Nothing lasts forever but Kent Smith (aka: St. Petey Twig, aka: Barry Cuda), a fifth-generation Floridian, who has been pushing a 500 pound upright acoustic piano down the streets of Key West for almost forty years, is now leaving us. There is some dignity in the saga of Barry Cuda music and memories. Cuda’s performance […]
Barry Cuda The Philosophy of Piano Moving For the past 37 years Barry Cuda has refused to play a “Robo Piano” (electronic keyboard) and has moved a 500 lb upright acoustic piano down the streets of Key West to thousands of gigs. Over the years he has developed a technique of moving his piano, […]
Happy 80th Birthday OMG! The times really are a changin. I can remember listening to the songs of Bob Dylan while driving in my 1962 Ford Galaxy convertible with the top down, across the Bahia Honda bridge – the original bridge. Something about his music always gave me peace. Its difficult to believe the great […]
51st EARTH DAY JAM with That Hippie Band Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson saw the ravages of the 1969 Santa Barbara, California oil spill. He saw the Cuyahoga River catch fire from pollutants in downtown Cleveland. The LA smog was so bad you could no longer see the famous Hollywood sign. He founded the first […]
Terry Cassidy, a wonderfully talented long time Keys musician and songwriter, has been hosting an annual fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity for quite a few years. It’s held at Boondocks Grille and Draft House on Little Torch Key. Boondocks is an unusually large covered venue with a great stage and sound system. The events are […]
Just thought we should to take a moment to remember the “Observant Lion”, George Victory. He would have been 71 today (2/7) and left us far too early. George was a great musician, a fantastic vocalist, and an even better member of our One Human Family. He told me once that he loved Key West […]
The Annual Crooks Second Line Celebration is a special New Orleans style tribute to our loved ones that have passed on. The internationally famous drummer and long-time Key West resident Richard Crooks passed after a long illness in late 2014. Richard had been a musician’s musician all his life. He specialized in making songs better […]
In 2011 while sitting in the Smoking Tuna at the 2nd Annual Key West Musicians Festival – I began to realize there was something special happening in Key West. There were six musicians on stage entertaining, about ten more near the bar enjoying the performance, and another thirty musicians on the schedule. We were […]
There is a very shortlist of cities in the Americas that have celebrated a 500th birthday. November 16, 2019, the citizens of Havana hosted the 500th Anniversary of the founding of their beautiful city by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar. Huge crowds attended several free concerts all along the Malecon seawall. A driving rain Friday night […]
