I was born in Port Sulphur where we lived until I was 4. I spent my schoolyears in Gramercy, LA on the Mighty Mississippi where I began my music career playing guitar and singing in the choir at Mass and at school and anywhere else I could find to play. My parents and a few siblings and their children still live there. I'm settled on Bayou Lafourche where I've raised my family.
I'm a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist by trade. I have a Master of Science degree in Nurse Anesthesiology from Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Though I'd love to have a successful career in the music business, I enjoy the practice of my profession a great deal. It's wonderfully rewarding to be able to make a difference in people's lives through the provision of quality medical care.
I've been writing songs ever since I began to play the guitar at age 14. I've performed in open mic's all over and in Coffee Shops for the past several years. Coffee Shop patrons tend to be the music listening type which is probably why singer songwriters like myself gravitate toward such venues. I've played with several bands over the years, preferring the acoustic variety the most; Folklure, from Lafayette was my most recent foray into the band format. On most Sunday mornings, you'll find me singing and playing mandolin or dobro with the St. Joseph Sacred Folk Choir at 11:30 AM Mass, or at Christ the Redeemer Church at 7:30 AM.
I love great folk music, new and old. There's nothing better than a well sung story to tug at the heartstrings or tickle the funny bone of an audience.
The title song of my New CD, 'A Little Less Louisiana', laments the tragedy of our vanishing Louisiana Coastline. It is my most sincere hope that this CD can bring this problem into the consciousness of as many people as possible.
The CD features Rob Ickes on Resonator and acoustic slide guitars and Andy Leftwich on Mandolin and Fiddle. If you don't know these guys, I suggest you look them up and get ahold of some of their music with Blue Highway and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. They are simply the best!
REVIEW: Mike Vinning, Houma Courier Newspaper writes; What a pleasantly alluring CD. It's like taking everything you've ever loved about growing up in south Louisiana - combined with everything your grandparents told you about - and dividing it up equally among 12 original songs, and putting them all on one CD called "A Little Less Louisiana."
