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The Day I Celebrated My Birthday With 6 Random Strangers

It was August 19th and I was in Boulder, Colorado. I fell in love with Boulder and didnt want to leave. At the same time I was a bit homesick and my birthday was coming up in 3 days. The next major town was Madison, Wisconsin which is a 1000 mile trek through the midwest! [...]

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The Woman Who Never Left Home

This story happened in 2010, before Piano Across America, on my first Solo Roadtrip to Florida from New York. I saw the sign for South of the Border while driving south on I-95 one night and decided to check it out, as everyone does once in their lives. I pulled into the Mexican restaurant parking [...]

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Hilarious Tweets about Piano Across America

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Conversation with the Mohawk Girl in Albuquerque, NM

I was hanging out with some random people I met near a taco place on Central Avenue. Things were bustling on the streets and people were at the bars getting drunk. Somehow we stumbled upon this girl in a leather jacket with a mohawk. She started telling us all these incredible stories, I wasnt sure [...]

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The Sounds of the Brazilian Pandiero with Ben McCabe

  I was playing my piano on Broadway in NYC when this guy named Ben from England came up to met and started jamming. Another guy came up to us and started rapping, it was a wild time with 2 random strangers that I just met. After packing up the piano, we took a visit [...]

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4 Hands 1 Piano at Pike Place Market

Heres a video that has a great story to it. I was playing piano at Pike Place market in Seattle when this young High School-er named Lucas came up to me and asked me if he could play my piano. He was pretty amazing for his age and I asked him if he wanted to [...]

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The Night I Got Robbed By An Oxycontin Addict

I met this man by the name of Ehron in Albuquerque. He was very outgoing, intelligent, and great to talk to. Turns out he plays drums and a few other instruments. I immediately told him that we should jam. I set up the piano and the bucket drums from the night before (See: Dance Party [...]

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The Blind Piano Tuner in Seattle

I had just arrived in Seattle (Around July 10, 2011) and I was looking for a tuner because my piano was falling way out of tune. I called up 15 people with no luck of scoring a deal. I finally did a new Google search and found a guy named “Piano Tuning by Blind Mike.” [...]

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Brando’s Friends

An Album of the many Dogs Brando Met while Traveling This is Brando:

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Interview with Mr. Line Face in New Orleans

I was walking in Washington Square park, near Frenchmen Street in NOLA and I came across a group of “gutter punks” as people would call them. One of them, “Line Face” asked me to interview him. Though, it wasn’t much of an interview, he kept changing the subject…What I really should have asked him is [...]

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The Barefoot Traveler: Huck

I met Huck while he was hanging with a bunch of other travelers in downtown Athens. I had some deep conversations with Huck who left home and had been traveling for a year and half. Huck believes one of the most important things in life is to be shaped through your experiences instead of living [...]

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Fan Mail from Across the Globe

These are some of the amazing messages I received from people who have been following our journey. Its the people and the messages that you all have sent me that keeps me so motivated to continue this project. I would be nothing without all of you. Thank you so much!

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People We’ve Met: A Photo Album

An Album of the many people We’ve met and Talked to all across America. Met this man and his daughter in Philadelphia Met this juggling man in Athens, Georgia Jammed out at Kevins house in Atlanta, Georgia Jamming on the streets of New Orleans Played with this bass player in New Orleans Aprica sang a [...]

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