Besides returning to music, David has continued writing magazine articles for national and regional publications. He has also ghost-written a book and he is working on two books of his own. David serves on the boards of four Cleveland-area non-profit organizations: Roots of American Music, Heights Arts, Art on Wheels and the Friends of Cain Park. He also facilitates and moderates a series of writing workshops, called the Student Journalism Project, for high school students from all around the region. The program, held at Cleveland State University throughout the school year, is sponsored by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. |
Events Long Road David Budin put together a group, Long Road, with four other folk and rock veterans, for a concert they did in August 2007 at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights. The show, called "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: A 1967 Coffeehouse Concert," is a celebration of the original singer-songwriter movement, from about 1964 to 1969, featuring songs by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Paxton, Eric Andersen, Phil Ochs, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, and others, with comedy and historical perspective by Budin. That show sold out, so they did it again in November 2007 at the Kent Stage, the region's premiere folk venue, located in Kent, Ohio. Since then, they have also played twice at Cleveland's top jazz club, Nighttown (which has also begun presenting folk and other genres), and once more at the Kent Stage. On June 29, 2008, they performed a new show, "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound - Part 2: A 1968 Coffeehouse Concert," with all new (old) songs, again at Cain Park. Their most recent official gig was August 21, 2008, at Point Park in downtown Willoughby, Ohio, as part of the free Willoughby Summer Concert Series. There are more shows in the works. They'll be listed when they're confirmed. Long Road is: David Budin (guitar, vocals), Kevin Richards (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Bob Sandham (guitar, pedal steel, vocals), Celia Hollander Lewis (guitar, banjo, autoharp, hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, Irish harp, bowed psaltry, vocals) and Ray DeForest (bass). For more informtion, contact PopCycles Productions at popcycles@ |
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