Friday July 19 – New Orleans with Freaksheaux to Geaux at the Allways Lounge
Full show lineup and more info here. Tickets available here.
Sunday June 30th – Romani Movie and Music Night in Nashville
A free show at Cult Fiction Theatre! There will be a screening of Latcho Drom, a beautiful film of music performances by Romani people from India, the Middle East, and Europe. Darbuka Dave and I will play music by Taraf de Haïdouks, Adrian Minune, and Romani music from the Balkans; older folk songs as well as …
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Saturday June 29 – Wasted Wine, Discordia Arts, Teejei Brigham, Gypsyville, and Lumani Dance
Mystical Mayhem — Flying Monkey Arts at Lowe Mill Arts – Huntsville, AL Saturday, Jan 29 at 8:00 p.m. $10 Tickets Lumani Dance Theatre and the Lunatic Fringe will be joined by Wasted Wine, Discordia Arts, TeeJei Brigham, “Darbuka” Dave Machek and August Hoerr. more info at http://www.nomadictapestry.com/
Mixed Media gallery added
I made a web gallery for mixed media work– it includes a lot of work in progress for cigar box instruments, plus painting on clothes and instruments/ cases. Take a look here!
Watching Paint Dry
Some of the finished and nearly-finished paintings from this winter, drying on the wall.
Nashville March 16 – workshop and show
Saturday March 16th – I will be teaching my Sing, Gadje, Sing workshop and performing as a part of the quarterly show Tribal Revival. http://www.nashvilletribalrevival.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/335009266619332/
Madcap Instruments
New project! I have been painting on cigar boxes and unfinished instruments built by Drew Hummer of Madcap Instruments. There are more instruments near completion that will be documented soon; until then, here are some pics of a cigar box guitar that I gave my Dad for Christmas. (He tunes it like a banjo …
Short write-up in the Mountain Xpress
I was mentioned in Asheville’s weekly paper; thanks to Bridget Conn for writing about my work at Bella Vista.
Accordion covers: American Free Jazz, Romanian Lăutărească, Serbian Rock
Institute for the Advancement of Occultism and Aerophonics Performed at {RE}Happening, a festival commemorating the first Happening at Black Mountain College. Video shot by Mike Lytle & edited by Gene A. Felice II 1. Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman. USA, 1959. 2. Blestem — Cine iubeşte şi lasă (Curse — He who Loves and …
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Two New Orleans Shows
The past three days have been spent in rehearsal with the Freaksheaux to Geaux band. The music sounds great; these folks are a lot of fun to work with. We are performing at the Allways Lounge in NOLA, October 26th and 27th, in Circus of the Double Damned. Tickets, Lineup, and more info here.
Paintings in progress – oil on linen
I am continuing to work in oils, but I am trying out some new surface materials, in this case, linen stretched on top of raw canvas, and worked with stiff bristle brushes and palette knives.
Asheville gig added!
August 25, Asheville NC: I am performing with Hellblinki and Skunk Ruckus at the L.A.B. More info on facebook.
Nervous
An unreleased track, with new string and vocal arrangements… This is my version of 80’s slow dance jams (although, yes, there is accordion in it). COUPLES’ SKATE ONLY!!!