Filmmaker Dean Love launched the campaign for the new TV/webseries called "THERE" and he's asked me to host it.
Meanwhile, the Broadway project tentatively called "Possibility Junkie" has suddenly got some interesting possibilities that just came on the horizon. So there's a ton of really good stuff goin' on. I'll get into all of it further down the page.
Damn! Y'know? I've been goin' through a little string of days filled with self-doubt and been feelin' a little blue about some things. But today, again I feel like the luckiest man alive.
Now, yeah. The weather is gonna be perfect tomorrow. But we were denied a permit. So sure, it's disappointing that I'm not gonna get to hang with you guys in Central Park on such a beautiful day like tomorrow. EXPLANATION in YESTERDAY'S UPDATE.
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But, y'know? It's funny.
I've been getting email from people who are really disappointed that we're not gonna be able to hang out at "The Hill" tomorrow.
No, there won't be anything else going on in that section of the park tomorrow. And yeah... the reasoning behind the decision to deny us a permit to share some music and smiles is a little bit baffling. But y'know what?
We weren't issued the permit originally anyway. So the fact that they denied the "make-up date" tomorrow means... nothing really. Nothing lost. Because we never had it to begin with.
SO! NO MUSIC TOMORROW
Just keep you fingers crossed that this beautiful weather holds up for an entire week and we'll get back out there on Saturday, September 24.
Y'know, the people who run Central Park really do a magnificent job. I mean, that patch of green in the middle of the capitol of the world is an absolute wonder. It really is. And I feel like the luckiest man alive to be able to say that I love in this town, and that in this town I get to be "That Guitar Man from Central Park".
It's all cool.
Tell you what. We're in the middle of September. But in the month of October I'm gonna announce when the tickets will go on sale for...
"The Something'th Annual Year End Concert"
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Sneaks up on you, don't it!?
Okay, before we get to the other stuff let's just take care of this little temporary feature here at the site.
The Red Sox lost last night, so The Yankees "magic number" is 10...
Phil " The Scooter" Rizzuto
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For those of you who are not real baseball fans, I'll explain the magic number in detail TOMORROW. If The Rays sweep The Red Sox in this series, they are tied for the Wild Card spot. Wild, wild season.
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THERE
I guess if you've been coming around here at all, you know that Emmy Award-winning filmmaker/director Dean Love has been kicking around an idea that is just kickin'! Well, his web-series / TV project that I've been telling you about over the past few months has launched it's funding campaign.
Click here to watch the video
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I'll be telling you guys a lot more about it over the next few weeks.
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I updated this year's photo gallery. It just keeps growing. (Maybe you're in there!!!)
Click to visit the gallery
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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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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.
Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.
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.
Click to watch the video
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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.)
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