Beijing Olympics

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Geoffrey Louis Koch wasn’t watching from a couch. He was in a medical trial facility, booking shows between blood draws, hoping he wouldn’t puke and lose his gas money.

Call A Thing By Its Right Name

On a Midwest tour behind Follow The Voices, Geoffrey Louis Koch recorded a Daytrotter session, visited the Field of Dreams, and watched Ferguson explode on the news. A dispatch from the road during one of America’s most difficult moments of the era.

Those Are The Gems

The final Facebook Livestream for the foreseeable future. Geoffrey Louis Koch reflects on May 2020 — quarantine, connection, green dots on laptops, and the beautiful mosaic of keeping each other company through music.

We Stick The Landing

From a haunted duplex on Delmar in St. Louis to 500 shows across the United States — Geoffrey Louis Koch traces his performing history through three setlist books and two decades of passionate, hard-won music.

Facebook Concerts

Geoffrey Louis Koch announces May There Be Light — a Facebook Livestream series every other day in May 2020. A meditation on COVID-19, Leonard Bernstein, Barack Obama, and the obligation to show up with music when the storm is loudest.

Hey, Kurt

On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s passing, Geoffrey Louis Koch took a pilgrimage to Viretta Park in Seattle — wrote him a letter on the plane, read it aloud at Kurt’s bench, and finally said what young him needed to say.

10 Years Since The Golden Gate

Ten years since Geoffrey Louis Koch stood at the Golden Gate Bridge with the hottest cup of coffee in human history and played a house show in Oakland that night. A meditation on brave recklessness, watching something burn out, and the long foggy sprint home.

Someone Is Keeping You Company

Six years in Nashville in a flash — Geoffrey Louis Koch traces the highlights through photos and quick stories. Promo stickers above urinals, ice-covered Knoxville, panic attacks at the Field of Dreams, matching outfits with Gregory Alan Isakov, and looking like a snack at the Mercy Lounge.

Must Be Great To Live There

Geoffrey Louis Koch hits Boulder and Denver — a sold out No Name Bar show, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats at Red Rocks, Caroline Rose, Shovels and Rope, Molly Brown’s house, and a warm conversation with Nathaniel Rateliff at the after party.

Boulder

BoulderBeat tells all of Boulder to come to the show, Denver delivers a generous listening room crowd at Fort Greene, Jacob Russo brings great songs, and Geoffrey Louis Koch closes his set with Gregory Alan Isakov’s “Master And A Hound.” Red Rocks Sunday. Colorado is delivering.