“Typically Amazing” Days…

As I make the transition from a Life in music to a career as a playwright, change is happening all around me. We’re about to wrap our 34th summer at “The Hill” in Central Park. Last Saturday we were out there again. And although tourism is most definitely down in Central Park, we still had a pretty swell crowd of beautiful, music-loving people. If you were out there with me…

Thank you.

I hope I see you again when we stream right here to your computer this coming Wednesday. It’s a LIVE hang we call “It’s Just Us” and it’s a lot of fun. We hang out with people from all across the country and different parts of the world, starting at 4:00 (eastern) If you want the link, just shoot me an email: thatguitarman@yahoo.com

I’ll see you again in Central Park for the last time this year on Saturday, October 18.

Oh, listen… you guys all know where I stand politically and socially. And most of you know that I am a fiercely independent voter. But I’ll be throwing my support behind Zohran Mamdani for mayor of this town. I would have liked to cast a vote for Adreinne Adams, but she got into the race a bit too late to get through the primary.

I’ve never supported Eric Adams, that fraud in a $3,000 suit. And now, I will actively work against Andrew Cuomo after his decision to run as an independent. (As an independent, I’m really pissed off.) More later.

OH! IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR THAT SONG…

Click on this photo for the new song “Fuck No”

Then copy this link and share it with all of your friends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_N4cjhT_zg

We need to be there for each other right now.

It’s possible to have Fun and find Joy in being one of “The Good Guys”. We have a lot of fun around here.

These days it’s important to be resisting and fighting the ugly second-cousins, Trumpism and the fascist movement that is MAGA.

NOW! PLEASE JOIN US LIVE TWICE A WEEK ON “IT’S JUST US”

“It’s Just Us”

Hey listen! We’re gonna keep hanging out together all year… LIVE twice a week. Wednesdays we always go LIVE at 4:00 (eastern). We’ll stream LIVE from my studio in The Heights. Weekends too. Check back.

If you join us on Patreon, you get automatic access to ALL of our hangs.

2025 is another year as “That Guitar Man”…

WE’VE HAD SOME AMAZING GUESTS ON IJU!!!

Jon Cryer, Jeff Daniels, Peter Yarrow, Don Scardino… and lots of others.

For the rest of 2025, please think about joining us LIVE online twice a week. It’s a LIVE music gig called “It’s Just Us”. It’s really fun and it’s easy to do. If you wanna just check it out, shoot me an email and I’ll hook you up with the private link.

thatguitarman@yahoo.com

THE WORK

The last 3 have been the most challenging years financially in Central Park… ever. But y’know, as I make the transition from the Life of a singer/songwriter to a full-time career as a playwright, I never lose sight of what a lucky, lucky man I am.

In fact, a lovely woman in Minnesota just started a GoFundMe campaign to make my work and my Life a little easier.

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THANK YOU ALL.

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And thanks for showing up here

PLAYWRIGHT STUFF

Last year we all got together online for a special screening of the musical “Possibility Junkie”. Me and a bunch of sweet people from all across the country and different parts of the world watched the off-Broadway production from a bunch of years back.

The script has been rewritten and updates to go directly at FOX and MAGA. Yes… it’s still fun, and romantic, and entertaining. But if this administration is going to attack the arts. I would like to use theater as a big overhand right to punch back. (Hey! On our worst day, we’re both smarter and funnier than they are!)

LUCKY MAN…

Also… while back I was in Los Angeles where I sat in on a reading of my play “The Green Room”. So when I got back to New York we got together LIVE online… on “It’s Just Us” @ 4:00 (eastern) to stream the reading and then had another talk-back with everyone who showed up. What a great crowd! And the reading went great! This play is so ready to move.

BTW — If you’re not a patron and would like to check out the LIVE online hang “It’s Just Us”… just shoot me an email to ask for the private link: thatguitarman@yahoo.com

I feel like the luckiest man alive…

I say it all the time. And I truly hope we all feel that way.

But no kidding. My Life just doesn’t look like most other lives, and yet it’s kinda just what I imagined. I mean, I’ve always been a writer… a playwright. But I’ve gotten to make a sweet living as an under-the-radar singer/songwriter for over 33 years. It’s crazy.

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As a completely independent artist, I had to figure out a way to make a living with the online gigs. So if you wanna help out, you can throw as much or as little as you want at “It’s Just Us”!

We started doing it at the onset of the pandemic, but it’s so much fun and we’ve made so many wonderful friends that we’re gonna keep it going.

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BTW — If you ever want to support my work financially and make a “tax-deductible” donation, I operate under the umbrella of a 510(c)3 called Fractured Atlas. Just click on this banner and help out in whatever way you want.

People have asked me what it feels like to be a “struggling artist”. I tell them… “I don’t know.” I’ve spent a lot of my time looking up at broke. And yet I’ve never been struggling. I LOVE this Life. When I look at the circumstances of my Life… my beautiful partner, my incredible friends and colleagues, my beautiful family, my apartment, the fact that twice a week I hang out online with a worldwide community of music lovers… Damn!!!

Earlier this year I did my annual gig back in The Turks and Caicos Islands. (It’s simply one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been.) And then I returned home to the most amazing city on the planet to learn that a wonderful group of artists are doing a reading of my play “The Green Room” in L.A.

This is my 33rd year as “That Guitar Man from Central Park”. And although it’s gotten more challenging in so many ways, I never lose sight of how incredible it is. Our “Year End Concert” to close out 2023 was also amazing on December 16. Thanks to all of the remarkable artists who shared the stage, the amazing people who brought you guys the video stream, the sound guys, the staff at The Kaufman Center… and all of the beautiful people in that theater that night.

Turned up the house lights in the middle of the gig!

WHAT A NIGHT!

Thanks for An Amazing Ride…

Y’know, even as I make the transition from singer/songwriter to a career as a playwright, I still have a LOT of music to share with you guys! So we’ll keep doing these online gigs. So in the meantime, if you would like to become a patron, click on that banner up there.

We sing together. We dance together. And we don’t even hafta leave our homes. Fun people from New York City, California, West Virginia, Maine, Missouri, Indiana, Long Island, The Netherlands, The UK, Spain, Estonia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Las Vegas, North Carolina, Arkansas, Maryland…

Thanks for being in the audience

Last year we took a run at a magnificent theatrical experiment and a lot of were a part of it… maybe the most important part. The audience. I assembled a cast of Tony Award winners, veteran actors, exciting newcomers… just incredible artists to do a LIVE online reading of this audacious script. (Chuck Cooper, Austin Pendleton, Jillian Louis, Teresa Reynolds, Jamal Thomas, David Andino, Paul Olson — stage directions read by Gretchen Cryer)

Looks like this play has found a few Creative champions to move it to Broadway, probably later this year. It will be my first on Broadway and kick the door open for a few other plays and musicals. I’ll let you all know!!!

After the reading that night we’ll all retreated back to my Facebook page for comments and discussion. It was very cool.

I feels like the time is right to sit in the dark with you guys and allow my characters to help hasten the arrival of the day that all “religion” becomes a memory for the human race. A percentage of my work is always dedicated to that goal… but I have my own fun way of making that a reality one day.

No kidding. Last summer was a very weird season in Central Park, but it was another year I had the privilege of being “That Guitar Man from Central Park”. I wanna sincerely thank every single one of you who showed up, even for one day out there at “The Hill” You make me feel like the luckiest man alive. Here are a whole bunch of photos from our time together.