Well, shoot. In today's paper, you'll find an interview with Simone Dinnerstein; and below is the blog post I prepared to go with it (under the headline, "Strange yet cool collaborations: Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt"). Alas, Dinnerstein has had to postpone her show scheduled for tonight due to illness. The rescheduled date is March 2.

Last time she played Durham, classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein shared the stage with Tift Merritt in an intriguing cross-genre collaboration. They'll work together again this summer with an album project. Meantime, Dinnerstein and Merritt have separate albums on tap. Dinnerstein's "Something Almost Being Said" comes out next week, and Merritt is in the midst of recording the followup to 2010's "See You on the Moon" now.

"I'm really excited, I've got a neat cast coming in," Merritt said shortly before recording was to begin. "It's close enough that I don't want to jinx it by saying anything, but I'm excited. I'm making this one myself with Tucker Martine producing, and Marc Ribot will play guitar. It's been kind of wonderful to be at the helm in an even deeper way than before."

Dinnerstein also plays tonight at Duke.