Hi friends,

I'm playing one show in Barcelona this month, but its more like an event near and dear to me. It's free, it's next Thursday, and you need to sign up to get in.

Reserve your free spot for Thursday 15 October →

It's part of Barcelona Climate Week, and I've been helping put it together with the Barcelona Hub of the Climate Reality Project. The idea is simple: songs reach people a database never will.

What happens:

• 18:00 Doors
• 18:15 A short, science-based talk on the climate crisis and what can be done about it
• 18:30 A panel on creativity and climate
• 19:15 Three songwriters playing original songs: me, Liam Gerner of the Protests, and one more to be announced
• 20:30 Close

Itnig Café, Carrer de Pujades 100, Poblenou. Free entry. Space is limited and registration is by approval, so sign up now and not on the day.

If you're not in Barcelona, forward this to the one person you know who is!

The residency website is back

Some of you know that back in Florida I started a songwriter residency. Since 2016 it has lived at Beluthahatchee, the house of the writer and activist Stetson Kennedy, in Fruit Cove. The same house where Woody Guthrie lived and wrote songs in the early 1950s.

Stetson would have turned 110 on October 5th. It made me nostalgic, so I've been putting the story back in order. The site has its proper name now, the Stetson Kennedy Songwriter Residency, and the videos are finally in one place.

Read "Ten years at Beluthahatchee" →

If you stayed at the house, played a showcase, or came to a show there, I'd love your photos, videos and memories. The details are in the post.

And a question for Europe

The residency was always about songwriters with something to say about the land and the people on it. I want to bring that over here as a climate justice songwriting workshop, somewhere in Europe.

I don't have the place yet. That's where you come in.

If you run a venue, a festival, a school, a cultural centre or a residency, or you know someone who does, hit reply and tell me about it. One name is plenty.

One more thing

Muzikalia picked "Cadaqués Cowboy" for their songs of the week in Spain, in the same roundup as Phoebe Bridgers, Father John Misty and Fontaines D.C. I'll take that company.

Read the Muzikalia roundup →

It's in Spanish. Your browser will translate it in one click.

Where everything stands:

• Thursday 15 October, Itnig Café, free, sign up first
• Pre-save "Homage to Catalonia", the title track, out 23 October
• Preorder the album on Bandcamp, out 29 November

Thanks for listening.

— Bradley
This Frontier Needs Heroes