U2, daniel lanois, johnny cash, glen hansard, marketa irglova, michael bacon, kevin bacon,peter mulvey, gonzalo silva, ellis paul, keith sykes, gillian welch, david rawlings, Peter Gabriel, Peter Case, Joseph Arthur, emmylou harris, Travis Kline, the cure, son volt, wilco, uncle tupalo, crash test dummies, the pogues, doc watson, pink floyd, ken perlman, wille nelson, john prine, neil young, tom petty, sage francis, the solilliquists of sound, Tom Bianchi, Ryan Fitzsimmons, Branden Hogan, Greg Klyma, Shawn Staples, Tim Gearon, Danielle Miragila, Dana Price, Teresa Storch, Chris O'Brien, DAN COLERON, Bret Phillips, Eric Murphy, Dirk Jewitt, Mike Gorder, Erin Smith, Jay Stange, The Photon band, Jewel, Brian Austin Whitney, Daniel Jacobs, Doug Cowen, Matt Hopper, Andrew Norsworthy, Chris Watkins, J.J Tranquilla, Eric Cobb, Sean Cobb, Nik Jaksic, Nova Stubbs, Analisa Tornfelt, Emily Tornfelt, Evan Phillips, and many more!
Alaskan songwriter Steven Bacon is a Boston based street / subway performer (aka "busker") and touring singer-songwriter.
To see SEE STEVEN'S CALANDER OF UPCOMING CONCERTS goto www.stevenbacon.com/concerts
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NEWS UPDATE!!!
On November 12 2008, Steven finally got to play his first show with The Bacon Brothers (actor Kevin Bacon and his brother michaels band)... read the review of the show at http://www.bostonmusicspotlight.com/article.php?id=1624
On 9/19/08, Steven met Oscar & Grammy award winning songwriter/actor Glenn Hansard, star of the movie "ONCE". The two met while Steven was busking on Comm. ave in Boston, outside the Agannis Arena where Glen's band "The Swell Season" was about to play. In the middle of the concert Glen invited Steven on stage to let the crowd "hear a real busker". Steven performed his song "Charlie wants to run" before several thousand Swell Season fans and received a standing ovation. Go to Steven's photos page for pics. The full story is posted at www.stevenbacon.com/the_glen_page
the boston globe ran a feature story about Steven's performance with Glen Hansard at:
On Saturday, September 13, 2008, Steven won First Place in the Lizard Lounge's (Cambridge, MA) songwriter "Main Event" competition. The "Main Event" brought together the winners of Tom Bianchi's weekly songwriter open mic challenges from the past 6 months to compete for the first place title (and cash prize).
Steven will be putting his winnings towards the recording of his next album, entitled "Notes from the Underground" (he's a full-time subway performer and a die hard Dostoevsky fan...)
hey steven! i'm up in maine all week, thinking about that round we did in portland a few years back when you played only FAWM songs, very impressive! so glad i'll get to see you at folk alliance! xo ~becca
HAPPY CHRISTMAS STEVEN! Love to you and all the family and have a great new year (hopefully we'll get 'Acoustitated' online early January too). Wishing you all the very very best Mairtin
Hi Steven, Brian sent me your recent news and we are so excited for you and happy that all of your hard work is paying off! We miss being on the road but are getting out there again and writing some new stuff. Come to Colorado!
As we performed at AS220 in Providence and later talked music, I knew there was a special quality within you. Congratulations on the Agganis performance....talk about being the right person, in the right, place at the right time.....sounds like destiny to me.
"Faster Than A Fax Machine" is a Feature length documentary directed by Alan Gray that explores a year in the life of a subway performer Chris Wilhelm and bike messenger Bullet, an aspiring rapper/rocker, as they set out to make it in the music industry. Playing Nov 4 at Mass Art, with a perfornance by Chris after the film. Attachments:
Great story!!! Wonderful songs. Thanks for the the add! Hope you got a chance to listen to some of our tunes. Check out our website for more info: www. teamsmileandnod. com Please join our e-mailing list if you dig us. Thank you!
thank you for the add - I have read your story in a jpfolks newsletter...really amazing! Congrats, and - great songs on your homepage. Happy to having met you!
The audio from that night at the Agganis is outstanding...what a crowd, after already knowing your story (and Glens) hearing it almost brought me to tears. If it was me I probably would have been so overjoyed at the crowd response that I would have just laughed my way through half of the song. It's the fulfilment of every buskers dream!
