A Creative Feast for All

    Improvisation is dangerous. That’s what I like about it.   I started performing Spontaneous Combustion events 6 years ago, and it still inspires me.   Imagine five musicians on a stage extemporaneously creating a song. There is no director or curator. No one has a score. No one knows how the tune will […]

Beach Foam

  I wrote this song during the Great Flood of 2016.  Many friends and family members lost everything.   What I saw was a community stand together victorious in the midst of tragedy.  I was proud to live in Southern Louisiana.    There is a special joy that comes with rebuilding/remodeling.       A […]

Fight the Flood

Southern Louisiana is experiencing a great travesty. Flood waters have displaced thousands and thousands of people from their homes. This is a great way to help: http://www.fightthefloodla.com/              

Joyous Moon

This is one of my favorite new songs. It came from a dream… It’s about birth and life and joy.       Lyrics: Here we are Faceless Stars I’m going to take this fight Polyphonic Cosmic Flight Graffiti on these walls Shakes me to the core We might fall from this wire You could […]

Appomattox

  I’m developing a new project based on the Civil War. It’s going to be a song cycle that captures the timeline, and emotions of each period of the conflict. Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia was where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered in April 1865. It’s a beautiful metaphor. In my song I took the perspective […]