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Dad. Singer. Songwriter. Nostalgist. 🇮🇪 Hup the trad! Creator of joy, conversation, music, and community.
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Great crowd, great show at Sláinte Oakland for the October Irish American Writers and Artists, Inc west coast salon with Michael McNevin , Deborah Crooks , and Megan McLaughlin
Thanks for inviting me along for the ride!
Well, that was fun! Didn’t even have “play the soundtrack of a silent film” on my bucket list! @ameliahogan.bsky.social #essanaysilentfilmmuseum #niles #eugeneoneill #musician #livemusic #silentfilm
Good times last night in Oakland at Slaínte‘s Irish American Writers and Artists salon with Robert W. Anderson , Barbara McVeigh, and Lori Cassels. Thanks so much for including us, Lori! #slainteoakland #lightholdermusic #caliceltic #flute #iawa #irishamericanwritersandartists #livemusic
@kennyschick-b3.bsky.social and Raffy Espiritu at the Pooor House Bistro. Such excellent folks and excellent original tunes. #livemusic #sanjose #music #songwriter
A little clip from Saturday’s farmer’s market with Jules
Good times last night at the Irish American Writers and Artists salon at Slaínte in Oakland
@ameliahogan.bsky.social - happy to be seeing you Wednesday!
Excited to be one of the Irish-American artists at Slaínte Oakland's Artist's Salon this coming Wednesday the 11th. Expect some rare material - I might read some poetry!

#livemusic #lightholder #slainteoakland #irishculture #artistssalon
The Irish coffee session at Strawberry Music Festival this year. Yours truly slinging caffeine & shots of Brose! #livemusic #strawberrymusicfestival #strawberrymusicfestival2025 #irishmusic #session #irishcoffee
At the Friday afternoon Velcro Lounge bluegrass jam at the Strawberry Music Festival
People tend to say this setup looks really cheesy, but the sound from it really slices through, even if you’re playing some old crusty licks
Great tone in 30 minutes or less, or it’s free!
You kinda make this platform worth it for me. Back when I first heard about “your hate mail will be graded,” but after I had become a dedicated fan, I wondered what episodic John Scalzi commentary would be like… now I know!
Good times, good tunes, and one enormous hat at two-day town this weekend
It used to be I saw pure integrity in my thinking, but now I know it’s quite often in the thrall of how I feel. Thoughts are more like a hound seeking confirmation bias for emotions than some independent, objective process for making informed decisions.
Learning how to have ephemeral feelings without treating them like the penultimate climax of my lived experience up to that point is a fucking learning curve.
There’s a solid friend
Looking forward to cracking those open and getting into them . My fav of the ones I’m learning at the moment is Pokey Lafarge’s “drinking whiskey tonight”
The Felice Brothers and Daryl Scott songs