David LaMotte

Speaker • Author • Musician

folk music

A six-minute concert

Jan 31, 2025
Megan, who handles my publicity these days, was recently asked if she had a sampler video with clips of different songs that might give a sense of what my music is like, and how a concert might feel. We chopped this together, and I thought some other folks might like to see it, too. So […]

A six-minute concert

by David LaMotte

Megan, who handles my publicity these days, was recently asked if she had a sampler video with clips of different songs that might give a sense of what my music is like, and how a concert might feel. We chopped this together, and I thought some other folks might like to see it, too. So […]

Music and silence

Aug 9, 2016
Among the most powerful experiences I have had at live concerts is one of silence rather than music. Occasionally, a song, usually in a minor key, arrives with such power, conviction, and depth that when it ends, no one is willing to break the silence. The last notes linger until they fade, and a long […]

Music and silence

by David LaMotte

Among the most powerful experiences I have had at live concerts is one of silence rather than music. Occasionally, a song, usually in a minor key, arrives with such power, conviction, and depth that when it ends, no one is willing to break the silence. The last notes linger until they fade, and a long […]

Home On The Range

May 28, 2008
    Almost every year for the last dozen or so I’ve made an annual pilgrimage to the Kerrville Folk Festival, an eighteen-day long music festival in Kerrville, Texas.  It’s holy ground for me.  Hot, dusty, chigger-ridden, sweaty, holy ground.   There’s music on the stages each night and it’s wonderful, but the real magic […]

Home On The Range

by David LaMotte

    Almost every year for the last dozen or so I’ve made an annual pilgrimage to the Kerrville Folk Festival, an eighteen-day long music festival in Kerrville, Texas.  It’s holy ground for me.  Hot, dusty, chigger-ridden, sweaty, holy ground.   There’s music on the stages each night and it’s wonderful, but the real magic […]