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Barefoot Music Maker

If your eyes were on the back of your head, you'd never see who you were kissing.

About Me

In addition to my role in the library, I'm also an artist, composer and musician. My main instrument is trombone. I've also played piano/keyboards for many theater productions, and music directed numerous shows.
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My Interests

music, theater, running, reading, art, cats
You can listen to great heaping gobs of my original music here:
http://www.esnips.com/web/voosk-Music

I'd like to meet:

Fellow creative types who'd love to see a broad-based revival of actual real live entertainment, a la Vaudeville, Burlesque, Music Hall, Cabaret, etc. No, this does NOT mean karaoke!

Music:

The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Abba, Cocteau Twins, Miles Davis, Christian Lindberg, Joe Alessi, Lounge Lizards, Erik Satie, Klaus Nomi, Yoko Kanno, Klaatu, Bobby Short, Maynard Ferguson, Herb Alpert

Movies:

"Spirited Away,""Doctor Zhivago," "Remains of the Day," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "Annie Hall," "Stranger Than Paradise," "Desperately Seeking Susan," "Charade"

Television:

I haven't owned a TV for over five years, and every time I watch a little bit at a friend's house, I know why I got rid of it!

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, Don Quixote, Catch-22, Everything on a Waffle, David Copperfield

Heroes:

Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Frank Zappa, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol

My Blog

Art show at The Lift

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Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:23:00 PST

Mad Hatters’ Review

Mad Hatters' Review is once again featuring some of my art! Look for it accompanying Charles Freeland's Whatnots. www.madhattersreview.com/issue9/index.shtml N!...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

New art venue

If you need some physical and artistic alignment, you can do both at: Balanced Life Chiropractic & Body Studio707 19th St.Des Moines, IA 50314(515) 288-5433This very cool place is now dis...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:07:00 PST

Holiday Promenade

A few pictures of my art display at the East Village Holiday Promenade:   ...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:17:00 PST

Art show in Des Moines’ East Village

I will be participating in an art show as part of the East Village Holiday Promenade. The Promenade is on Friday, November 16th, from 5pm-9pm.The art show will be held at theEast Village Square333 E. ...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:09:00 PST

Halloween

Here are some pictures of us librarians being silly for Halloween at the Waukee Public Library. You see Snow White, Captain Underpants, and The Gypsy!   ...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:16:00 PST

Library groundbreaking

One of the libraries I work at had a groundbreaking celebration this past Saturday. We're building a much  needed new library! My "job" at the party was to play the piano and hand out balloons. H...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:28:00 PST

43 Things

If MySpace isn't wasting enough time for you, there are plenty of other social networks to join! 43 Things is sort of fun and sort of different. I've only just begun twiddling my own page there, but f...
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:32:00 PST

The Roman

Sometimes ya just gotta wear a toga!
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:10:00 PST

Liberty Gifts webpage

Liberty Gifts, which carries some of my artwork, has a new webpage! Visit it here:Liberty Gifts online
Posted by Barefoot Music Maker on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:25:00 PST