About Me
Musician...
I'm a musician who has a love/hate relationship with music. I have also been spending less and less time playing. Here is a little about the songs posted on myspace... After a music filled high school life, I left home to play drums in Up With People (1995-1999)
where I played on multiple tours that took me to 30 states and 16 countries.
I played for 10,000 UWP fans in Venezuela. In 1999 while on tour again, I
co-wrote and produced the song Out Of Sight and recorded it in a studio in Boras, Sweden. We also performed it live on a Swedish national radio station.
Other highlights of my time in Up With People were a huge outdoor concert for Portuguese National Television and an amazing performance at Disney's Epcot Center. One of the projects that came as a direct result of UWP was Barbed Wire Limbo, (1995-1997) where I played guitar, bass, vocals and supplied lyrics. This was an
acoustic duo with singer / songwriter Mike Woodard.
We co-wrote, recorded and produced the song Life Before Death. (first song on myspace)My friend and biz. partner Stephen King also sang amazing back-up on that tune.
Visit Mike at www.MikeWoodardLive.com for more info on a great musician and friend. After Up With People I helped form Stanley Maxwell, a jazz / funk band (2000-2003)I wrote quite a few songs with them and also played guitar. We
played for the ESPN X-Games Trials (2001) and were
nominated for best R&B band in CT by the Hartford Advocate.
In 2002 I wrote Spank Brandon New and Backyard (second and third songs on myspace) with Eric Dellavecchia. Please visit Stanley Maxwell at www.StanleyMaxwell.com to learn more about my friends Eric, Mark, Andy and Evan who are still playing together. In fact in 2007, they were vote "Best Jazz Band" by the readers of the Hartford Advocate....Fly by Night (JuggleThis.com)......
I started juggling in the third or fourth grade. I always was in interested in performing and being on stage, and juggling was the perfect vehicle. It gave me a reason to be in the relative spotlight, at recess with at good old Saint Joseph School. I also loved comedy and comedians and making people laugh, both my peers and adults. My father had old Bill Cosby records that I would listen to over and over, almost as much as his Jimi Hendrix and Beatles albums. Every sunday night, I would listen to comedy on WCCC or WHCH, I can't remember which, and taped it on my "boom box". Following the comedy show was The Dead Hour, that played live Grateful Dead Shows. In fifth grade, while in Boy Scouts I meet another scout by the name of Stephen King (insert joke here...ha ha...die) and I only say that because after knowing him almost twenty years, the Stephen King jokes and comments are old to even me. Steve was a fellow juggler and attention seeker and I realized it was either be in "competition" with this kid or join forces and share the relative spotlight of the Boy Scout camp fires, that often featured scout talent. About the same time as I was getting into juggling, I was reading and learning as much as I could about magic. I was really into coin and card tricks and close up magic like cups and balls etc. At 13 or 14, I started working at KC's Party Shop as a costume character, magician and juggler for mostly children's birthday parties. Claudia, owner of KC's needed more performers so I got Steve a job. At this time we started to do shows together and in 1990 we performed our first show as Fly by Night at the Bristol Mum Festival. We made $60, split in half of course.
Our show has changed so much over the years. However, it has always been a combination of comedy and skill. After almost 20 years, we have seen a lot, been to almost all of the 50 states and many countries as both an act, and as friends. We also started an entertainment booking service called Fly by Night Entertainment. We represent many entertainers to clients looking for talent for events. Please visit www.FlybyNightEntertainment.com for more information on that. I still work with Steve. We have an office in Manchester, CT and an office manager Matt Swett. Our show is on the road internationally....
