Hey... welcome to the website.I'll be back tomorrow with a few more photos from this past Saturday at "the Hill" in Central Park.

And this week I'll be watching to see if The Boston Red Sox are really gonna complete a monumental collapse or if they're gonna squeak into the playoffs. But first I really wanted to say this today....

Y'know, this past Sunday I was up at Yankee Stadium with a friend and somewhere around the 7th inning I had to tell her that I had just gotten another New York City Rush.

(I get them often. I think at least a few times a week... maybe more.)

What is a New York City Rush?

It's when I'm doing something that is very routine for me and I suddenly hafta catch my breath. I always try to spend my days paying attention, but sometimes I'm just goin' about the everyday business of being a human being, a man, an independent artist, a songwriter, just a guy named David, a New Yorker who lives and works in this town... and outta nowhere I look around me and say to myself, "Holy shit! Look where I am! How cool is this!"

Seriously.

I mean, I'm sittin' there in Yankee Stadium watching The Yankees beat The Boston Red Sox in the final home-stand before the playoffs. Just the day before, I was lucky enough to play music in Central Park for about 5 hours on a day when it looked like it might rain all day. I played music and shared a bunch of laughs with people from all across the country and all around the world. I belly laughed at one kid trying to negotiate some roller-blades and gravity in front of a couple of hundred people. And then here I am the next day in da Bronx watching baseball. And y'know? It just hit me again. For 20 years people have called me "That Guitar Man from Central Park".

For the past 20 years, I've made a living writing songs and singin' them for people in the middle of the greatest, most famous, most amazing, most exciting city on the planet. It's not like playing music in Roosevelt Park, Detroit... or Grant Park, Atlanta... or Lawnview Park, in Dallas. I mean, for a long time as an independent artist I've been known as "That Guitar Man form Central Park". That's... Central Park, New York City.

It's New f*ckin' York, man! It's Broadway. It's Carnegie Hall. It's Lincoln Center. It's The Empire State Building. It's "When Harry Met Sally". It's Woody Allen films. It's DeNiro, Pacino... it's Fred Astaire and Cid Charisse "Dancing in the Dark". It's Yankee Stadium.

Doesn't mean I'm putting down any other place to live. Just makes me feel so lucky to love the place I call home. I wrote in "City Song"...

Now, I've done a lot of traveling, from Key Biscayne to Nome.
And there's something about each place to love no matter where I roam.
But I can't wait to get back to her. I call New York my home,
And I always will.

'Cause I hear the love song you're singing in New York City
It's a symphony that sounds like rock 'n roll.
And in the subways and the streets
There's a rhythm that beats
Until it heats up every heart and every soul.
8 million different voices joining in here.
While those who've never been here
Blindly put her down.
But, I don't care what they think of her
'Cause I live her and I love her
And she's my home town.

And so...

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I guess this would be a good time to let you guys know that you can be a part of something that will be uniquely New York. I mean, you can be a very real part of making something very cool become a reality. A friend of mine has this project he's wantin' to get off the ground and I think it's a damned good one. He's Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Love, and this is really his baby. He's asked me to host it and help bring my artist-friends to the project as well... hopefully letting the whole world in on some of the wonderful things they're doing.

THERE

I guess if you've been coming around here at all, you know about this and that we need your help with it! It's a web-series / TV project that I've been telling you about over the past few months and we've finally launched it's funding campaign.

Click here to watch the video

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And then click here to visit the launch website to be a part of all of this. At the site you can see all the cool shit you get for joining this effort.

VISIT THE "THERE" LAUNCH SITE

I'll be telling you guys a lot more about it over the next few weeks.

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IF YOU WERE OUT IN THE PARK WITH ME THIS PAST SATURDAY, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF PHOTOS IN YESTERDAY'S UPDATE. (And I'll have a couple more tomorrow.)

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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NOW! A FEW VIDEOS ABOUT SOME MORE REALLY COOL STUFF!

Here's a little video from last year's year-end concert. Give you an idea of the kinda fun we have in that room every year.

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I also wanna jump start myself, my enthusiasm, and everybody's awareness about just a couple of really fun and exciting projects on the horizon. FIRST -- this is the 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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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.

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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".

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

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮