A story on NY-1 Today. (Further down the page)

And... THE BROADWAY PROJECT IS MOVING ALONG. (Also down the page.)

Very cool.

Okay, before I get to today's update... let me get this out of the way.

If you're new here -- I hope you bookmark this page and stop back every day!

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.

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This year's PHOTO GALLERY will include images from both the Central Park gigs and "Sunset on the Hudson Concert Series".

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And here's the gallery from last Summer!

Click to visit last year's gallery

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This past Saturday... another typically amazing day! Gotta tell you... singin' with Teresa Reynolds is a pure Joy.

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The photos of this past Saturday were sent in to the website by DAVID HAYASE.

THANKS!

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You guys know how I'm always sayin' I feel like the luckiest man alive. A big part of that might be because I try to "pay attention" all the time. It makes this Life a fascinating ride filled with passion, and awareness, and learning, and growing, and acceptance, and music, and adventure, and... and... possibility! I'm an unapologetic "Possibility Junkie"! It's really a ride! Who knows what's comin' every new day.

Now today... this is kinda cool, right? For me this is the kind of little gentle, sign-post or reminder that tells me what I do with my guitar has some value in this world. Just the fun stuff.

Most of you reading this are real New Yorkers. But many, many people check in every day from different parts of the country and different parts of the world... I'm sure because you spent at least one afternoon with me at "The Hill" by The Lake. I guess if you've been comin' around here for any length of time at all you know that this is the 20th year I've been lucky enough to be called "That Guitar Man from Central Park". It just feels really cool to even be considered a small part of the most amazing city on the face of the earth.

Today Stephanie Simon, the arts reporter for New York City's very own news organization, NY-1, is doing a little piece on what we've all been doing out in Central Park all these years.

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So, I guess I'd better say WELCOME to you if this is your first time here at the website!

I hope you bookmark it and check back every day. It's become a very fun, very under-the-radar little New York Secret. You can always keep up with the cool stuff that's goin' on around me and my music and all the amazing people in this circle of friends and fellow-artists.

All this week, I'm gonna let you guys in on the progress with this new stage project. AND... I'm gonna post a bunch of old videos out of The Archive to kinda look back and where we've been. (Glancing back sometimes gives me a better idea of what's still possible.)

If you're in New York City, you guys can watch the piece on NY1. That's channel... um... channel... ONE! I think this piece will probably run a few times during the day today... around 11:50am - 2:50pm - 5:50 - ish.

FOR EVERYBODY WHO'S NOT IN NEW YORK CITY

YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE:

THE STORY

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Man! 20 years being "That Guitar Man from Central Park". I have absolutely no way of knowing how many people have touched my Life and vice versa. I wrote this in a previous update -- but I think it sums up how I feel about my "job description"... my purpose.

I'm an independent songwriter. I have been for a long time. As part of that journey, I also get to be "That Guitar Man from Central Park". It's a good, good gig. I'm an American singer/songwriter... a folk singer. I love the job description: Write songs and sing them for people. I tell stories about my Life, my own experience of this world and how it looks through the eyes of a "possibility-junkie" like me. I get to share thoughts and feelings which are sometimes intimate or seemingly isolated... share them with people I don't even know, who in turn email me through this website to tell me that they were happy to find out they are not alone. I do my best to use my art and my work as a "mirror" to reflect the world around me, and sometimes as a "hammer" to help shape the world around me in whatever small way I can. I choose words carefully to try to comfort the disturbed... and disturb the comfortable. Sometimes in a song, I will try to gentle tap on a shoulder as to ask, "What if?" And sometimes I'll write a song to try to not-so-gently kick a door down that is blocked by fear and anger. Sometimes I do it really, really well. Other times... not-so-much. It's a lifelong process. And I've gotten to do this every warm Saturday afternoon for the past 20 years on a patch of grass in Central Park in the middle of the capitol of the world -- in a little world we've created called... "The Hill".

So often when I take moment to really pay attention, which I try to do every day, it hits me again.

Holy shit.

This is so cool.

It's Good. It's really a Good Life.

Now for every 100 email messages I receive that reflect the fun, and the humanity, and the Love in all of this, I get one or two from people who just don't "get it". I completely understand. I'm cool with all of that. ('Cause if I don't get some really juicy hate-mail occasionally, then I'm just not doing my job!)

Still, most people get what I'm about and what my music has to say. They're on the same path, I guess. It's kind of the reason I named one of my albums "I Love the Company".

NOW!

Maybe it's time to reach a larger audience!!!! Maybe on Broadway!

Okay now you can find out how YOU can be a part of this new project here.

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.

Click to watch the video

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And here's a link to visit if YOU wanna be a real part of this process.

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VIDEO TIME

Here's another fun, fun moment on a hot, hot summer afternoon in Central Park when Chris Tedesco just showed up top jam on a few songs. We did an old cover song.

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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 ☮