Come to my FREE Concert in Nibley, UT
Wednesday, June 20
7:30pm!

I'm doing a FREE concert in Nibley, UT! Where's Nibley, you ask? I have no clue. Let me know if you know because I'm doing a FREE concert there!

Wednesday, June 20 - 7:30 to 9:00 PM
NIBLEY CITY HERITAGE DAYS - FREE CONCERT
Nibley City Heritage Days - Kirby Heyborne in Concert!
320 West 3200 South
Old City Park
Nibley, UT

For those of you coming to the FREE! concert in Nibley, UT on Wednesday, June 20th, which of my songs would you like me to play?


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UPDATE: In case you missed it, here are some photos taken of the concert.

(Photo Credit: Todd Oswald.)

   

Music: Creating New, Revisiting the Past. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Whenever I start to wrap my brain around the idea of recording a new album, I'm always amazed at how a collection of seemingly unrelated songs and ideas somehow find a common thread.

As I gather whole songs, parts of songs, and ideas of songs together for a new album, I am interested to find out what story these songs want to tell. What shape will each give to the body of the album? Will these songs join hands and try to be born all at once, or will each one take it's time teasing me with a melody here, a lyric there? What themes and ideas are worth exploring further? How will this album support the others?

A lot of people have asked me which of my own albums is my favorite. This isn't an easy question for me to answer. I look at them all now in hindsight with 20/20 vision. "Oh. That's why I had to write this song; It was to get to this other song." Each album at the time of recording and assembling represented something different and important to me at that point of my life.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. If you have listened to my albums (Inside, Braver Days, Merry White Tree in the Night, and The Elm Tree) and have an opinion about which one you relate to the most, I'd love to hear it. Also, which one did you put away for a season and have recently revisited? Why does it fit in your life at this moment?

Here are links to each of my album pages:
Inside
Braver Days
The Elm Tree
Merry White Tree in the Night

I'm excited to hear what you think.

It's interesting how you can discover new things when you revisit important music from your past. My son and I have been in a Killers phase lately. I am revisiting and my son is just being introduced to the emotional honesty of Brandon Flowers. We are having a great time exploring what songs and albums speak to us.

I hope you'll have a great time too.

Kirby

New CD Release!

It has been a while. Tomorrow is the official release date of my new album "Braver Days." The CD will then be available in most stores. I will be in Utah for the whole week and promote "Braver Days" as well as the film "Take a Chance", which will also be in stores tomorrow.

Here is my current schedule in case you want to come and say hi:

Monday, May 1, 6:30 PM:
THANKSGIVING POINT BARN
Premiere of "Take a Chance"
3003 North Thanksgiving Way
Lehi, Utah

Wednesday, May 3, 12:30-2:30 PM:
SEAGULL BOOK AMERICAN FORK
Meet & Greet
218 West State Road
American Fork, Utah
801-492-0818

Thursday, May 4, 5-7 PM:
MISSIONARY EMPORIUM
Meet & Greet
7110 South Redwood Road
West Jordan, Utah
801-556-1467

Thursday, May 4, 8 PM:
COMEDY SPORTZ
Improv Comedy
36 West Center Street
Provo, Utah
801-377-9700

Friday, May 5, 12:30-2:30 PM:
SEAGULL BOOK FAMILY CENTER
Meet & Greet
5720 South Redwood Road
Taylorsville, Utah
801-969-7747

Friday, May 5, 4-6 PM:
ACRES MARKET
Meet & Greet
2645 North 400 East
Ogden, Utah
801-782-7800

Friday, May 5, 7:30-8:30 PM:
CLEANFLIX OREM 800 NORTH
Meet & Greet
167 West 800 North
Orem, Utah
801-224-1496

Friday, May 5, 9:00-10:30 PM:
CLEANFLICKS OREM STATE STREET
Meet & Greet
908 South State Street
Orem, Utah
801-434-4497

Saturday, May 6, 10 AM-NOON:
SEAGULL BOOK WEST JORDAN
Meet & Greet
1625 West 9000 South
West Jordan, Utah
801-568-0444

Saturday, May 6, 12:30-2:30 PM:
SEAGULL BOOK SALT LAKE CITY
Meet & Greet
1720 South Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah
801-972-2429

Saturday, May 6, 3-5 PM:
DESERET BOOK LAYTON HILLS
Meet & Greet
1096 Layton Hills Mall
Layton, Utah
801-546-3391

Saturday, May 3, 6:15 PM:
TAHITIAN NONI RIVERBOTTOMS
Live Concert (free admissions)
333 West River Park Drive
Provo, Utah
801-234-1404

Recording New CD

I started recording songs for the new CD today. The studio is great. I spent this morning laying down the guitar tracks for "Home."

I am really excited for this new album. Nate, my engineer/producer, is amazing. He has some great ideas that will make this album fantastic.