If you've been with me in Central Park at all this year, you know that I've been singing with Miss Teresa Reynolds again this year. She's become a regular and an audience-favorite after appearing with me last summer and at venues like Merkin Concert Hall and The Thalia.
This summer we've run a whole bunch of new cover songs at you guys and a couple that I just wrote.
Here's a rough demo of one of the newest songs. It's a love song... a "wedding song" that I wrote for my sister's daughter Katie and a great youngblood she just married named Nate. When I was asked to write a wedding song, I wasn't sure how I was gonna approach it -- seeing how I love living moment to moment, one-day-at-a-time... and how I view the concept of "forever" and all.
Today's free download is the song that wanted to write itself while I was in the room. This is the result of getting quiet and listening for the words.
I'm kinda happy with the lyric. And Teresa sings it beautifully.
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A few very cool things went down recently.
Last week, I was alerted to 2 really sweet articles written by people who have hung with us out in the park... Jennifer Hamady and Ed Grimm. One was in the magazine "Psychology today" and the other appeared in a local paper called "The Upper West Side Now".
Then on Monday, Stephanie Simon of NY-1 aired a piece about the fact that this is the 20th year I've been "That Guitar Man from Central Park", and about the documentary filmmaker Dean Love has in mind, as well as the Broadway show that's begin kicked around by some very Creative people.
Click on the logo to watch the story
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If you're new you can always go back and browse through THE ARCHIVE as far back as you wanna go. I mean... thanks to my friend, my webmaster, and resident evil genius James Marino, you can historically go back through this website all the way back through the Bush years right up until the present. It's really kinda freaky how much content is here on this site.... cartoons, free songs, Photoshop images. Very cool.
And the Photo Galleries just keep growing. (Maybe you're in there!!!).
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Click to visit last year's gallery
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BTW -- "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is booked for Saturday night, December 10th. I know it's early, but I wanted to let you know if you're one of those people who travel down from Buffalo, or in from Pennsylvania, or Maryland, or Germany just for this gig.
The internet has made the world a very small campus and that's a really cool thing.
If you keep coming back to this site every day you might find you smile more than you don't and you also might find some things to think about. Who knows?
In a nutshell, we're putting together something that we hope is headed for Broadway or... Jupiter... or... I don't know. But it's gonna be done someplace. Broadway legend, TONY WALTON, a man who has more Tony Awards and Academy Awards than I have socks, is behind it 100%... so now it's just about getting the right team together and working it. I'll be inviting all of you to another one of those small, unplugged work sessions very soon, so keep checking back. The last 2 filled up in a matter of hours.
Here's a little 10-minute video from Tony and his wife... explaining the project.
As you may know I am producing a documentary about "That Guitar Man from Central Park". I would like to ask all David's fans out there to write me and tell me any stories you may have about David and his playing in Central Park and how it has affected you or what it has meant to you. I've already heard some great stories, but I know there are more that I haven't heard. So if you got a story to tell about David and his music, please briefly write it out and send it to stories@thatguitarman.com . I will be contacting people from the stories submitted to interview them for possible inclusion in the film. Thank you and I look forward to seeing everyone on the hill this summer. - Dean