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, [...]

Guitober is Guihappening again! At Brookline Music School we are celebrating the guitar with it’s own month: Guitober!  This year’s activities include clinics, concerts, videos and a giveaway. Head on over to Guitober.com or BMSmusic.org for all the details. And play a Guitcrossword puzzle while your at it!

My biggest project of the year – The Ra Quintet (led by Brant Grieshaber) will be celebrating the release of our debut CD on September 25th at the Lilypad (10pm).  Come check out the genre-bend, face-melting, extravaganza of music.  Also on the bill: Tamandua

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 [...]

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. [...]

Dear Secret Agent 009, 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 [...]

This is one of the highlights of my year: Following the outstanding 40th anniversary concerts of Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 2007 and White Album in 2008, Brookline Music School will complete their Beatles concert trilogy with Abbey Road. Nearly 100 Brookline Music School students and faculty will perform exciting new arrangements [...]

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 good friend and artist, Dylan Gould has a postcard project.  She was kind enough to include some photos of my website in her work. Check it out: Isn’t that great?!  Click on pic for more postcards. Thanks Dylan!