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April 2025 Newsletter
RichFollett.com
April 01, 2025
Greetings!
Dear Friends,
I’m grateful to have you here as part of this community. Whether you’ve been following my music and poetry for years or just recently joined, your presence means a lot. Thank you for your support and for sharing in this journey with me.
Wishing you all the best,
Rich Follett
Contents of this Newsletter
Performance Schedule
Wednesday, April 9 | 6 – 8 PM
Box Office Brewery Young People’s Open Mic Night, Strasburg
Thursday, April 10 | 4:20-6:20 PM
Chester Street Tavern, Front Royal
Sunday, April 13 | 2 – 5 PM
Naked Mountain Winery, Markham
Wednesday, April 16 | 6 – 8 PM
Shenandoah Poetry Collective, Blue Wing Frog, Strasburg
Saturday, April 19 | 3 – 5 PM
National Poetry Month Celebration, Bowman Library, Stephens City
Wednesday, April 23 | 6 – 8 PM
Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration, Winchester Cider House, Winchester
Friday, April 25 | 7:30 – 9 PM
Skyland Lodge, mile 42, Skyline Drive
Saturday, April 26 | 5 – 6:30 PM
Ann Heap Novel Release, VECCA, Woodstock
Monday, April 28 | 7 – 9 PM
Mellow Music Monday w/guest Shenan Hahn, Blue Wing Frog, Strasburg
Song of the Month
This month's featured song is Call It Life from Rich Follett’s 2016 album Somewhere in the Stars.
Poem of the Month
cheers
in shenandoah just-spring,
cynics go into hiding
(what purpose do they serve
in the presence of such splendor?)
there are, of course, challenges endemic to
the arrival of the season:
allergens, emerging insects,
ever-present bluster, and the raucous trill of
amphibious ardor (erasing any hope of sleep);
still, even career curmudgeons
will (when pressed) warily acknowledge
the universal appeal of
jaunty cliques of jonquils
gathered to discuss events of the day
against the backdrop of
a piled stone wall that only days before
formed a weary gray bracket
along a winter country lane
Until next month…
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