Friday 6:30 PM Signing Tables Art – Terrace 1,2,3 Adam Stemple, Jane Yolen Saturday 11:30 AM Creativity and Mental Health Art therapy helps many people cope with difficulties and stress, and helps to speed up the recovery process from trauma. How do artists and creators use art to de-stress? How can art help us […]
1994 Omnium Antler Dance was the first album I did with Boiled in Lead, a band absolutely fraught. The album reflects that with moments of genius set beside by pieces I still shudder to listen to 30+ years later. The title was mine, based on a SNL skit featuring Dan Aykroyd and Lily Tomlin. The […]
1993 Beer & Pizza, Inc. My first full-on producing credit, as Steve brought me in from the get-go. Worked again with the inimitable Tommy Roberts at Underground Studios. This was my first time working with Gary Schulte, one of several amazing fiddlers I would work with in my career, and Dakota Dave Hull, master of […]
1993 Spin Art My first producer credit. I was called in late on this album—not my favorite way to work—but the end result was pretty cool. The Flash Girls were an adventurous duo, and with authors Emma Bull, Jane Yolen, and Neil Gaiman often serving as their lyricists, had some great material to work with. […]
1990 Spin Art Another Way to Travel was our first foray into a real studio, Underground Studios, with legendary engineer/producer Tommy Roberts. Tommy later started Zvex effects, that makes awesome guitar effect boxes. This album remains one of my favorites. As I say in the Cats Laughing band description, I feel like at times, our […]
1988 Spin Art (cassette), reissued digitally in 2013 The very first album I think any of us recorded. We did it on a 4-track and released it on cassette (google it, youngsters!). To multi-track anything, we had to mix all the tracks we already had onto two stereo tracks, and then use the other two […]
Warning: Subjects in your blind spot may be bigger than they appear I have recently returned from Boskone 56 with a head full of storylines, character sketches, and half-written blog posts, as well as a heart full of catching up with old friends and making new ones. This is not unusual. However, this year I […]
I recently ended my employment at Target after five years. It was a great experience. Going from backroom team member to team lead, I learned a lot about myself and even more about leadership, responsibility, and the rewards of hard, regular work. But recently Target corporate decided to go in a direction that I felt […]
Bluegrass and Irish music with old friends. Band members are journalist and disability activist, David Perry on guitar and vocals, Dee Brust from SisterTree on guitar and vocals, and local fiddler, Ann Viviano, on violin and vocals.
Move to Minneapolis, Steve said. We’ll start a band. It’ll be fun. I did. And it was. Cats Laughing was a very unique and adventurous band. We played songs, but many of them had long sections for improvisation, where we would often—and intentionally—leave traditional ideas of pitch and meter behind. We wrote our sets so […]
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