Gary A. Edwards Entertainment Blog 9/24/22 

Exciting News – A couple of days ago a concert promoter approached me about working together to promote my music. He said he had connections to a theater in a larger city nearby and also has connections to a very good possible investor. Yesterday a talented person approached me and offered to produce my works. I’m not going to print any names until these connections become more official but I am hopeful that my goal of getting an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards) and a Pulitzer Prize for my music creations is coming closer to fruition.

WaTaino CD Update- A famous Puerto Rican comedian and actor named Raulito Carbonell  filmed a documentary on Puerto Rican landmark sites and used our Wataino music created by me and co-writer Orlando Sanchez for the soundtrack. Unfortunately, the pilot was not picked up for further production.

Mildred Bailey Music –Cecilia Curtis of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe is singing songs made famous by Mildred Bailey a member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe at The Coeur d’Alene Tribal Casino. Contact the Casino for dates and times. I created the show, transcribed the music and conducted the band. Now the show is available for wider production beyond the Coeur d’Alene reservation boundaries.

A Train Through Time – Cowriter Claude Solnik sent me a new musical script called A Train Through Time about travelers stuck on a train that is traveling through time and they can only get off at certain stations in time when it is their time.  I completed composing the music for it this summer. Two previous productions premiered in New York City including Stealing Mona Lisa on December 22, 2022 and June 9^th, 2023. Soon we are starting to work on a fifth musical together.

Flashback Band – I was hired recently to play bass in a band called Flashback because we play classic rock n’ roll from the 50’s and 60’s. We have played together twice at the Dueling Piano Bar in downtown Coeur d’Alene. The performances were very successful.

The Flying Pig Farm project – A lady named Kimberly Bennet approached me and said she was looking for a composer. So far she has given me the lyrics to six quirky songs featuring farm animals singing. For instance, one song is about a wolf who is a veterinarian and is conflicted because she wants to eat her chicken patients. We recorded six demos at my Sound Engineer Dan Lewis’ studio and are now promoting the songs.

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Gary A. Edwards  

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A Train Through Time - Gary completed composing the music for this new musical created by Claude Solnik who wrote the book and lyrics. Hopefully it will be scheduled soon for a premiere in New York City, adding to the two musicals already produced, Stealing Mona Lisa on 12/22/22 and A Stitch In Time on 06/19/23. This new musical concerns passengers on a train traveling through time.

Flashback - Gary was hired yesterday to play bass with a classic rock band and had a great time playing great rock music with them on 08/13/23 at the New York Dueling Piano bar in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. We will also be playing there next Friday 08/18/23 from 8 pm to midnight. Come down and enjoy the party.

Dorothy Hebert's Memoir - We received the first proof for this book which I helped edit and format for uploading to Amazon. It is entitled My Untold Surprising Life. It is the story of how an elderly person who started life early as an orphan overcame her obstacles and found love and happiness and a fulfilling life. It will be available on Amazon shortly.

The Flying Pig Farm Project - Kimberly Bennet wrote a book featuring quirky animals which included six songs, which Gary set to music. Cece Curtis from The Coeur d'Alene Reservation sang the songs and Kimberly also recorded two rap versions, which Dan Lewis Sound Engineer in Spokane mixed. We are currently mixing the recordings so keep an eye out for this Extended Play Music CD to be released soon.

Otherwise we are having summer fun going to festivals and concerts and meeting new friends all the time.

Music is love. Keep the love going.

Gary A. Edwards

Hello. Here’s the latest news about my music activities.

A Stitch In Time completes three month run in New York City. The word from reviewers and cast and crew is that everyone loved this show and the music that I composed for lyrics provided by Co-writer Claude Solnik. I didn’t go to New York for the show because it was too expensive. If you would like to partner with our team for productions let me know. You would have a lot of fun behind the scenes hanging out with me, Claude and the cast, and we might even make a profit someday.

A Train Through Time – I am half way finished composing the music for a new musical comedy co-written by Claude Solnik. This is our fourth joint project. The story is about travelers on a train through time who become aware that there are stops at different times but they can’t get off the train until they arrive at the stop where they are meant to be.

The Flying Pig Farm music project – Kimberly Bennett wrote a book where the characters are animals and a few people. The wolf is a Veterinarian and is suffering a crisis because one of her patients is a chicken who burnt her leg, and the smell makes the wolf doctor want to eat the chicken, which would be a violation of her Hippocratic Oath. So, this coming Friday Kimberly and I are meeting with Cece Curtis of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe who will be singing the six songs in this project at Dan Lewis’ recording site where he and I have produced many music CD’s together.

Dorothy Hebert Memoir project – I have finished editing and proofreading Dorothy’s (age 93) memoir and now we are getting the photos ready to publish this work on Amazon. Don’t miss this exciting and interesting story of an orphan who successfully overcame the many challenges she was born with and became a model at age 65.

Emerge Art Gallery Block Party – I will be selling my CD’s and other local artist’s works at a block party at the Emerge Art Gallery Thursday July 13^th and Friday July 14^th in the evening. The gallery has many opportunities for emerging artists to come out of their cocoons and display their works and is located on the corner of 2^nd and Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene Idaho. There will be entertainment, etc.

Happy Summer everyone.

Gary A. Edwards

A Stitch In Time – Songwriter’s List

Here is some information about our new musical comedy called A Stitch in Time, set for premier run at the Theater for the New City at 155 1^st Avenue from June 19, 2023 to July 9, 2023. The following is a list of songs in the show that were written originally by Edwards and the indicated co-songwriters, and then the lyrics were adapted by Claude Solnik for this show on June 19^th, 2023:

Song 02 Clothes Make the Woman - Adapted from The Queen of Baton Rouge Copyright © 1995 by Gary A. Edwards and Howard Wand.  © 2018 Lyrics by Claude Solnik. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Song 03 The Devil to Pay - Adapted from The Devil to Pay Copyright (c) 1998 by Stephen Patrick Montgomery lyrics and Gary A. Edwards, © 2018 new lyrics by Claude Solnik. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Song 05 Who am I - © 1975 by Gary A. Edwards. (c)  2018 new lyrics by Claude Solnik. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Song 06 One Track Mind - Adapted from One-Track Mind Copyright © 1997 by Stephen Patrick Montgomery and Gary A. Edwards. © 2018 Updated lyrics by Claude Solnik. Used by permission.

Song 13 The New Normal - Adapted from The New America Copyright © 1995 by Gary A. Edwards and Howard Wand.  © 2018 Lyrics by Claude Solnik. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Song 15 Beginning Again - Adapted from Beginning Again Copyright © 2000 by Gary A. Edwards and Linda Ericson.  All rights reserved. Updated lyrics Copyright © 2000 by Claude Solnik. Edwards Music Site dot com (ASCAP) 4580 E. Weatherby Post Falls ID 83854 (208) 699-0848 edwardsgaryallen@gmail.com

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Song 17 The other side of Time – Adapted from The Other Side of Time.  Copyright © 1995 by Gary A. Edwards and Howard Wand.  © 2018 Lyrics by Claude Solnik. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Song 18 Will you meet me one time again? - Adapted from Moonlight On The Coeur d’Alene Copyright © 2000 by Gary A. Edwards and Douglas Reed.  © 20018 updated lyrics by Claude Solnik . 4580 E. Weatherby Ave. Post Falls  ID 83854 (208) 699-0848 www.EdwardsMusicSite.com edwardsgaryallen@gmail.com Douglas Reed (Dec.) - 12955 W. Hwy. 53 Rathdrum ID 83858 (208) 687-5023 or 687-4353

Song 21 Time to be alone - Adapted from Time to Be Alone Copyright © 1998 by Betsy Katz and Gary A. Edwards. Updated lyrics © 2018 by Claude Solnik. Edwards Music Site dot com (ASCAP) 4580 E. Weatherby Ave. Post Falls ID 83854 (208) 699-0848 gedward@roadrunner.com used by permission.

Enjoy the show.

Solnik and Edwards to present A Stitch In Time, their second show in New York City - Gary A. Edwards and Claude Solnik annoounce that following the success of their Stealing Mona Lisa show in December 2022 in NYC, they will be presenting a full-length musical theater show entitled A Stitch In Time at the Theater for thew New City at 155 1st Ave. in the East Village. The dates run from 6/19/2023 through 6/9/2023 on selected evenings. This show is an amusiing contemporary version of the Emperor Has No Clothes story. Solnik wrote the book and lyrics and Gary composed the music.

Anaísa Salazar commits to recording some of Gary's Spanish music. Anaísa us a wonderful singer who lives in Cuba and is very popular there. She says she loves Garys music. She recently committed to rehearsing and recording some of Gary's original Spanish songs including his very difficult classical style piece called The Gypsy Tango.

Gary partners with Kimberly Bennet to compose five quirky songs. Yes, there is a market for quirky songs and this duo is working to set music to five songs written by Kimberly, recently finishing "Aaaooo, I'm a Wolf.

Gary signs another non-exclusive agreement. Through a tip-sheet website called Broadjam.com Gary signed an agreement with Ear Reverend Music for that company to market Gary's classical piece called A Prayer for Peace, conducted and written by Gary and performed by the Coeur d'Alene Symphony. In the last two years Gary has signed 267 agreements through contacts with people looking for original music through Broadjam.com

Have a good month.

Gary A. Edwards

When I was in New York City in December, I talked with the director of an opera production company and he said my Qualchan and Whistalks Opera was just what they were looking for and they would produce it in 2023 or 2024.  Last month I sent him a sample score and parts for Song/Scene 01.

Stealing Mona Lisa - I got a call from co-writer Claude Solnik, that he is going to attempt to produce this musical in December 2022 at the Theater for the New City in New York City. This theater produces and encourages new plays and musicals. Claude has already forwarded audition tapes from fantastic people singing some of the songs we wrote for this show. Let's put our thoughts together and visualize this project coming together and a good video resulting from Claude's efforts.

Las Vegas Food - I just got back from a 10 day trip to Las Vegas where we stayed with my son who was a great host, showing us the best restaurants in town. We had great Mexican food at the Lindo Michoacan. We had awesome Chinese food served family-style at the Mama China but be prepared for a wait line. We also had to wait a little bit for wonderful Italian food at the Battista Hole-In-The Wall where even the wine is included in the dinner. We had great lunches at Weiss's Deli and the Steamie Weenie in Henderson.

Las Vegas Music - For years I have been going to Las Vegas and making friends with great musicians. This time was no exception. First, I went back to the Dispensary Club on Tropicana that has been there for 46 years and listened to great jazz pianist and my friend Uli Geisendorfer. He plays there frequently with different guests. He's also very friendly and easy to talk with. As I was leaving, Uli ran out to the door and gave me an invitation to go to the Gatsby at the Gambit nightclub on Saturday night and listen to his show featuring the great jazz vocalist Joan Minor. I made reservations and got there early and had a great table right behind the piano so I felt like part of the show. The show was very pricy and the food was sub-par but the jazz made the cost worthwhile. The ambience was art-deco speak-easy. Joan put on a great show and Uli played fantastically as usual. I had a nice visit with Joan and her husband Paul Grayson who is a famous photographer. They live in Paris. As usual, I pitched my songs including Soulmates and told them I was available if they needed original songs for recording or performing. While in Las Vegas, I went to the Unity Church where I visited with my friend Johhn Jones, Music Director who I have seen performing in the best lounges in the city over the years. This time he invited me to go listen to his country music show at Gilley's Bar at the Treasure Island Casino and Hotel. The lead singer Ronnie Rose is not only a great crooner a la Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett style, he can belt out country songs like Friends in Low Places with the best of them and is also a great entertainer.

Other places I visited on this trip was the Txikiteo Basque Restaurant in Boise, Idaho where the food was very different from American food. I also went to a comedy show in Pocatello Idaho where the headliner Aaron Woodal, who has been on the Conan TV show, was fantastically funny and irreverent.

Brady Carson - I heard Brady sing and play piano and guitar at the Kootenai County Fair recently. He is a young, up and coming country and crooner singer and puts on a great show.  Our plan is for Brady to record some of my original Christmas songs in the studio and for us to write original songs together after he gets done touring. I also referred him to an agent in Las Vegas who I was told was the best agent in the Las Vegas area.

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Thanks,

Gary

Across Bank Street Dimensions ii - Contract signing for two Spanish CDs - Christmas Songs Project

Across Bank Street Dimensions ii Update – I finished  editing scenes 10 and 11 from this film by Nancy Hanks that we shot in June in Wallace, Idaho. Email me if you would like a private preview of this very funny scene including a song and dance sequence of a duet I wrote called Have Fun At Your Funeral, featuring myself and Disney Employee Penny Herman.

Contract signing for two Spanish CDs - I just signed a 5 year exclusive Contract with Mediterranean Sun Publishers (ASCAP) to place music from my Wataino CD that I co-wrote with Orlando Sanchez and my Amor, Life Y Chupacabra CD of bilingual songs (Span/Eng) for placement into TV and Video soundtracks.  I heard about this publisher through a website tip sheet to which I subscribe called Broadjam.com

Christmas Songs Project - By serendipity I met this great singer Diana Ruiz in the backwoods of North Idaho performing at the Country Lanes River Resort. We discussed working together on music projects recording my Christmas songs and writing songs together, and are actively communicating on this project.

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Yours,     

Gary A. Edwards    

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WaTaino CD – Across Bank Street Dimensions ii - Mistaken Move movie – Mildred Bailey music – Chun University Praise Heritage Opera and Night of A Miracle Christmas Cantata Car Wreck -   

Across Bank Street Dimensions ii – In 2021 I acted and wrote the music for this series of short films part i. Check it out on Facebook by searching for Across Bank Street. Now, Director/writer Nancy Hanks is working on the second episode. We shot one scene recently at an old mine near Wallace and are halfway finished shooting the rest of the film in Wallace this week starting June 18th. I am producing, composing, editing and acting in this film which is a lot of fun. Press the <Play> button at the bottom of this podcast to hear a funny song I wrote called Have Fun At Your Funeral featuring Penny Herman from Hollywood and I singing this comedic duet about death.

WaTaino CD Update- A famous Puerto Rican comedian and actor named Raulito Carbonell is filming a documentary on Puerto Rican landmark sites and is using the Wataino CD music created by me and co-writer Orlando Sanchez for the soundtrack. Here is a link to watch the short first clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJq6ofExGXNV9jPqtdX_5MSsk_MdnBXo/view 

Mistaken Move movie – I talked with writer/director Jimmy Cullors who said the movie will be ready for release in two or three weeks. I wrote the music for the soundtrack for this full-length feature murder mystery movie called Mistaken Move that Jimmy shot in 2021in Las Vegas. 

Mildred Bailey Music –Cecilia Curtis of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe is singing songs made famous by Mildred Bailey, a member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe at The Coeur d’Alene Tribal Casino. Contact the Casino for dates and times. I created the show, transcribed the music and conducted the band until my retirement from this project. Mildred Bailey died 70 years ago, but before that she had several number 1 hit songs with the Paul Whiteman Band and others on the radio.

Chun University – I answered an Indeed ad for a composer and was hired to arrange a hymn opera called Heritage of Praise that will be performed in June of 2023 in Charleton North Carolina. I just finished arranging the 21 songs for piano and voice and three orchestra pieces. It’s been hard work, but fun and satisfying. 

Chun University also agreed to perform the premiere of a Christmas Cantata called Night of A Miracle that I co-write with Sandra Lewis-Pringle. The piece will be performed December 20th, 2022 in Charlottte North Carolina. I will have a video of the performance on my website and on YouTube shortly afterwards. 

Car Wreck – Someone T-boned my car on November 15th and I suffered two brain bleeds and a stroke. My lawyer advised me to stay off Facebook until the case settled. The case was recently settled in my favor and so I am free to communicate again. Luckily, I can still walk and think even though I suffered a permanent disability. I did pay off my mortgage and we ended up with a new car, so there is a happy ending. 

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Yours,    

Gary A. Edwards   

www.EdwardsMusicSite.com edwardsgaryallen@gmail.com

Hello, I've finished 10 songs for my bilingual English/Spanish CD. I'm trying to think of a title for it. I've thought of Spangish - but that sounds too humorous. I've thought of Canciones Bilngues with an umlaut over the u. I want to convey that it's a music CD sung in English and Spanish, that it's a serious CD although there are a couple of humorous songs in it about a Chupacabra and another one about a gabacho who understands Spanish, etc.  There's an uplifting positive song about Puerto Rico that could become an anthem for the state territory and another very romantic song called "Estaré Allí (I'll Be There.) Please help me name my next CD and if I choose your title I will put your name in the credits and send you a free copy.