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Summer Music
On July 27, I jammed with Billy Bragg (along with 50 or so other people) at his big busk at Lincoln Center out-of-doors fest. In addition to a few dozen guitarists (with a broad range of expertise), there were a couple of trumpets, a small drum kit, and I played the harp on a few
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Sing for Hope – Sunset Park
My piano was slightly damaged on the third day. It has rained every day since then. I performed as part of the Make Music New York summer solstice project on Tuesday in the Sunset Park business district.
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Sing for Hope Update
Unlocked the piano this morning. Not able to hear myself play due to Asian women doing a sort of ‘Electric Slide’ group dance with boombox music. After that there was a group of men playing those high pitched one-stringed instruments. When I went over later, there was a 12-year-old girl playing Scott Joplin better than
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Sing for Hope Interview
I will be live on Brooklyn Channel 12 on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 7:20 am from Sunset Park — interview and a brief piano tune. Check it out if you can!
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Sing for Hope Pianos
Instead of Thompkins Square Park, I will be taking care of the piano in Sunset Park (much closer) and with a totally different vibe. Going to Thompkins Square as well. I will try to post daily 6/18-7/2.
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Me and Mainline Music
Mainline Music attracted me like a magnet. It was a three-floor musical adventure with guitars, brass, drums, amps, hammond B3 organs, and all manner of musical instruments, as well as sheet music (and ‘fake books’ as they were known in those days). It was owned by a be-bop era jazzman named Jay Cameron (he always
Songwriter / Singer / Multi-Instrumentalist