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  • Thu
    13
    Feb
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    9:00 PM - 1:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Thursday Night!
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Thu
    27
    Mar
    2025

    March Music

    7:00 PM - 10:00 PMChurch of the Transfiguration “Little Church Around the Corner” 1 East 29th Street, New York City

    My composition Short Excursion for Piano Trio #4 will be performed in concert.   Katie Thomas will be playing violin, Kate Dillingham will be playing cello, and Craig Ketter will be on piano.  Admission is $20, $15 for seniors, students are free.  Tickets will go on sale Feb 28th.   Cheese & wine reception after the concert.
    New York Composers Circle

     

  • Fri
    11
    Apr
    2025

    Frost Kings at Monmouth Public Library

    4:00 - 5:00Monmouth Public Library, Malapan, NJ

    I will be joining forces with the Frost Kings (superb blues band) at the Monmouth Public Library - this is "down the shore" in Manalapan.   As this is a library we will be playing a bit quieter than usual.  Shhh!

  • Thu
    24
    Apr
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    8:00 PM - 12:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Thursday Night!
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Fri
    09
    May
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Shillelagh Club

    8:00 PM - 11:30ishShillelagh Club, 648 Prospect Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052 973 325 9338
  • Thu
    15
    May
    2025

    Frost Kings at Chatham Public Library

    7:00 - 8:00 PMChatham Public Library, Chatham, NJ

    I will be joining forces with the Frost Kings (superb blues band) at the Monmouth Public Library - this is "down the shore" in Manalapan.   As this is a library we will be playing a bit quieter than usual.  Shhh!

  • Fri
    30
    May
    2025

    Composers Collective Concert

    7:00 amNational Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001

    This is the last Composer's Collective concert in the 24-25 season and will feature works composed by members of the Composer's Collective for violin & piano - or just piano.  Tentatively I will be performing a collection of short works for piano.   Other works will feature violinist Katie Thomas and pianist Markus Kaitila.

  • Fri
    06
    Jun
    2025

    Frost Kings in Somerville, NJ

    4:00 amSomerville, NJ

    This is an outdoor event in downtown Somerville.   Details will be forthcoming.

  • Sun
    22
    Jun
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    8:00 PM - 12:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Sunday Night!
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Thu
    07
    Aug
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    8:00 PM - 12:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Thursday Night!
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Sat
    13
    Sep
    2025

    Frost Kings in Madison, NJ

    8:00 pm Madison Community House 25 Cook Avenue Madison, NJ 07940

    Show up at 7 for introductory swing dance lesson from 7:00 to 8:00pm. Then dance to The Frost Kings from 8-11.  Refreshments included.  Parking at the left side of the building.  It is OK to use spaces marked Permit Parking Only since it is off-hours. Same for the adjacent parking lot of the office building.
    Admission: $25 cash at the door or Venmo: @SwingNJ. (6261)
    https://letsswingnj.org/event/the-frost-kings/

  • Sat
    20
    Sep
    2025

    Performance at 2025 National Festival of the National Association of Composers, USA

    1:00 pmCentral Commons Sanctuary, 4711 Westside Dr, Dallas, TX 75209

    This is a 3 day composers convention/festival organized by NACUSA (National Association of Composers USA) featuring concerts and lectures.   I will be performing in concert some selections from a new collection of short piano pieces titled 10 Easy Pieces.   I am on Concert III which starts at 1:00.  A number of my fellow composers are also on the program - I am 4th on the program.  If you do show up, I encourage you to stay for concert IV which starts at 4:00

    https://www.nacusamusic.org/festival-2025

  • Wed
    24
    Sep
    2025

    NACUSATHON 2025 Virtual Presentation

    3:00 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBz1Rksxl0

    This is a "virtual concert" put on by NACUSA (National Association of Composers USA).  If you go to this link at exactly 3:00 PM EST on Wednesday September 24th, you will hear my Rumble for Two Pianos as played by my computer (not real musicians).  I am 3rd on the program.  Good listening!

  • Sun
    28
    Sep
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    8:00 PM - 12:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Sunday is Funday . . .
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Sun
    26
    Oct
    2025

    Frost Kings in Springfield, NJ

    2:00 pm Springfield Free Public Library, 66 Mountain Avenue, Springfield,NJ
  • Fri
    31
    Oct
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    9:00 PM - 1:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Halloween!!
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Mon
    03
    Nov
    2025

    Montclair Music Club

    7:30 pmPresbyterian Church of Upper Montclair, 53 Norwood Ave, Upper Montclair, NJ

    I will be performing some selections from my up and coming album - tentatively titled "10 Easy Pieces".   I will post details on the program when they become available.

  • Thu
    20
    Nov
    2025

    Blues Jam at the Shillelagh Club

    7:00 amShillelagh Club, 648 Prospect Ave, West Orange, New Jersey 07052

    I will be in the house band for this inauguration of a new location for Andy Lackow's blues jam.  Andy's blues jam sessions are an institution in the North Jersey blues community.   While this is a new location for the jam, it's a well established location for blues aficionados.    https://www.facebook.com/events/798860159692693/

  • Thu
    11
    Dec
    2025

    Better Off Dead @ Great Notch Inn

    8:00 PM - 12:00 AMGreat Notch Inn, 400 Route 46 West, Woodland Park, NJ

    Thursday!
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Great-Notch-Inn/100051551302390/
    https://www.betteroffdead.com/

  • Sun
    21
    Dec
    2025

    Uptown Boogie Band at the Montclair Brewery

    4:30 - 6:30101 Walnut St, Montclair, NJ 07042

    Paul Weisenstein - the guitarist/lead singer of Uptown Boogie Band - and myself played in a band in the late 1970s - so this is a reunion of sorts.

    https://www.northjerseybluessociety.org/event-details/uptown-boogie-band

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