Gary Ogan

i hasten back to my blog to share the new years’ haps….aside from having my entire catalog finally up and available in cd or downloadable formats through mr. dean sciarra at itsaboutmusic.com, and starting the release of my catalog in japan through mr. keitaro endo at vivid sound, and having just over a dozen travel drum-dates scheduled already with mr. darrell scott via mr. john condon, beginning this month and sprinkled through to nov. 007, i thought it was a good time to do a show. i’ve spent the last few months compiling a retrospective concert i’m going to record in front of a small audience with my trio featuring kit garoutte and denny bixby. playing with kit and denny has been great fun, those cats are fine. the shows are saturday and sunday, april 7th, at the artichoke music backgate theater at 3130 se hawthorne, tel. 232-8845. although tickets will be available at both music millennium stores and the artichoke music store, they aren’t yet and the only way to get advance tickets right now is to respond to this message. it’s $15 in advance, $20 at the show. call sound ground at 503-694-1123. you can purchase as many as you’d like. doors open at 7, show’s at 8. and since i’m committing to such a small venue, there will be no assigned seating. i’m anxious to get back into some writing and recording of my own…and to start planning whatever will be my future shows. i’m thinking of one solo / guitar & piano, and the rest just taking off in all sorts of other directions.