Evan is an artist, writer and musician living in Boulder, Colorado. As an artist, he has been a regular contributor to Wild Earth, Wildflower and High Country News and his illustrations have adorned books published by Westcliffe, the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project and, most recently, "The Landscape Of Home", published by the Rocky Mountain Land Library. His humorous essays have been syndicated by Writers On The Range, appearing in over 40 newspapers across the west.
Evan is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Growing up as a young Beatlemaniac in the sixties, his influences range from Bill Monroe, Miles Davis and Creedence Clearwater Revival to Buddy Holly, The Yardbirds and The Sex Pistols. In various incarnations, Evan has performed rockabilly, prog-rock, blues, jazz, country, punk & new wave, bluegrass, folk, straight-ahead rock and done Elvis imitations. He is perhaps most well known for his 1980's performance art troupe 'Walls Of Genius', which was an anti-response to the music business. After a long hiatus, he returned to music in the new millennium, bringing this eclectic background to bear.
He is doing American Roots Music explorations, which include blues, folk, country and bluegrass and is fronting a group to explore this acoustic honky-tonk territory, New Cosmic Americans. He performs with his guitar, harmonicas and banjo. The Cosmic kids have a myspace site: www.myspace.com/newcosmicamericans.
With poets Leo Goya and Kayanne Pickens, he plays bass at jazz-poetry events, sometimes with or without percussion. Evan and Leo have performed with Jeanne Hatherly, Marcelo Games and Burt Rashbaum at the September School, Gilpin County Public Library, Blue Owl Books and the Ward Public Library. These are unique and wonderful events, totally accessible even for those who feel allergenic to poetry.
During most of 2005 and 2006, Evan fronted Denver surf-punk power pop band Motosapien. For the unique sound of MotoSapien, Evan channeled one part Dick Dale, one part Neil Young and one part Johnny Rotten, creating a distinctive musical perspective. What a great opportunity this was to develop his electric guitar playing and write rock songs!! MotoSapien called it quits in November 2006.
In the wake of the Sapiens, Evan helped form Strange New Worlds, an all-improv psychedelic jazz-jam ensemble, mixing elements of Miles Davis with Pink Floyd, sailing the space-funk continuum and exploring extradimensional megafunk. SNW played numerous gigs, highlighted by Dazzle Lounge, touted as one of the world's best hundred jazz clubs by Downbeat magazine. SNW petered out in summer 2008, but you can still hear tracks at www.myspace.com/snwband.
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