is a picture of a banana in the right upper corner and a No Kings logo in the left lower corner.
I finished up my sign for tomorrow's #NoKings demonstration in #Peoria IL.
I opted for a light weight dry erase board which would allow me to change my message during the march.
Many thanks to Tom Sullivan at Digby's Hullabaloo for the idea.
@tmsullivan.bsky.social
“Plato had just downloaded another update and was refusing to teach us math until we upgraded to a Be Best Platinum subscription…”
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