One Night in North Carolina

...the next best thing to being there. This live performance DVD contains an hour and twenty minute concert recorded in 5.1 surround sound at David's hometown performance room, the Grey Eagle, as well as loads of bonus features.

The video on the non-profit organization that David co-founded and directs features mostly footage from Guatemala.

Bonus Features: • ten-minute video on PEG Partners, Inc., David's non-profit that works with Guatemalan schools. • music video for Your Smile, featuring footage of competing Special Olympics athletes. Created by Scott and Jeff Ross. • Commentary Track in which David tells stories about the songs and the making of the video • Wave Echo Wave, a short independent film by California filmmakers Katie Norby and Daniel George that uses David's instrumental Shadows as the soundtrack. • Interview. In-studio footage of David answering questions about himself and his work.

Among the notable tracks on the DVD, David performs his poem Water, his song Destiny Blues, which doesn't appear on any of his CDs, and Shadows, an often-requested innovative instrumental piece (in the picture at the right).

And by the way...

This project took almost exactly a year, from the recording of the show to the release party for the finished product, both at my hometown music room, the Grey Eagle. The release happened to fall a few days after my birthday and a few months after I celebrated fifteen years as a full-time musician, so I wanted to make the night a bit special. I brought all of my guitars from over the years and my mandolin and a banjo-guitar and played a song or two on each, talking about the history of each instrument. I think it was the only time I've ever played my first Yamaha, which I've had for twenty-four years, on stage. It was offical "nostalgia night" at the Grey Eagle. We also showed bits of the DVD on a screen on stage. My favorite part of the project may be the video I put together for PEG Partners, Inc., the Guatemalan school project I founded with my wife a couple of years ago. After a couple of years of telling people about what we've been doing in Guatemala, it was great to finally get to show them.