Based
in Minneapolis, Steve is currently promoting his release Vanishing Point.
After many years playing in bars, Steve is writing and recording in his private NoName Studio.
Steve was born and raised in the Chicago area where he picked up the guitar at
age 11. His first band in the eighth grade learned the ropes with classic garage
fare like "Hey Joe," "House of the Rising Sun," and "I've Got My Mojo Working."
At 19, he quit college and went to New Orleans with his acoustic guitar. He
auditioned at the Wrong Place Saloon in the French Quarter and landed a gig
consisting of a half-hour set two nights a week at 2 a.m. Within a year he was a
weekend headliner with after-show gigs on Bourbon Street. The style of music was
anything acoustic, from Hank Williams to Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.
He toured the South in several acoustic duos and landed a recording contract in
Florida that turned out to be a front for some dicey activities. Broke and
unnerved, he hitchhiked back to New Orleans. Arriving in New Orleans, he discovered that the
antebellum house he rented for $90 a month had been turned into a crash pad and
all his possessions were trashed or gone. Clearly, the blush had worn of f the
South.
He moved to Montreal to attend McGill University, where he met violinist Joel Zifkin and future sound engineer Morris Apelbaum.
The following year Joel and Steve co-founded
the band Harlequin. The band got its start performing Childe Ballads as a class
project at McGill but soon began to feature Steve’s originals. The trademark sound of the band was
built around acoustic
guitar and harmony vocals, complemented by Joel’s stunning violin work.
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