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Links to Favorite Shtuff
WFUV Radio-click on their Artist Links page and you will find almost any folk/pop/intriguing artist you might be looking for. This is NYC's folk radio station.
Nick Russo is a wonderful guitarist and banjo player who plays traditional & dixie land jazz with such notables as Vince Giordano and the Night Hawks, brazilian with Jenn Jade, R&B and blues with the legendary Victor Jones, and with Michelle Walker. He also plays all of my songs and washes my dishes when he isn't rushing to a gig. We'll be married on October 20th, 2007.
Denver Casado is an incredibly talented young composer who I happen to be writing musical theater songs with. We met in September in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop and have been writing a 30 minute children's musical that will be performed in May, 2005 at The Community House in The Gardens, Forest Hills, and have also been writing other songs available as MP3s and PDFs on Denver's site.
Eddie Guttman is another wonderful composer that I've been writing with. We met when I was in my senior year of college and he was the music director of one of the shows. We began writing together back then but didn't get serious until this year when I decided I really wanted to focus on my musical theater writing and write with musical collaborators. Eddie's music is haunting and fresh. We have been writing an hour long children's musical that will be performed in May, 2005 at The Community House in The Gardens, Forest Hills.
Steven Silverstein is a musical director and composer that I've known since college years. Recently we both had songs performed in Hot Mamas, a cabaret full of pregnancy songs.
Howard Morgen is a renowned guitar teacher and arranger, and his site has lessons and articles. He was my teacher and taught me the fret board better than I can imagine anyone else teaching it. He is so clear!
www.dillonguitars.com is a website for John Dillon's handmade guitars (He made one for Trisha Yearwood, and also Steve Earle. I've played a few... whew! beautiful!), and also his songwriter weekends. The venues are in Pennsylvania and I had a wonderful time playing at these quaint, beautiful venues. (Danville and Bloomsburg, PA)
Greggs Eggs I don't usually go for jam bands but this band won me over! I went on a mini-tour with them on the West Coast, got to experience life with a "rock" band. Hippies, kids, all dancing to the music!
Ina May Wool a NYC singer/songwriter who, like me, is also connected to the musical theatre world- her via her husband, me via my dad. Both play for Broadway shows. She reminds me or Rickie Lee Jones.
Matt Gough has a funky, folky, raw kind of flavor. Sometimes Dillon-esque, sometimes jazzy, funky, old time folk, insightful ("happy as a slug sliding down a mug")... sometimes downright silly.... BUT MAN!!!... he's an undiscovered gem with a whole catalogue of songs to his name that sould be heard.