My musical mate and fellow traveler Kathleen Coffee turned me on this oh-so-nourishing music video. I ask these questions of my own modest musical-artistic ventures almost every day. This song, in its joyful directness and simplicity, answers the questions ‘Why try and be creative?” and “Does anyone care?” with its own lilting echo. How could [...]
Archive | August, 2010
Come to Culturefest
August 25, 2010
Listen. You know who you are, the kind of person who when properly convinced that a road trip is in order undertakes said roadtrip. All the rest of you may stop reading now (except, if you don’t mind, would you please click that arrow in the video above and take a look at the latest [...]
Trashy folk
August 19, 2010
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Some people talk a good game and then do … not much at all. Some people put their hands and hearts where their talk is. Like the front line eco-warriors of PickUpAmerica.org. I met these folks while shooting video down Alderson, W.Va., for the PGA Greenbrier Classic. There they were alongside the Greenbrier River, sweating [...]
Enjoy Thyself
August 12, 2010
Hear my latest musical adventure, IO and the IONs, in a Third Eye Cabaret show from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 14, at Taylor Books in Charleston, W.Va., with special guests Option 22. One of the songs we’ll be doing is this one, “Enjoy Yourself,” a 1949 tune by Carl Sigman and Herb [...]
Third Eye Re-opens
August 12, 2010
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After a successful opening in Princeton, W.Va., last Saturday night, Third Eye Cabaret re-opens at Taylor Books in Charleston, W.Va., this Saturday, Aug. 14, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., featuring IO and the IONS with special guests Option 22. We spent the last week at the official Third Eye Cabaret Camp at The RifRaff Arts [...]
Be there when the Third Eye opens
August 4, 2010
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click poster bigger. In case your browser does not properly display the above information, be there at a pleasing spectacle of theatrical music as THIRD EYE CABARET, featuring Io & the Ions and Option 22, opens up three times in the weeks ahead, starting this Saturday. The Cabaret features the original music of Io, with [...]


August 31, 2010
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