on the streets of New Orleans playing Wolfman

   Please welcome the beautiful Elaina as she struts her stuff in doing the cat walk May 10th-12th.  She will be competing for a cash prize!  She is a musician trying to get herself out there in the industry.  I will be prepping and couching her on the cat walk in the mean time.  Please feel free to join us and bring friends!  Thank you!…

Harvey Milk Festival May 12…

• • Saturday, April 7, 2012…

Reading sheet music is daunting to many people who want to learn how to play musical instruments. Learning how to read sheet music requires understanding some basic points. You must know five basics before you can play.



Learn the notes on the staff



Before you can play music, first you have to learn the names of the notes on both the lines and the spaces of the staff. To learn them, look at the clef symbol at the beginning of each staff. It tells…

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Message from Our Leader: Greetings. We released a song yesterday and inexplicably read this review upon waking up today, apparently from across the pond. thank you.…

Soul Purpose is back in the Studio again tonight and recoding a song you may have heard from the Magnificent Pat Monahan. Called Hometown. Yes about Sarasota. It is a good song and you will like it. Even if it kills us.

The Studio, Science recording studios. Sarasota, The players, Soul Purpose, from Sarasota. The Song, Hometown, about Sarasota. What more do we need to do???

Wish us luck

Love the porpoise.

I am currently producing two webisode series called You Speak, and Yes, And..., and I am looking for artists that would like to be part of the collaborative process by providing background music. You Speak asks people four questions based on the four aspects of their being - heart, mind, body, and spirit, and is meant to promote greater understanding and community involvement. Yes, And... is a form of improvisational, serial storytelling that explores the growth…

When I first heard about the "We Can Be Heroes" David Bowie tribute in honor of hi 65th birthday, I didn't know what it was called, but I really wanted to do the title song. The song Heroes is actually the only Bowie song I know how to play, and I'll have to admit that I first heard it from the Wallflowers in the Godzilla movie. Nevertheless, it's…

A few weeks ago, I went to the much ballyhooed Cosmic Groove All Stars show put on by Sarasota Music Scene and The Closet at the Sarasota Lanes bowling alley. Over the last year, as I have gotten more involved in the growing movement of independent musical artists making their mark in the community, I have watched as the bands and solo performers have tried to carve out a niche for themselves within the available venues. Yet as progressive as these artists are in striving to create original…

When I was preparing for The Rucksack Cabaret last week, I considered scripting out what I would say in between. My concern was that in addition to the time I would have to spend memorizing, I feel that there is just too much that I want to say and such a wide variety of people that I want to say it to, that scripting might inhibit the flow. So I decided to just go with the flow. As it was, I appreciated being to simply connect with the audience, trying to find out where they were,…

In light of all the "Your Band Sucks" drama I felt it an ok time to organize and write down my thoughts. No need to be anonymous, I don't hate anyone in this town and I've had some good times, but as a local musician who's band plays regularly I felt I could provide a little insight. I'm not in a Finch House band but I am in an all original band called Dune Train. We don’t play indie music, we play rock and roll. We started as a three piece jam band and quickly realized there is zero love…

After a long while of struggling with it, I've come to grips with the fact that I, like every other person on the planet, have an ego. And although I have often struggled for its dissolution in order for a higher Self to emerge, some even say that I have a rather big ego. Yet I've come to realize that I can either spend the rest of my life wrestling with the inevitable or I can just embrace who I am, have a little fun doing it, and hopefully help some other people realize that our egos…

Considering that I've always had a bit of a wandering streak, my mom would jokingly call me the Prodigal Son whenever I would return home. They didn't kill the fatted calf or anything, and I'm not sure if she ever realized how apt her description of me might be, but suffice it to say that I have strayed from the straight and narrow path offered to me by my Southern Baptist upbringing from time to time. Though the story in the Bible depicts the reckless young man as being submerged in a shame…

Tomorrow night (12/9/11), I'll be performing my one man show "The Rucksack Cabaret." I did a version of it a few years ago where I peppered in some covers and made a few comments between songs, but this one is going to be all my songs and the stories in between. All of the songs in the show were written between here and California after I hitchhiked to Colorado and tooled up and down the west coast on a motorcycle before landing in the City of Angels.



Initially, I took to the road…

With Guest: Scone Train (SRQ), Cats in the Basement (SRQ), Elysian Sex Drive (SRQ St. Pete), The Asteroid Shop (Austin)

I first saw Gringo Star at Skippers Smokehouse In 2009 with Cracker. Since the Skippers show I have been a huge fan, last year I saw them again with my friend and Scone Train member Susan Rouwhorst, she had hung out with them at a show and made friends with the band members, she and I then said we should get them to play a show in Sarasota with local SRQ bands, and…