Scott Walter has organized another Acoustic Showcase at Inza Coffee.

5 Musicians, 40 minutes each, stylistically diverse talent.  If you like live music, this is a chance to hear some in a very cool/relaxed setting.

I’ll be playing third - which places me at approximately 8:20.  However, if I take into account that the final song of any given set won’t end at exactly 40 minutes, change over time (next artist getting plugged in and ready to go), a late start, etc. it is likely I will start between 8:30-8:45PM - but be there by 8:20 if you want to hear me.  I don’t want to see anyone I know walking in during my set!!!  I don’t want to see anyone I know walking out during my set either!!!

Here is my personal flyer:

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Photography by Blakeman Photography

Here’s the Lineup:
7:00 Scott Walter
7:40 Sweet Tooth
8:20 Matt Moran (you are here)
9:00 Gina Loes
9:40 Jason & Lavar

Here’s the Scoop:

On the show: Scott Walter host the Inza Coffee open mic on Saturday evenings - 7 - 9:30 or 10 or so.  Occasionally he pulls together a few artist for these acoustic showcases.  It isn’t just cool to support local artist - with your applause - if not your money - but it is a great way to hear unique and independent artist who play for the music of it.  Musician’s who might aspire to take their talent forward - others just content to play the occasional show for friends and family.

On my music: I don’t know how to categorize it…  Some of it sounds country - but not twangie, some sounds like “acoustic pop” - some sounds like easy listening??? So let’s just cover my influences and favorite songwriters.  They are (in an every shifting order): Shawn Mullins, James Taylor, John Mellencamp,  Peter, Paul, & Mary, Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earl, Fleetwood Mac (they all write well), Jackson Browne, Jim Croce, Jimmy Buffett, John Denver, Joni Mitchell, Kenny Loggins, and many others I am leaving out.  Suffice to say that I play & sing well-enough to please you but won’t win American Idol on my best day.  I try to mix in stories behind the songs - to give you a point of reference and the audience seems to find it interesting.

I helped Laura Moran get her tutoring website off the ground.  http://www.K5Tutor.com   Nothing fancy, using Wordpress as the content management.  I know her (wink, wink) and she is an excellent tutor!  Mostly Cave Creek, Anthem, and areas between.

She only works with K-5 - smart choice since teens, in our opinion, are sub-human.  And we know, we have three of them - throw them scraps of food and they are fine!

Speaking of which, I harp on video game addictions and my son (13) has a friend over and they pull an all-night Halo binge!

You have to love Google Alerts.  This morning, 4:30am, I get online and have an Alert about this story..

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0718starbucks0716.html

So I ran outside to grab the paper and lo and behold, first page of the Arizona Living section, there is a goofy picture of yours truly.

I was online with a friend and business acquaintance, Marc, reviewing some content for TheTechnologyPro.com and sent him the link.

I especially liked the line… “Moran has a Mr. Clean freshness with his shaved head and muscular build,” - which prompted me to tell Marc that I’m going to do it…. I’m getting the earring and dying my eyebrows white….

My hero…

I’ll scan the picture for later - but currently, I’m off to do pull-ups at the park.

If you read the story, it mentions AromaCorp.  I didn’t actually borrow that phrase, I coined it when I was speaking to a friend.  I wrote about it here.
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/opportunities-at-aromacorp-1599

Coffee, my drug of choice, makes frequent appearances in my blog at IT Toolbox - including lessons on how Everything I learned about IT, I learned from Mr. Coffee.

A special thanks to Pam Slim, my friend (really), for referring me to Sonia Haller at the AZ Republic, and thank you to Sonia for interviewing me.

Marc Wolsfeld and I are getting ready to launch our first tutorials on TheTechnologyPro.com.

I am finalizing three tutorials on blogs, podcast, and RSS - with non-technical explanations of each.