Here it is – the poster for my upcoming gig at St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub in the Delray neighborhood of Alexandria, VA. This establishment is well-known and well-liked around the area because of it’s good food, good drinks and GOOD MUSIC. I’ll be doing a mixed set of great popular tunes with some of my own original tunes woven in. It’ll definitely be a fun evening, and there’s no cover! With me will be Jim Gormley on percussion and Matthew Leonard on bass. See you there!!
This was a nice change from the usual narration job — a kid’s book for grades 2 through 4 — The Graffiti Mystery: Damian Drooth Supersleuth by Barbara Mitchelhill (illustrated by Tony Ross). This was a fun 72 pages of story and learning exercises. In this installment of the Damian Drooth series graffiti is discovered on a…
I think Devil’s Peak is a very good book. I recently did some narration work on it, and I enjoyed the story a lot. The story is by South African author Deon Meyer and the English translation by K.L. Seegers. It is a fairly dark story, to be sure. So it isn’t for readers who…
As a singer/songwriter/performer, I find that I always have a song or two in the queue. Songs that are begun but only partially finished. Recently, I had an interesting experience in which I had some songs I was working on — more than two in draft, actually. I had mapped out the chord progressions and…
Now that I’ve been doing this full-time for a decade, you’d think that I would have it down to a science. Of course, it isn’t science, it’s the arts. And – whether science or art – I guess I sometimes need reminders to keep doing the basic things I know I ought to be doing. Recently I was called in for an…
Yes, I made it out to yet another open mic in the DC area [technically northern Virginia] last night at Tiffany Tavern in Old Town Alexandria. They actually have open mics Mon – Thurs at the Tavern starting at 8:30 p.m. Thursdays are run by Dan Cunningham who did a good job of getting people…
With the new single out, I’m trying to get the song played while I continue working on finishing the CD. Seriously, I am not a PR agency or a record company. Thus my single now languishes in the inbox of many radio station music directors. But, hey, I’m a singer/songwriter/perfomer just trying to make good music. Enter podcasts. Well,…