Hey... welcome to the website.

Listen, I'm really sorry about yesterday but there was nothing I could do.

I got a whole bunch of email yesterday, last night and today from disappointed people... some who told me they had friends in town for the weekend from different places and were really looking forward to sharing some music and laughs with them at "The Hill" by The Lake in Central Park. Then... I wasn't there.

As I told you all yesterday, in the year 2000 I made an agreement with Park Administrator and head of The Central Park Conservancy Doug Blonsky (A good man) that instead of playing both weekend days, I would be issued a Special Events Permit for one day each weekend. Then I would get a Sound Device Permit from the NYPD and everything would be cool.

Well, in the last few years I've applied for a permit every weekend all summer rain or shine, the NYPD has been wonderful every month, but The Permit Office has had their own ideas. So each month it seems we are kind of arbitrarily denied the permit for one weekend. This was one of those weekends.

Sorry.

Okay, today is a new day. Another beautiful day here in town. Get out there and have fun. (And be cool to each other!)

if you haven't checked this site in a while or you're new around here, you really might wanna check out the ARCHIVE and look back through some of the recent updates.

This week, here at the site I've posted a whole bunch of photos from last Saturday and all this summer so far in Central Park.

Click to visit this year's gallery

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Now generally, this site is about Life, and Love, and Laughter and above all... music.

But last week I wrote 2 updates that address this genuinely embarrassing circumstance about that cultural center which is planned to be built in downtown Manhattan. I had a lunch meeting with a brilliant songwriter and good friend of mine named George Wurzbach, and as we were discussing the matter, I was using words like "insane" and "fear-driven" and "narrow-minded" and "shallow". But he used the word "embarrassing" and he's right. As an American citizen and as a sentient human being.... the opposition to the that cultural center being built on Park Place is... embarrassing.

You might wanna check out my original thoughts by hitting this link. I received an awful lot of email in response to both updates. Most of the people who dig my music are people who just "get it".

But the written word didn't seem enough for me as an artist. So in the last couple of days, I buried myself "in the cave" and wrote a new song.

You can watch it by clicking on this image.

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

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There are lots of FUN videos, lots of FREE songs to download... and that's another reason to browse The Archive.
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Like this song and video has now been viewed by over a quarter of a million people.

(Must struck a chord inside a few people.)

If you haven't seen it yet...

Click to watch the video of the new facebook song

Pass it on to all you friends. Post in anywhere you want!

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Right now and for anyone who's new at the site, the newest song that's makin' the rounds on the internet is my new song about the upcoming final installments of the Harry Potter series of movies. It's a song about the character, Hermione Granger.

Here... click on the image to check out the song and watch the video.

Click to watch the video

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Now one more thing about that song!

IT IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD!!!

I'm serious!

Now you can download the song itself, and walk around with it in your ipod or mp3 player and sing it to yourself on the bus, in the subway, in the car... while you're on facebook.

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Okay, here are a couple of different galleries.

Here...

CLICK ON THIS PHOTO TO VISIT
A LITTLE PHOTO GALLERY
FROM SUMMER 2009

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I'll be back tomorrow with another update.

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Thanks for everything.

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PEACE