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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Well, I know I'm talkin' to a whole bunch of you who live in different parts of the country and different parts of the world. But most of you live in or around New York City, and a whole bunch of you are here today to see if I'm heading to Central Park with my guitar.

The answer is... YES!

I had a good feeling about the weather and I still do. In fact I've had this really good, good feeling about today all week. Lookin' at the radar imagery, I'm thinkin' that we might hafta stop and start, maybe once, because of a little summer shower. But most of the day will be perfect for hangin' together at "The Hill".

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HEY! GOOD NEWS!!!

I just found out that Teresa Reynolds got back to New York City last night. So she called and told me that she was gonna come out to Central Park to sing a bunch of songs with me today!

Always very cool.

Yeah, it's very cool for all you guys... but its always a joy for me to be able to share a microphone with an artist like her.


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Yep. She's one of the good ones fo' sho.

Y'know? It's really pretty wild to be able to just head to Central Park with my guitar on my shoulder, and then trust that the day and the music and all of you are gonna take me someplace amazing... again. but for the past 20 years, that's always, always been true. It really is something special and it's one of the many reason I always say that I feel like the luckiest man alive.

Here are some quick shots from last weekend. (Are you in any of these photos?)

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I'm a lucky, lucky man.

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Oh listen, if you've never been out there with me, or if it's been a while and you don't remember exactly where we are, here's a little map you can check out. You can click on this image for a larger, printable version.

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I'LL BE BACK ALL WEEK WITH NEW UPDATES so if you're new around here, bookmark this page and keep checking back, okay?

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Y'know, honestly -- what a very cool thing it is I get to do with my Life and my music. I'm so, so grateful to every single one of you who are reading this right now... every single person who's ever hung out with me even once in that park. It means so much to me to know that there are people who "get" what my music and my stories have to say to the world. It reminds me... I guess, it reminds all of us that we're not alone and that there are others who "get it".

Y'know what? I always say that when you do what you love for a living, when you do what I do for a living, every day of a Life is a vacation day and every day is a work day. So I think filmmaker Dean Love and I are gonna shoot a pitch video for an idea we've been kickin' around for an interactive, internet TV show called "THERE".

I'm really getting to work on a couple of things... one of them is this new Broadway project. I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more tomorrow as well. I really feel that it's time to take the whole feeling we get in Central Park to a much larger audience. I'm just about to enter a new place where this little "Broadway" piece will really begin to come together. Now I'm just in the "dating" process... to find the right producers to make it a reality... and the right director/co-writer/co-creator to bring this thing to life.

Seriously. This is getting exciting. But then again.... it's what I do. This is the kind of stuff that makes me live.

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.

Here's a little 10-minute video from Tony and his wife... explaining the project.

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Are you new here to this website? Now, you might be one of the people who's checking in here for the first time. (There are always a bunch of newcomers here at the site, especially in the Summer season. Bookmark it every day and check back. I'm gonna start bring more video to this page again very soon.)


GIMME A SHOUT HERE!

(Actually, gimme a shout for any reason at all!)

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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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AND HERE'S A REALLY FUN GALLERY FROM LAST SUMMER!!!



Click to visit last year's gallery

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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 ☮





     

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A note from filmmaker Dean Love...

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

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