I'm a musician, writer and photographer, born and raised in New York City. I make my living doing technology for online news and media.
Welcome to the new www.kenficara.com. Lots of music, images and writing -- and much more to come. February is coming!
Live Show: With Saboteur Tiger
Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Greenwich Village Bistro13 Carmine St
New York City, New York
Brian, June, Johnny, Bill Monroe, and Me
Blog post: Sunday, January 31, 2010
If you know me, you know that my musical taste is pathologically eclectic. Today, I'm listening to June Carter Cash and Will the Circle Be Unbroken and things like that. Yesterday I was listening to Brian Eno and John Cale. Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Video: Sunday, January 31, 2010
Quick run-through of this lovely fiddle tune, which my friend Rick Shields likes to play at jams, but for the fact that I get the chords wrong too often. So I finally sat down and learned it right. Well, mostly....
I listened again. It still sucks.
Blog post: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I've been told that I am over-reacting to the Dylan album and not giving it a break. So I gave it another listen today, and watched the video ("Must Be Santa") ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
rubytramp linked to. Yes, it's fun, and I liked that song best of those on the album, principally because of David Hidalgo's accordion. And yes, the video is fun, but ... never mind the Santa cap, what's with the wig??? I really wonder if he's just putting us on. Do You Hear What I Hear
Blog post: Monday, November 30, 2009
"Hey, Bob, I bet your fans will buy anything. I bet you could release a godawful album that no sane person could listen to with a straight face, and people would still buy it. I bet you cannot come up with an album so bad and so ridiculous that people wouldn't buy it."
She Left Me In the Red
Video: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Performing my song "She Left Me In the Red" at the 2009 Augusta Heritage Festival, with Joe Newberry, Mike Compton, Ann Downey and Clay Buckner. It was an amazing honor to sing with a backing band like that!Annabelle
Video: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Accompanying Amanda Lynn Stubley on her version of Gillian Welch's "Annabelle," at the Augusta Heritage Festival, summer 2009.The Heaviest Odds
Original song: Wednesday, December 31, 1969
An experimental piece I did for February Album Writing Month in 2008. It's amplified harmonica recorded over a set of loops I created in GarageBand using tracks from Alphane Reality Generator.
The Open Sea
Original song: Wednesday, December 31, 1969
An improvisatory song fragment recorded for February Album Writing Month in 2008.
The Severance Reel
Original song: Wednesday, December 31, 1969
There's a well-known tune called "The Temperance Reel" that we play frequently at jams. When I took a buyout from my job at the beginning of this year, a friend told me I should write "The Severance Reel." So here it is, with Kari, who suggested the song, on fiddle, and my good friend Tricia Khleif singing harmony. This was recorded live at Ashokan this summer.