The Blackbird was born on Long Island, NY…
He was born about forty four days before John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley moved over to the other side. It was a time of hopefulness and imagination when the People were alive, self assured and believed, throughout all of the struggle and conflict of the era, that they were working towards a prosperous and peaceful shared future for their country and the world. The creative spirit of the time was flourishing and the entire world reaped the benefits, and still does.
He spent his early years immersed in Beatles' music, and when he was properly seasoned, he reached out into all the other wonderful music of the counterculture. The background of his childhood was a loving family, and a water-colored collage of the Moon landing, the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, the dark paranoia of Richard Nixon, the ominous drills hiding under desks in school and the demented policy of Mutual Assured Destruction which defined the Cold War, the enlightened fantasy of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, and Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone and the social masterpiece of Archie Bunker's Family.
In his young adulthood he began working in theater and learned that literature could be alive. He was a founding member of the Modern Theater of Myth in New York, and he scored many classic ancient Greek and Shakespeare works, accompanying the plays in New York and in international theater festivals in Scotland, Cyprus, Hungary and Greece. After a festival in Cyprus he traveled to Egypt and became intoxicated with Egyptian mythology and history and the history transformations of religions. In the 1990's he began performing protest songs and specifically songs that people had been killed for writing and singing like Joe Hill, Victor Jara, John Lennon. He found deep inspiration in such artists but found purely political songwriting was not for him a large enough experience, and did not convey the Joy needed to move forward in Peace, and Love, probably the most important virtue of music. He has also come to believe that in a cruel and dull world a love song is also be a potent protest song, and a poem may be more subversive than a political manifesto.
His interests lie in the evolution of the human spirit, music, literature, political science, social science, futurism, speculative fiction, physics, oral history, the history of religions, mysticism, shamanism, imagination, and the function of art in society. It is his belief that mankind is at a crucial turning point in it's evolution, we must either come together as a thoughtful compassionate global society, or we will descend into the madness of desperate sub-humanism in a paranoid police state. He believes also that our evolution will be more and more consciously guided by one or the other of these forces, and he would like his voice to be an advocate of the thoughtful compassionate global society. He views his music as folk music for a Emergent Global Village.