Welcome to the website.

Hope all you mutha's had a good weekend.

I'm still smiling from all the good work I got done this weekend, all the good friends in my life, all the possibilities on the horizon.

But man! We really do live in such a pinball machine. One minute we're bombarded with nonsensical news about an English couple who had an over-the-top and anachronistic wedding in another country. Then even more nonsensical attention was paid to a carnival-barker, huckster named Trump.

With last week's news about Osama bin Laden, the pinball ricochets one more time and the bullshit surrounding Trump and the royal wedding already seems like months ago.

Actually a wackjob like Trump would make me angry if I thought he meant one word that comes out of his mouth. But he is just the P.T. Barnum of our day... looking for the next sucker to help him make a his next dollar. So no... Trump doesn't make me angry by stirring mistrust and bigotry in the easily influenced with his groundless hysterics about the president for the sake of his TV ratings. He doesn't make me angry.

But after my head-shaking chuckling, he does however... disgust me.

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Kinda wild, too. I got sooooooo many amazing email responses to that simple comment I made and the question I posted about the death of Osama Bin Laden last week that it blew me away. And while 99% of them were from kindred spirits... the messages that came from the angry and disapproving people gave me the greatest lift.

To be clear... like most sane people I never said the killing of Osama bin Laden was a bad thing. I never said I wasn't relieved that the world was rid of this evil man. I was simply saddened by those who treated it like a sporting event and mindlessly celebrated as if they'd won a round in the playoffs with chants of U.S.A. - U.S.A. (And so the seeds of hate are sown that grow from war to war.)

Many people of certain mindset who wrote in don't care to take the time to really read a person's words or make the slightest effort to seek to understand what another might be trying to say. Instead they react in the most predictable ways, with words meant to insult.

Just gives me a lift. Makes me grateful to be among so many more thoughtful, sensitive, caring, loving, creative people. Gives me a renewed sense of purpose and fun.

And man! We've got a lot of work to do!!!

THIS WEEK! I'm rehearsing a brand new song with the beautiful and talented Teresa Reynolds. It's something that I just wrote for a very special young couple who are getting married this week. It's still kind of a work-in-progress. Then I'll be running the same song and a few others with another crowd favorite... violinist, fiddle-player, guitarist, mandolin player and singer/songwriter Chris Tedesco.

This week I'm also gonna attend a kind of speed-dating event for playwrights and composers and directors to hook up on potential projects. (No... not real speed-dating. Although... maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea either! I'm so clueless these days!!!) This is an event by a creative Broadway producer named Ken Davenport. I'm looking forward to seeing what this is all about.

So... quite a week.

Oh listen! If you go back through the ARCHIVE and you want to respond to anything that you read here at the site, or feel like making a comment about the music or the work or the things being said here, you can always shoot me an email and tell me anything that's on your mind. (I can't personally answer all of the email I get. But I promise that I read every single one!)

CLICK HERE TO SHOOT ME AN EMAIL ABOUT ANYTHING THAT'S ON YOUR MIND

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OH! And...yes it was a beautiful Spring day on Saturday and NO... I wasn't in Central Park yesterday. We weren't given the Special Events Permit need to begin the season. In fact, the first permit isn't valid for two weeks. So weather-permitting, I'll be seeing you guys for the first time on Saturday, May 21.

After that, it's anybody's guess how often the permit office is gonna allow us to hang together at "The Hill". (Yes, the promise made by administrator Doug Blonsky in 2000 was for one day a weekend. We'll see how that holds up this year. Honestly... I'm not optimistic about that.)

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If you're new here and you need a little cathcin' up... for any newcomers, let's start off with a little Photo Gallery from last summer's outdoor season... in Central Park and down on Pier 45 in the Village.

Click to visit last year's gallery

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If you're new around here, you can always hit THE ARCHIVE and catch up with what's been going on around here.

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TODAY, once again let me share the video from Academy Award-winner Tony Walton and his wife.

We're trying to put a theatrical piece together that, hopefully, will be a positive thing.

Click to watch the video

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VIDEO TIME

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WATCH THESE VIDEOS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY -- and then shoot me an email to tell me if you think they might become a part of the story.

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Click to watch the very first LIVE performance of this song.

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I'm really enjoying all of your comments about the newest songs, so keep 'em comin'! This was the LIVE debut of this next song in December here in NYC.

CAN'T YOU SEE?

Click to watch the video:

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HIT THIS LINK TO EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS

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THE (entire) DECEMBER CONCERT

For you guys again today... the entire concert... "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is here for you to watch. Go make a pot of coffee. Pour yourself some tea or a nice glass of wine and sit back and watch this thing. Plug in some headphones or some earbuds if you feel like it. You can actually jump around and watch different parts o the show.

We had such a great time again this year in that theater!

(The audio got a little funky during Teresa Reynolds' Christmas song... but I'm do everything I can to fix that sooner than later. Check back.)

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Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮