Sangamon Songs: A Musical Play. We've performed the show in Petersburg, Springfield, Skokie, Carbondale, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri since debuting in 2019 (with 2 years off during the pandemic). Please contact Tom with any booking ideas or requests. We will be back on stage in 2024!
Tom reading Harry Glen Ludlam's diary that was the foundation of Sangamon Songs. In the background is the pie-tin cabinet that held the diary for over a hundred years.
Sangamon Songs: Diggin' in the Dirt, 8/4/2019
Interview by John & Tom on NPRIllinois about our debut show
“I like your shirt... and your music, too. ”
— Willie Nelson, after opening for Willie & Family at Illinois State Fair, August 2001. I was wearing a Hank Williams, Sr. T-shirt.