🍂🍁 November Greetings! 🍂🍁

[TANIA OPLAND]

Fond felicitations to our fantastic far-flung farrago of friends, family and followers.

🌞 Although Summer 2025 was unusually light on public performances, hence our long silence on this newslist, we've been making good use of the time. Some great new-to-us songs have joined our repertoire, and we're eager to share them with you. It's already hard to decide which instruments to bring on each tour, so despite the efforts of friends in Sweden (you know who you are 👁️), we've resisted the temptation to add another to the stageful we already haul around.

🍁 Okay, so Mike acquired one more guitar... That's to be expected.

❄️ "Winter's Return" (Pint-Dale-Opland-Freeman), is taking the winter season off. Another medical thing, completely unrelated to last year's medical thing - just circumstances getting in our way. We will, however, once again make the online Winter's Return shows (2020, '21, '22) publicly available during the Holiday season. If all goes well, we might even have some extra "special features" to add to the playlist. More on that later if it comes to fruition. We hope these online shows are becoming as much a part of your Holiday tradition as they are ours! — wintersreturn.com

🍀 Come March, we plan to be back to our P-D-O-F St Patrick's Day antics as "Hunter's Moon”. — huntersmoon.info

In January, the two of us will be playing at a new house concert venue (ie. living room) in Port Townsend, Washington. It's a spectacular log home with amazing acoustics. And since it looks out over Pt Townsend's North Beach, the view is going be spectacular, too. I wish we could live stream it for all of you who are far away; we'll see if we can at least get some clips for you. If you ARE anywhere in Western Washington, we hope you'll consider making the trip. You know it's always best in person! — opland-freeman.com/PtTownsend

Looking farther ahead, after St Patrick's Day, we have a few dates already slotted in to our UK schedule and are currently looking for more. Let us know if you have any fill-in-the-gaps suggestions, either in June, or close to the April date. Thanks!

We hope we'll see you again soon, somewhere down the road.

🌈🎶 Tania and Mike

2026 ❄️ 🍀 🌞 🍁 2026 🍁 ❄️ 🍀 🌞 2026

11 Jan. — PORT TOWNSEND house concert. 2 pm. North Beach area. Advance reservation required at https://opland-freeman.com/PtTownsend/

March — "Hunter’s Moon” shows TBA (William Pint, Felicia Dale, Tania Opland, Mike Freeman)

15 April — NEWCASTLE. Nonsuch Dulcimer Club Spring Fling. All day. Pre-resistration required at https://www.dulcimer.org.uk/events/

3 June — SPALDING Folk Club. 8 pm. South Holland Centre, Market Place, Spalding, PE11 1SS. https://www.spaldingfolkclub.co.uk

5 June — NORWICH Folk Club. 7:30 pm. Christ Church Centre, Magdalen Road, Norwich NR3 4LA. https://norwichfolkclub.net

10 June — DORKING Folk Club. 8:30 pm. Dorking Golf Club, Deepdene Avenue, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 4BX. https://dorkingfolkclub.org.uk

TANIA OPLAND & MIKE FREEMAN - Acoustic World Music - www.opland-freeman.com