Paul Sachs: NEWS

 

Greetings From New York City

Just got back yesterday from the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival where I had a lot of fun. As an urban dweller my whole life, camping does not come easy. I set my tent up near my friend, Richard Cuccaro, the author of the Acoustic Live Newsletter, who kindly let me share his bit of land. 

 

'lil' critter on my tent.

I also started a Blog of some sort. I don't know what it will do or what it's suppose to do, but I put up a video I took of a train going by while waiting for mine to arrive. Which I found very interesting. Maybe you will too because something very subtle happens in it.

I also posted some more pictures of my adventure to the Kerrville Folk festival in Texas. I rode there with songwriter Jack Hardy, who's been going there for many years. We traveled in his car stopping only to fill the tank or relieve our own. I had a blast of a time and many thanks to Jack for taking me. I hope to go again next year.

Happy summer to you and stay healthy!

Paul

Greetings from NYC

I’ve posted a demo of a new song called “Oil Town” Written because of the events that have happened over the past few months concerning the BP Oil Spill. I fear this will not be the last time this happens to our waters.

pictures from the National Geographic website

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I hope you like it.

Stay healthy

Paul Sachs

Greetings from New York City

I’m heading to Texas to go to the Kerrville folk festival for a few days. I’m driving there tonight and I’ll try and make updates.  It should be fun, if anything I know it’ll be hot! You can follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/PaulSachs or  friend me on Facebook

Thanks and stay healthy

Paul

Greetings from New York City.

 I don't know who's listening? But I've posted a demo version of the song "Beware of Surprise".   I remember I recorded the demo/idea late at night a few years back, hence the very quiet vocal. I hope you like it. When I heard it the other night, it amazed me how profoundly music affects words .  Hope you like it. You'll find it in the Alive and Singing  part of the music section.

Stay healthy.

Paul

Greetings from New York City

Hi Everyone. A few months ago I purchased this thing that can record live shows. I've started to bring it with me  and anytime I feel like there's something interesting to a live performance, I'll post it. So I created a new section in the music part of this website called Alive and Singing. Each time time I play a live show I'll try and post a song from that performance. My First addition to this are two tunes that I felt had a different take on them, East River Fishing and The Faith of Adeline Washington,  live from the Eclectic Cafe in Long Island. Thanks and I hope you enjoy them.  

Paul Sachs

Greetings from New York-

I had a great time playing at the Eclectic Cafe in LI this past weekend.Thanks to everyone for coming down and listening.

 

 See ya soon

Paul

Greetings from New York City

I'm playing a gig tonight in Long Island at the Eclectic Cafe. I'm really looking forward to this one so if you're in the area please come on down. I'm going to try and take some pictures if I remember.  

Take care

Paul

Greetings from New York City

I'll be playing a solo show on Saturday night in NYC. I've been writing a lot of new songs and have some that I'm going to play for the first time that night so I hope you'll come on down.

Thanks and see you then

Paul

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Greeting's from NYC

 I got a new video up of the song Bridges Burning which can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYfzGPsdfc It was shot and produced by photographer David Plakke. We shot it just this past Wednesday on a very, very cold day.

This weekend I'll be performing in NJ at the Hillside Cafe.

Take care and stay healthy

Paul

 

 

Greetings from New York City

New video of the songs "Bridges Burning" and "Meanstreets" in the music and video section. Hope you like it. More on the way.

Stay healthy

Paul

Greetings from New York City

It’s been a big year for me and I just wanted to give a big, huge, thank you to everyone who supported me in ’09.  Thanks for comin’ to see me play my shows and for buying the new CD. I can’t tell how much that means to me when I see people return to see me play live.

Thanks to all the musicians that played with me and to all the wonderful musicians and people I met at Falcon Ridge this year as well as Nerfa. I look forward to meeting you again.

With Songwriter Jack Hardy at Falcon Ridge

While at the NERFA conference I was invited by Robin & Tom Romeo from WhereforeArts.com to sing a Holiday song for them. I chose Angels. I think that’s the title? It was about 3am in the morning, but they were kind enough to give me some Joe (coffee that is). So here's a first of me singing a Xmas tune. Enjoy. Thanks to Robin and Tom for having me sing.

So Happy Holidays to everyone. Peace on this poor Earth.

Love ya’s

Paul

I used to live in Chicago where the cold wind blows
I delivered more junk mail than the junkyard would hold
I wasn’t hurtin’ nobody
I wasn’t hurtin’ no one  (John Prine)

The show that was scheduled for the 6th at the Parkside Lounge has been moved to Saturday, December 19th.

Greetings from New York City-

Over the weekend I went to NERFA (Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference). What a great time I had. I met and saw a lot of wonderful people and heard many, fantastic songs. It was my first time ever to NERFA and I hope to return next year.

I showcased in a few hotel rooms in the wee hours of the morning doing short sets for people. Special thanks to Richard Cuccaro for featuring me in the November edition of his monthly newsletter  Acoustic Live and for having me play in his showcase. You can download the pdf file here to read my whole story. Yikes!

In the lobby at NERFA with great blues guitarist, singer/songwriter Angelo M.

I wish I had taken more pic’s, but maybe next time.

Listening to Steve Forbert as I write this. One of my favorites. Talk about a road dog. That guy doesn't stop. Amazing.

Keep an eye out as I'm gonna try get some video up here of me singing that's a little less grainy than the ones I have already. I hope.

Take care and stay healthy.

Greetings from a very hot night in NYC

Thanks to everyone who came down to see the band and I perform at the Stuyvesant cove last Saturday. The weather was perfect. Thanks also to everyone at solar one and Joy Garland for having me again play in one of my favorite spots right by the east river.

The band and I by the east river '09

I put some photos of the show in the picture section of the site.

Take care and stay healthy!

Greetings from New York City

I had a good time at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. I played a few sets in front of the Acoustic Live tent. Met a lot of friendly people also. Acoustic Live is a paper that does interviews of many folk artists and also has a listing of all the shows happening month to month.
Me with Richard and Viki Cuccaro who run the Acoustic Live newsletter at Falcon Ridge

This weekend on Saturday, July 15th please come down and join me and my band for a rockin’ good time down by the East River! It’s on the Solar 1 stage http://solar1.org/about/map/ it’s from 6-7:30 and Annie Dressner will be the opening act.

I hope everyone’s having a good summer.

See you soon and stay healthy!

Paul

Greetings from New York City-

This weekend I’m going upstate to Hillsdale, NY to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival to play some tunes. I’m sure I’ll have some pictures and stories to share so check back soon for further updates.

Town and Village, a local New York City paper, ran an article about my new CD, The Refuge. Which I’ll try and post in the press section. It’s also in promotion for a show on the Solar one stage which is right on the East River. It's a blast singing about the river when I'm right next to it. I had a lot of fun playing there in ’07 and this time I’ll have the full band with me.

I hope everyone’s having a good summer.

Take care and stay healthy!

Paul

Greetings from New York City

The CD release Party was a great success last Saturday night and I've posted a video of the band and I doing the song Beware of Surprise off the new CD. Once again thanks to everyone who came to the show.

All the best

Paul

A huge thanks to everyone for coming to the CD release party last night. What a great turn out. We had a lot of fun and hope you did also.

Thanks again

Paul

Hi and greetings from New York City

Ya never know who’s listening out there. Today I was sent an email from a man who made a homemade video of some fishing he did over the July 4th weekend and used my song East River Fishing as the music.

He writes that he grew up in Florida and the place where he was fishing is called Indian River Lagoon (a stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef.) Now I grew up by the East River (an arm of the Hudson River in New York City that separates the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.) Nothing about coral reefs here. But it fits his video. Thanks Snookguy.

Hi and Greetings from New York City-

I posted a new video of my band and I playing the song off the new CD The Refuge called 68 Skylark. It's from our rehearsal last night. Live with warts and all. It's a fun video and was shot by David Plakke. I am getting an itch to start writing again. If I go to long these days without pad, pen and guitar my wheels get rusty.

Take care and stay healthy

Paul

Greetings from New York City

After three years of what felt like non stop work, my CD, The Refuge is finished : )

You can buy the CD here at CDbaby and check out  samples of all the tracks

I’ve also added a new section to this site with all the lyrics from the new CD, including pictures.

I’m looking forward to the CD release party on July 11th here in New York City. Then later that same month I’m heading up to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival for a couple of days  Where I’ve  been invited to play under the tent of Acoustic Live.  Many folk singers will be performing at the folk festival including Janis Ian. One of my all time favorites.
 
I will be updating this site when more news comes in, so stay tuned as they say.

All the best

Paul

 Greetings from NYC

It’s been a bit of time since I’ve posted anything on this.

 The New CD, The Refuge, should be up for sale by the end of June and will be sold on CD baby and Itunes.  I’m really excited about this and I had a great team of people working with me on it.  New York photographer, David Plakke took wonderful pictures for the CD and it was beautifully designed by Beth Middleton. Some of the song’s are just  stripped down folk with just me and guitar and on other tunes I tried a full production. It’s a real good mix and I feel  a lot of my musical influences show on this disk.  It took a lot longer than I expected, but I wanted this to be the best I could give. 

The CD Release party will be on, Saturday, July 11th at the Parkside Lounge with my full band. It should be a good time.

I posted a song from the CD, No Trouble Here, called Child's Dream. It has Rob Meador on Mandolin and is a nice little folk ditty

Take care everyone.

Paul

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint"

Oscar Wilde

Greetings form New York City

I first want to thank the kind folks at the Postcrypt for having me. I hope those who were there enjoyed themselves as much as I did. Thanks for coming.

Spring is here in New York. Trees are starting to bloom and my new CD is being mastered as I write this. It’s called, The Refuge and will contain 12 songs. Three of which are posted in the music section. Here’s the track listing:

1.  68 Skylark 

2. Bridges Burning 

3. Crying Without Tears 

4. Old Boyfriends 

5. Crazy Ivy 

6. Beware of Surprise 
 
7. When The Longing Begins

 8. Stolen Bicycles 

 9. New York City Girl  
 
10. Nothing's Wrong 
 
11. The Refuge 
 
12. Where Does Sadness Go 

I Hope to see you soon and I will be updating the site the closer we get to releasing it and in a few days time I’ll be posting more samples of the songs.

Take care,

Paul

Hi and Greetings from New York City-

I’d like to thank the kind folks at The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center in Middletown CT for having me last week. I had a great time playing my songs and it was nice to make some new friends. Somebody even made this very nice Ad on a door I loved it. Talk about folk art

This Saturday, I’m playing at Jitters coffeehouse in Southington CT.

This coming Wednesday, I’m doing some final tracking on the last song for the New CD. I may have a couple of new pics up for it.

Also there’s a song I posted for free download called “the Blues of Mary” in the “No Trouble Here” section. I hope you enjoy it.

Hope to see you again soon.

Paul