Folk Music Blog

In case you are interested, I have blog about my Folk music adventures in songwriting and performing at:

http://simeonpeebler.com/blog

I'm working on some other technology projects as well, and I plan on posting about that here very soon. Take care!

Contemporary Protest Music

New review by Michael Lohr of my last album, "Missing Anchor" is online today:
http://www.ru.org/music-reviews/missing-anchor-contemporary-protest-music.html

Excerpt:

“Missing Anchor” is a wonderful cascade of singer-songwriter Americana with a direct lineage back to 60s protest music. He is certainly not shy about speaking his mind.

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These are personal songs about love (both lost and found), life, freedom and the struggle to find one’s piece of mind in an ever more chaotic world. Woody Guthrie once said that he “was not a songwriter, but a journalist.” I think Simeon Peebler has just earned his journalism credentials."

Next Music Show in Chicago at Uncommon Ground (Devon)

Please join me in Chicago at Uncommon Ground (Devon location) on Thursday 2/27 at 8 pm ($7). I'll be sharing a great show with Cleveland-based Folk songwriter Charlie Mosbrook and a Chicago group called The Lulabelles. Reservations for the music room are required: 773-465-9801

Here's the facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/285009848319383/

Thanks!
Simeon

Chillfest Chicago 2013

If you're following my music adventures, please be sure to check out this weekend's pop-up music festival in Chicago called Chillfest! I'll be performing at a few venues during the day on Saturday November 16, 2013 along with over 120+ of my fellow music makers in Chicago in the Wicker Park Bucktown neighborhood. You can find details here, and be sure to visit my music site to get my latest demos, videos, and musical odds and ends. Thanks for your support!

2013 Boston Marathon song "Brave in Boston"

This week I had two gigs in Chicago, and I had planned on playing a song I wrote in February about drone strikes called "Executive Order" -- but on Monday that all changed in an instant. I realized that my song was a bit graphic and the imagery it conveys was too close to what had just happened in Boston on that day, April 15th, when two brothers deployed terrible bombs at the finish line at the marathon. 

In trying figure out what I was going to play in its place, I ended up writing down lyrics on Monday night to a song I wrote called "Brave in Boston" -- I ended up using some simple music, and played the first version of it the next day in Chicago at Uncommon Ground on Clark as part of the Chicago Songwriter Alliance. The song conveys the transformation that took place for so many people in those very shocking moments when a time of celebration turned to a time of tragic consequence and terror.

Over the following days I tweaked the song a bit, and ended up playing a version of it on Friday night at the Heartland Cafe (I opened for Cleveland songwriter Charlie Mosbrook) -- moments before I started my set that night news came that the second suspect had been captured alive. On Saturday I revised it again and recorded it on a handhelp MP3 recorder at home and posted it to SoundCloud.

You can hear a demo of my song "Brave in Boston" about the 2013 Boston Marathon here: https://soundcloud.com/simeonpeebler/brave-in-boston