Maybe I'm late to the game, but I finally held my first streaming concert last Wednesday, Sponsored my City of Tempe Arts in the Parks. I guess I just needed to get paid up front to have the motivation to finally do something live, ha. But it went really well, and I...
Me and dad when I was only 6.I had this dream last night that I was back home in Alabama. It didn't really look like home, but somehow I knew it was. There were no walls, just infinite space surrounding the clutter I sat on - clothes and furniture and things strewn...
Me and Dad at my wedding on Halloween, 2008."Hey Mom! How's it going?" I asked, as I promptly answered the phone, surprised to get the call. "Well, not so good... He's dead." Enter profound shock and grief. It was a month ago today that he died. This has been the...
By My Side is about finding the people with whom we really connect - the people who will help us fulfill our purpose in this life. I wrote this song just over two years ago when I felt that Bohemian Insurgence was really taking shape: some parts of the song are...
We sold out The Nash! It's so exciting to be able to share those words! And I feel this is just the beginning for Bohemian Insurgence. I'm so excited about this band. We have such a great vibe and unique sound! What an amazing amount of support we received from so...
I've been spending a lot of time over the past three years really trying to define what is my authentic, unique sound. I think I've begun to really achieve it, finally, and it's a blend of my jazz and Americana/folk/soul roots. This is part of why my June 8th release...
A lot of people have asked me how in the world I left a lucrative 6-figure engineering career to be a full-time working musician. Well, it was hard and a lot of work, but with the proper planning, I was able to make it happen and eventually make even more money as a...
This weekend was an absolute BLAST playing with my band Bohemian Insurgence!! We had a fun string of gigs starting Friday at Tempe Center for the Arts, then Saturday at the Tempe Festival of the Arts for a mid-day set. We closed out the evening headlining the...
I was Working on making new percussion instruments out of seeds from the Texas Laurel tree and got tired of drilling holes in the seeds and wanted to make a break. I ended up getting out my DSLR camera and opened up DragonFrame and started to play around with...