Monthly Archives: October 2025
THIRTY YEARS OF “SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD”
10/13/25I’ll tell you what I hear. I hear my band in college, with a big Earth, Wind & Fire-style horn section, playing a riff that I eventually turned into “The River Won’t Flow.” 1988, I was eighteen years old, that’s thirty-seven years ago. I was dating one of the backup singers, I can still hear her part on that song. I hear Paula Wayne’s cranky Chow Chow grunting at me. Paula was teaching at a performing arts school in Miami that hired me as an accompanist. She said I could come to her house and use her piano any timeRead More »
SETLIST: A MAGICAL NIGHT AT GROTON HILL, MA 10/4/25
10/9/25I have played a few concerts in my life where I felt something shift, like every concert afterward would be informed by what had happened onstage that night. The general structure of my concerts doesn’t change much from show to show, but over the course of these last thirty years of performances, there are nights when an accreted series of small changes in repertoire, in personnel, even in phrasing, suddenly coalesces into something new. I can’t predict when that will happen – in fact, I don’t think it’s happened more than ten times – but I sense it onstage asRead More »