BORN:
-Newburgh New York
-into the middle & working class
-into the declining catholic community
FORMAL MERITS:
-The sacrament of confirmation
-The High school regents diploma
-The college degrees: Philosphy, Graphic Design
PUBLIC AWARDS:
-Mary M Torrens senior poet award
-Finalist 2003 John Lennon Songwriting Contest
-Finalist, multiple times, Williamsburg Live Songwriting Contest
EXISTENTIAL TERROR:
-felt at an early age: thoughts of mortality without religious conviction
LYRICAL MERITS:
-Hasn't used the words "California" or "L.A." in a song.
RECORDS RELEASED:
(2001) Her Sacred Status My Militant Needs
(2007) Song and Void Volume 1
(2008) Producer: You are the Benefactory of Us, Ben Sadock
(2008) Graphic Design: Anatomy & Birth, Jay Foote
(2010) Burying the Dead
ON SONG AND VOID VOLUME 1:
"I haven't liked a record this much in ages."
-Lian Lunson (director of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man)
"The record is a true masterpiece."
-Performing Songwriter Magazine
"This is t h e singer-songwriter album of the second half of
2007!"
-Skug Magazine
"Nick Cave. Bob Dylan. Leonard Cohen. Tom Waits a man who is following in the footsteps of the greats in a massively competent way. He sings of misery, memorial, mortality, and loss. He evokes religious imagery, erecting church houses to pray in and supreme beings to beseech."
-Chronogram
son of the velvet rat with richard mcgraw live @ sidewalk cafe
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06-07 SHOWS PAST
03/25/2006 PETES CANDY STORE williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
04/20/2006 Valentines Albany, NY
05/12/2006 Rockwood Music Hall NY, NY
06/26/2006 CBGB GALLERY New York, NY
08/11/2006 The Waltz-ASTORIA Astoria, NY
08/25/2006 The Mezzanine Kingston, NY
09/11/2006 Jivamukti Yoga Center Cafe NY,NY
09/17/2006 Matchless Williamsburg, NY
09/21/2006 Galapagos Williamsburg, NY
10/14/2006 2 alices coffee lounge Cornwall, NY
10/27/2006 SkyTop Steakhouse Kingston, NY
11/04/2006 Bittersweets Williamsburg, NY
11/12/2006 Side Walk Cafe NY, NY
11/18/2006 Liberty Heights Tap Brooklyn, NY
12/23/2006 Sidewalk Cafe NY, NY
01/20/2007 60 Main New Paltz, NY
01/25/2007 Sidewalk Cafe NY, NY
02/21/2007 Laila Lounge Williamsburg, NY
03/05/2007 Petes Candy Store Williamsburg, NY
03/07/2007 Parkside Lounge NY, NY
04/11/2007 Googie's Lounge NY, NY
04/12/2007 The Slipper Room NY, NY
05/19/2007 Colony Cafe Woodstock, NY
06/02/2007 Laila Lounge Williamsburg, NY
06/06/2007 PIANOS NY, NY
06/09/2007 Dominie's Hoek Long Island City, NY
06/23/2007 THE LOFT Somerville, Mass
06/30/2007 St. James's Gate Publick House Maplewood,NJ
08/18/2007 Pianos NY, NY
08/25/2007 Dominie’s Hoek Long Island City, NY
10/13/2007 Dominies Hoek Long Island City, NY
11/02/2007 cake shop NY, NY
11/09/2007 the creek and the cave
11/16/2007 2 alices coffee lounge Long Island City, NY
11/18/2007 Petes Candy Store Williamsburgm BY
11/29/2007 Vorstadt, BLUE BIRD FESTIVAL, Vienna, Austria
11/30/2007 L'Angalo Gras, austria
12/12/2007 Laila Lounge Williamsburg, NY
