Wanted: Musicians Who Can Sing and Act!

I’m looking for a few core people to fill out a small troupe of performers, musicians who can sing and would also like to do a little acting.

The show I’ve written incorporates storytelling, theater, songs, and if ambition meets opportunity, film. We’ll call it a musical for now. The main plot line is a tragic comedy about a boy who learns how to stop time. The texture is something like Laurie Anderson meets Paul Simon meets Ira Glass's This American Life.

Listen to the trailer for the show on the right here-->

I’m a visual artist and I play guitar and sing and tell stories. I’ve been playing some of the local venues to try out the material and get my performance chops together. I’m ready to start working with other performers to take this project to the next stage, first with regular practice sessions (a couple times a week at first), then a few gigs at local music venues, followed by a run of the full show at a small theater.

And You? Are you a skilled and adventurous musician, along with being a pretty darn good singer who is willing to act or a pretty darn good actor who can sing? The more unusual the instrument, the better, as long as you can read charts and improvise where appropriate. I’m looking for serious performers who love to play, play, play with ideas, with sound, and with moving audiences by the heart.

And do you do any of the following?
- Sprinkle in tasty leads and fills (on your accordion, violin, oboe, harp, tiny little synth, etc.)
- Hold a steady backbeat or lay back and feed in a few sparse rhythms and percussive textures
- Fill out the bottom end with either a bass or something bassy
- Hook crowds with your provocative reading voice
- Sing backup harmonies with some soulful solos
- Have theater experience

If so, please check out some of my songs.

The stories are well into development. If your interest persists please write me a note as to why your interest persists, and send samples of your music. I’ll be setting up meetings in my home in the Mission. We can get together and try some of the songs and see where it takes us.

-David

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New Tracks:

The Stillings

Do You Remember (Loops)

More Tracks:

Just Like That

Before You Die

Do You Remember

At the Foot of the Bed

What She Lives For

Chorus Verse Chorus

Fuentecitos

Some of these songs are on the CD
Do You Remember?

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