Deb Montgomery

Don’t apply logic. It’ll make you crazy.

Hi folks, I have cancelled my gig at the Living Room March 22. School is just too busy at the moment to make the trip. They have been gracious, and we will re-book at a better time. Happy 10th anniversary to The Living Room NYC though!!! Peace, Deb

Check out Amy Redford’s first feature film “The Guitar” when it hits theatres…
Fly Free from Ask for Angels plays in the closing credits… rumor has it that
it was heard by 1100 people at Sundance a couple weeks ago…. I hope Bob was
there I LOVE him. Anyhow….. fun stuff from Jacob’s Tale Productions

Many artists have been invited back to play during this week long celebration. I look forward to playing again in NYC, and hope to see many of you that are still there! I’ll let you know more as I know it… ie, who will be playing with me, and who is on the bill that night! Peace, Deb

“I showed the grown-ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them………The grown-ups advised me to put away my drawings of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why I abandoned , at the age of six, a magnificent career as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my drawing Number One and of my drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again.”

From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I plan to go see The Golden Compass tomorrow. My neighbor and friend Abby, in Brooklyn, recommended the series during my last year in NYC. I loved it. In Jesus Name, I really wish the Focus on the Family and Catholic Coalition…and all the deeply deeply frightened christians in North America would, for once, pause….. and get a life…and get a faith. Seriously, how small is your God? I was on the treadmill at my gym listening to Radiohead when I saw the headlines… (yes, I listen to music but watch the headlines-it’s CNN after all) “Culture Wars, Christians worry that Compass TEACHES ATHIESM to children.” Good. Teach athiesm to children, because any good christian must come to terms with her/his inner athiest…and any athiest… usually far more reasonable than this brand of ‘believers’ will usually tell you of her/his journey in and out of faith. If God is there, then God is there. If God is not, then God is not. I believe we are loved. You know that if you’ve listened to my songs… I do believe in God… bigger than my disbelief, bigger than my rage, bigger than my stupidity, bigger than my doubt, bigger than all the infantile projections (oh the thousands) thrown her/his way…I do believe. I believe that God and God’s love are so big that we can barely conceive… and The Golden Compass… what’s wrong with being pissed with Christendom…? I’m pissed.Good, someone recognized as many do that organized religion is often God’s worst press. Fear Fear Fear.

I wonder if it is easier to believe your “christian” children will be encouraged towards athiesm by a movie than to believe they may lack belief because that is exactly what you model… fear… not belief. God help us all with the media giving you such voice. Grow up.

Now, to be fair… I haven’t seen the movie. Maybe it will just plain suck…and well… that’ll just be what it is..another poor adaption… la dee da.

We are playing at 8pm this wednesday at The Park Pub.
Ten things I am thankful for:
1. My health
2. My friends and family
3. My new fish, Simeon.
5. The trees and birds outside my window
6. My coffee shop ‘The Lighthouse’
7. My nephews and niece
8. Peace, especially at times when it doesn’t make sense
9. Humour
10. My new chiropractor

Hey folks,

FIrst, we play The Park Pub this sunday the 29th of July at 8pm ish….. probably two sundays after that as well! If you haven’t made it out to one of these gigs, they are lovely in the most organic sense. The players, Matt Stauffer, Michael Kroll, and John Burkhardt are fabulous. It’s funny that I had been in Ireland not long before moving here. The thing that struck me about music in Ireland was that it was a community thing. It centered around gathering and community, around lives bumping up against each other in good and hard times. The Park is becoming something like that. You will find people playing pool (and as it turns out apparently loving the music, stragglers from baseball games celebrating or drinking their woes away with some pints, and lots of chatting, laughter and intensity…and then there are the growing number of folks just coming out to listen to us play. It’s a good place run by good people. And, humbly, I will say that we are sounding very very good as well! For those of you interested in my journey, I am loving school for the most part. I have just finished my first year of grad school—doing a Masters in Counseling Psychology at a seminary—studying theology as well. It’s a blast really, and as I wrote in my application, it doesn’t seem like much of a stray from what I have been trying to work through all these years in music. I firmly believe that there is no greater or more damaging defense against one’s own truth and story than religion gone sour. And, there is plenty plenty of that around! At the same time, I have found that faith often becomes the place I turn to find the courage to face my truth and story. The territory between psychology and theology both fascinates and terrifies me, and I believe it does for good reason. Having said this, I love studying again. It is a great privilege to be able to integrate and synthesize ideas and many more years of life! Join us if you can at The Park, and say hello if you like! Peace, Deb