On the third Tuesday of every month, I host the Songwriter in the Round series at FitzGerald’s Sidebar.
This past week my guests were Jeremy David Miller, a well-known Chicago-area music veteran, and Erich Specht of the Push Puppets, who…
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Celebration of Blair Hull’s Life
Robin and I had the great honor of playing at the Celebration of Blair Hull’s life concert with a number of fellow musicians we are lucky to also call friends.
Blair is truly an example of living with generosity and…
The Path of Joy
As hard as we work
the best things in life are free
and freely given
Labor Day.
It means the end of summer to some of us, the beginning of our favorite season to others, and with the beginning of…
The Strung Out podcast with Marty McCormack
Martin McCormack. If you ever get the chance to spend a little time with him don’t hesitate. He’s the real deal, as a solo artist, as part of the band Switchback, and as a visual artist, family man, and friend.…
Annie Capps, Annie Bacon, and thou
What a time it was!
Annie Bacon, Annie Capps were together for a few shows in Michigan at Celebrate Hudson and 20Front Street.
It was magical. Having gotten back just an hour or so ago, I'll leave it…
Kerrville, TX 2023 and/or eternity
With June in the rear view and the summer about to roar full speed ahead, here in the trough of the wave, I’m remembering the lovely time we had just one month ago at the 2023 Kerrville Festival.
What a…
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Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day
to anyone who ever
kept something alive
There he is. My father, Thomas Joseph James McCarthy.
Surrounded by his four children, after a profound game of SHARK in which he would dive under the water with one…
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The First-Ever Haiku Milieu Sunday Morning Movie!
What do you get when you ask songwriters to write a song to a haiku? A BUNCH OF NEW SONGS, silly!
TOMORROW, Sunday, May 28 at 8:30 am, we'll watch the First-Ever Haiku Milieu Sunday Morning Movie at Friendly's on…
A Good Chance You’ll have a GREAT Time!
I have the great joy of hosting the Singer Songwriter Circle at FitzGerald's on the third Tuesday of each month.
This past month, musical glitterati Gerald Dowd and Casey McDonough were the special guests, and they were spectacular! And we…
Mother's Day: All the Good We Do is Never Lost
There she is. Mrs. McCarthy, as they called her at the High School, or as I called her in the grocery store when she wouldn't turn around after I yelled MOM! a thousand times.
If you said Mrs. McCarthy she…