HOWDY,

  So I guess you might be wondering how I got started in music Well, for me, it all started in a coffee house on the east side of Louisville Kentucky where I grew up. I was in a middle class family living a middle class life when I heard this amazing music and met such amazing people , that it changed me. I had a guitar by spring. Not long after graduating Bishop David High School my mom, sister and I packed it all in and moved to Venice Florida. This tropical paradise called to me and I went in search of it an I was amazed at what I found. Having played guitar for a while I was able to land a few jobs that took me far and wide across this beautiful state of ours.  I have been blessed to have had 2 songs on two Friends of Florida Folk compilation CD’s along with a recording of my own called “Life on the Learning Curve”. I have played numerous bars and events such as The Will McLean Festival, Barberville Folk & Arts Festival, Lake County Folk Festival. I never grow tired of listening to and playing acoustic music.

There is a program that I have written called “Turn Back Time”. It’s a musical presentation of stories and song about the people, places and events I have heard about around the many campfires.

    In the old days there were folk singers that would travel from town to town with a knapsack and a guitar or a banjo slung across their shoulders. And with each town these troubadours would carry with them the news of the day or maybe a tale of some local legends and for the price of a meal would gladly share it all with a song, story or even a poem.  Now days they say all you need to know is on the internet, TV or maybe radio.  So, I guess as time passed by all the stories, tall tales, songs of people, places or events were collected and deposited into some book and placed on some shelf somewhere.  Just to gather dust an wait patiently for someone to stumble upon it and start turning the pages.

        I guess that's kind of what "Turn Back Time" does.  It found those old tales and blew off the dust to share it with all who will listen.   "Turn Back Time" is a presentation filled with stories and songs about Venice, Sarasota and this beautiful Land of Flowers that we call home.  Come pull up a chair and have a seat as we tell you about Chief Billy Bowlegs, Captain John Casey, or the amazing Bertha Palmer and all that she did for Sarasota and the surrounding areas.   Let us tell you about Jessie Knight, William "Bill" Whitaker the first settler in these parts.  We invite you to slow down an listen to the tale of the Massacre of Indian Key or of the hardest working men Venice ever knew "Pistol Pete" Edge.

 It's not hard to imagine any of these people or events if you just "Turn Back Time"!