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  Fourteen songs ranging from 'the depths of a stranger's heart' to tomorrow's headlines, with love songs at the core, featuring musicians Glenn Asch, Scott Finch, Jahmes Tony Finlayson, Holly Haebig, Tobias Kaemmerer, Rich Klein, John Kruth, Julio Pabon, Tom Schwark, Tim Taylor, Una VanDuval, and Sandy Weisto.
This 20th Annual celebration, live at the Coffee House, features Holly Haebig, Jahmes Tony Finlayson, Suzanne Rosenblatt, & Harvey Taylor, with special guest KT Rusch, from April 21, 2007. Total running time is 1 hour 21 minutes.

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  Second release by Milwaukee-based studio duo (Mike Link/keys,electronics & programming, Harvey Taylor/trumpet), with guest artists (Holly Haebig/flute & vocal, Michael Sullivan/guitar, Perry Lee/guitar, Tim Taylor/guitar, Glenn Asch/violin & viola and Julio Pabon/didgeridoo). Groove-based tunes with trumpet improvisations, etc, fusing a jazz/blues approach to contemporary electronica. World music influences combine for an eclectic mix.

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Twenty-five Harvey Taylor poems with musical accompaniment, Points of View features Taylor's trumpet and keyboard and, on various tracks, Dena Aronson, Jahmes Tony Finlayson, Anna Fritz, Holly Haebig, Mike Link, Emily Mimier, Rick Ollman, Julio Pabon, KT Rusch, Michael Sullivan, and Tim Taylor.

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  Holly Haebig and Harvey Taylor in concert at the 19th Street Coffeehouse, May 20, 2005 with special guests DevaNation (Dena Aronson, Celia, Cherylann Kelly, Jody Miriah, plus Barbara McAfee), Michael Milewski, Kesava Dernovsek, and George Martin.

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Taking The Whole World Along is a collection of instrumentals ('trumpet tunes'), poems-plus-tunes, and voice/guitar plus flute and/or fiddle-mandolin-bass-conga-trumpet songs, featuring Scott Finch, Holly Haebig, Jeff Hinich, Tobias Kaemmerer, John Kruth, Mike Link, Julio Pabon, Tom Schwark, Michael Sullivan, and Una Van DuVal.

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  This double CD incorporates several remixes from Crossing The Bridge, along with new original music, remixes of recordings from several Milwaukee-area bands (Paul Cebar, One Drum, Salt Creek, Love Live Music Collective), and contributions from many musicians (Mike Link, Tobias Kaemmerer, Hamid Alwan, Mike Kashou, Sadie Benning, Tom Plutshack, Steve Wiest, Perry Lee), with Harvey Taylor's spoken words (poems, song lyrics) added to all but one of the 49 tracks.

Stylistically, the music is very diverse, (World/roots/jazz/electronica/gospel/r&b/you name it), and the pieces explore a wide range of themes, from somber meditations on current events, to lighthearted expressions of delight in nature.

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Crossing The Bridge is a duo project, with Mike Link (keyboards, and various magical devices), and me on trumpet (the return of a childhood involvement, in a much deeper form), with Holly Haebig adding her beautiful flute to one tune, and Tom Plutshack, guitar enhancements on two others, a combination referred to by one poetic soul as "jazzy electronica, with World Music influences..."

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  Composer/poet Charyl Kneevers Zehfus set twelve poems to music as a Wisconsin cycle of the seasons suite, featuring the included poets, vocalists, and instrumental ensemble; the CD was recorded live at the Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
>sample: Getting Ready
The Sparks are a poetry performance ensemble consisting of CJ Muchala, Helen Padway, Mara Ptacek, Peggy Rozga, and Phyllis Wax, accompanied musically and poetically on this CD by Harvey Taylor. As the title indicates, the pieces are presented as a poet's-eye view of the news, with Local, National, International, Weather, Food, Life Style, Sports, Editorials, and a Blues Interlude.
>sample: My Wife's the Man of the Family
 
  Harvey Taylor has been co-composing music for most of 2002 with Bryant Hudson, a musician severely injured in an accident several years ago. The first four of their instrumental songs are available on this CD, with the tunes named after Bryant's daughters, collectively, 'The Girls.'
>sample: Dominique