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Whether I’m playing in a honky-tonk for a room full of wound up cowboys on a Friday night or watching children and parents dance together while I play on the patio of a pizza joint, having the opportunity to bring music to the world is a beautiful thing.  It can make you feel like you are cruising down a wild river, dancing on a beach in your bare feet, help you fall in love when you thought it couldn’t happen again or transport you halfway around the world and into another culture.  It can heal you, inspire you to create or just be a little dose of the right medicine you need for the moment. 

 

The following photos were taken during and after performing live.  The link will take you to a song I wrote about finding the humor in a crazy situation involving a huge mango tree in Miami.  They are some of my favorite pictures from  countless  heartwarming and eye opening experiences I’ve had throughout my life while performing on the road.  The background photo is of me playing with my sister, Amanda, at the hometown Rod and Gun Club jam in Harrisville, NY. The video was recorded live at John Martin's Irish Pub in Miami, Florida in 2020.  The song is titled:

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Click onto "Mango Boogie" link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raTTh8PU-RY

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(Photos:  From top left to bottom right, connecting to a little girl at a wedding in Miami, having a dance with two young ladies after the show, sharing songs with a tradional African musician in Clarksdale, Mississippi, two friends having a laugh and requesting a song during a performance in Miami, visitors to Glen Canyon from Germany asking for a picture after my ranger presentation at Lake Powell, AZ, and some ladies who sang along all evening and asked for a photo.)

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For those of us who perform, it’s like breathing, we simply have to do it. It’s the great connector, to each other and to the universe.  Vibrations in pitch made by human beings with man made instruments and talents they were given at birth.   It’s the magic that guides people like me.  Songs can bridge the gap between cultures and guide us to those beautiful conditions we all share.  I especially love it when the kids in the audience get up and start to dance and sing along.  It happens a lot when I perform and has always been an incredible source of joy for me - a single man on the road far away from his home most of the time.  Performing for a live audience is as magical and joyful as anything I experience and I’m dedicated to doing it as long as I can.