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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 29/08/2026

Western Ohio folks! We're a week away from this beautiful event. Just look at that lineup! www.nowhereelsefestival.com

Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 07/08/2026

This week's newsletter dispatched from the Rocky Mountain Song School, on toilet brushes and hope. vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 05/08/2026

We're a month out! Southwestern OH folks (and Indiana, and Kentucky borderites...), please join me at this special event this Labor Day weekend (Sept 4-6). Check out that lineup! I mean... www.nowhereelsefestival.com

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 27/07/2026

Omg who is this sexy man in airplane themed compression socks that Laurie MacAllister photoed playing the 2pm matinee show at White Horse Black Mountain in Black Mountain NC this Saturday First Day Of August 8/1? Yes!! Known as the Blak male Phoebe Bridgers, okok not really… Okok it’s me, Vance

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 26/07/2026

Are you on my mailing list? I send out thoughts and stories each week (+ upcoming shows n' stuff). If you're not yet but would like to be, head to vancegilbert.com and scroll to the bottom of the page, where you'll see this form. Fill it out, and newsletters will come right to you!

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 25/07/2026

Falcon Ridge love with Susan Werner and Amy Putnam! @thesusanwerner.bsky.social

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 21/07/2026

So looking forward to Nowhere Else Festival in September! www.nowhereelsefestival.com

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 03/07/2026

This week's newsletter - laughing with strangers, burritos at Fenway, and more! vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 19/06/2026

This week's newsletter: revisiting Old White Men vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 14/06/2026

Latest newsletter: vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 11/06/2026

VanceFans- here’s the rest of June: Friday 6/19 Syracuse NY - 443 Social Club Satday 6/20 Oxford NY - 6 On The Square Friday 6/26 Lincoln MA - deCordoba Museum And just for fun that’s a picture of me at the start of the Boston Marathon 1982. Kind of like a bad “ Where’s Waldo“. Yep. That’s me.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 10/06/2026

Join me (outside!) on Friday, June 26 at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA. Here's a little promo AND a history lesson - what more could you ask for? A hat? Ok, that too. 🎩 thetrustees.org/event/447074/

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 23/04/2026

I’m really just happily working in my shop so someone please tell me why I have a funk version of the All Creatures Great & Small theme song running around in my head complete with the Earth, Wind and Fire horns? Do I have issues?

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 18/04/2026

This week's newsletter is all about new pups and new heads vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 16/03/2026

Hey! Join me at The Bull Run Restaurant (Shirley, MA) on Saturday, April 4 (a makeup date from last summer). Come for the French onion soup; stay for the Vance! tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com/eventperform...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 13/03/2026

Check out my latest newsletter for some good news, some sad news, some upcoming things vancegilbert.com/newsletters/... (pictured: me and Kevin Barry)

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 07/03/2026

Latest newsletter, where I am the subject of an article in Academy of Model Aeronautics Magazine (yep): vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 27/02/2026

This week's newsletter is another battle with the printer (there is blood 🩸🖨️) vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 20/02/2026

This week's newsletter...I bring in a guest writer! vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 16/02/2026

Lexington, MA! Come hang with me this Friday, Feb 20 at Follen Folk Nights! Bring me hair product! follenfolknights.ticketspice.com/vance-gilbert

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 13/02/2026

Join me next week in Lexington, MA! Home turf! follenfolknights.ticketspice.com/vance-gilbert

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 30/01/2026

Fresh newsletter: on kimchee (a recurring theme), hard water, and other bits of hope vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 16/01/2026

Newest newsletter about a busy busy week! New car! Kimchee! Old connections! vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 30/12/2025

Vance at Club Passim, Cambridge MA Saturday night 1/10 tix as New Years Gifts Avoid returning items at the mall!!! www.passim.org/live-music/e...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 26/12/2025

This week's newsletter, entitled "MANGO CHUTNEY AND VENISON" (find out why) vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 24/12/2025

Vance at Club Passim, Cambridge MA Saturday night 1/10 tix as stocking stuffers is a great idea!!! Avoid the mall!!! Merry Christmas! www.passim.org/live-music/e...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 08/12/2025

My last newsletter is also a year-end checklist: vancegilbert.com/newsletters/...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 24/11/2025

11/23 - last night me trying on new glasses virtually 11/24 - Tonite Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty www.youtube.com/watch?v=majY... 11/30 -Bethlehem PA Godfrey Daniels 12/6 - Needham MA Homegrown Coffeehouse

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 03/11/2025

TONIGHT! Philly! Honoring the great Melba Moore!

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 27/10/2025

Sometimes yes my career looks like this pic. And I laugh. Then I get to play: - tonite Vance’sAcousticPajamaParty on YouTube - 11/2 Sun The WordBarn in Exeter NH - 11/3 Mon Kimmel Center in Philly PA - 11/6 Thu Uptown Coffeehouse w/ Christine Lavin in Fulton MD… …..and stuff and places like that

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 20/10/2025

D’ANGELO. BOB FRANKE ANTHONY JACKSON (O’Jays For The Love Of Money bass/co-write - you know the bass part) RIP ❤️‍🩹that’s gonna be a challenging set of commemoration tonite on Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty Over at Vance’s YouTube 7:30pm ET Come hear the heartfelt folk funk fail. I mean well.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 02/10/2025

TONITE- THURS 10/2 - THE NEWTOWN THEATRE, NEWTOWN PA. happy new year!! FRI 10/3 FOLKUS PROJECT, SYRACUSE NY - At the May Memorial UU Church. We go from Jewish New Year to Unitarian Stuff. Omg I’m so ecumenical!! Kinda.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 27/05/2025

Based on suggestions from...a bunch of you, we'll keep the GoFundMe up for the time being. Definitely feeling the love from y'all. bit.ly/gofundvance

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 26/05/2025

Ok, so...we're going to end the GoFundMe tomorrow, because it just went way past the goal we set. Overwhelmed, and (I'll keep saying it) so grateful. If you still want to donate, the link is bit.ly/gofundvance, and...just thank you.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 20/05/2025

Thank you SO MUCH for your contributions so far! So very grateful! If you haven't donated yet, or can just share the link to help get the word out, here it is: gofund.me/3763c1b6 Love y'all!

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 12/05/2025

Omg hahahah damn spheres and heavens…that’s my “fortune”. Never mind you then. See you tonite 5/11 7:30pm ET for Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 08/05/2025

You shuddup stupid Al Go Rhythm !!! All my content is quality! Don’t judge me algorithm face!!! You want real quality content ?- come to my show Saturday nite 5/10 at the Mainstay in Rock Hall MD🧡

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 02/05/2025

Towne Crier Beacon NY Sat nite May 3 where I’ll be with Cliff Eberhardt singing and talking about song origins and writing please come so the owner gets off my back about people coming omg already please come. townecrier.com

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 29/04/2025

Heads up that on this Sat, May 3, my friend Cliff Eberhardt and I will be swapping songs and stories at The Town Crier (Beacon, NY). Songwriting secrets and shenanigans. You comin'? townecrier.com/events/cliff...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 14/04/2025

Tonite Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty over at his YouTube 7:30pm ET he’ll talk about the the inspiration for the songs, then play them. If you show up, he’ll answer your questions about songs and stuff.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 26/03/2025

Vancefan!!! Do a big favor and donate to this kid’s Kickstarter? This is Halley Neal, student of mine, great singing acoustic monster. If she makes her album nut I’ll tell the story behind the all-important watch The future is bright with artists like this www.kickstarter.com/projects/hal...

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 24/03/2025

TONITE Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty 5TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW over at his YouTube 7:30pmET. I’m trying to write a song today to play tonight. Come see if I succeeded. (No pressure, eh?)

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 22/03/2025

Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty 5TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW this Monday Nite (duh) over at his YouTube 7:30pmET. Will anything special happen? I dunno. Ok- I’ll wear these airplane-themed pajamas. Happy now?

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 15/03/2025

See you St. Patrick’s Day’s night. (wow that was hard to figure out with apostrophes and all…not the brightest…) Vance’sAcousticPajamaParty 7:30pmET at his YewToob (Ps why do my teeth look so fangy?)

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 08/03/2025

THINGS TO DO- - Tomorrow (Sunday) nite 3/9 Woodstock NY w/Dean Friedman me playing first. - Monday nite 3/10 VancesAcousticPajamaParty at his YouTube playing soft quiet stuff you need right now. - Tuesday a meeting with NY folks that may explode my career- details secret for now, sorry.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 17/02/2025

It’s windy round here. I’ve driven to and from great gigs in miserable weather. But tonite Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty is from the comfort of your home 7:30ET YouTube

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 02/02/2025

Poem: Black History Month We get the shortest month of the year Vance’sMondayNiteAcousticPajamaParty You can find that a 7:30PM ET right hear at his YouTube What? It’s kinda like a haiku. It is.

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 27/01/2025

This guy. Me. We’ve been friends through years, deaths of parents, sickness, firings, sadness, elation, laughs, tears, Chinese food, and many shared stages. The Last Night Of January we share The Towne Crier in Beacon, NY facebook.com/share/p/19vTUh… Cliff Ebehardt & Vance Gilbert. You’ll love us,

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Vance Gilbert @vancegilbert.com · 25/01/2025

Delta now pulls the plane right up to your seat!! Ok it’s an optical protrusion. Tonite Sat 1/25 Carrollton GA, Monday 1/27 Vance’sAcousticPajamaParty On vance’s YouTube. 7:30ET

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