Michael McNevin

“How to get to Sweden & Germany for free with no lead time”. 

That is a VERY good question. Keep reading, below this European gig schedule, is a new "Trick of the Trade". Can't wait to land in Stockholm Saturday Morning, to see songwriter friends in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and in Berlin! Bought some warm clothes for this one. I'll miss Thanksgiving here at home, but I'll be sharing thanks and good times and music with some very sweet Swedes and Germans! 

Happy holidays ~ Michael 
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I neglect this little news page, sorry! Here's some September 2017 Stuff. 

Here's a rough list of Fall 2017 gigs coming up, still booking the Fall & Winter. Local stuff, festivals, a songwriting award, and a tour to Sweden! Still To host a house concert, yard concert, or if you have a hall or club somewhere, would love to play your town. info@michaelmcnevin.com.


Sept 1 & 2
Strawberry Music Festival in Tuolumne, CA
http://strawberrymusic.com. McNevin & McCellan play two shows and do two songwriting workshops,…

Happy New Year to friends near and far, here are some January gigs in CA and TX to get it started. Have a great month and a terrific muddy year. 

Love & safe travels

~ Michael 

MIKE, SHOP, & CLANCY THE DOG IN THE NEWSPAPER: My shop & myself & Clancy the dog had a feature in the Argus, Daily Review, Oakland Tribune, SJ Mercury, CC times - heres' the link: http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_21192315/folk-musician-sings-fremonts-niles-district It's an interview and photo(s) of yours truly hanging in the Mudpuddle Shop, talking life, career, Etch A Sketch, Niles roots... hopefully a coherent and somewhat fashionable piece. I used to deliver the Argus and The Daily Review and…

Thanks again to those who've become Mudpuddle Members! Cheers to another five years of concerts, jams, workshops, art & shenanigans. Wanna be a member? it's easy and cheap! (it's also the vehicle to which the shop stays open, otherwise, it's a goner!) Stay tuned for more concerts, songwriting workshops, jams and song circles, and other art events -- evening and day events are in the works, along with Niles & Art related products (especially products & services from participating Mudpuddle Members). Look for…

Happy New Year, 2009 was a doozy. On the home front, due to my longtime dear friend and landlord Mary Hewitt passing away, I lived nowhere in particular from June till September (google her name, and you'll see what a saint she was). So, I spent a couple spells on the Delta for some vacation time, spent a month on a floor down the street from my old place (thanks Cas!), a few trips to the Sierra Nevada Mtns for gigs, a couple trips to Tx for gigs. Then Sept - Dec I flopped at the Fritz House -- God Bless…

Plenty of gigs & festivals below - all around NoCal in the coming weeks, and also a trip to Texas on Labor Day Weekend for the Kerrville Folk Festival! This coming Friday Aug 14th is a Santa Clara concert at Mission City Coffee Co for a co-bill with Calaveras! Sat Aug 15th is an Oakland songwriters night at Left Coast Cyclery hosted by the Celebrating Songwriters Concert Series. For the wine country lovers, Aug 22nd is the 4th annual "Cur-ville" in Kenwood near Santa Rosa (the name sake honours the biggie…

Good news, my new song "Scarecrow" won "Song Of The Year" last night for the East Bay chapter of the West Coast Songwriters Association. The WCS competition is a bit different than it used to be. In the Olden days, 3 writers won during one round of competitions, and then played the conference in September. Now the monthly open mic competitions have expanded to Portland, L.A., & out in central CA too, so ten winners from each of the ten open mics win an award (I think it's a Song Of The Year?), but then…

Hi everybody, June was a month of couches, floors, and singing by rivers, and July has been much the same. I've let some of my payroll people go, but I do hope to have Allison and/or others back in the loop soon to help me update this web stuff and get more gigs and CDs rolling. When Mary passed away, we all thought the "in-law" apartment in Niles I was renting might be available to me within a couple weeks, but alas, my stuff is still in a Pod, and likely will stay there into Sept as the house is fixed up…

Hey, did I mention I passed a Kidney Stone in June? Sure did, at the very end of a family gathering in the Delta. That's the bad news. The good news is I peed it out and it cannot hurt me ever again.