Notes:

This has been a fun summer so far. On July 5th I was lucky enough to play a huge party off the coast of Falmouth, ME on Sturdivant Island. Tyler Wood joined me on keyboards for two whacked out sets of free groove music. That was a ride, especially when Brunswick, ME's nail artist, John Bisby joined in with some free speech or spoken word. Then I joined my good friends Ben Trout and Scott Elliot in "The Insane Madolin Power Trio" for another two sets of cool electric mandolin music. Thanks to Alex Fisher for putting on a simply ridiculous rager!

I have been playing the Portland Lobster Co. every other wed with the Join Chiefs. The Joint Chiefs are an original rock group. We also play a number of select covers, ie. Wilco, Radiohead, some Stones, and a few Beatles tunes, ect. The group is Charlie Schmidt guitar/vocals, Brian Patrick guitar/vocals, Ben Trout mandolin, Stu Mahan bass, and myself drums, keyboards, and vocals. This has been a fantastic time. We play 6-9pm outside on a pier in the Old Port, eat and drink for free and play tunes. You can't ask for much more. This has been a really excellent opportunity for me to play some keyboard and also play a few new originals.

Curtis Clark and Fitz Jenkins have helped make up my latest jazz trio. We have been playing every other Tuesday at Local 188 in Portland from 9:30-11pm and every 1st Friday night of each month at The Dogfish over on Free Street , also in Portland. We have been playing mostly standards along with a few Curtis Clark originals. We are planning a performance of original compositions for sometime late September or early October and I will update you as we get a little closer.

I'm going to wrap the summer up by packing up my drums, keyboard, and recording equipment and spending three days with my buddy Nick Ludington at his cabin somewhere in the woods near Bar Harbour, ME. We will spend our time writing, recording, relaxing, and all that good stuff.