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On Halloween (Saturday, October 30th @ 8pm), I’ll be sitting in with Schooltree performing for Brendan Boogie’s Cover-Up series at the Lizard Lounge.  It’s going to be a fun night of music featuring your favorite local bands covering some of your favorite songs from your favorite time of life: childhood (think The Muppets, Schoolhouse Rock, [...]

The Puppets are back!  And with new material!
On the 25th of June, we will be doing a full hour-long show of story-time featuring the Elephant’s Child, The Story of Heckedy Peg, as told by Karin Webb, and a new shadow puppet show based off of three Aesop’s Fables.  It’s going to be magical.  See press [...]

On Sunday, May 31st @ 5:30pm (Studio A – 2nd Floor), I will be presenting an Honor’s class at The Brookline Music School about the profound underlying musicality of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speeches.
Just like a master musician, Martin Luther King uses melodic, rhythmic, and dynamic tension to emphasize and captivate when he speaks. I [...]

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come to the Lizard
Lounge in your best spy attire this Friday!
This message is to inform you of a convergence of fellow spies, secret
agents, femme fatals, covert operatives, holders of state secrets and
arch-nemesis at the above location Friday-May 8th!
This event is hosted by [...]

Last week, I had the great pleasure to participate in Vesseala Stoyanova’s Eastern Stories Under Western Skies project at the Uncommon Ground in Chicago, IL.  I got to play some amazing music with great musicians.  Below are links to a few pics & videos taken (mostly by Gonzalo Plaza) while on the trip.

I had a [...]

On Friday, April 24th I’ll be playing at the Uncommon Ground in Chicago, IL as part of Vessela Stoyanova’s Eastern Stories Under Western Skies project.
Vessela had a beautiful idea to combine traditional Balkan music with western musicians.  The result is music that is charming, sophisticated and delightful to listen to.
I’ll be performing with Vessela on [...]

Photographer, Karen Clunes, is sharing with us some of her images from last summer’s dress rehearsal & performances of The Elephant’s Child.

Currently, I’m working on building a website for puppet promotions. Until then, I’m posting stuff here, because I love this project.
Also, here are some other photos from last year’s performances.

Last summer, on a rainy, hot & humid Saturday evening in the South End, some magical people told a tale about how elephants got their trunk.  The story was Rudyard Kipling’s: The Elephant’s Child and was told with a cast of voice actors, a collection of shadow puppets, and an original score performed by a [...]

I’ll be sitting in on a tune with my dear friends and amazing musicians, Valerie Thompson & Vessela Stoyanva of Goli this coming Thursday, the 2nd of April at the Lizard Lounge. They will be playing a full set, along with the Steamy Bohemians & Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band.  It’s going to be a [...]

Molly Zenobia hosted her 2nd in a series of interactive shows at the Lily Pad last night.  She enlisted Vessela Stoyanva, Valerie Thompson, Nate Greenslit & myself to put together an art & music collaboration involving Silhouettes.  We all had such a wonderful time.  Thank you to everyone for coming out.  Here are couple of [...]