Before the show discussion.

Josh Zubot rests and listens pre-show.

Test run with band.

Right leg lift to stay in shape for the big night.

Swinging at Mark Nelson while he checks the drums.

Mark, Rob and bassist Alec McElcheran.

Mark Nelson making rhythm.

Rob MacDonald and Josh Zubot, soundcheck.

Josephine von Soukonnov and Julie Leblanc... sweet harmony.

Mark Nelson loves to play.

Cool shot James... from the tiny green room.

Rob loves his resophonic... a smile during soundcheck. Sign of a great show to come.

Checking with keyboardist and friend Denis Ducharme.

Expressing giddiness.

Sitting down and smiling with my lovely Mackenzie & Marr guitar -- and killer band!

Looking up for the light.

Dale Boyle - guest at the launch and co-writer of Ithaca Waterfall and Look Out Boy.

Dale digging in.

Singing while Josephine waits to join me.

The boys look on while I get my moves down.

With Rob MacDonald, Denis Ducharme, Mark Nelson and Alec McElcheran.

Rob MacDonald taking us on another intense musical sojourn.

The encore, Interstate. The lyric sheets Josephine holds are for me, not her!

Montreal Folk Fest, 2012.

Playing one of Dom Pompeo's songs at the posthumous launch of his great album Bartered. Marie Markovic at right.

Great Susan Moss shot from the 2012 Montreal Folk Festival on the Canal.

With heavily talented Maritime artists (from left) Thom Swift and Ryan Hupman.

Après show at the awesome Cactus Cafe in Hengelo, Netherlands.

Feeling it at Maximum Blues Fest, 2012.

Live at the great Carrickhouse in Clarkston, MI.

Outtake from The Bravest Birds photo shoot, Oct. 2012. Photo, James St Laurent.

Live at with Rob MacDonald at the beautiful Salle Jean-Pierre Houde, Chateauguay, QC, Oct. 2012. Photo by Sylvain Picard

Live at with Rob MacDonald at the beautiful Salle Jean-Pierre Houde, Chateauguay, QC, Oct. 2012. Photo by Sylvain Picard

A little early morning guitar work with my son Cormac.

Live at the 2012 Montreal Folk Fest.

With Josh Zubot, Rob Fahie and Fred Bouchard, Main Stage at the 2012 Montreal Folk Fest

With John Sebastian at the launch of the 2011 Montreal Folk Festival.

The April 2011 launch of Rob Lutes & Rob MacDonald LIVE... with Rob MacDonald and Josie Fever at Petit Campus, Montreal.

Live on Bound for Glory at Cornell U in Ithaca, NY.

With Rob MacDonald, live at the 2012 Maximum Blues Fest. Photo courtesy Hélène Lefort.

Live on stage in Big River,SK.

With James Irvine and his and Trudy's dogs are from a perfect day on Lac La Ronge: barely below zero, ice frozen smooth and clear.

With James Irvine and his and Trudy's dogs are from a perfect day on Lac La Ronge: barely below zero, ice frozen smooth and clear.

Sunset in Manitoba.

With Rob MacDonald live at the Paard von Troje in The Hague

With host OBA host Jurgen Maas at the Amsterdam Public Library

Facade of Paard von Troje in The Hague

Rob MacDonald with our good friend Michel at De Slotplaats in Bakkeveen

Rob with Texas songwriter Adam Carroll after a show at the Roepan in Ottersum, The Netherlands

Rob MacDonald and Rob live at the Cafe Keerpunt in Spijkerboor for their Roots on the Road series

Typical view of the highway in The Netherlands

Standing on stage during soundcheck at the Kaunus (Lithuania) Philarmonic Hall